Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas HypothesisIn this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even...
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Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in AppalachiaAllison E. Carey is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Marshall University.Author: Allison E. CareyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/02/2024Pages: 278Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438493565
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Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919): Her Personal Letters, Short Stories, and JournalismConcepción Gimeno de Flaquer (Alcañiz, 1850-Buenos Aires, 1919) was a Spanish journalist, newspaper editor, and author, who dedicated her life to the world of letters. She was also an intrepid international traveler at a time when it was not easy to cross the Atlantic....
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Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily FolgerThe first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world.In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying,...
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BirthrightThe Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry described Kendel Hippolyte as 'perhaps the outstanding Caribbean poet of his generation'. Until now his poetry has only been available in anthologies and slim collections which have been little seen outside St. Lucia. Birthright reveals him as a...
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Big Mama Was Wrong: Embracing the Growth in AwarenessBig Mamas have always been pillars of Black families. Despite the strength and wisdom that radiates from big mamas and the Black community, we have gotten some things wrong. This book challenges the stigma of Mental Health in the Black community that is often...
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BeowolfThe poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hro gar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.Author: Gummere, AnonymousPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...
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Ben KatchorThe recipient of a 2000 MacArthur fellowship, Ben Katchor (b. 1951) is a beloved comics artist with a career spanning four decades. Published in indie weeklies across the United States, his comics are known for evoking the sensorium of the modern metropolis. As part...
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of WarThe player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity...
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Aragorn: J. R. R. Tolkien's Undervalued Hero"The most enjoyable work on Tolkien I have read in many years" Christina ScullAragorn. Strider. King. Ranger. He is one of the most famous and celebrated characters in the history of popular literature. But how much do you really know about the man?This book...
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47 Ronin"A story of honor and bloody revenge." The legend of the 47 ronin is one of the most popular and best known stories about the samurai in Japan. It is often referred to as the country's "national legend" and is the most revered example...
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101 Things to Do with a BananaA bunch of truly ap-peeling things to do with this fruit basket staple. If you've ever had a surplus of bananas and way too much time on your hands, you'll know that this playful yellow hero is much more versatile than anyone gives him...
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Việt Nam Nước Chia Hai Đàng....Trong công trình "Việt Nam Nước Chia Hai Đàng" này, Giáo sư Olga Dror nghiên cứu việc giáo huấn và trưởng thành (nguyên văn "socialization") của thanh niên dưới hai chính phủ Việt Nam đối nghịch nhau, đó là Việt Nam Cộng hòa (VNCH...
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The Sociology of LiteratureThe Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of Pierre Bourdieu....
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The Origins of Science Fiction'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision...' This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction. It moves from Mary Shelley...
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The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche: A Critical EditionBanned and beloved in equal measure, The Midnight Court is a canonical eighteenth-century text widely considered to be the greatest comic Irish poem. Despite its simple story line, Merriman's poem addresses a wide range of themes, from its satirical treatment of sexuality to its...
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The Historical NovelGeorg Luk cs (1885-1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1933....
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The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial OrderTales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. Such recurring tropes are examined in this pioneering study by Margot Gayle Backus to show how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth...
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The Common Reader: First SeriesHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out' In the first...
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The Boy from NowhereRichard just wanted to be from somewhere...For young Richard, every year it's the same story: as soon as he settles into his surroundings, with its friendships, school, sports teams, and all those customs that make a place home, he is forced to move. As...
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