Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a classic work of American literature that offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of one of the country's founding fathers. Join Benjamin Franklin on his journey from humble beginnings to becoming a renowned statesman, inventor,...
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The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare QuotationsWho said "Neither a lender or borrower be", who loved "not wisely but too well" and whose "salad days" are now behind her? If you have ever struggled to remember a Shakespeare quote, this is the book for you. It has over 3,000 quotes...
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The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and WelfareThis book argues that the rapid development of anti-vagrancy laws in the late nineteenth century, which were written alongside widespread public fascination with 'tramps', facilitated a transatlantic dialogue between sources eager to modernize the state's ability to describe, catalogue, and manage this roving population....
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The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate CrisisAn argument that humanists have the tools--and the responsibility--to mobilize political power to tackle climate change As climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In...
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Teaching Art with Books Kids Love: Art Elements, Appreciation, and Design with Award-Winning BooksUsing award-winning books, Frohardt teaches realism, surrealism, expressionism, naive, and cartoon. Complete directions, enhanced by liberal illustrations, make this a user-friendly resource for grades 3-6.Author: Darcie Clark FrohardtPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished: 09/01/1999Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9781555914066About the AuthorDarcie Clark...
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Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic FictionStartling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a belief in...
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Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of TranscriptionIn the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from "sound-blindness." The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply...
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Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus & Howard NemerovSilent Dialogues, by art historian Alexander Nemerov, is a probing, intimate reflection about photographer Diane Arbus, the author's aunt, and her brother, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Howard Nemerov, the author's father. "I have no memories of Diane Arbus," begins Alexander Nemerov in the first of...
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Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding WorldsBryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is theexceptional figure whose work allows and encourages us to interrogate the marriage of the sciences and humanities. Drawing from previously unsurfaced archival connections...
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Russia's Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and ChekhovRussia's Capitalist Realism examines how the literary tradition that produced the great works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Anton Chekhov responded to the dangers and possibilities posed by Russia's industrial revolution. During Russia's first tumultuous transition to capitalism, social problems became issues of...
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Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly: The Essays and Opinions of Charles LudlamEdited by Steven Samuels Unguarded, witty, articulate and extremely smart." -Frank Rich, New York Times "The greatest comic genius of our time." -Judith Malina, The Living Theatre Artistic director, playwright, director, designer and star of New York's acclaimed Ridiculous Theatrical Company, the late Charles...
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Race and Respectability in an Early Black AtlanticRace and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world. The term "respectability politics" refers to the...
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Principles of Literary CriticismFirst published in 1924, this is a masterpiece on literary criticism. I. A. Richards argues that science and literature use two different forms of language: scientific and emotive language.I A Richards advocates for the new criticism of psychology that makes a literary work complete...
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Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your WorldIn the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host...
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One Man, Two GuvnorsFired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect 6,000 from his fiancee's dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who's been killed...
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and LiteratureA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning." --Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review "An absolute joy to read!" --Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration...
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Muslim Comics and Warscape WitnessingRecent decades have seen an unprecedented number of comics by and about Muslim people enter the global market. Now, Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing offers the first major study of these works. Esra Mirze Santesso assesses Muslim comics to illustrate the multifaceted nature of...
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Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/DisciplinesMedical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from different heritages,...
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Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the MindThe Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. Master Incapable (Wunengzi) is an important but relatively little-known Daoist work written in 887, as the Tang dynasty (618-907)...
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Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun2020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association 2021 PROSE Awards Finalist, Music & the Performing Arts In 1936 Orson Welles directed a celebrated all-black production of Macbeth that was hailed as a breakthrough for African Americans in the...
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