Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Rediscovering Rub?n Dar?o Through TranslationA long overdue examination of Rub?n Dar?o's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics of canonization in world literature. Rediscovering Rub?n Dar?o through Translation addresses the peculiar obscurity of Dar?o by asking these questions: How can one of the most important writers...
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Recovering Consolation: Sam's Enchanted Path in the Lord of the RingsAlthough Tolkien's letters call Samwise Gamgee the "chief hero" of The Lord of the Rings, Sam is easily underestimated by both readers and critics. Recovering Consolation focuses attention on Sam's point of view throughout the long journey that is the novel. This book responds...
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Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, and PerformanceThis Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century Britain. The case study is the Aberdeen student and disgraced thief Charles Burney's treatment of Evelina (1778), the debut novel of his sister Frances Burney. Coulombeau uses Charles's manuscript...
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Philip Larkin and the Place of WritingThis book extensively investigates the integral nature of spatiality and spatial imagination in the works of Philip Larkin. It addresses Larkin's idea of space and place, both private and public, and reflects upon his early fictional works as well as poems. To do so,...
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Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American ComicsIn Petrochemical Fantasies, Daniel Worden reveals the entwined history of comics and fossil fuels in the United States. From the 1840s to the present, comics have depicted the power, pollution, and rapid expansion of energy systems--especially the explosive growth of coal and oil. In...
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Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French LiteratureA wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature is full of strange moments when infants (even fetuses) speak. In Out of the Mouths of Babes, Julie Singer explores the unsettling questions raised by these events,...
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Out of the Mouths of Babes: Infant Voices in Medieval French LiteratureA wide-ranging study of the rich questions raised by speaking infants in medieval French literature. Medieval literature is full of strange moments when infants (even fetuses) speak. In Out of the Mouths of Babes, Julie Singer explores the unsettling questions raised by these events,...
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On Writers and Writing: Selected EssaysA new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The Art of Fiction" to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honor? de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and passionate, James's essays are a delight for any lover...
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On WonderAuthor: Tita ChicoPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/27/2025Pages: 78Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16dISBN: 9781108792646
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines DemocracyThe freedom to read is under attack.From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today's state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases, literary controversies, and philosophical arguments, Ira Wells...
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Octavia E. Butler: H Is for HorseAn homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Bringing to view a selection of Butler's unpublished writings and drawings, this book traces her fascination with human-alien symbiosis to her early empathy with horses and other marginalized creatures. The...
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No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes'No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes' is a multi-author work united by the common theme of critical analysis of the use of horror tropes in literature, film, and even video games. Tackling issues dealing with gender, race, sexuality, social class,...
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New Medieval Literatures 25This volume continues the series' engagement with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showing the best new work in the field. Essays in this volume deal with texts from the ninth to the fifteenth century and include some unexpected comparisons with British...
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Nature and Medieval LiteratureAn account of the varying responses to nature found in major medieval literature. Nature and Medieval Literature investigates medieval writers who explore natural themes but also critique the human world through the patterns of nature. Starting with a consideration of ecological criticism in general,...
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Natural History: Natural History: A SelectionPliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether...
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Mystical Landscapes in Medieval Persian LiteratureIn this collection, Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet T. Karamustafa bring together leading researchers from comparative literature, history, literary criticism and religious studies to explore the major authors and genres of medieval Persian mystical literature. Breaking out of the all-inclusive literary history framework, the contributors...
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Milton's IrelandAuthor: Lee MorrisseyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/12/2024Pages: 228Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781009462419
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Marginal Paris: Representing the Shadows of the City of LightThis volume invites you to wander through the shadows of the City of Light and discover another, often invisible and silent Paris. Its chapters explore Parisian margins, including various populations, spaces and practices, as represented in French literature and cinema since 1800. You will...
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Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy AckerKathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired a generation of writers and artists. Lust...
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Literature's Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean BorderscapeStories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East--recovered and retold at last In 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, "pacifying" the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and...
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