Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An AnthologyUltimately, the publication of this capacious body of literature that spans three continents offers students, scholars, and the curious reader alike a unique glimpse into the tremendous global impact the Haitian Revolution had on the print culture of the Atlantic world.New World StudiesAuthor: Marlene...
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Great Stage of FoolsThis book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of...
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Greatest Comedies of Shakespeare (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)This volume captures the best of the Shakespearean comedy universe, which is full with funny misunderstandings, deception, and disguises, with men and women switching sexual identities, and where mishaps and errors strangely lead to comical and ultimately happy outcomes. A Midsummer Night's Dream, The...
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Glass, Light, and Electricity: EssaysFleet-footed and capricious, the essays in Glass, Light & Electricity wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations that use research, association, and metaphor to examine subjects...
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Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey. Volume II: Commentary on Rhapsodies 5-8In this series, Eric Cullhed (University of Uppsala) and S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota) combine to provide the reader with a new critical edition of the Greek text of Byzantine scholar and rhetorician Eustathius of Thessalonica's Commentary on the Odyssey, composed during the...
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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's WritingIn Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to challenge socially constructed forms of power and gender inequality. Focusing on phrenology--the first science of brain localization and the most popular science in nineteenth-century Britain--Claggett shows how...
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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek MythNew York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a...
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Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865-1930What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott's portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's painter protagonist Avis Dobell know--and care--that her red shawl is dyed with desiccated beetles? Why might W.E.B. Du Bois's fictional sharecropper...
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Brokeback MountainUpon its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain situated a love story between two closeted cowboys at the...
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Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central AmericaBlack in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. It argues that the production, circulation, and consumption of stories has led to a trans-isthmian imaginary that splits the region along...
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A Whaler's DictionaryFrom one of the nation's most dynamic and celebrated young poets, an extended dialogue with the greatest masterpiece of American literature, Moby-Dick.Taking its inspiration--and, for that matter, its form--from Ishmael's abandoned "Cetological Dictionary" in Moby-Dick, this extraordinary, highly original work brings meditations on myth,...
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A Planetary Avant-Garde: Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian ColonialismA Planetary Avant-Garde explores how experimental poetics and literature networks have aesthetically and politically responded to the legacy of Iberian colonialism across the world. The book examines avant-garde responses to Spanish and Portuguese imperialism across Europe, Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia between...
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An Introduction to FantasyAuthor: Matthew SangsterPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 09/07/2023Pages: 260Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.97dISBN: 9781009429948
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Anatomy of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime FictionAnatomy of Murder identifies and explores three basic fictional forms dealing with murder and detection-mystery, detective, and crime fiction. Mystery fiction takes place in a centered world, one whose most distinctive characteristic is motivation. Covering the forms of murder fiction, the book examines texts...
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Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign CorrespondentAlmost Hemingway is the definitive window on that remarkable story.Author: Rex Bowman, Carlos SantosPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 08/31/2021Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9780813946672Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2021Publishers Weekly 06/28/2021About the AuthorFormer reporters for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Rex Bowman...
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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever ToldWinner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the past sixty years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read...
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A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and PhilosophyWith their emphasis on freedom and engagement, European existentialisms offered Latin Americans transformative frameworks for thinking and writing about their own locales. In taking up these frameworks, Latin Americans endowed them with a distinctive ethos, a turn towards questions of identity and ethics. Stephanie...
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African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination Across the Early EnlightenmentInvestigations of the representation of Africa in British texts have typically concluded that the continent operated in the British imagination as a completely invented space with no meaningful connection to actual African worlds, or as an inert realm onto which writers projected their expansionist...
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A Century of Queer Korean FictionSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literatureFollowing decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay, lesbian, transgender, and other queer Korean writers find themselves in the national and international...
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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and GeometryWhat do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blake's geometry--the conception of space-time that informs his work across media and genres. In this illuminating, inventive new study, Andrew M. Cooper...
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