Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and FoodThis Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day. It rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism...
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The Bookseller's Tale'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' --David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller. 'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our...
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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped ReadingA top literary historian illuminates how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath--one ranks among humanity's greatest inventions, the other among its...
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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970sEmerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines...
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The Autobiography of Alice B ToklasThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover. It is a fascinating insight into the art scene in Paris as the couple were friends...
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The Art of Writing FictionAn elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan's The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia.As illuminating for the recreational...
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The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary InterculturalismDespite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts...
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Teahouse of the Almighty"Smith writes the way Tina Turner sings."--E. Ethelbert MillerAuthor: Patricia SmithPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 114Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.20w x 0.28dISBN: 9781566891936Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/26/2006 pg. 33Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 83Entertainment Weekly 09/29/2006 pg. 89Library...
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Russian and American Poetry of Experiment: The Linguistic Avant-GardeAn experiment with language. Is it an object cultivated in poetic laboratories where entry is locked for mere mortals? And what do language scholars think about it? Specialists in language and literature studies interested in linguistic innovation and experimental poetry will find answers to...
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Portraits of Holy Women: Selections from the Vita ChristiThe Vita Christi, written by the abbess Isabel de Villena, is the only literary work in Catalan to bear the signature of a woman during the Middle Ages. It represents a fascinating re-evaluation of the role women played inthe life of Jesus Christ. The...
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Plato's Proto-NarratologyPlato's contribution to narratology has traditionally been traced in his tripartite categorisation of narrative modes we read of in the Republic. Although other aspects of storytelling are also addressed throughout the Platonic oeuvre, such passages are treated as instantaneous flares of metanarrative speculation on...
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Pan'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun...
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Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That WayAndré Bernard has researched the stories behind more than one hundred of the most famous titles in the English language to produce a fascinating volume rich in literary anecdote and publishing lore. The Great Gatsby was almost titled Trimalchio in West Egg, while some...
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Nordic Sagas as Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and PicturesThis book examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children's literature they inspired, some of which are canonical while others are forgotten. It covers authors like William Morris, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Gray, Walter Scott, H. Rider Haggard, W.H. Auden, John...
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Nobody's Boy; Sans FamilleNobody's Boy; Sans Famille, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and...
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Nineteenth-Century American PoetryWhitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier. For...
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Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and FilmA sequel of sorts to Bradley Birzer's Beyond Tenebrae (Angelico Press, 2019), Mythic Realms seeks to pursue excellences in the last hundred years of literature and film. Still rooted in Christian Humanism and Burke's moral imagination, Birzer offers here a series of autobiographical vignettes,...
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Marvel's Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi CoatesCreated by Marvel Comics Legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Black Panther is considered the first Black superhero in American mainstream comics. Through a textual analysis, this book narrates the history of the character from his first appearance in 1966--the same year, the...
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Mahabharata: The Epic and the NationIn India, kingdoms and dynasties have come and gone, religious sects have formed and dissolved, schools of philosophy have come together and subsequently been replaced by others, yet the Mahabharata has never ceased to excite the Indian imagination.The sheer volume of commentaries on the...
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Lovecraft Annual No. 17 (2023)Lovecraft Annual is published once a year, in Fall. Articles and letters should be sent to the editor, S. T. Joshi, ℅ Hippocampus Press, and must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope if return is desired. All reviews are assigned. Literary rights for...
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