Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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EcocriticismEcocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott,...
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Cicero: de AmicitiaThe De Amicitia is one of Cicero's most carefully crafted philosophical treatises. It offers an excellent introduction both to the eleoquence of his expository prose style and to the ethical values of Roman society during the first century BC. Moreover, many of the issues...
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Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional ChildBoys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture proposes new theoretical frameworks for understanding the contradictory ways masculinity is represented in popular texts consumed by boys in the United States. The popular texts boys like are often ignored by educators and scholars, or are simply...
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The Book of Emperors: A Translation of the Middle High German KaiserchronikThe Book of Emperors is the first complete translation of the Kaiserchronik from Middle High German to English.Author: Henry A. MyersPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublished: 05/01/2013Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10dISBN: 9781935978701About the AuthorHenry A. Myers is Professor Emeritus of...
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Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of ResistanceDrawing on autobiographical and postcolonial theories, Hiyem Cheurfa examines twenty-first-century Arab women's life writing as sites for the articulation of resistance to power structures and sociocultural and representational norms. Looking comparatively at subgenres of memoir, auto-portrait, testimony, diary, and digital life writing across different...
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Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century FranceDespite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France's nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories...
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The Author's Effects: On Writer's House MuseumsThe Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions...
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic NovelThe Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples, this volume reviews the historical development of various subgenres within the graphic novel...
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Poor Richard's AlmanackA collection of Ben Franklin's timeless maxims, rules, and aphorisms.Author: Inc Peter Pauper PressPublisher: Peter Pauper PressPublished: 01/01/1988Pages: 77Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.02w x 0.79dISBN: 9780880889186This title is only available via back order
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How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 Bce to NowA sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history.In How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now, Walter Stephens condenses the massive history of the written word into an accessible, engaging narrative. The history of writing...
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book HistoryA funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been...
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Poetry in a Global AgeIdeas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of...
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Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian LiteratureBuy this book, it's a barn burner --Dorothy AllisonIn an extraordinarily diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narratives by contemporary Appalachian writers, Red Holler takes us over and beyond the stock imagery of rural mountain communities. We travel into housing projects, forest-stripped...
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Stephen King Is Richard BachmanStephen King is Richard Bachman by Michael R. Collings. This is the whole story of how Stephen King s Richard Bachman came to life, and when King finally had to give up the ghost and come forth with the truth that he was writing...
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James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern EventA provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, they looked back to unrequited pasts to point the way toward radical futures--transforming the Celtic Twilight into the electric light of modern...
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The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and LiteratureIn The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical,...
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Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the first Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice,...
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Touching Beauty: The Poetics of Kim ThúyKim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author's novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated from French into twenty-nine languages in...
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LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First CenturyA survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. For various reasons it...
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Love, PoetryPaul Eluard (1895-1952) is widely considered to be one of France's most important poets. This bilingual edition translates Eluard's Love, Poetry (L'amour la poesie, 1929) for the first time into English. This popular work cemented Eluard's reputation internationally as one of France's greatest 20th...
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