Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High CapitalismA classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and work Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age...
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Thoreau's ReligionAuthor: Alda Balthrop-LewisPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/03/2023Pages: 332Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9781108799676
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Letters to a Young PoetBorn in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old student sent...
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The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to SolzhenitsynAuthored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prize-winning author who became one of the Soviet regime's...
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The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of FaerieJ. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, according to this new study of his works. The Flame Imperishable follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien's legendarium,...
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Flush: A BiographyWoolf's best-selling spoof biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's lap dog, Flush, has until recently received relatively little serious critical attention. Flush: A Biography has been read as an allegory of class war, lesbian love, the plight of women writers, and much else besides....
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Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat GenerationJack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs-their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study examines their attempt to redefine a...
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Eliot After 'The Waste Land'Young Eliot: From St. Louis to "The Waste Land" was hailed as "exceptional" and "assiduous" (The New York Times). Robert Crawford's meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in Eliot After "The Waste Land", an invaluable record of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet, and troubled man. After...
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Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, ResistanceSurrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues that...
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A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal ImaginationA much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China's unique political-legal culture. To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. In...
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The Problem of Literary ValueThis book addresses the vexed status of literary value, focusing on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, using Chaucer studies as a case in point. It explores how we may reconcile literary value's inevitability with its uncertainties and complicities, seeking to forge a viable rationale...
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I Write the Yawning Void: Selected Essays of Sindiwe MagonaSindiwe Magona is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller and motivational speaker known mainly for her autobiographies, biographies, novels, short stories, poetry and children's books. I Write the Yawning Void is a collection of essays that highlight her engagement with writing that span the...
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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible EastWhat, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these...
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Travels in Syria and the Holy LandThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in AppalachiaA wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.Author: Allison E. CareyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 278Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438493558About the AuthorAllison E. Carey is Professor...
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The Other SynaesthesiaReconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.Author: Susan BernsteinPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 146Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781438493626About the AuthorSusan Bernstein is Professor...
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Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in GothamA micro-biography of horror fiction's most influential author and his love-hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today,...
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Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & CommunityIn Our Difficult Sunlight, Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia Popoff demonstrate the power of poetry in the K-12 classroom. Drawing on their combined thirty years as teaching artists, the authors explore the terrain of the 21st-century public school and outline strategies for using the...
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James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of ExileBetween 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin's "Turkish decade," Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and...
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A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in the process...
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