Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Homer and His IliadA groundbreaking reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful The Iliad is the world's greatest epic poem--heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War. Its beauty and profound bleakness are intensely moving, but...
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English--and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it....
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Translating Myself and OthersLuminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as...
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English Literature for Boys and GirlsFrom the hand of H. E. Marshall, one of the greatest authors of juvenile history comes this introduction to English literature. From early Gaelic tales and Beowulf though to Spenser, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Thackeray, Marshall introduces us to the times and personalities that have...
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Robin Hood and Other Outlaw TalesAlthough nearly everyone has heard the name of Robin Hood, few have actually read any medieval tales about the legendary outlaw. Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren set out to correct this discrepancy in their comprehensive collection of all pre-seventeenth-century Robin Hood tales. The editors...
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The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their FriendsDuring the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams--remarkable friends, writers, and scholars--met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was...
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Late Romance: Anthony Hecht--A Poet's LifeAnthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America's greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognized as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary sources, as well as Hecht's experiences as a soldier during World War II, during...
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Comparative and Global Framing of EnslavementThe study of enslavement has become urgent over the last two decades. Social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, who study forms of enslavement in both modern and historical societies, have sought - and often achieved - common conceptual grounds, thus forging...
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Kleinformate im UmbruchAuthor: No ContributorPublisher: de GruyterPublished: 09/04/2023Pages: 257Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63dISBN: 9783111002101
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Der Tod und seine PresseZeitungsnachrufe sind Gelegenheitstexte, die anlässlich von Sterbefällen und Todestagen entstehen. Wen würdigt der Abschieds-Journalismus mit solchem Totenlob? Wie lässt er die Verstorbenen aufleben, wie steuert er ihren Nachruhm? Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, angesichts des Epochenbruchs, stellt sich diese Frage auf neue Weise. Gegen rhetorische...
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Theology, Fantasy, and the ImaginationTheology, Fantasy, and the Imagination offers analyses of the theological, philosophical, and religious imagination found in fantasy literature, the theological imagination, and table-top games. Part I offers an invocation to the study through a theological reflection of the "old magic." Part II analyzes classical...
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Nga Pepeha a Nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the AncestorsThis collection contains more than 2,500 pepeha, or "sayings of the ancestors," that were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year period. More than just proverbs, pepeha include charms, witticisms, figures of speech, and boasts, and they are featured in...
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How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek LiteratureHow the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one--aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was...
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Teaching Literature in High School: Principles into Purposeful PracticeIn looking for an approach to teaching literature in high school, teachers largely fall back on the methods that they had experienced as students. These practices often involve a teacher assigning a complex work of literature and then assessing students' reading through in-class recitations...
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Cicero, Philippic 2, 44-50, 78-92, 100-119: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and CommentaryCicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar's death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for...
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The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Boyhood in JapanJapan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett).Author: Kansuke NakaPublisher: Stone Bridge PressPublished: 10/27/2015Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.80w x 0.60dISBN: 9781611720198About the AuthorKansuke Naka (1885-1965) was a Japanese poet,...
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Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists Volume 81Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form. It looks at this substantial body of writing with a primary focus on...
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955Since Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age...
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Literary Landscapes ParisFrom Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destination.Literary Landscapes: Paris takes this major...
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Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape: Or, How to Use Public Space as a Medium for ProtestThis book, which takes the form of a graphic novel, looks at political activism in the public landscape. It has a particular focus on the UK activist group Led By Donkeys which has, since late 2018, been running a campaign to expose hypocrisy in...
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