Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal EducationR.V. Young examines the dominant trends in literary theory during the past thirty years, chronicling their effect on the teaching of literature and the imparting of a liberal education.Author: R. V. YoungPublisher: Intercollegiate Studies InstitutePublished: 10/01/2003Pages: 199Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.17w x...
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The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship and the Writing LifeWriting may be a solitary profession, but it is also one that relies on a strong sense of community. The Write Crowd offers practical tips and examples of how writers of all genres and experience levels contribute to the sustainability of the literary community,...
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Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight EssaysLonely Stardust brings us the texts of nine marvelous works of scholarly performance as well as two works of drama in which the fantastic shows us the way through despair. In several of the pieces here, Hairston's sharp, visionary eye examines Hollywood blockbusters and...
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G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking ForwardIn this book, Stephen R. L. Clark, a philosopher with a lifelong "addiction" to science fiction, explores G. K. Chesterton's ideas and arguments in their historical context and evaluates them philosophically. He addresses Chesterton's sense that the way things are is not how they...
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Growing Up Gay/Lesbian: A Literary AnthologyGrowing up Gay, Growing up Lesbian is the first literary anthology geared specifically to gay and lesbian youth. It includes more than fifty coming-of-age stories by established writers and teenagers and has been hailed by writers, educators, activists, booksellers, and the press as an...
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Mexican Literature as World LiteratureHonorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards forBest Nonction - Multi-AuthorChapter 15 by Carolyn Fornoff is Winner of the 2022 Best Article in the Humanities Award, Latin American Studies Association, MexicoMexican Literature as World Literature is a landmark collection that, for the...
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First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew PrintingUncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book. In 1538, a partnership of Jewish silk makers in the city of Bologna published a book entitled Sefer Hasidim, a compendium of rituals, stories,...
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Beauty Hunters: Sudanese Bedouin Poetry, Evolution and ImpactThe Beauty Hunters offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poetry, its evolution, aesthetics, and impact. Through an in-depth profile of al-Ḥārdallo, the doyen of this art form, Adil Babikir explores the attributes that established him as a poet of international stature. The life...
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The Novel, Who Needs It?In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior of human beings. Reading superior fiction, he holds, arouses the mind in a way...
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The Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes: Between Nihilism and HopeThe Philosophical Pathos of Susan Taubes offers a detailed analysis of an extraordinary figure in the twentieth-century history of Jewish thought, Western philosophy, and the study of religion. Drawing on close readings of Susan Taubes's writings, including her correspondence with Jacob Taubes, scholarly essays,...
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Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical ScienceMid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate change, pollution, and waste. In this...
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The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of TranslatabilityThis book examines the translation of Arabic literature into English, in conversation with contemporary literary scholarship and classical Arabic aesthetic and linguistic paradigms. Case studies reveal practices of translating that activate embodied forms of language and affective modes of reception to position Arabic literature...
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Freedom RereadFew writers rankle like Jonathan Franzen. Despite popular acclaim, robust sales, and august literary laurels, Franzen's polarizing persona shares the spotlight with--and sometimes steals it from--his tragicomic novels of Midwestern family life. In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of...
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On Mary Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New GenusMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women's equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution, her vindication delivered a systematic critique of the treatment of women across time and place....
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Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literariaCartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff's poems as cultural maps that reveal both a...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry and Politics shows how American poets have addressed political phenomena since 1900. This book helps students, teachers, and general readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics. Offering detailed...
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Figures de l'Excès Chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes Et Marina de Van: Ecrire Et Filmer Le Corps-FrontièreFigures de l'excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van de Dominique Carlini Versini interroge les images du corps excessif qui traversent les récits d'artistes contemporaines françaises selon une approche intermédiale. À partir des années 1990, une tendance à l'excès a été...
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Conversations with Beth HenleyWith roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original,...
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Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate PersonsWinner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language Association Winner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies Association Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American...
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Scapegoat Carnivale's Tragic Trilogy: Euripides's Medea, Euripides's Bacchae, and Sophocles's Oedipus TyrannusBetween 2010 and 2017, Canada experienced an efflorescence of Greek tragedy, led by independent Montreal theatre company Scapegoat Carnivale's energetic performances of Euripides's Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus. The performances featured crisp new translations by co-artistic director Joseph Shragge, large casts, and...
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