Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions: Volume I. TextThis work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically designed to...
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Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New OrleansOver the course of the twentieth century, African Americans in New Orleans helped define the genres of jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk. In recent decades, younger generations of New Orleanians have created a rich and dynamic local rap scene, which has revolved...
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Memoir & Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a SlaveFirst published in 1834, this volume contains a collection of memoirs and poems by Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784). Wheatley was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into slavery in West Africa at the...
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Noises Off: A Play in Three ActsFrom the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen comes a play that's "spectacularly funny...a peerless backstage comedy" (The New York Times).Noises Off is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage "drama" that develops during Nothing On's final...
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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious DifferenceShakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today's...
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Byron and the Poetics of AdversityA long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron's great subject is what he...
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Moments of Capital: World Theory, World LiteratureUndertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature, Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three synchronous moments: primitive accumulation, expanded reproduction,...
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The Believer Issue 142: Summer2023In issue 142 of The Believer, Amy Fusselman trawls the streets of New York for "everyday weirdos" with filmmaker John Wilson; Joshua Hunt treks to the peak of Japan's "Mount Fear," rumored portal to the underworld; and Ted McDermott meets a scientist who claims...
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The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth CenturyTraces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.Author: Alister D. InglisPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 04/01/2023Pages: 344Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781438492544About the AuthorAlister D. Inglis is Professor of Chinese Language and...
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Victorian Alchemy: Science, magic and ancient EgyptExamining literature and other cultural forms, Victoria Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being 'rediscovered' in the modern world. Author: Eleanor DobsonPublisher: UCL PressPublished: 10/06/2022Pages: 279Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781787358508About the AuthorEleanor Dobson is associate professor of English literature...
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Handbuch Versepik: Paradigmen - Poetiken - GeschichteDie klassische Gattung des Versepos von Milton bis Klopstock ist nach dem Ende ihrer letzten Hochphasen im europäischen Raum (je nach Sprachkultur zwischen 1750 und 1850) wenig beachtet, obschon weiterhin eine erstaunliche Breite an Formen und Inhalten zu finden ist. Das Handbuch will den...
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SubsurfaceA bold new consideration of climate change between narratives of the Earth's layers and policy of the present Long seen as a realm of mystery and possibility, the subsurface beneath our feet has taken on all-too-real import in the era of climate change. Can...
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The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval FranceJohan Huizinga's much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga's perceptions of individual...
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Teaching the History of the BookWith original contributions from a diverse range of teachers, scholars, and practitioners in literary studies, history, book arts, library science, language studies, and archives, Teaching the History of the Book is the first collection of its kind dedicated to book history pedagogy. Presenting a...
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Understanding Michael S. HarperA fresh examination of Harper's body of work as an archive of Black life, thought, and cultureThe first book devoted to the groundbreaking poet's work, Understanding Michael S. Harper locates Harper's poetic project within Black expressive tradition. The study examines poems drawn from the...
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Rhetorik und Metarhetorik in Aufklärung und RomantikRhetorik ist seit ihren Anfängen dem Vorwurf der Manipulation ausgesetzt, gegen den schon in der Antike eine 'Rhetorik im Dienst der Vernunft' aufgeboten worden ist. Die Untersuchung ist der Transformation dieses Konzepts in Aufklärung und Romantik gewidmet. Am Beispiel von Johann Christoph Gottscheds Lehrbuch...
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Post-Colonial Intertexts: Hierarchies of ModernismUsing Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camus's The Stranger and Conrad's Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist...
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Dante's Christian EthicsAuthor: George CorbettPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/02/2023Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53dISBN: 9781108702447This title is not returnable
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Lessings exoterische Verteidigung der OrthodoxieIn his early years in Wolfenbüttel, Lessing published a series of writings about philosophy and religion directed against Enlightenment theology. The Enlightenment thinker took the side of dogmatic theology to attack Socinians, Neologists, and Deists. Lessing's position in these texts remains one of the...
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Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary IlluminationSacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination provides fresh and insightful interpretations of Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the "sacred" from the divine and focus instead on the "everyday sacred" of a dynamic earthly existence that emphasizes...
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