Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature--Volume OneWide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from the...
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Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and CultureWhen you drink rum, you drink history. More than merely a popular spirit in the transatlantic, rum became a cultural symbol of the Caribbean. While often dismissed as set dressing in texts about the region, the historical and moral associations of alcohol generally-and rum...
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Lines and Lyrics: An Introduction to Poetry and SongAn introduction to poetry geared toward the study of song "Fusing an approach that engages both lyrics and musical content of English-language songs in a wide swath of genres, Lines and Lyrics gives readers the tools and concepts to help them better interpret songs,...
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The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948In The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848-1948, José F. Aranda Jr. describes the first one hundred years of Mexican American literature. He argues for the importance of interrogating the concept of modernity in light of what has emerged as a...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 4"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of the world's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and...
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The Life of Samuel JohnsonConsidered one of the best written biographies of all-time, The Life of Samuel Johnson gives insight into the glowing mystique of the prominent English writer. By incorporating key elements from his past and personal relationships, James Boswell creates an extensive narrative of the revered...
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Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, 2D Ed.Often considered the lowest depth to which cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film is broadly dismissed as fundamentally exploitative and sensational, catering only to a demented, regressive demographic. This second edition, ten years after the first, continues the assessment of these films and the...
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The Spirit of Japanese PoetryThe Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914) is a collection of essays by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognized as a leading poet in English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the cross-pollination of...
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The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal AttentionIn The Ways of the Word, Garrett Stewart steps aside from theory to focus on the sheer pleasure of attentive reading and the excitement of recognizing the play of syllables and words upon which the best literary writing is founded. Emerging out of teaching...
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On American FictionA brief, powerful analysis of three major twentieth-century writers: Dos Passos, Nabokov, and Faulkner. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking...
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On Merleau-PontyA moving tribute to phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the wake of his early death. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking...
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Avrom Sutzkever - Still My Word Sings: Poems. Yiddish and EnglishDie Reihe Jiddistik Edition und Forschung wird von Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka und Simon Neuberg herausgegeben. In der Reihe erscheinen wissenschaftliche Studien - Sammelbände und Monografien - zu Jiddistik sowie philologische Editionen und Studienausgaben jiddischer Literatur aus allen Epochen. Die Bände werfen ein Schlaglicht...
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Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit ManlinessIn Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes...
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Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary FictionVulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life. Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length...
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Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer TheoryA pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall. The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals,...
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Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval MediterraneanThe story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters. In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learning--classical Arabic and medieval Latin--as they crossed the Mediterranean....
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Give a Little Bit: When Are You Coming Back?An inspiring story how life can change with a gentle touch. Family is so important with changes in life.This is my first book. I live in a small town and grew up twelve miles from here. Have always wanted to write but never took...
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Song of MyselfZephyr House is please to publish this beautiful edition of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" for its inaugural volume of one poem. One poem and its sister series, one prose re-edition classic literature, poetry, and plays in historically accurate and easy to read formats....
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Epilogues: Afterwords on the PlanetLiterary Nonfiction. Hurd's brilliant book about climate change is also a book about storytelling, about paying attention to little, most invisible things that manage to survive without heroics, or the help of heroes. There are many books about climate change, but none like hers...
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How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest WritersA thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world's most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SPECTATOR - "Richard Cohen's book acted as a tonic to me. It didn't make me more...
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