Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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From the Tree to the LabyrinthThe way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco begins by arguing that our familiar system of classification by genus...
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Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing: Race and Narrative InnovationIn what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers - Black British, African, Caribbean, African American - who remake traditional understandings of blackness. As the...
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Dick of Devonshire: .The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywood's 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material.Author: Kate EllisPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 12/17/2024Pages: 192Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44dISBN: 9780719099366
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David Lynch's American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, CinemaHow are David Lynch's films as much in dialogue with literary and musical traditions as they are cinematic ones? By interrogating this question, David Lynch's American Dreamscape broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes...
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Cultures of the Popular in the Modern Hispanic WorldHow many cassette tapes do you still own? In one hundred years, how many TikTok videos or Instagram posts will still be accessible? Yet much of today's news and mass culture is produced and disseminated via transient means. Just as in previous eras. Hispanic...
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Complete Poetry of James Agee"It was a pleasure to immerse myself in this fine addition to Agee Studies." - Andrew Hudgins While best known for his work as a novelist, journalist, and film critic--perhaps most so for the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family and for Let...
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Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of GenreAuthor: James MetcalfPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780198943853
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Children's Literature and Childhood Discourses: Exploring Identity through FictionChildren's literature shapes what children learn about the world. It reflects social values, norms, and stereotypes. This book offers fresh insights into some of the key issues in fiction for children, from the representation of gender to embodied cognition and the translation of children's...
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Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby: An Annotated BibliographyThis extensive new work joins the internationally acclaimed series of bibliographies of Charles Dickens's work edited by Professor Duane DeVries. The detailed listings, full annotations, and evaluative notes will prove indispensable to scholars. The two volumes represent many years of work by the distinguished...
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Cather Studies, Volume 14: Unsettling CatherAmerican author Willa Cather was born and spent her first nine years in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Here, as an observant daughter of a privileged white family, Cather first encountered differences and dislocations that remained lively, productive, and sometimes deeply troubling sites of...
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Boom! Splat!: Comics and ViolenceContributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Álvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, Vincent Haddad, Kaleb Knoblauch, Christina M. Knopf, Leah Milne, Jacob Murel, Priyanka Tripathi, and Steven S. Vrooman In 1954,...
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Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish ProtestBen Hecht is most remembered as a famous Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway playwright, but only recently has his extensive Jewish activism during the Holocaust and its aftermath received scholarly attention. Unlike other, more expansive Hecht biographies, this book focuses in depth on his Jewish...
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Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish ProtestBen Hecht is most remembered as a famous Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway playwright, but only recently has his extensive Jewish activism during the Holocaust and its aftermath received scholarly attention. Unlike other, more expansive Hecht biographies, this book focuses in depth on his Jewish...
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An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal ArmyControversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking essay "An American Utopia" radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are--among other things--universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental...
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A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth CenturyA Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman's masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional...
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Adorno's Gamble: Harnessing German IdeologyAdorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetic modernism, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno's thinking on instrumental reason, dialectic...
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A Companion to "Jabberwocky" in TranslationLewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" stands as the most famous nonsense poem of all time. Frequently seen as untranslatable, it has nevertheless (or for that very reason) become a touchstone of translation. Yet, although there are several language specific studies of "Jabberwocky" in translation, a broader...
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Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Eastern and Southern AfricaAcross contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have manifested into varied political events, and the range of struggles over land has spawned a...
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Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and SexBringing together fourteen African-American women, Marita Golden has compiled saucy and spicy essays that serve as an exploration into the contemporary black female psyche. Ranging in style from Audre Lorde's classic polemic on eroticism to Miriam DeCosta Willis's deeply moving essay on her husband's...
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What the Presidents Read: Childhood Stories and Family FavoritesTaking a generous view of reading and reading materials, the editors have collected here presidential childhood reading favorites - and those of many First Family members - into 8 groupings: History and Geography, Play - which includes reading music or learning rules for athletics,...
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