Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Modulares Erzählen: Serialität Und Mouvance in Der Erzähltradition Der Sieben Weisen MeisterThe Narratologia series publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration...
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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of Ad-Dindan: A Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd. an Edition with Translation and IntroduThis work presents the complete collection of oral poetry of a bedouin poet in Central Arabia--transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings--, an extensive glossary, and chapters on i.a. the Najdi tradition in poetry, linguistic features, and prosody.Author: Marcel KurpershoekPublisher: BrillPublished: 10/05/2022Pages:...
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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History: Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the DawāsirA Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation which continue to shape its members' collective consciousness. It comprises an analytical introduction, the Arabic text in transcription with English...
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Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western StageDeath in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live...
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After Clarice: Reading Lispector's Legacy in the Twenty-First CenturyForty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally acclaimed writers, from Hélène Cixous to Colm Tóibín, have acknowledged the transformative influence of her writing on their own work. Translations of her novels and short stories appear...
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Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban ImaginationPart I Cities & Theory2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society3. How to Map the Invisible4. Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future5. Paris, Latour, and Calvino6. Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole...
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The Sociolinguistics of Written Identity: Constructing a SelfThis book examines the ways in which a writer's presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power. Conversations about written voice and style have traditionally revolved around the aesthetics of stylistic choice. These choices, while they help establish a writer's presence in...
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Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of FictionLiterary critics have focused on the nexus between literature and the ecological environment. As a mirror of society, literature encapsulates the natural ecosystem to address environmental degradation as one of the major issues being confronted by communities the world over. Individual literary critics have...
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Science FiktionA German twist on an Anglophone tradition, Science Fiktion provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of the Berlin Wall. When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick...
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Christianity and the Writer's TaskShould writers aim to comfort their readers or to shock them out of comfort? Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), one of the great Catholic authors of the twentieth century, argues for the latter. In this incisive series of letters and essays, collected here for the first...
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Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor HugoThis Book "Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....
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The Collected Works of Walter Pater Volume 9 CorrespondenceCorrespondence is vol. ix in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary portrait'), set new standards for...
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Comp Wrks Evelyn Waugh Robbery Under Law: Volume 24This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants....
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The Wind in the Willows: A Delightful and Entrancing Story for ChildrenOriginally published in 1908 as a book for children, The Wind in the Willowsremains popular with readers of all ages, telling the story of four anthropomorphized animals: Mole, Rate, Toad (immortalized as Mr. Toad in later adaptations), and Badger, all living in an idealized...
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The Absurd and the Cameroonian Tragedy at Decolonization: The Writings of Emmanuel Fru DohThe Cameroons is in the grips of a perpetual tailspin. The confusion and lack of clarity in the nation threaten everyone's sanity. The Absurd and the Cameroonian Tragedy at Decolonization dissects these ills and tries to isolate what has caused them: emotional bankruptcy. Family...
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Schools of Magic: Learning in Children's and Young Adult Fantasy FictionWhat happens when the classroom and the fantastic meet? When lessons cover spells and potions alongside science and language arts? Through fantastic school stories--works of fiction involving the intersection of fantasy and school--the familiar cycle of lessons, homework, exams, and graduation becomes new again,...
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Calling for a New RenaissanceIncludes 50 images, with a large number of paintings from Gao Xingjian's private collection.Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 for a body of literary works originally written and published in Chinese and later translated and published in English, French, and...
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Chinese Poetry as Soul Summoning: Shamanistic Religious Influences on Chinese Literary TraditionStudies of Chinese culture and literature often neglect the importance of the various vocabulary terms for the self and identity that are used somewhat differently from their equivalents in Western languages. In particular, from the Warring States period up to today, Chinese poems often...
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In the American GrainFirst published in 1925, although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication. Yet it is "a fundamental book, essential if one proposes to come to terms with American literature" (Times Literary Supplement). William Carlos...
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The Cambridge Companion to George EliotThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into...
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