Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Playfulness in Shakespearean AdaptationsFour hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories...
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Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children's LiteratureRulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children's Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children's literature scholars who each look at...
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Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary China: Volume 2Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country's academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory...
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Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017Beginning with Somerset Maugham's innovative, sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock's gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film, this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second...
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Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of TroyThis book uses Ezra Pound's The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism's ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer's Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes,...
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The Room Between UsShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. A PBS Recommendation Summer 2022. In her debut collection, Denise Saul explores family and identity as she tells the story of a mother's illness and subsequent aphasia, and a daughter's ongoing role as carer. At the heart...
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Story MatricesThe culture we live in shapes us. We also shape the culture we live in. Stories we tell play critical roles in this shaping.The heart of cultural transmission is how stories and the way we shape knowledge come together and make a novel work....
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Fairy Faith In Celtic CountriesFairy Faith In Celtic Countries is a classic in-depth examination of the the Celtic belief in fairies. Evans-Wentz's Oxford work includes an extensive survey of the fairy traditions from multiple perspectives, including folk-lore, history, anthropology and psychology. At the center of the work is...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler HarrisFor as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and...
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Photo-Attractions: An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German CameraIn Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white...
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Santería, Vodou and Resistance in Caribbean Literature: Daughters of the SpiritsAfrican-derived religious traditions like Santería and Vodou have long been a site of political, cultural and social resistance in the Caribbean. Through his focus on the body as the juncture between the physical and spiritual planes, Humphrey's analysis of a number of Caribbean novels...
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Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural StudiesPost-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in...
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The Philology of Life: Walter Benjamin's Critical ProgramThe Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's work as a whole. According to Benjamin, German...
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Criticism and Politics: A Polemical IntroductionAn accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture...
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Literary Representations of the Palestine/Israel Conflict After the Second IntifadaThis edited collection brings together discussions of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestinian and Jewish Diasporas, as well as from authors and creators not directly involved with the conflict who are seeking to unpack its complexities for a wider audience....
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The California Gothic in Fiction and FilmThis book positions the 'California Gothic' as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specific to the historical, cultural and geographical characteristics of the 'Golden State'. California has long been perceived as a utopian space, but it is also haunted by the spectres...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary StudiesVegan literary studies has been crystallised over the past few years as a dynamic new specialism, with a transhistorical and transnational scope that both nuances and expands literary history and provides new tools and paradigms through which to approach literary analysis. Vegan studies has...
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Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic FictionFuses historical and psychoanalytic perspectives to offer a provocative and original analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction The first major analysis of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction to appear since 2004 Substantial, in-depth and distinctive interpretation of her novels and short stories Literary analysis informed by biographical,...
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Asbestos - The Last Modernist ObjectFew modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes....
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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 4: Semiotic MovementsBloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared...
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