Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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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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Dostoievski En Las Mazmorras del EspírituEl genio de Dostoievski se revela en la creación de una serie de personajes, por momentos irreales y desmesurados, pero casi siempre contradictorios en su miserable grandeza, que reflejan los conflictos sociales del momento junto con la afanosa búsqueda de un mundo interior. El...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of PosthumanismAs our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges - from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things - the 'posthuman' has become an increasingly central...
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Studying the NovelConsistently praised for its readability and scholarship, Studying the Novel is the ideal undergraduate companion to the study of the novel and shorter fiction. Revised throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the writing, reading, and analysis of fiction,...
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Pindar and Greek ReligionPindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that they are in fact engaged in theological work. Focusing on a set of mythical figures whose identities blur the boundaries between...
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Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other WritersNovelist Donald Newlove (1928-2021) contemplates how alcoholism has affected the lives and work of other writers, as well as himself.". . . a passionate blend: part autobiography, part confessional, part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of 'Drunkspeare' ....
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Trollope: A BiographyAnthony Trollope was a giant of Victorian letters whose works are still read avidly today. Now, in what is surely the definitive biography, the world's leading expert on Trollope provides an amusing, insightful, and authoritative portrait of this remarkable figure. N. John Hall writes...
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Monstrous Liminality: Or, The Uncanny Strangers of Secularized ModernityThis book examines the transformation of the figure of the stranger in the literature of the modern age in terms of liminality. As a 'spectral monster' that has a paradoxical and liminal relationship to both the sacred and the secular, the figure of the...
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Neruda: De 1904 a 1936Mas que una mirada literaria sobre la obra de Pablo Neruda, este libro del critico e investigador Jaime Concha analiza la produccion del Premio Nobel en funcion de sus relaciones con el proceso historico de la sociedad chilena.En esta nueva vision, que continua y...
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The Devil Says Maybe I Like It: Essays on Poetry and LifeWendy Bourgeois is a poet, a teacher, and a staff writer at Propeller, where "Reading Lines," her popular column on poetry and life, has run for the past several years. This collection reveals that in addition to the humor, intelligence, and insight Bourgeois offers...
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The New Oxford Book of English ProseThis book--unique in its international scope--gathers together those rare jewels of the English language that take plain prose to artistic heights. Beginning with Sir Thomas Malory and ending with Kazuo Ishiguro, this anthology chronologically traces the evolution of prose. It shows how itgained confidence...
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