Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Red Is Not the Only Color: Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected StoriesThe first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant touchstone for the exploration...
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Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire: Aulus Gellius and the Imperial Prose CollectionAuthor: Scott J. DigiulioPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 344Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30dISBN: 9780197688267About the AuthorScott DiGiulio is Assistant Professor of Classics and Senior Research Associate of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University. He is the co-editor...
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New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal AgeThe years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years-specifically the post-baby boom generation of writers born between the late 1950s and early 1970s-responded...
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New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal AgeThe years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years-specifically the post-baby boom generation of writers born between the late 1950s and early 1970s-responded...
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NationalismNationalism is a comprehensive exploration of the historical, political, and cultural phenomenon of nationalism. Written by Rabindranath Tagore, a renowned poet and philosopher, this thought-provoking book delves into the complexities and consequences of nationalistic fervor. Engaging readers with insightful analysis, Tagore challenges prevailing notions...
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More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan PoeAuthor: Amy Branam ArmientoPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 314Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.11w x 0.90dISBN: 9780881469462
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Love and the Turning SeasonsFor thousands of years, the Indian subcontinent has proved a fertile ground for the world's most captivating erotic love poetry, and the genius of its devotional writing harnesses great energy and mystical insight. It is in fact often hard to tell whether the poets...
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Jhumpa Lahiri's Works in Transition: Towards a New SpaceCritical discussions on Jhumpa Lahiri's works are rampant, but they are confined to her short stories and fictional writings. This book offers a fresh perspective by showing how she gradually shifts her identity from a fiction writer to a non-fiction writer. And, more importantly,...
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a LegendFrom rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen--and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves. Long before she was a rare book...
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I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding LingA comprehensive collection of writings by the revolutionary writer, feminist, and literary dissident Ding Ling (1904-85), one of the most colorful and important Chinese women writers of the twentieth century.Author: Ding LingPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 09/30/1990Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.99w x 0.99dISBN:...
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Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century NovelsHow Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights As novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from experience--sometimes grudgingly--that readers tend to make their own imaginative...
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Imagination on Fire: The Literary Career of Alice Muriel WilliamsonAmong the most popular novels in the early decades of the twentieth century were those published by Alice Muriel Williamson, whose novels were frequently attributed on their title pages to "C. N. and A. M. Williamson." Although it is now known that "A. M."...
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If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in HindiHow do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of Hindi, the most widely spoken language in Southern Asia and the fourth most widely spoken language...
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From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James IFrom Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of...
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Flags'Flags' was the only volume of poetry published by the Russian emigr poet Boris Poplavsky (1903-1935) during his own lifetime. A significant Surrealist volume, it is one of the "lost" creations of a man who has been called the greatest of the Russian emigr...
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Energy Emergency Repair KitA fictional manual to help disrupt today's all-too-real energy and climate emergencies The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation inter-vention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy, emergency, and repair. The...
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Echoes of Growing Up Italian: Volume 84What you will find in Echoes of Growing up Italian are accounts of the immigrant experience as told through the eyes of women. The Italian diaspora is one of the most significant of the 20th century, with a far-reaching impact in the Americas, Australia...
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Classic Literature Made Simple: Fifty Great Books in a NutshellIt has been said, quite correctly, that we write as well as we read. It can also be said that we think as well as we read. Since reading well is so important, it is good to get into the habit of reading good...
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Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga IcelandDubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking...
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A Room of One's OwnThis handsome gift edition presents Virginia Woolf's classic work, A Room of One's Own, featuring a luxurious gold embossed cover design, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers. One of the greatest arguments for female emancipation, A Room of One's Own began as a lecture...
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