Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora BabbThanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her publisher not thought the market too small for two...
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The Republic by PlatoPlato, (born 428/427 BCE, Athens, Greece-died 348/347, Athens), ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates (c. 470-399 BCE), teacher of Aristotle (384-322 BCE), and founder of the Academy, best known as the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence.Author: Benjamin Jowett, PlatoPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 03/09/2021Pages:...
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Mountain Witches: YamaubaMountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba--female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and WritingThis lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's...
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The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian RealismThe Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the...
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Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan EnglandA new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers. What if going to a play in Elizabethan England was more like attending a football match than a Broadway show--or playing in one? In Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion,...
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Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to MiltonInspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with...
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The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of TruthNominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly Work The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse tells the remarkable story of how a self-described "preacher's kid" from Birmingham, Alabama, became the so-called "Godfather of Gay Comics." This study showcases a remarkable fifty-year career...
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The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth CenturyThe Birth of the Author argues that the images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whether on the Bible or on classical texts, made claims to authority, even inspiration, that at times were even more forceful than those made by the texts themselves. Paradoxically, it...
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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and LegacyThe remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was...
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Inside the Critics' Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain TimesAn inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to say Taking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle...
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Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to MiltonInspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with...
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Adapting Tolkien: Peter Roe Series XXHosted online, the Tolkien Society 2020 seminar sought to explore how J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy partly relies on the continued adaption of his works, characters, and languages. It offered insights into a range of artistic adaptions and evaluated how the tangible result expands the Tolkien...
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Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle EarthOne of Tolkien's great appeals to readers is that he offers a world replete with meaning at every level. To read and reread Tolkien is to share his sense of wonder and holiness, to be invited into the presence of a "beauty beyond the...
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Borges: An IntroductionThis book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions...
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The Major Declamations, Volume IIThe Major Declamations stand out for their unique contribution to our understanding of the final stage in Greco-Roman rhetorical training. These exercises, in which students learned how to compose and deliver speeches on behalf of either the prosecution or the defense at imaginary trials,...
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Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary PetrosphereOil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture but also...
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Elizabeth Bishop in ContextElizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators, this volume addresses the biographical and literary inception of Bishop's originality, from...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts ImaginationIn Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these historically marginalized groups....
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The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe CultureFrom Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given to this...
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