Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Cocktails, Coquettes and Cigarettes: Perry Mason ConcoctionsFrom 1933 to 1970, Erle Stanley Gardner thrilled readers with his gritty courtroom mysteries featuring one of the world's most well-known lawyers Perry Mason. For the readers who liked urban stories of blackmail, murder, deceit and a myriad of other vices, the Perry Mason...
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Coalition Literature: Aesthetics on the Move in Midcentury Us Multiethnic WritingIn a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusing on how migrancy and labor politics shape literary innovation. Along the way, Robles shows how writers...
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Closely and Consciously: Reading and the Us Women's Liberation MovementThe significant archive of writing that came out of the women's liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1980, speaks to the value activists placed on reading as an act that is at once personal and yet also about the collective good....
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Closely and Consciously: Reading and the Us Women's Liberation MovementThe significant archive of writing that came out of the women's liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1980, speaks to the value activists placed on reading as an act that is at once personal and yet also about the collective good....
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Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its LegacyFew philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote philosophical texts as invitations for his readers to think for themselves. His philosophy has...
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Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at HomeThe Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life. Departing from tourist-centered critiques...
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Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and BeyondIn 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet's command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements--such as the Ghost Dance in North...
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Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from Across the AmericasFar from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation. In this fascinating new work, ?lika Ortega proposes the notion of "binding media"...
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At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust NarrativesAt Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing second- and third-generation Holocaust literature--such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything...
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At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust NarrativesAt Home with the Holocaust examines the relationship between intergenerational trauma and domestic space, focusing on how Holocaust survivors' homes became extensions of their traumatized psyches that their children "inhabited." Analyzing second- and third-generation Holocaust literature--such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything...
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Aqedah: Gen 22 as a Challenge for the Rationality of Religion in Judaism, Christianity and IslamThe Aqedah, i.e., the story of the 'binding' of Isaac by Abraham, is a core text in all three Abrahamic religions and has been widely discussed in Judaism, Christianity and Islam for centuries. It still represents an intellectual, moral, and spiritual challenge for anyone...
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis BorgesEssays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent the history and traditions of his own country, Argentina. His unconventional works appeal to students, who nonetheless can find his richly intertextual...
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis BorgesEssays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent the history and traditions of his own country, Argentina. His unconventional works appeal to students, who nonetheless can find his richly intertextual...
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Ambient Stories in Practice and Research: Digital Writing in PlaceFrom a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience. In so doing, it unpacks how situated literary experiences delivered through text, audio and sensor-based...
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All in All (More or Less): Rhetorical Considerations in Literature, Thought, and ExperienceThis book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "All-in-Allness". Its chapters unfold some of the ethical and intellectual responsibilities philosophy and rhetoric share, their commitments toward literature broadly conceived, the limited authority of their interpretations, and...
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Acoustics in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science: Listening at the ThresholdWhat did it mean to hear, for the first time, what George Eliot described as 'that roar which lies on the other side of silence'? Rapid developments in nineteenth-century acoustic science and communications technologies opened up new worlds beyond the limits of normal audibility...
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Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic ImaginationWorlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeles's infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and consolidation of colonial life. Pacharee Sudhinaraset employs a women-of-color feminist methodology to examine Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx...
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Women Writers' Philosophy of Love in German Romanticism: Dialogical Life in LettersThis monograph spotlights women writers' contributions to the philosophy of German Romanticism. Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Karoline von Günderrode, and Bettina Brentano von Arnim suggested a new vision for an emancipated community of women that develops through philosophical discourse of Progressive...
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Women's Restorative Medievalisms: Forgotten Pasts and Unimagined FuturesRevising the histories of medievalism--the processes by which the Middle Ages are reimagined in later moments to varied political, social, and cultural ends--is critical to the field's turn away from its oppressive roots and towards a richer conception of the past. Grounded in intersectional...
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Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924Historians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the resource-intensive policing of the women's suffrage movement as a significant expansion of the state's surveillance activities. Bridging that gap in the historical record, Watching Women...
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