Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reading For PleasureThis is a short guide for teachers on how to help a school put in place a reading for pleasure policy. To support this policy the guide also takes a close look at how children read - what do they think as they read?...
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In Plain Sight: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Literary HistoryIn Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history. By investigating erasure not merely as something that was...
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Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun: A Chapter GuideA chapter-by-chapter guide to Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," its sequel "The Urth of the New Sun," and four shorter works.Author: Michael Andre-DriussiPublisher: Sirius FictionPublished: 11/05/2019Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36dISBN: 9781947614093This title is not returnable
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The Paperback Guy: Words from the SidewalkLiterary Nonfiction. Kurt Brokaw is a literary phenomenon. A pulp fixture on the streets of New York City, Brokaw is a living testimony to the greatest popular writers on the 20th century, and one of the most knowledgeable authorities on the pulp genre in...
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Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and PeetersA collaboration between Belgian artist Fran ois Schuiten and French writer Beno t Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally...
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Etudier Roberto Zucco au Bac de français: Analyse des passages clés de la pièce de Bernard-Marie KoltèsCe livre est fait pour les l ves et pas pour les professeurs qui vont le critiquer et c'est normal. Car malgr ce qu'on vous fait croire au lyc e, cette oeuvre est facile comprendre. Vous trouverez dans ce livre ce dont vous avez...
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The Last Book About Donald TrumpIt doesn't matter if you are Pro or Anti Donald Trump, this book is for you Award Winning Author B Alan Bourgeois has been actively involved in the publishing world for 30 years in a variety of ways and this book brings that hard...
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Panepiphanal World: James Joyce's EpiphaniesPanepiphanal World is the first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Composed between 1901 and 1904, at the beginning of Joyce's writing career, these texts are often dismissed as juvenilia. Sangam MacDuff argues that the epiphanies are an important...
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Salt: Selected Stories and EssaysThis volume of Bruce Pascoe's best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, traverses his long career and explores his enduring fascination with Australia's landscape, culture, and history. Featuring new fiction alongside Pascoe's most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction--including from...
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Tô Đông Pha: Những Phương Trời Viễn MộngKinh Thi v Kinh Dịch như đ i c nh của con chim nhạn mang chở định mệnh lịch sử của Trung Hoa bay lượn suốt mấy mươi thế kỷ tr n v m trời Viễn Đ ng. Dịch trải rộng con đường cho...
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Novel in Transition: Gender & Literature in Early Colonial KoreaHaving been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transform significantly at turn of the twentieth century in Korea. Selected novels in transformation that Jooyeon Rhee investigates in this book include both translated and creative historical novels, domestic...
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Lucretius II: An Ethics of MotionHuman suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core of...
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Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-ZWith the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures governing private lives became more opaque and obscure. Neoliberal Nonfictions argues that a new style of documentary art emerged to articulate the fissures between individual experience and reality in...
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The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of BlacknessDespite New Spain's significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for...
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Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for CommunityThough the terms "queer" and "Mennonite" rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have built a body of queer Mennonite literature that shifts these identities into conversation. In this volume,...
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Babette's FeastOn the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in...
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Finding Our Sea-Legs: Ethics, Experience and the Ocean of StoriesFor millennia, philosophers have spun tales about goodness and badness, yet in matters of ethics, agreement is curiously hard to find. Finding Our Sea-Legs takes a new approach to these old debates.This book casts the reader adrift on a sea of stories where multiple...
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Less Than One: Selected EssaysThis collection of essays thrusts Joseph Brodsky--previously known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian migr writers. Originally published the year before Brodsky received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Less Than One includes intimate literary essays and...
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Character: The History of a Cultural ObsessionWhat is "character"? Since at least Aristotle's time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage, "character" derives from a word for engraving or stamping, yet over time, it has come to mean a moral...
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Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual TraditionThe story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly...
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