Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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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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The Elements of Style: The Original Edition"The Elements of Style", was first written by William Strunk in 1918 for private use at Cornell University, where Strunk was a professor of English, and republished by Harcourt in 1920 for the public. The concise handbook remains one of the most important and...
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In MoroccoI stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and minarets, mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, hot palm groves and Atlas snows, peer...
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Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and SpainThe fourteen essays in Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain showcase the eye-opening potential of a food lens within colonial studies, ethnic and racial studies, gender and sexuality studies, and studies of power dynamics, nationalisms and nation building, theories of embodiment,...
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The Maid's Tragedy: Beaumont and FletcherGenerally acknowledged to be the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and frequently performed by the best actors of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, The Maid's Tragedy then disappeared from the stage (except in a much-altered and very successful Victorian adaptation) until...
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Lessons from Walden: Thoreau and the Crisis of American DemocracyThroughout this original and passionate book, Bob Pepperman Taylor presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications of Henry David Thoreau's thought in Walden and Civil Disobedience. Taylor pursues this inquiry in three chapters, each focusing on a single theme: chapter 1 examines...
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The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of IndiaThe Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly English, representations of India in the seventeenth century. Following Edward Said's discourse of "Orientalism," most postcolonial analyses of the seventeenth-century representations of India argue that the natives are...
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The Manifestos of Aldo PalazzeschiLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Art. Hybrid Genre. Italian & Italian American Studies. Edited by Katia Pansa and Nicholas Grosso. With acerbic wit and grand parodic visions, Aldo Palazzeschi challenges the status quo (whether they be institutions, norms, or conventions) and champions the odd balls, the...
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Tolkien, Mythology, Imagination and Spiritual Insight: The Enduring Power of the Lord of the RingsThere is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Luigi MorelliPublisher: iUniversePublished: 08/22/2019Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781532080715This title is not returnable
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It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet RussiaThe National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political...
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CodependenceLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Fearless, haunting, and transcendently honest, Amy Long's CODEPENDENCE is a memoir of pain and its paradoxes. Long documents her coming of age as an ambitious young writer plagued by chronic headache and entangled with a boyfriend's opioid addiction. The essays...
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Treasure in the Tales: Finding the Gospel in Fairy TalesWorld-famous fairy tales like Peter Pan, Snow White, and The Three Little Pigs have captured the hearts of generations as they share resonating stories about our desire for acceptance, love, happiness, justice, and security. By spinning epic narratives that grip the imagination and relay...
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The Typewriter Is HolyAnyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats. In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country's leading authority on the movement...
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