Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Textual Traditions and Medieval Literary Culture: Essays in Honour of Si?n EchardEssays illuminating how medieval cultures and identities have influenced later authors, texts, and communities. How did medieval literary cultures shape, and how were they shaped by, their received textual traditions? And how have cultures continued to respond to the inherited medieval tradition in later...
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Studia GermanicaThis volume contians "A Semiotic Theory of Rune-Magic," "Is Sigurdr Sigmundr aptrborinn?" and other essays on heroic poetry and religious interpretation in the context of heresies of the Middle Ages and Celtic roots of heroic epic poetry in medieval Germany. Author: Stephen E. FlowersPublisher:...
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Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living ThingsFrom Homer's epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own--and humans may not always control the narratives we create Combining ancient epic and myth with analogies from biology and the natural world, Joel P. Christensen explores the creative process and how narratives...
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Stock Pieces: British Repertory Theatre, 1760-1830What do we gain from watching a familiar play for the nth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre managers, who, to deliver varied programmes, relied on a repertoire of 'stock' entertainments performed in alternation with the latest plays. Repertory theatre was...
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Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive state but as an active, dynamic process crucial to our understanding...
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Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive state but as an active, dynamic process crucial to our understanding...
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Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, CareerFor many theatergoers and readers, Shakespeare's lofty reputation as the world's greatest playwright has turned him into an intimidating, even a forbidding figure. In Shakespeare High and Low, Jeffrey Knapp helps us to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays by restoring Shakespeare's own sense of...
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Science Fiction Against the Margins: Cinematic Futures, Global ImaginariesExplores independently produced media that uses science fiction to address societal and political issuesToday the genre of science fiction is widely associated with big-budget American films featuring space invaders and lab-made monsters. Outside of mainstream media, however, science fiction is often employed for political...
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Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity and ContinuitiesLooking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity. It considers how these novels challenge our understanding of perpetration and complicity, how they point...
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Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations Across CulturesNew approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe. Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding...
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Reading the River in Shakespeare's BritainIn Shakespeare's Britain rivers were not only a crucial form of travel and important natural resources which sustained communities and provided employment but were also sites to which myths and memories accrued and which could be used to figure religious ideas of cleansing and...
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Reading Nature: The Evolution of American Nature WritingReading Nature highlights the ten books that most influenced the scope and direction of literary natural history in the United States. It explores how American nature writing came to focus on the deep observation of wild landscapes and how the genre evolved over 163...
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Reading Nature: The Evolution of American Nature WritingReading Nature highlights the ten books that most influenced the scope and direction of literary natural history in the United States. It explores how American nature writing came to focus on the deep observation of wild landscapes and how the genre evolved over 163...
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Periodicals in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Serialized Print CultureExploring how Latin American print culture has informed global exchange The first volume in English to focus on Latin American serialized print culture, Periodicals in Latin America assembles research on a diverse range of publications, including avant-garde reviews, comics, specialized journals, mass-market magazines, and...
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Perilous Passions: Ethics and Emotion in Early Modern SpainCan feelings be wrong? Scientists agree that emotions contain both a cognitive and a physiological component. The cognitive part can be modified, while the physiological response is largely involuntary. In religious terms, the answer is clear in its legislation of heart motives: love your...
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Old Testament Narratives and Speech ACT Theory: Creating Worlds with WordsOld Testament Narratives and Speech Act Theory explores the creative power of words in Old Testament narratives. While the most famous example of this phenomenon might involve divine utterances such as, "Let there be light" (Gen. 1:1), Steven T. Mann argues that human characters...
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Nuclear Fictions: Violence and the Narration of the AnglosphereIn this book, Michael Gardiner suggests that the conception of the 'war-ending' weapon was tied up with a longer commitment to unified space and singular progress. The mission for total weapons can be seen rising with the highly-technical defensive war of the later nineteenth...
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No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and PoemsWhen the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called "incitement to subvert state power." In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long statement the activist had...
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Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870-1940Author: Regina MartinPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/19/2024Pages: 232Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781009474368This title is not returnable
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Men Beyond Desire: Male Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThis book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and overturns longstanding views. Far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone. Greven...
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