Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Illegible Man: Disability and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaHow does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of what is culturally understood to be an "able" body? How does this experience make visible the structures...
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The Illegible Man: Disability and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaHow does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of what is culturally understood to be an "able" body? How does this experience make visible the structures...
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common ParadiseIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred TennysonThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Cambridge Companion to John ClareThe fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final decades incarcerated in asylums. In this Companion leading scholars illuminate Clare's rich life and writing, situating each within a range...
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Symbols of the Vikings - Myth and Truth: A revelation of Icelandic magic, its roots and the misconceptions of todaySymbols of the Vikings - Myth and Truth: A revelation of Icelandic magic, its roots and the misconceptions of today Immerse yourself in the world of Norse symbols and discover the true story behind the mysterious signs that are often mistakenly referred to as...
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Suspect Subjects: Queer Legal Futures in the Us After BostockDespite formal equality gains such as LGBTQ workplace protections (Bostock v. Clayton County 2020), heteronormative cultural orders still permeate queer rights discourse. Laura Borchert engages with the cultural-legal construction of sexual minorities in the US and deconstructs naturalized assumptions about >the QueerAuthor: Laura BorchertPublisher:...
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Sin Miedo a Las Ruinas: Anarquismo, Vanguardias Art?sticas Y La Crisis de Representaci?n En Espa?a (1930-1937)Al hablar de "vanguardias artisticas", o "vanguardias historicas", no es extrano el empleo del adjetivo calificativo "anarquico" que, a veces ambiguamente, alude a cierta atmosfera rupturista en el primer tercio del siglo XX. En el caso espanol esta situacion remite a la coexistencia, durante...
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Shakespeare Survey 77: Shakespeare's PoetryShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of...
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Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican LiteratureScience Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers "fuse" science and literature...
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Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering ShepherdHans Breuer, Austria's only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd's stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in historically anti-Semitic towns, showing slides of the flock as he belts out Yiddish...
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Roman History, Volume VII: Books 56-60A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...
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Phrases: Six Films"when I admire a film they say to me yes, it's very pretty but it's not cinema so I asked myself what it was" Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: Germany Nine Zero, The Kids Play Russian, JLG /...
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On the MarginThe essays that appear in On the Margin are a testimony to the polymathic reach of Aldous Huxley's intellect, as well as to the relish with which he entered into some of his more surprising enthusiasms. As perceptive and assured in discussing the art...
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Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg BibleOne hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian man's hunt for those fragments...
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New AddressesKenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things...
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Milton Reinvented: Cultural Reception in 19th-Century America and 'Our Day'This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the contributions of Milton and his writings to demonstrate how major social movements appropriated him in ways that "reinvent" him, making him what...
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MermvilleThis book was a gift from the universe to me. Involving my grandchildren in creating the many charming and beautiful critters in Mermville. Working together to build a loving community and then sharing it with humans. A heartwarming story of love and circumstances that...
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Mariner: A Theological Voyage with Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoet and theologian Malcolm Guite leads readers on a journey with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose own life paralleled the experience in his famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." On this theological voyage, Guite draws out the continuing relevance of this work and...
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Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from around the globe have been made into world literature in the US, selected by editors, publishers, and bureaucrats, produced by...
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