Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldBusiness News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, 'business news', within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scholars from a range of disciplines, which span...
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Behind the Looking-Glass: Reflections on the Myth of Lewis Carroll"Behind the Looking-Glass" offers a fresh perspective in the ongoing, contemporary deconstruction of the Carroll Myth. Through rigorous examination of numerous myths that have been hitherto unquestioned, Ackerman skilfully positions Lewis Carroll in the theological and philosophical contexts of his time. She uncovers a...
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Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: Four EssaysThe aim of this volume is to give the general reader an introduction to the richest works of the great masters of Persian literature so that they can become better acquainted with this symbolic, mystical and sometimes-- to the uninitiated-- obscure literary world. Four...
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Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and LiteratureAuthor: Charles Bauldelaire, Charles P. BaudelairePublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 10/01/1992Pages: 460Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.81h x 5.90w x 0.90dISBN: 9780140446067
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A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary ShelleyIn 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary...
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ArtfulAli Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne's College,...
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A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to ArendtWhy melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewal Melancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melancholia...
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A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved,...
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An Inspector Calls: Essay Writing Guide for GCSE (9-1)So you now know the play - but how do you structure your essay? This clean & simple new guide from Accolade Press will walk you through how to plan and structure essay responses to questions on J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls. By...
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American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print CulturesThe study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation--New England is a good example--D. Berton Emerson argues the same...
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Almond Blossoms and BeyondThe first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the...
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Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The English Language of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide - Volume 2: Checklists and AppendicesAlice in a World of Wonderlands: The English-Language Editions of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide is a two-volume set; this is Volume 2 (Checklists and Appendices). Volume 1 (Essays and Illustrations) is available separately. This is a companion to the 2015 three-volume Alice...
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Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The English Language of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide - Volume 1: Essays and IllustrationsAlice in a World of Wonderlands: The English-Language Editions of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide is a two-volume set; this is Volume 1 (Essays and Illustrations). Volume 2 (Checklists and Appendices) is available separately. This is a companion to the 2015 three-volume Alice...
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A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois...
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A Cultural History of the Punisher: Marvel Comics and the Politics of VengeanceA comprehensive study of the Punisher in all his contradictions. The Punisher made his debut in The Amazing Spider-Man in 1974, fighting crime with violence--and willingness to kill--that set him apart from the typical comic book hero. Nearly fifty years later, he is a...
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Довлатов - добрый мой приnЭто одна из самых честных книг о большом русском писателе Сергее Довлатове, родившемся в 1941 году в Уфе и скончавшемся в 1990 году в Нью-Йорке. Его подруга и биограф Людмила Штерн рассказывает о комических и трагических эпизодах жизни своего героя, о литераторах, ставших символами...
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Tolkien's Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle-earth"Despite the plethora of scholarship and commentary on Tolkien's fiction, I make the case that our felt experience of The Lord of the Rings has yet to be coherently understood and that such coherence is achieved through an exploration of the story's 'hidden pictures.'...
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The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New ConceptIncredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural connotations. This book traces the complex and overlooked way in which anglophone culture "got rhythm," concentrating on the pivotal role that poetry played in...
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Laboring Mothers: Reproducing Women and Work in the Eighteenth CenturyMotherhood inherently involves labor. The seemingly perennial notion that paid work outside the home and motherhood are incompatible, however, grows out of specific cultural conditions established in Britain and her colonies during the long eighteenth century. With Laboring Mothers, Ellen Malenas Ledoux synthesizes and...
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Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish AmericaDrawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities.Goldmark analyzes these ties as forms of kinship forged outside...
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