Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Stars Around My Scars: The Annotated Poetry of Taylor SwiftGrab your highlighters and favorite red pen and prepare to join professor of "Swifterature" Dr. Elly McCausland as she dives deep into the tortured poetry of Taylor Swift. Going line by line and word by word through 46 of Swift's most celebrated and hotly...
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Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your OwnYou're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema story works." Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters deconstruct or "break down" films and study them. You'd like to try this method...
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On Being Ill"Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable." Virginia Woolf's essay begins by lamenting the surprise neglect of ill-health as a potential literary subject. What then unfolds is a dazzlingly written series of reflections on sickness, fiction,...
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Nothing Happened: A HistoryThe past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing...
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Negative Life: The Cinema of ExtinctionHow films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept of negative life, a sundering of human and nonhuman relations. Engaging a philosophical...
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Methods and Meaning in the Novels of Stephen King: A Constant Reader's GuideThis book explores the techniques, themes, and subtexts in the fictional works of one of America's best-known and most-loved storytellers, Stephen King. Each of King's novels are analyzed in chronological order of their publication from Carrie to Holly. Every novel's analysis includes a background...
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Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the FrameHow twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers. Given comics' ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century...
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Infortunios de Alonso RamirezIn 1690, when Infortunios de Alonso Ram rez, penned by Carlos de Sig enza y G ngora (1645-1700), was published in Mexico, Spain already seemed to be slipping irrevocably into decadence. At the same time, history marked the epochal hearkening of the leading Puerto...
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How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist TheoryIn How We Write Now Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow writers and readers to stay close to the field's central object and preoccupation: loss. She demonstrates how contemporary Black feminist writers and theorists such as Jesmyn Ward,...
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How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Making of a Children's ClassicAuthor: Philip NelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 11/27/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780197777596
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Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England Volume 4In Handmaid to Divinity, Desiree Hellegers establishes seventeenth-century poetry as a critical resource for understanding the debates about natural philosophy, astronomy, and medicine during the Scientific Revolution. Hellegers provides important insights into seventeenth-century responses to the emergent discourses of western science and into the...
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Global Literary Theory: An AnthologyGlobal Literary Theory: An Anthology comprises a selection of classic, must-read essays alongside contemporary and global extracts, providing an engaging and timely overview of literary theory. The volume is thoroughly introduced in the General Introduction and Part Introductions and each piece is contextualized within...
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English Literature for Young PeopleEnglish Literature for Young People is an introduction to the great works of English literature. H. E. Marshall's story of England's literary heritage is rich and compelling---a masterly account of 1500 years of the literary arts in Great Britain, extending from early Irish legends...
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Elevated Realms - An Anatomy of Mina LoyMina Loy has long been recognised as a writer who insists on the primacy of the corporeal. Over two volumes, Sara Crangle excavates how Loy's relationship to the human body was inextricable from her esoteric understanding of the human soul. Elevated Realms is the...
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Dear Diego: Querido Diego, Te Abraza QuielaWhen Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting though the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from Angelina Beloff.Author: Nathanial Gardner, Elena Poniatowska, N. GardnerPublisher: Liverpool University PressPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.40dISBN:...
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Dangerous LiaisonsLes Liaisons Dangereuses is a frightening and ultimately scathing portrait of a decadent society that was first published in 1782, only a few years before the French Revolution. At its centre are two aristocrats who were once lovers and who now play a complex...
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Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and PlaceOver the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a global African diaspora, an early home for Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, an important Puerto Rican neighborhood, and a representative site of gentrification. How...
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Book Nerd Mini Wall Calendar 2025Just for you, bibliophile. You know you're a book nerd because you never once thought the movie was better. Your favorite mug says, "I'd rather be reading." You have a minimum of five books on your nightstand, and your favorite activity is browsing the...
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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah AllanBone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scholars from China and abroad lend their expertise in archaeology, art history, paleography, intellectual history, and many other disciplines to...
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Bad Feminist: EssaysNow available in hardcover for the first time, Roxane Gay's New York Times bestselling debut collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism--a modern classic from one of the most prominent voices of her generation"Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my...
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