Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Bad Driver's Handbook: Hundreds of Simple Maneuvers to Frustrate, Annoy, and Endanger Those Around YouThe Bad Driver's Handbook is the book the DMV doesn't want you to read! Zack and Larry Arnstein (The Dog Ate My Resum?) debunk the myths of the "good" and "bad" driver by describing in detail the liberating truths about driving that have long...
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St. ElmoSt. Elmo, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....
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Singular Sensations: A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United StatesWhat do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways. Singular Sensations is the first book-length critical study to examine this important but long-neglected...
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Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment: Six KeywordsShakespeare's Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics of Shakespearean theater to recover a positive, collaborative, and...
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Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment: Six KeywordsShakespeare's Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics of Shakespearean theater to recover a positive, collaborative, and...
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Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern CultureShakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the 'signs' of the maturation used to construct Shakespeare's many adolescent characters.Author: Victoria SpareyPublisher: Manchester...
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Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, ExperimentFor centuries, critics, poets, poet-scholars, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence. Rethinking the North American Long Poem focuses on the North American variant of this notorious form--notorious because of...
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Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, ExperimentFor centuries, critics, poets, poet-scholars, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence. Rethinking the North American Long Poem focuses on the North American variant of this notorious form--notorious because of...
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Renaissance Literature and CultureThe guide to Renaissance Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture - major writers and genres including Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe,...
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Remains of the Past in Old English LiteratureArgues for a new understanding of Old English responses to materiality and historical change. Human communities have interacted with the material remains of earlier periods for millennia. Such "archaeological objects" - including bones, coins, weapons, building materials and architectural landmarks - were physically handled,...
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Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and WalesChallenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought...
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Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, C.1770-1830This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Attending specifically to literature and literary culture, it examines how a particular region--southwest Scotland--was reimagined between 1770 and 1830. Regionalisms were a vital, emergent force in this period,...
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Reader's House Magazine - RACHEL AMPHLETT: Interviews with award winning authors; Danika Bloom, Keith Steinbaum, Kimberley Paterson, Cheryl Burman, C.As we proudly present the 48th issue of Reader's House Magazine, we are thrilled to feature the remarkable author Rachel Amphlett on our cover. Rachel's journey from a diverse array of creative pursuits to becoming a USA Today bestselling crime author is a testament...
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Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & CultureLiterature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen...
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Promised Bodies: Time, Language, & Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical TextsIn the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially...
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Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing KoreaAnyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epicenter of Hallyu, the Korean Wave. It is an exclusive zone...
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Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P'Ahan Chip by Yi IlloPoems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of P'ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; "remarks on poetry") and one of the oldest extant Korean sources. The collection was written and compiled by...
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Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its AftermathIn this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended...
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Notre-Dame de ParisNotre-Dame de Paris est un roman historique ?crit par Victor Hugo en 1831. Situ? ? Paris au XVe si?cle, il raconte l'histoire tragique de Quasimodo, le sonneur de cloches difforme de la cath?drale Notre-Dame, et de son amour impossible pour la belle gitane Esmeralda....
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Notes on VerminVermin--rats, cockroaches, pigeons, mosquitoes, and other pests--are, to most people, objects of disgust. And vermin metaphors, likening human beings to these loathed creatures, appear in the ugliest forms of political rhetoric. Indeed, vermin imagery has often been used to denigrate poor, foreign, or racialized...
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