Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Native American FictionAn entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought...
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Measure For Measure: Redressing The Balance: A Critical Reappraisal Of Shakespeare's PlayMeasure for Measure has proved unusually controversial since its earliest recorded performance in 1604. Adverse critical judgements and heavily-censored performances established a deep-seated and unjustified prejudice against the play. When we redress the balance, however, we discover so much to admire that was disregarded...
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La OdiseaLa Odisea, escrita por el poeta griego Homero, es una de las grandes epopeyas de la literatura cl?sica. Narra el ?pico regreso de Ulises a su hogar en ?taca tras la ca?da de Troya, enfrent?ndose a numerosos desaf?os y aventuras, como los c?clopes, las...
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Iris Murdoch and the PoliticalIris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say that she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, this book argues the contrary. Murdoch had lifelong interests in...
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Invincible Hugh Jackman: The BiographyHugh Jackman is more than just a household name; he is a cultural icon whose journey from Australia to Hollywood has inspired millions around the globe. Invincible Hugh Jackman: The Biography delves deep into the life of this extraordinary actor, exploring the man behind...
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How to Write Short Stories - With SamplesThis early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'How to Write Short Stories' is a non-fiction, educational work on the art of creative writing. Ring Lardner was born in...
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary FormThe follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor--a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably...
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Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?: A Primitivist PhenomenologyFocusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sought to reclaim the fluid world of the sensory, with its precategorical and radically egalitarian impulses. By...
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Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation LiteratureEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Greening Bohemia is the first book to connect diverse Beat Generation literature to environmental concerns. What is the connection between the Beat Generation and the environment? Using careful textual and rhetorical...
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Greek Culture in Hellenistic Egypt: Persistence and EvolutionsThis book investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, through a discussion of papyrological material, archaeological evidence, and literary sources. It is divided into three sections. The first, Space and Images, reflects on...
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Geoffrey Hill and the Ends of PoetryThe idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016). This book shows that Hill's poems are characteristically 'end-directed'. They tend towards consummations of all kinds: from the marriages of meanings in puns, or of words in...
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Fix-It Fics: Challenging the Status Quo through Fan FictionOver the past ten years, fan fiction has outgrown its perceived taboo, as made by the public, and has evolved into a legitimate form of writing and self-expression. Academics, too, have recognized the potential for fan fiction studies through the lens of the humanities,...
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Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition: The Sanguine Boundary LimitThis book explores the rich seam in Finnegans Wake of references to Ulster, to its geography, myth and history: a subject which has received relatively little attention in Joyce studies. Joyce portrays Ulster as sharing a complex relationship with the rest of Ireland, one...
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Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, RotHow deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued with a liveliness that is suggestive...
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Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the StageDecentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and marginalized storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters dominant dramatic methodologies. Author: Carolyn M. DunnPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 212Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...
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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American SettlementCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties--"a stunned memory preserved in...
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Crossings: Essays on Poetry and Translation from Hölderlin to JaccottetCrossings is a gathering of essays whose preoccupations converge in the idea that the workings of poetry and trans-lation are closely related. This is especially true in the work of Hölderlin, in whose poems the kinship is coupled with a way of reading the...
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Creative Mythology (the Masks of God, Volume 4)An updated edition of the beloved final volume in Joseph Campbell's monumental Masks of God series, Creative Mythology tells the inner story of humanity's entire philosophical, spiritual, and artistic history since the Dark Ages, ultimately positioning each of us as the creator of our...
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Course in General LinguisticsThe founder of modern linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure inaugurated semiology, structuralism, and deconstruction and made possible the work of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, thus enabling the development of French feminism, gender studies, New Historicism, and postcolonialism. Based on Saussure's...
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Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750Author: Diana Berruezo-S?nchezPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.37h x 6.44w x 1.04dISBN: 9780198914228
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