Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Celtic Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes HandbookDiscover the gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters from Celtic mythology with this beautiful book that captures the ancient stories and tales that captivated the Celts. Prepare to be entertained as you learn about the many myths and legends of the Celtic people. From the...
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Celan-Perspektiven 2022Der vierte Band der 'Celan-Perspektiven' demonstriert eindrucksvoll, wie Paul Celan mehr als funfzig Jahre nach seinem Tod zu einer weite Echoraume erzeugenden Stimme der Weltliteratur geworden ist. Dies reflektieren die 'Beitrage' des Bandes, deren Fokus auf den vielfaltigen Formen der Auseinandersetzung in der globalen...
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Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's FictionHow do Black women writing speculative fiction explore the use of memory as a potential strategy for liberation? In Black Speculative Feminisms, Cassandra L. Jones looks at the writings of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Rasheedah Phillips, and Nnedi Okorafor to chart...
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Between Grief and Nothing: The Passions, Addictions and Tragic End of William FaulknerIn 1962, William Faulkner left his homestead in Oxford, Mississippi, to travel to the nearby Byhalia sanatorium for alcoholism rehabilitation. Mere hours later, the usual recovery he sought turned tragic. This book traces the sequence of events leading to his initial hospitalization, exploring facets...
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BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER A Story of Wall-StreetI am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know...
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Back to Black: Jules Feiffer's Noir TrilogyThe legendary American cartoonist and author Jules Feiffer has enjoyed a long and varied career, working on everything from illustrating The Phantom Tollbooth to writing the screenplay for the film Popeye. But some of his most innovative work came very late in his career,...
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Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult LiteratureContributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Trevor Boffone, T. Jackie Cuevas, Cristina Herrera, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Joseph Isaac Miranda, Jesus Monta?o, Domino Renee P?rez, Regan Postma-Monta?o, Cristina Rhodes, and Sonia Alejandra Rodr?guezAtravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature shows...
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Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult LiteratureContributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Trevor Boffone, T. Jackie Cuevas, Cristina Herrera, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Joseph Isaac Miranda, Jesus Monta?o, Domino Renee P?rez, Regan Postma-Monta?o, Cristina Rhodes, and Sonia Alejandra Rodr?guezAtravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature shows...
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Art's Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a LifetimeThe collection Art's Visionary Moment: Personal Encounters with Works That Last a Lifetime was inspired by T. S. Eliot's observation in his Dante (1929): "The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime. ... There is a...
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Aristophanes: WaspsThis is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps(422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies.At the heart of Waspsis a comic conflict between an Athenian father named Philocleon and his son Bdelycleon; at stake are issues of...
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An Historical Syntax of the English Language: Volume I: Syntactical Units with One VerbFrederik Theodor Visser's An Historical Syntax of the English Language, published in four massive volumes between 1963 and 1973, is certainly one of the cornerstones of research in English linguistics. Visser's achievements can hardly be overestimated. Before the advent of modern corpus linguistics, he...
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Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid's Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial FamilyOvid's Fasti offers multifocal views of Augustan religion to convey ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes in the imperial family's religious agenda. Darja Sterbenc Erker explores Ovid's irreverent and ambiguous presentations of calendrical aeitiologies, deifications and imperial gods that humorously call to mind Arachne's tapestry depicting...
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A Little History of PoetryA vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New York Times Book Review Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over...
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A Little History of LiteratureA vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today's graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has researched, taught and written on the entire glorious span of human literary activity, here...
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Alice Through the Looking-Glass: A CompanionThis volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously - at over 500 pages - in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll's neglected sequel and in...
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Against Borges: Four Women Writers of His Inner CirclesSituates the work of four women writers who were part of Borges's circle in the history of women's writing generally, drawing on feminist theory from Europe and North America as well as from Latin American perspectives. Against Borges examines four women writers--Norah Lange, Silvina...
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African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental DestructionExamines how current novels dealing with African migration address social issues, immigrant subjectivity, and the politics of migration. African Migration and the Novel: Exploring Race, Civil War, and Environmental Destruction explores pressing social and political issues such as racial identity, environmental devastation, human trafficking,...
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Aeneas ALS Held Und Erzahler: Zur Narrativen Gestaltung Von Vergils AeneisDem Troianer Aeneas ist es vom Schicksal bestimmt, nach Italien zu ziehen und ein Urahn der Romer zu werden. In Vergils Aeneis trifft er die Entscheidung, Troia zu verlassen, erst spat - zu spat, wie manche kritisieren. Aber solche Kritik ubergeht die Figurenperspektive: Anders...
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Activism and the Literary Self in 20th and 21st-Century Literature: Poetics of JusticeExploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role that literature plays in the formation of justice. Jeff Keuss foregrounds literature and the role of...
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About SufferingAuthor: Christos HadjiyiannisPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/13/2025Pages: 78Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781009539456
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