Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum ApophthegmataPlutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to Trajan as a summary of the...
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All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark CoolidgeAll This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic...
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A History of Haitian LiteratureFrom nineteenth-century antislavery pamphleteering to accounts of ecological catastrophe in twenty-first-century fiction, Haitian literature has resounded across the globe since the nation's revolutionaries declared independence in 1804. Starting with pre-revolutionary writing, including the emergence of Haitian Creole letters, extending to the long, largely francophone...
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A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025Edited by the magazine's poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Gl?ck, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin,...
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Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian LiteratureIn Women at Odds, Riya Das demonstrates the limitations of female solidarity for the New Woman in Victorian society. On the one hand, feminist antagonism disrupts the status quo in unanticipated ways, and it helps open new domestic and professional pathways for women. On...
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Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American MoviesHollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the movies,...
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White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass CriminalizationUncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples Most popular critical accounts of mass criminalization interpret police and prisons as purely social or political phenomena. While such accounts have been indispensable in moving millions into collective action and...
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Una Pena En ObservacionEscrito tras la tr?gica muerte de su amada esposa como una manera de sobrevivir los "dif?ciles momentos de la medianoche", Una Pena en Observaci?n relata los m?s sinceros pensamientos de C. S. Lewis sobre los temas fundamentales de la vida, la muerte y la...
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The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of FormThe Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary...
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The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel NasserIhsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position...
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The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished LivesAuthor: Melanie MicirPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51dISBN: 9780691259260About the AuthorMelanie Micir is assistant professor of English and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St....
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The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense SpillersHortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies. Edited by...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. LawrenceShowcasing the most exciting contemporary scholarship on D. H. Lawrence, this comprehensive collection serves as both an overview of the field at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions in D. H. Lawrence studies. Explicitly interdisciplinary in its focus and...
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The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual FictionsFocusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters...
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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru, an Early Third-Century AnthologyDating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal...
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Sandoz Studies, Volume 2: Sandoz and the Battle of the Little BighornMari Sandoz's The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the mid-twentieth century a towering Custer myth had come to dominate the national psyche as a tale that confirmed national exceptionalism and continental destiny. Sandoz...
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Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the Us Security StateIn Refiguring Race and Risk, Roberta Wolfson turns to novels, memoirs, and other cultural works to debunk the false sense of national security rooted in positioning people of color as embodiments of risk. Considering output by Miné Okubo, Sanyika Shakur, Abraham Verghese, Khaled Hosseini,...
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Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790Land ownership--and engagement with land more generally--constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational sociopolitical function, land necessarily...
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Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek TragedyPaths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy....
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Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana LiteratureThis is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that...
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