Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Origins of Modern Japanese LiteratureSince its publication in Japan ten years ago, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern...
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Letters of a Javanese Princess (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)This collection of letters was written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. After being granted the rare opportunity to attend a Dutch elementary school, at the age of twelve she went into seclusion in...
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How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: EssaysWhether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, How Beautiful It Is and...
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Contemporary Japanese FilmThis comprehensive look at Japanese cinema in the 1990s includes nearly four hundred reviews of individual films and a dozen interviews and profiles of leading directors and producers. Interpretive essays provide an overview of some of the key issues and themes of the decade,...
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An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and TheoryLively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at 'The Beginning' and concluding with 'The End', chapters range from the familiar, such as 'Character', 'Narrative' and 'The Author', to the more unusual,...
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An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian PoetryIn Portuguese and English.A 25th anniversary edition of a book cited by Modern Language Journal as "notable for the original and interesting choice of poems and for the accuracy and poetic quality of the translations." Work by 14 Brazilian poets, including the late João...
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William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Student's GuideThis book, aimed at A Level and undergraduate students, explores the subtleties and contradictions of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, asking key questions about the poet's life and art and providing an engaging and accessible introduction to his work.Author: Brendan CooperPublisher:...
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Vonnegut's War: The Making of Slaughterhouse-FiveBanned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with popular history and close textual analysis, Vonnegut's War tells the fascinating story of the making...
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The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton YakovlevIt is difficult to find a Russian person who doesn't know by heart at least one poem by Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), whose distinctive lyricism and lush rural imagery have indelibly imprinted themselves into the Russian consciousness. Second in popularity among Russian speakers only to...
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The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Man: Metamorphoses, Entomological and HumanReveals how insects help us understand change, identity, and the meaning of extinction. From ancient fables to modern science, insects and their metamorphoses have long inspired human understanding of life's transitions. This original and engaging book traces how these transformations have shaped rituals around...
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Six American Poets: An AnthologyHere are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume. From the overflowing pantheism of Walt Whitman to the exquisite precision of Emily Dickinson; from the democratic clarity of William Carlos Williams to the cerebral luxuriance of...
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One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to EnglishNo other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist poets as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher were experimenting with the form. At that time, Pound well...
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Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of CreationThis open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and translation, with an introduction for non-specialist readers and essays from leading scholars in the field. Acting as a companion to the poem,...
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Cookbooking: A Fan's GuideAn eclectic, visually stunning pop-history, Cookbooking explores the most influential and beloved cookbooks through photographs, listicles, graphics, and snappy writing. Subjects include: a visual history of cookbook design; what's the matter with front matter?; the diet cookbooks we've starved for; the proliferation of French...
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A Washington Irving Sketch Book: Reflections on an American WriterA richly textured portrait of an American man of letters who came to exemplify the writer's life with all its setbacks and triumphs Washington Irving (1783-1859) is often considered America's first professional writer, supporting himself and his family amid the ups and downs of...
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A Hero of Our TimeThe first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of...
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100 Poems to Live by: Poetic Remedies for Any OccasionA collection of life-affirming poems to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Poems to Live By and learn which verses can be dispensed to lift your spirits. A brilliant new anthology of 100 poems designed to lift your mood and help you to...
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian ReaderThe Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych; and "The...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor"Why, then the world's mine oyster."--The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including - an...
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The Comedy of Errors"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me."--The Comedy of Errors Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this raucous story of mistaken identity and family--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including...
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