Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by...
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Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan: Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple DisastersThis seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters--the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.Author: Saeko KimuraPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyPublished: 04/08/2024Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman EmpireThe seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing--the pamphlet, a cheap, short, and mobile text that provided readers with simplified legal...
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The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar GeographiesThe mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped - and are currently transforming - the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and poeticise various elements of Arctic geography, and in doing so negotiate...
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The Angel and the Amazing Life of Maggie Love"When I took this assignment, I knew Maggie had killed 20 people. I knew that and little else. Yes, I am an Angel, although we prefer to be called Inspectors simply because that's what we do. We inspect a recently deceased person's soul. As...
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Sylvia Plath: A Very Short IntroductionSylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and buttressed...
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Soul and FormGyörgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of...
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Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World BaroqueThis book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.Author: Peter DavidsonPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9781526169341About the AuthorPeter Davidson is Senior Research Fellow in...
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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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Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic WestA history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which...
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Reading the Odyssey: A Guide to Homer's NarrativeA fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey--and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our lives Reading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer's masterpiece like no other. It combines a cultural and intellectual...
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Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming AgeThe first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data...
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Poetry for the ManyJeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour's election slogan "For the many, not the few." That...
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Poetry and the Built Environment: A Theory of the Flesh of ArtLike gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to us. So it is when...
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Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of CapitalismPerversions of the Market argues that capitalism fosters sadism and masochism--not as individual psychological proclivities but as widespread institutionalized patterns of behavior. The book is divided into two parts: one historical and the other theoretical. In the first, Eugene W. Holland shows how, as...
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Origin of the German TrauerspielOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else--the play of mourning. Howard Eiland's completely new English translation,...
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Og (King of Bashan) - Papyrus, PapyriThe projected thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the canonical texts of the Bible as they were accepted in Judaism...
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Molecular Cathedral: The Poetry of John LentMolecular Cathedral is the first ever selection of the extraordinary poems of John Lent, renowned Okanagen-based writing instructor and poet. Lent's work is restlessly experimental and yet always approachable especially as it remains dedicated to seeking clarities between the poet and the reader. These...
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Loren Eiseley's Writing Across the Nature and Culture DivideAuthor: Qianqian ChengPublisher: Lexington BooksPublished: 11/21/2024Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781666902495
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Lewis Carroll: Collections and CollectorsThis is the first book on the history and culture of collecting the works of Lewis Carroll as well as the worldwide industry of items and art based on Carroll's works in popular culture. Ten large, major private collections from around the world are...
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