Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre FictionsEvidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The "fantastical" in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This blackness amazes...
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Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual JourneyDante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost,...
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The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic ReadersWhat did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers--sometimes accurate, sometimes not--were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered...
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Gothic Film: An Edinburgh CompanionExplores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the present Offers essays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contexts Extends the field of Gothic film by spanning diverse historical periods, international contexts and (sub)genres Structured into 3 sections on History,...
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Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius' MetamorphosesIn ancient Rome, where literacy was limited and speech was the main medium used to communicate status and identity face-to-face in daily life, an education in rhetoric was a valuable form of cultural capital and a key signifier of elite male identity. To lose...
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We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk about a Little Culture: Decolonising Essays 1967-1984The Event of the anti-colonial struggle which began in the case of a then British Jamaica in the late 1930s, cut across the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the raison d'être of the first phase of her important body of work...
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, KnowingMixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates how the greatest books illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us...
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Disaster Mon AmourA deep--and darkly comic--dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends--how we...
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The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the WorldTomalin's The Young H.G. Wells is hard to beat, being friendly, astute and a pleasure to read." --Michael Dirda, Washington Post "Claire Tomalin's short, engaging biography The Young H.G. Wells is a welcome addition to the conversation. . . Her book makes a strong...
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Mental Floss: The Curious Reader Journal for Book LoversChart your progress, organize your library, and get inspired with this journal for avid readers from Mental Floss! Having trouble keeping track of the books in your life? Ever buy a book you've already read--or recommend one book when you meant another? The Curious...
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Things Are Against UsAn Independent Best Book of 2021 "[Ellmann] delivers these diatribes with her signature wit and humor ... Each essay is accompanied by an illustration by artist Diana Hope, which complements the colorful nature of this collection. Fans of Ellmann will likely delight in Things...
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Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of AmazonNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Best Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub) What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism? Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of...
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New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American MuslimsFrom the Introduction: "The goal with this anthology is to represent that full range of contemporary expressions of Islam, as well as a full range of genres--poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, political writing, cultural writing, and of course plenty of texts which mix and match...
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To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American AuthorshipIn To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She shifts critical focus from the published texts of acclaimed writers to unfamiliar practitioners whose works reflect the unsettledness of African American letters in...
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Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays"An incredible voice in horror"--Tor NightfireHorror essays that read like Chuck Klosterman filtered through H.P. Lovecraft.Slinging ectoplasm, tombstones, and chainsaws with aplomb, Be Scared of Everything is a frighteningly smart celebration of horror culture that will appeal to both horror aficionados and casual fans....
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This Is ShakespeareAn electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing--not resolving--the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality Was Shakespeare a timeless prophet, a verbal innovator, a technical genius, a man who encapsulated the human...
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A Book of Middle English, Fourth EditinThe fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, the book goes on to examine key...
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Study Guide to Macbeth by William ShakespeareA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Macbeth, known as an "actor's play" for its condensed script and the interpretive freedom it gives actors on stage. As a tragedy of the early seventeenth century, Macbeth follows a...
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Suppose a SentenceA captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary fl neur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter...
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Study Guide to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for by Gabriel Garc a M rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, considered a classic due to its effective use of magical realism and winner of The R mulo Gallegos International Novel Prize....
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