Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The Definitive Illustrated GuideThis essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling out for. Lavishly illustrated and expertly informed, it is edited by Tim Dedopulos and David Pringle, editor and co-founder of the internationally acclaimed...
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Beckett and MediaBeckett and media provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The book analyses the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett's work so uniquely engages with, as well as...
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Experimental Literature: A Collection of StatementsLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. In EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE: A COLLECTION OF STATEMENTS thirty-four writers and critics reflect upon how literature puts itself to the test in an effort to make itself new. Those reflections assume very different shapes, and each approaches the question from a different...
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Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in ProductionIn Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958-1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the...
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R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for SelfRobert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as religious classics including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu, and Gnostic texts. Crumb's genius,...
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Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ ParentsSpawning Generations is a collection of stories by queerspawn (people with LGBTQ+ parents) spanning six decades, three continents, and five countries. Curated by queerspawn, this anthology is about carving out a space for queerspawn to tell their own stories. The contributors in this volume...
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Study Guide to Hamlet by William ShakespeareA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one the most powerful and influential works of world literature. As a tragedy of revenge from the seventeenth-century, Shakespeare mirrors the most fundamental themes and problems common of the...
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Blue Light of the Screen: On Horror, Ghosts, and GodBlue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural. Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night....
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This Way Back"Winning and contemplative." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Going back to her ancestral homeland, a Greek American girl discovers she is a lesbian in love with God, so her questions about home and belonging will not be easily answered. This Way Back dramatizes a childhood...
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Study Guide to The Good Earth by Pearl BuckA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932. As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, The Good Earth was inspired by Buck's experience living in...
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Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless LanguageA lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life--whether we...
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New Italian Voices: Transcultural Writing in Contemporary Italy"New Italian Voices" is an eclectic and vibrant collection of poetry, short stories, essays, theater, and prose by twenty authors from fifteen countries writing today in Italy, in Italian. These accomplished, award-winning authors of growing international acclaim come from India and Syria, Eastern Europe,...
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The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second EditionDating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a technique and a science that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its own right, semiotics uses signs, such as words and symbols, to think, communicate, reflect, transmit, and preserve knowledge. Since...
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Animal FarmAnimal Farm is an Allegorical novella by George Orwell, first Published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the Fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Then on into the Statilinst era of the Soviet Union.Author: George...
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Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of VisibilityIn Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics from Engels and Merleau-Ponty to Lefebvre and Rancière, Huang traces the emergence and mediation of what she calls urban horror--a...
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Origenes Tragicos de la ErudicionAuthor: Anthony GraftonPublisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica USAPublished: 01/03/1998Pages: 180Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.08w x 0.49dISBN: 9789505572601Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Fairy Mythology 1: Romance and Superstition of Various CountriesThe Fairy world of Northern Europe and Germany The term "Fairy" covers all kinds of nature spirits and Elementals all over the world. Not just the tiny sugar sweet creatures hovering around flowers. Thomas Keightley collected an impressive amount of mostly European, and nowadays...
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L' Evolution Du Pathetique d'Eschyle a EuripideToute connaissance s'eclaire par la comparaison. En particulier, toute oeuvre litteraire se comprend d'autant mieux que l'on peut la situer plus rigoureusement par rapport a celles qui l'ont precedee et a partir desquelles elle s'est definie.Or, s'il est un domaine qui prete a des...
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Aviva-NoIn the original text alongside the English translation, Adaf blends contemporary colloquial Hebrew, Arabic, and old Aramaic with biblical, Talmudic, and Rabbinic intertextualities. The collection is a powerful lamentation for Adaf's sister, Aviva, who died at 43. Written from a witness of Israeli society,...
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What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009)The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter form a kind of conversation over time between some of the late...
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