Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reading GenesisOne of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient...
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian MedievalismIn 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and...
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Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence: New RelationsThrough attuned close readings, this volume brings out the imaginative and formal brilliance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing as it explores his involvement in processes of dialogue and influence. Shelley recognizes that poetic individuality is the reward of connectedness with other writers and cultural...
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100 Selected Poems: Collectable Edition100 Selected Poems is a beautifully bound collection of William Wordsworth's most beloved poetry. This collectible edition features a hardbound cover and is perfect for lovers of classic literature and poetry. Enjoy some of Wordsworth's most famous works, including 'I Wandered Lonely as a...
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Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's EnglandAuthor: Jonathan BaldoPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 07/27/2023Pages: 300Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781316517697This title is not returnable
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Cush To Mysterious BabylonCush To Mysterious Babylon: African and the Covenant People takes you on an enlightening journey through Africa's rich history, and how it has shaped the world we know today. Uncover the tumultuous past of a continent, where the pursuit of power and riches through...
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Cush To Mysterious BabylonCush To Mysterious Babylon: African and the Covenant People takes you on an enlightening journey through Africa's rich history, and how it has shaped the world we know today. Uncover the tumultuous past of a continent, where the pursuit of power and riches through...
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The Cat Who Came in from the Cold. Deric LongdenThe little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there...
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Exacting Clam No. 10The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Liza Achilles, Corina Bardoff, Eric Bies, Christopher Boucher, Marvin Cohen, Michael Collins, Patrick Daniel, Corey Anderson Dansereau, Jordan Deveraux, Gregory Feeley, David Fitzgerald, Jack Foley, Jake Goldsmith, Andrew P. Heath, Charles Holdefer, Paul Kavanagh,...
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Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry NotebookThe poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication. It illuminates and it conceals. It is as precise and as vague as a mirror."--David MeltzerTwo-Way Mirror is a classic book of poetics. Written in short remarks, autobiographical anecdotes, and inspirational quotations drawn from...
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The Saint-Domingue Plantation; Or, the Insurrection: A Drama in Five ActsBased on events that began in Saint-Domingue on August 21, 1791, The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection vividly dramatizes the genesis and outbreak of a slave revolt. When a representative of the French Assembl e nationale, Monsieur de Tendale, arrives at the Valombre family...
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The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius VictorThis book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor in the middle of the fourth century A.D. Though little regarded today, Victor was the most famous historian of his day, read by Jerome and Ammianus, honoured with a...
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Wang Kuo-Wei: An Intellectual BiographyIn this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang's intimate, thirty-year personal and...
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The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer's LifePraise for Nancy Willard"Willard's invention and lyricism, the splash of her wit, the glancing slyness of her dialogue, all have the fresh breath of a first-rate writer."---New York Times Book Review"Willard's gift for seamlessly mixing the magical and the mundane puts her in the...
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Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx CulturesIn Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In...
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MenciusKnown throughout East Asia as Mengzi, or "Master Meng," Mencius (391-308 B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Zhou dynasty, an instrumental figure in the spread of the Confucian tradition, and a brilliant illuminator of its ideas. Mencius was active during the Warring...
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International Who's Who in Poetry 2023The twenty-second edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In...
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The Poems of Shelley: Volume One: 1804-1817Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of...
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The Poems of John Dryden: Volume One: 1649-1681These first two volumes in a four-volume edition of Dryden's poems are the result of a complete reappraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The text has been prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions, and takes account...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest DestinyAs Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle...
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