Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the MindFrom a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author's experience of...
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Horror and Philosophy: Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and LiteratureHorror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an "alien" reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging "known" concepts such as normality, reality, family and animals. Both making strange...
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Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle GenerationA national survey of college students reveals connections between political opinion and popular culture.Without a doubt the Harry Potter series has had a powerful effect on the Millennial Generation. Millions of children grew up immersed in the world of the boy wizard--reading the books,...
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God and the Great Detective: Ellery Queen's Struggle with the Divine, 1945-1965The problem of human evil is never far beneath the surface of mystery fiction. This was particularly true in the wake of the horrific events of World War II. One figure who set out to investigate this crisis was Ellery Queen. This book provides...
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Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress"Wilson does a great service in resurrecting one of O'Connor's lesser-known works."--Publishers WeeklyWhen celebrated American novelist and short story writer Flannery O'Connor died at the age of thirty-nine in 1964, she left behind an unfinished third novel titled Why Do the Heathen Rage? Scholarly...
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Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday LifeAuthor: Michael J. CollinsPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 09/20/2023Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63dISBN: 9781474456722
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EssaysPoetry as both a form and genre has many possibilities to exist within; however, poetry too oftentimes has the burden to have an argument and a set of imagery and meanings that are preconceived and placed within the poem. In this way, poetry gets...
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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body LanguageDickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers...
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Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body LanguageDickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers...
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Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary StudiesA defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice--close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In Criticism and Truth, Jonathan Kramnick offers a new and surprising account of criticism's power by zeroing in on its...
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Chamoru Legends: A Gathering of StoriesCHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez, unique illustrations of each legend by Guam artists, and versions of the legends in the CHamoru language by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera. The book includes CHamoru classics like the...
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Cannibal Angels: Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-GardeIn the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil. Their works shaped Brazilian national expression and self-definition for the twentieth century and into the present,...
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their MethodsWinner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry achieves its impact upon readers. His essays, drawn from more than twenty years of...
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Beauty and the Beast: The Original Story Volume 74Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the little-known author of Beauty and the Beast, was a successful novelist and fairytale writer in mid eighteenth-century France. While her novels are rarely read today, her compelling fairytale has become universally recognized. This edition is the first integral English...
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A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval PerspectiveWhat were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand? In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118 illustrations-of medieval sculpture, cathedral interiors, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, ornamental devices and decorations-to show how these...
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A Deep Well of Want: Visualising the World of John McGahernPaul Butler's monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer's aesthetic approach. 'The Deep Well of Want' of the title is an expression that captures the pain and hurt at the core...
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Who Can Afford to Improvise?: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the ListenersMore than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlic offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James...
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Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American PoetryWalt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so instrumental in this area of poetry, especially for poets whose parents, and often they themselves, were not "born here?"...
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Walking with Anne Brontë (black & white edition): Insights and ReflectionsWhether on the seashore or on the trails between clumps of Haworth heather, let us walk with Anne Brontë and listen to her discussing the kind of truth "that always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it." Join us...
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Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary AmericaWhiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive complacency of white self-consciousness White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply...
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