Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple DisasterFukushima Fiction introduces readers to the powerful literary works that have emerged out of Japan's triple disaster, now known as 3/11. The book provides a broad and nuanced picture of the varied literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing on "serious fiction" (junbungaku), the...
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The Poem, the Garden, and the World: Poetry and Performativity in Elizabethan EnglandHow an early modern understanding of place and movement are embedded in a performative theory of literature How is a garden like a poem? Early modern writers frequently compared the two, and as Jim Ellis shows, the metaphor gained strength with the arrival of...
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Lucian's Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman EastNo comic author from the ancient world features the gods as often as Lucian of Samosata, yet the meaning of his works remain contested. He is either seen as undermining the gods and criticizing religion through his humor, or as not engaging with religion...
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Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English RomanceAn examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual practices have been discussed energetically by writers of law and religion, medicine and morality; reams...
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A Diabolical Voice: Heresy and the Reception of the Latin Mirror of Simple Souls in Late Medieval EuropeIn A Diabolical Voice, Justine L. Trombley traces the afterlife of the Mirror of Simple Souls, which circulated anonymously for two centuries in four languages, though not without controversy or condemnation. Widely recognized as one of the most unusual and important mystical treatises of...
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Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital AgeMost of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring...
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Kazuo IshiguroNewly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new thematic...
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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and GeometryRanges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.Author: Andrew M. CooperPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 340Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71dISBN: 9781438493220About the AuthorNow retired, Andrew M....
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Jalkut Schimoni zu EzechielDer Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegungen ausgewählt wurden und ob das Werk als umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für exegetische Fragen, zur Verbindung von Bibelauslegung in Talmud und Midrasch oder zur Reform der rabbinischen...
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Life's Progress Through the Passions; Or, The Adventures of NaturaLife's Progress Through the Passions; Or, The Adventures of Natura, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This...
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In the Face of Adversity: Translating difference and dissentIn the Face of Adversity explores translation as a project of making available and preserving a corpus of texts that would otherwise be in danger of becoming censored, misperceived or ignored. Author: Thomas NoldenPublisher: UCL PressPublished: 02/20/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.13h x 6.06w...
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27 Views of Asheville: A Southern Mountain Town in Prose & PoetryBuilding on its successful 27 Views series, Eno Publishers showcases the literary community of Asheville, North Carolina, in 27 Views of Asheville: A Southern Mountain Town in Prose & Poetry. Twenty-seven writers contribute poetry, essays, short stories, and book excerpts that focus on the...
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Fathering Daughters: Reflections by MenA landmark collection of original essays that fills the void of writing by men about their daughters. Contributors include Phillip Lopate, Rick Bass, Gerald Early, Gary Soto, Scott Sanders, Nicholas Delbanco, and Alan Cheuse.Author: DeWitt HenryPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 05/20/1999Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.97h...
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Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts MovementIn Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics--in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence, particularly in developments in positive conceptions of Blackness,...
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Bohemians: A Very Short IntroductionThe Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the patron system,...
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Songs of The Cid - The Epic Poem the Romances and the Carmen CampidoctoriThe epic Song of The Cid, one of the highlights of world literature, gallops across the fields of Spain in the most brilliant English translation yet. The Carmen Campidoctoris, penned by a monk in Catalonia, was written while the Cid was still alive. The...
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What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural History of Last AnimalsLife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two...
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Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget OpenedEvenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in...
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Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist NarrativesIn medieval Japan (14th-16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent...
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Elias; An Epic of the AgesElias; An Epic of the Ages, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole...
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