Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reading Lucretius in the RenaissanceAda Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet...
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural ScienceThoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the...
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The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In his much-anticipated new book, one of the leading authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental Europe, the threat...
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 44Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of...
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Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State ViolenceMoroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the "years of lead"--a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco's independence in...
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral TraditionPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about...
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Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A Geographical Text AnalysisEngland's famed Lake District--best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers--is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from...
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Bowed Some, Chanted a Little: Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco RenaissanceThe literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest Philip Whalen (1923-2002) authored twenty collections of verse, more than twenty broadsides, two novels, a huge assemblage...
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Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American LiteraturesIn her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through-and travel across-the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars...
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The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911-16 Volume 60The Bluestockings of Japan introduces English-language readers to a formative chapter in the history of Japanese feminism by presenting for the first time in English translation a collection of writings from Seitō (Bluestockings), the famed New Women's journal of the 1910s. Launched in 1911...
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Turgenev: MumuThis book contains the Russian text of Turgenev's Mumu, edited with an English language introduction, notes and extensive vocabulary.Author: J. Muckle, Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublished: 01/01/1998Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.56h x 5.48w x 0.26dISBN: 9781853992704
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Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian PoetryI.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation After six hundred years, the Persian lyrical poet Hafiz (d. 1389) still remains the most popular poet in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and other parts of Central Asia where Persian is spoken today as the mother tongue....
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Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the UnspeakableA traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison's writing With essays by Yvonne Atkinson, Marc C. Conner, Susan Corey, Maria DiBattista, Barbara Johnson, Cheryl Lester, Katherine Stern, and Michael Wood Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as...
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Inscribed Objects and the Development of Literature in Early JapanThe introduction of writing enables new forms of literature, but these can be invisible in works that survive as manuscripts. Through looking at inscriptions of poetry on garbage and as graffiti, we can glimpse how literature spread along with writing. This study uses these...
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The Kokinshū: Selected PoemsCompiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to elevate the prestige of vernacular Japanese poetry at the imperial court. From shortly after its completion to the end of the nineteenth century, it was...
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Pregnancy TestObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in...
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« a Ti Pa » Avec l'Antillectuel Léon Damas: Vers Une France Décoloniale?Troisième homme de la négritude, Léon Damas s'alignait sur la Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay) et Richard Wright, sur des surréalistes comme Apollinaire et G. Luca pour transmettre son message d'urgence: 'a ti pa', la France opère sa mue décoloniale. Damas est l'antillectuel...
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This Will Not Be GenerativeAuthor: Dixa Ramírez-d'OleoPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/25/2023Pages: 75Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16dISBN: 9781009320320
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Uncle Silas'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Silas. Silas...
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The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century EnglandEnriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century, this collection focuses on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, and advances important work on consumer culture...
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