Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip RothThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the major American novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries.The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth presents state-of-the-art scholarship on new research methods, current debates, and future directions...
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Systems from Hell: Problem Definition and the Literary Portrayal of Failure in Our Public Policy and Social InstitutionsExamines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.This book approaches contemporary fiction as a medium for policy advocacy, one whose narrative devices both link it to, and distinguish it from, other...
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Shakespeare and ScienceAuthor: Tom RutterPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 12/19/2024Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.66w x 0.70dISBN: 9780192898548
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Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary LifeHow is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human connection. She delves...
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Selected PoemsOver 17 years and nine collections, John Burnside has built--in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue--"a poetic corpus of the first significance," a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the charmed half-light of the liminal, a domestic...
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Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830The pride o' a' our Scottish plain; Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain, (Janet Little, 'An Epistle to Mr Robert Burns') The 18th century saw Scotland become one of the leading international centres of literature, philosophy, and publishing and yet still retain...
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Rewriting the Word God: In the Arc of Converging Lines Between Innovative Theory, Theology, and PoetryInnovative poetry, philosophy, theology and new sciences converge in the project of rewriting the word "God" In Rewriting the Word "God," Romana Huk examines the substantive connections between innovative poetry of the last century and contemporary theology and philosophy. Along the way, we encounter...
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Propertius' Cynthia: The Book as BelovedAuthor: T. E. FranklinosPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/28/2025Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.47w x 0.94dISBN: 9780198940234This title is not returnable
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Precarious Eating: Narrating Environmental Harm in the Global SouthThe role of food and hunger in contemporary South African and Indian environmental writing From GMOs to vegetarianism and veganism, questions of what we should (and shouldn't) eat can be frequent sources of debate and disagreement. In Precarious Eating, Ben Jamieson Stanley asks how...
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Poetry of the Second World War: An AnthologyThe Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself, and by the restrictions on poetry publishing consequent on paper rationing and...
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Passionate Outlier: Gay Writers and Allies on Their Work"Frank Pizzoli is the ideal interviewer-smart, well informed, interested in his subjects and the worlds in which they operate, and thoroughly engaging as a writer." -Patrick Merla, former editor of Christopher Street"If, as writers, activists, and advocates, we stand on the shoulders of all...
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Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free CollegeIn Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period, during which...
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Old Norse Folklore: Magic, Witchcraft, and Charms in Medieval ScandinaviaThe second volume of Old Norse Folklore explores medieval and early modern Nordic magic and witchcraft, covering syncretism, continuity, survival, and the reconstruction of pagan beliefs and cultic practices in this last area of western Europe to be Christianized. This volume not only considers...
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Novel Takes: Essays on LiteratureThere's a lot of truth in fiction.In Novel Takes, Greg Johnson explores racial, ethnic, and political themes in such works as Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints, Frank Herbert's Dune series, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, H. P. Lovecraft's...
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Notre-Dame de ParisNotre-Dame de Paris est un roman historique ?crit par Victor Hugo en 1831. Situ? ? Paris au XVe si?cle, il raconte l'histoire tragique de Quasimodo, le sonneur de cloches difforme de la cath?drale Notre-Dame, et de son amour impossible pour la belle gitane Esmeralda....
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New World Medievalisms: The Middle Ages in the American Cultural ImaginaryExamines how the European Middle Ages has been used and received in a variety of American cultural contexts. There is a deep-seated preoccupation in North America with the cultures of the European Middle Ages, but despite the insightful conversations that have developed between medieval...
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Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism: Re-Appropriating the Victorian and Medieval PastsBringing together neo-Victorian and medievalism scholars in dialogue with each other for the first time, this collection of essays foregrounds issues common to both fields. The Victorians reimagined the medieval era and post-Victorian medievalism repurposes received nineteenth century tropes, as do neo-Victorian texts. For...
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier PoetsMichael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war's tragic...
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Milan Kundera Known and Unknown: Multidimensional Analysis of Selected WorksThis collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera, including his lesser known works. With essays that focus on Kundera's poetry and plays, his last four novels written in French, and his nonfiction writings on...
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live inA new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James's reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution. Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901-89) was a brilliant polymath who was...
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