Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love Volume 98The poetry of Yosano Akiko covers all the many and varied aspects of the experience of love--from early romantic encounters between the lover and beloved to the intimate pleasures of mutual infatuation and then true love. The journey outlined in Akiko's verse also grapples...
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Invented Traditions in North and South KoreaAlmost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger's The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions--cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin--is still relevant, important, and highly...
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Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early NovelsIn this study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. "World literature" has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years: Aamir Mufti called it...
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The Victorian Novel in ContextThis book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts...
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Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as FascistThe novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists--Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats--who were his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis's originality, however, can only be fully grasped when it is understood that, unlike those writers, he was essentially...
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Faust: A Tragedy, Part IGoethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante's Inferno and Shakespeare's Hamlet. This is the first...
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Autobiographical ComicsA complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Autobiographical Comics helps readers explore the increasingly popular genre of graphic life writing. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as: - The history and rise of autobiographical...
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The Vortex That Unites Us: Versions of Totality in Russian LiteratureThe Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Considering a diversity of texts that have in common chiefly their prominence in the Russian literary canon, Jacob Emery...
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Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE RAVEN, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA... Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar...
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Folk Horror: New Global PathwaysThe first collection of scholarly essays exploring the history and resurgence of folk horror. While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was 1960-70s Britain, the genre has both a rich literary prehistory and a vibrant contemporary presence. This book rethinks the assumptions that have...
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Encountering the Book of Margery KempeThis innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important and ever-surprising medieval text.Author: Laura...
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Kalīlah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and ViceTimeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and Mahabharata, were adapted, augmented, and translated into...
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Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, 25th Anniversary EditionCelebrating the 25th anniversary of its publication, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and Texas Tech University Press are proud to release a newly updated version of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, the seminal anthology of Vietnamese American literature. Contextualized by a new foreword...
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Feminist Spiritualities: Conjuring Resistance in the Afro-Caribbean and Its DiasporasExplores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.Author: Joshua R. DeckmanPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 188Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781438493404About the AuthorJoshua R. Deckman is Assistant Professor of...
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African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and KenyaThe first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are...
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Christianity in Scottish LiteratureThe experiences of being Christian and living amid a culture shaped by various iterations of Christianity are long-standing concerns of Scottish literature. This volume moves through Scotland's literary history, from the early medieval era to the twenty-first century, to explore how Christianity has provided...
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Wamandadanchya Bhavgitatil Aambedkarvaadi JaanivaVamandada Kardak is a respected name in the field of songwriting in the Ambedkari movement. Because Vamandada's overall songwriting is an important historical event in that movement. In the tradition of folk songs, just as folk songs are accepted by the people and create...
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Pedro Ángel Palou y la novela infinita: Lecturas críticasDesde diversas perspectivas criticas y anclado igualmente en diversos aparatos teoricos, este libro reune las contribuciones de ocho destacados criticos: Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, Ramon Alvarado Ruiz, Gaelle Le Calvez House, Julio Enriquez-Ornelas, Tomas Regalado-Lopez, Hector Jaimes, Rebecca Janzen y Cesar Antonio Sotelo en...
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Woman with Hat"I feel excited to live a long life of writing things that nobody asked for."Twenty-eight stories & essays on conversation and change.Author: Lucy K. ShawPublisher: Shabby Doll HousePublished: 02/05/2023Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9781737924227This title is not returnable
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Linda Lee, IncorporatedLinda Lee, Incorporated: A Novel, 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 book has been completely retyped,...
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