Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American NovelIn 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced his third novel, a slim work for which he had high expectations. Despite such hopes, the novel received mixed reviews and lackluster sales. Over the decades, however, the reputation of The Great Gatsby has grown and millions of...
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Friendship and the NovelFriends are at the centre of novels by everyone from George Eliot to Elena Ferrante. It is nearly impossible to name a work of fiction that is not enriched by the tensions and magnetisms of friendship. Friendship and the Novel focuses on the affective...
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Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on TattoosPreviously considered the domain of bikers and a rite of passage in the services, tattoos have crawled from society's fringes and onto the ankles of starlets and the biceps of bankers. In this volume, stories from writers including Sylvia Plath and Ray Bradbury capture...
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Decolonial Love: Salvation in Colonial ModernityBringing together theologies of liberation and decolonial thought, Decolonial Love interrogates colonial frameworks that shape Christian thought and legitimize structures of oppression and violence within Western modernity. In response to the historical situation of colonial modernity, the book offers a decolonial mode of theological...
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Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920: 'The Indispensable East'Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern cultures in Decadent Literatures in England and Germany at the turn of the century. This book argues that the role of Orientalism in literary Decadence uniquely exposes its paradoxical...
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Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist IconThe reception of Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. This book focuses on the Russian and Soviet uses of the poet and shows their central role in the construction of a revolutionary and internationalist icon. Author: Delphine RumeauPublisher: Academic Studies PressPublished: 06/18/2024Pages: 376Binding...
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Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of CommunityWhat happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate...
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Collected Verse'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he abruptly abandoned...
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Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament: An AnthologyBathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years,...
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Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary InfluencesCormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he was famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and...
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A Taytsh Manifesto: Yiddish, Translation, and the Making of Modern Jewish CultureA Taytsh Manifesto calls for a translational paradigm for Yiddish studies and for the study of modern Jewish culture. Saul Noam Zaritt calls for a shift in vocabulary, from Yiddish to taytsh, in order to promote reading strategies that account for the ways texts...
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As Through A Veil: Mystical Poetry in IslamThe late Annemarie Schimmel drew exhaustively on an enourmous range of sources both ancient and modern to create this thorough survey of a unique body of literature. Travelling from continent to continent and across the centuries, this story of Islamic poetry encompasses a wide...
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Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Stories in Classical LiteratureFrom Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an astonishing longevity;...
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph EllisonUnsparingly honest writings about America and raceOne of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers...
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era"The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows perhaps better than anyone, and in this superb book he masterfully unites two distant but inextricably bound events."―Ken Burns Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963,...
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All Y'All: Queering Southernness in Us Fiction, 1980-2020The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or "queer." The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan speak to this connection between queerness...
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AfterLife: There Will Be Trouble (Book 1 of 3 Book Series), PG-Rated VersionOver-all.AfterLife lays out the difficulty we face in the coexistence of both a good God and evil. The book explores the problem in storylines on Earth and in Paradise. An angel is the main character who travels between Paradise and Earth to witness the...
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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29) Volume 29Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650-1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed...
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise LostA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton's epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator and the revolutionary lives that were influenced by it. What in Me Is Dark tells...
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Unconditionally Mad, Part 1 - The First Unauthorized History of Mad MagazineIs he MAD? Mark Arnold, author of If You're Cracked, You're Happy, Volumes Won and Too, has done it again with the very first COMPLETE MAD history since the 1990s. He's UNCONDITIONALLY MAD!!! This two-volume set (Part 1 and Part B) covers the entire...
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