Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Holocaust as CultureHungarian Imre Kert sz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this...
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The Eisenstein ReaderPresents, in a concise form, a selection of Sergei Eisenstein's significant writings. The texts, drawn from the BFI's "Selected Works of Eisenstein," address subjects including sound, film language, and his theories of "montage." This reader provides an accessible introduction to Eisenstein's work.Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:...
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Dance Between Two Cultures: Reinterpreting Romanticism in SpainOffers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and...
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Herman Melville's Whaling YearsBased on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author's life--the four years he spent aboard whaling...
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Donna Tartt's The Secret HistoryContinuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most...
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Kabbalah and CriticismWhile Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly...
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The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth CenturyNew in paperback. Of related interest: A History of Writing in Japan, by Christopher SeeleyAuthor: Peter KornickiPublisher: University of Hawaii PressPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 520Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.34w x 1.15dISBN: 9780824823375Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 257About the AuthorKornicki, Peter:...
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The Historical Fiction of Mori OgaiThe fiction of Mori Ogai, written after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, secured his promiment place in modern Japanese literature. This collection of stories, set in the Tokugawa Period, provide a means for Ogai to deal with contemporary moral and philosophical values...
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Lovecidal: Walking with the DisappearedIn this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state...
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Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the RealIn a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so...
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The Rilke AlphabetUlrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet will surprise and delight established fans of Rilke, intrigue newcomers, and convince all readers of the power of poetry to penetrate the mysteries and confusion of our world. The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his...
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Hart Crane's 'The Bridge': An Annotated EditionHart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics-- a charge that became conventional wisdom--this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of the...
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This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global FormIn This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends:...
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Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial OptionsDuring the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter...
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Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of ShakespeareShakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also...
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Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies & Early American LiteratureThe encounter between European and native peoples in the Americas is often portrayed as a conflict between literate civilization and illiterate savagery. That perception ignores the many indigenous forms of writing that were not alphabet-based, such as Mayan pictoglyphs, Iroquois wampum, Ojibwe birch-bark scrolls,...
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Ralph Ellison: Emergence of GeniusAuthor, intellectual, and social critic, Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was a pivotal figure in American literature and history and arguably the father of African American modernism. Universally acclaimed for his first novel, Invisible Man, a masterpiece of modern fiction, Ellison was recognized with a stunning...
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Glottal Stop: 101 PoemsRich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time.Winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry (2001)Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field...
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The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch--AngoulemeA keystone text in literary theory and science fictionThe American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch--"Angouleme" was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov's...
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A Nomad Poetics: EssaysPowerful essays on the state and aims of contemporary poetry."The days of anything static--form, content, state--are over," declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his first collection of critical essays. Joris maps the success and limitations of contemporary avant-garde poetics, from...
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