Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of WarThe player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity...
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An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals--among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid...
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Agricola. Germania. DialogusThe paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was...
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Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth CenturyIn Against Exclusion, Audrey Wu Clark dramatically reframes Asian American resistance via the lives of five early Chinese American public figures. In contrast to later activists who sought to defy stereotypes, Ah Toy, Mary Tape, Wong Chin Foo, Yan Phou Lee, and Yung Wing...
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A Companion to the IliadThose who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served--the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. For these readers, Malcolm M. Willcock...
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You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria RilkeFollowing Rilke's advice to "live the questions," this book invites us to draw upon his startling insights and often unconventional wisdom to see ourselves as ripening, unfolding, and always becoming."This is a book to savor, soaking up the rewards of stories, insights, and provocations...
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Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and SikhismIn academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual practices for lay devotees. To address this gap in knowledge, Harold Coward presents a thematic study of sacred sound as...
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Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant BodiesVictorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation...
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Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story of Black Slavery. with Original Illustrations (Aziloth Books)In 1841, a 33 year-old black carpenter named Simon Northup was living with his wife and children in upstate New York. A well-known fiddle player, he was asked by two white men to accompany them to Washington DC to perform at a show. He...
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The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their ImaginationsTo celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (16 October 1950), the editors of this volume have invited contributions that aim at critically reflecting upon the similarities and, no less importantly, the differences in the...
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The Queen's Wake: A Legendary TaleThe Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry. It focuses on the return of Mary, Queen of Scots to Scotland in 1561 to take personal rule of her kingdom after her years in France. In the poem poets and bards...
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The Dybbuk: A Play in Four ActsThe Dybbuk, regarded as the classic drama of the Yiddish stage, has long frightened yet fascinated audiences throughout the world. Based on Jewish folklore, its dark implications of mysterious, other-worldly forces at work in a quaint and simple village make for gripping, suspenseful theater....
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The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden AgeThe Spanish Golden Age, a cultural narrative that has developed and over four centuries, remains a key element of how Spaniards articulate cultural identities, both within Spain and to the outside world. The Currency of Cultural Patrimony examines the development of this narrative by...
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The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke WhiteThis book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century--a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the...
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The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland"This first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence provides a rare insight into a major literary figure and his one-of-a-kind witness account of jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. Featuring several new attributions, the volume demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's...
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The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and FreedomIn The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women's taste as the engine of liberal...
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Sure Do Wish You'd Get Ye One Of These Here Taters: An Essay on Cormac McCarthy's SuttreeThis is an essay about Cormac McCarthy's Suttree. Originally written for a class taught by David Foster Wallace, this essay includes an index of all scenes and characters, making it a definitive Suttree reference.Author: William K. GillespiePublisher: Spineless BooksPublished: 09/12/2020Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize:...
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Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism BeginsAn account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us...
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Shakespeare and the Making of TheatreA highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare's plays and stimulate further performances.Author:...
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Semiotic Ideologies: Patterns of Meaning-Making in Language and SocietyThis book offers a comprehensive exploration of language and semiotic ideologies, focusing on how societies construct meaning through verbal and non-verbal communication. It distinguishes itself by adopting a novel approach that bridges linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology. The research dives into uncharted territory, shedding light...
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