Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated EditionFifty-two Yiddish short stories describe life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience, and include works produced by Jewish writers during the last two centuries.Author: Irving HowePublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 12/01/1990Pages: 688Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.16w x 1.18dISBN: 9780140144192About the...
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Amplified DogCharles Harper Webb's eccentric and distinct writing style makes this collection of poetry a funny and charmingly memorable read. A melting pot of pop culture, historical references, and everyday life, Webb's poems are refreshingly candid and straightforward.Author: Charles Harper WebbPublisher: Red Hen PressPublished: 02/28/2006Pages:...
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Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing ChinaAffective Betrayal uses "affect" as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and fragmentation of Chinese political modernity. In so doing, the book uncovers some of the unresolved moral and philosophical obstacles China encountered in the past, as well as the cultural predicament the...
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Woolf Studies Annual Volume 30Woolf Studies Annual is a refereed journal publishing substantial new scholarship on the work of this major writer and her milieu. Each volume includes several articles, reviews of new books, and an up-to-date guide to library special collections of interest to researchers. The Annual...
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Thus Spake ZarathustraStructured as a series of compelling discourses, Thus Spake Zarathustra introduces Nietzsche's famous concepts of the "Übermensch" and the "eternal recurrence." Through the fictional prophet Zarathustra, Nietzsche explores profound questions about human existence, challenging traditional notions of good and evil. The book stands as...
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The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture: Hagiography as ExegesisThrough close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies.Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel...
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The Poets and the FathersChristian poetry was born at the crossroads of the Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Syrian cultures of late antiquity. Pioneered by poets like Ephrem the Syrian, Gregory Nazianzus, and Prudentius, a uniquely Christian poetry--and poetics--has flourished across history into the twenty-first century. In this series...
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The Philosophy of TranslationA deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners Avoiding theoretical debates and clich?d metaphors, award-winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what translation really is and what translators actually do. As...
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The Mad Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine That Warped America's Brain!: A Library of America Special PublicationCelebrate America's zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix. Before SNL and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before The Simpsons and online memes, there was . . . MAD. A mainstay...
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The Creative Composition Guide to Self-Publishing and Marketing Children's Books: A 3-In-1 Reference Guide for New and Aspiring Children's Book Author"I've written my children's book. Now what!?" First, celebrate yourself! Translating your bright ideas into the written word is a great accomplishment! Now, it's time to transform your words into a published book. Not just any book, but a treasure that children and families...
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The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut f?r Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development...
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The Cambridge Companion to VirgilThe poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as...
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and PoliticsThe Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. Individual chapters examine how US literature from this period engaged with broad political concepts and urgent political issues, such as liberalism,...
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese FolkloreSignificantly expanded and updated--a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins...
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Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American StudiesThe contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique. Bringing together essays by a diverse group of historians and literary scholars, editors Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly demonstrate...
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Short StoriesShort stories can expose longer mysteries. Cecilia Brochan grapples with the loss of her sister, Agnes, who is on the streets and estranged from the family. Mystery clouds the demise of the family as no one seems to understand why Agnes became violent, insubordinate,...
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Ripples from Carcosa: H. P. Lovecraft, Haunted Landscapes, and True DetectiveAuthor: Heather MillerPublisher: Hippocampus PressPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9781614984474This title is not returnable
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Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great WritersFind creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars. If you like to write--whether it's a pastime, a passion, or a profession--you've probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, "I could never do...
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Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil WarsReimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history. In case studies of both familiar genres (country house poem, love lyric, epic) and understudied ones (emblem book, prose romance), it...
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Rachel Bowlby - Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist StoriesThe mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or professional, women's defining identities have been transformed, with a loosening of seemingly stone-set gender divisions and a feminist emphasis on expanding choices and different stories....
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