Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual FictionsFocusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters...
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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru, an Early Third-Century AnthologyDating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal...
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Sandoz Studies, Volume 2: Sandoz and the Battle of the Little BighornMari Sandoz's The Battle of the Little Bighorn encouraged a change in how Americans viewed this infamous fight. By the mid-twentieth century a towering Custer myth had come to dominate the national psyche as a tale that confirmed national exceptionalism and continental destiny. Sandoz...
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Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the Us Security StateIn Refiguring Race and Risk, Roberta Wolfson turns to novels, memoirs, and other cultural works to debunk the false sense of national security rooted in positioning people of color as embodiments of risk. Considering output by Miné Okubo, Sanyika Shakur, Abraham Verghese, Khaled Hosseini,...
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Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women's Writing, 1690-1790Land ownership--and engagement with land more generally--constituted a crucial dimension of female independence in eighteenth-century Britain. Because political citizenship was restricted to male property owners, women could not wield political power in the way propertied men did. Given its foundational sociopolitical function, land necessarily...
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Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek TragedyPaths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of choral lyric in fifth-century Greek tragedy using a variety of methodological approaches that illustrate the myriad forms through which lyric is present and can be presented in tragedy....
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Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana LiteratureThis is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that...
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OuidaThis new study of Marie Louise de la Ram?e (1839-1908), who wrote under the pseudonym Ouida, considers the best-selling Victorian author's vivid, evocative work and especially the complex, even complicated ways in which she envisions and portrays gender.Author: Helena EsserPublisher: Edward Everett RootPublished: 09/30/2024Pages:...
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Otrarse: Ladino PoemsOne of Latin American's most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930-2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. Gelman was a child of Yiddish-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, and a significant, seldom recognized portion of...
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On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, DisplacementA look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita Dean On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
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Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and OrthodoxyModernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism,...
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Miki Kiyoshi's the Logic of Imagination: A Critical Introduction and TranslationThe Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi opens doors to all those interested in rethinking the problem of imagination, myth, and technology. Miki Kiyoshi is one of the central figures in the Kyoto School, often spoken of as the heir of Kitaro Nishida. Born in Japan...
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Lyn Hejinian, the Proposition: Uncollected Early Poems 1963-1983Lyn Hejinian is considered one of the most important avant-garde poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with five poems written from 1963 to 1965, The Proposition collects Hejinian's previously uncollected works from 1963-1983 in one unique volume. The individual early works curated...
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Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and ItalianThe first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature. Building on the latest scholarship about multilingual contexts, diaspora studies and the rapidly expanding field of Italian postcolonial studies,...
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Katherine Mansfield and LondonKatherine Mansfield's complicated relationship with London began in 1903, when her parents sent her and her two older sisters from New Zealand to Queen's College in Harley Street to be educated, and where they remained until the summer of 1906. As soon as she...
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Kafka: Making of an IconAn authoritative collection of essays celebrating Franz Kafka's life and work. Franz Kafka died in 1924 when he was not yet forty-one years old. During his life, he published only seven small books, but he left behind three unfinished novels and a mass of...
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. The encounter with his works has had profound and...
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In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875-1974In Search of Admiration and Respect examines the institutionalization of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the period between high imperialism and the international ascendance of the People's Republic of China. During these years, Chinese intellectuals and officials tried to promote the idea of China's cultural...
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Hooked: Art and AttachmentHow does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes...
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Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and UnderstandingAuthor: Cam CobbPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 11/26/2024Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.60dISBN: 9781606354827About the AuthorCam Cobb is associate professor of education at the University of Windsor and a rock journalist. He is the author of What's Big and Purple...
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