Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short FictionThe first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mother of contemporary horror, scholars from across the globe, and from...
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Shakespeare Box SetAuthor: William ShakespearePublisher: Rp MinisPublished: 03/29/2016Pages: 680Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 3.60h x 3.00w x 2.90dISBN: 9780762459438About the AuthorWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote thirty-seven plays. King Lear and Macbeth are among his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the...
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Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and PsychoanalysisSecret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer reveals, such rivalries played out in explicit criticism, inventive misreadings, and...
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Ronsard's Epic Clouds and Ghosts: Illusions and Idoles in Early Modern French LiteratureGhosts move freely, but often unnoticed, through the epics and poems published in early modern France. In the works of Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), the most influential French poet of the sixteenth century, ghosts stand at the intersection of national identity, poetics and the...
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Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition StudiesIn Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, the contributors use the anniversary of the publication of Cheryl Glenn's Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance, the first book to examine women's contributions to rhetoric across history, as...
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Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭārReligion of Love explores the life and work of the Persian Sufi poet and sage Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār. ʿAṭṭār changed the face of world literature, leaving his impact on all cultures that have valued Persian Sufi writings. Considered for the first time through the...
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Reading Alice Munro's Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four VoicesWhat in terms of Alice Munro's creative artistry and creative power allowed her to become the first and only short story writer, the first and only Canadian, and just the thirteenth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? And exactly when...
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On the Way to TheoryIn On the Way to Theory, Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces cultural and critical theory's foundations from the contested enlightenments to modern and postmodern conceptualizations...
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On Mennonite/S WritingIn 1973, Hildi Froese Tiessen published the first academic essay about Rudy Wiebe's fiction (included in this volume). Since then, in scholarly essays and talks, she has examined with great insight the literary careers of Di Brandt, Patrick Friesen, Julia Kasdorf, Sandra Birdsell, and...
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OilObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae and marine life to turn modernity's wheels....
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Nld 13: Newman: Letters & Diaries Nld 13 CA scholarly edition of the letters and diaries of John Henry Newman. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Author: DessainPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)Published: 07/15/2016Pages: 536Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.03lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.19dISBN: 9780199683376About the...
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Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under SegregationRadical Black feminist refusal through the works of mid-twentieth-century African American women writers Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction offers new and insightful readings of African American women's writings in the 1930s-1950s, illustrating how these writers centered Black women's satisfaction as radical resistance to the...
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Locs Not DreadsAuthor: Jasmine LouisPublisher: Jl PublishingPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 38Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.25dISBN: 9798218549497
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Living in LanguageIn Living in Language, David Bosworth makes a compelling case for the power and relevance of the literary imagination throughout history. In a series of essays both lyrical and analytical, he examines how certain works have engaged the most pressing problems of their authors'...
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Litt?rature Arabe Moderne: Gen?se Et Probl?matiquesCet ouvrage analyse la gen?se de la notion d'adab, quelques grandes oeuvres fondatrices depuis le milieu du 19 si?cle, la constitution des grands genres ? partir des grands mod?les classiques mis au contact de la litt?rature occidentale. Il traite ?galement de la fonction d?volue...
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LilithLilith, The Legend of the First Woman is a rendition of the old rabbinical legend of Lilith, the first woman, whose life story was dropped unrecorded from the early world, and whose home, hope, and Eden were passed to another woman. The author warns...
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LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First CenturyA survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. For various reasons it...
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Les Écritures Noires Du Canada: L'Atlantique Noir Et La Présence Du PasséThe Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore Black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the Black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in...
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Les secrets du cerveau f?mininOn nous avait dit que les hommes viennent de Mars et les femmes de V?nus... Grave erreur: si les hommes et les femmes sont diff?rents, cela n'a rien ? voir avec les plan?tes, et tout ? voir avec... notre cerveau ! Oui, le cerveau...
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Julius Caesar: The Gallic War Books I-IIBooks I-II of Julius Caesar's The Gallic War narrate the campaigns of Caesar's first two years in Gaul (58-57 BCE). These first years saw great success for Caesar. He repelled the Helvetii, who were attempting to migrate through Roman territory; he defeated the German...
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