Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black WritersHow have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy's new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in...
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Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt WhitmanIn influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? "Influx & efflux"--a phrase borrowed from Whitman's "Song of Myself"--refers to everyday movements...
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The Afro-Hispanic Reader and AnthologyThe growing prominence of afrocentricity has contributed to the increase in black Hispanic literature and the emergence of Afro-Hispanism as a legitimate genre of historical and sociocultural study. From Nicol s Guill n to Manuel Zapata Olivella and Nancy Morej n, Spanish-speaking black writers...
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Athena in the Classical WorldThis volume provides a fascinating insight into ancient and modern interpretations of Athena. It assembles the latest research in ancient religion, literature, politics, gender, language, art and archaeology. In so doing, it highlights recurrent themes, variations and contradictory elements alike.Author: DeacyPublisher: BrillPublished: 06/28/2001Pages: 476Binding...
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H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against LifeBest-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France in 1991 and...
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Esquisse d'Une Histoire de la Langue LatineLangue d'un grand empire, le latin a fourni a la civilisation moderne la base de son expression linguistique. Si le grec a servi d'organe au developpement de la pensee rationnelle, le latin, lui, est a l'origine de notre idee de l'Etat et du droit....
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Homme RevolteAuthor: Albert CamusPublisher: Gallimard EducationPublished: 05/01/1985Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.02h x 4.29w x 0.79dISBN: 9782070323029Language: French
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MacbethThe world's greatest classic stories come to life in these expert retellings. Baker Street Readers give an enchanting taste of the original tales, quoting best-known lines and most memorable moments, all supported with wonderfully witty illustrations.Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Baker Street PressPublished: 11/01/2018Pages: 64Binding Type:...
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third SeriesTwo Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship and what happens...
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The Book of the Mirror: An Interdisciplinary Collection Exploring the Cultural Story of the MirrorThe essays in this book are gathered together from the realms of art, literature, history, archaeology, philosophy and science. Together they weave a picture that gives us new insights into the mirror as a material object and as an image in art and texts....
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In TangierAs I read Choukri's notes, I saw and heard Jean Genet as clearly as if I had been watching a film of him. To achieve such precision simply by reporting what happened and what was said, one must have a rare clarity of vision.--William...
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Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished - 2014 UpdateMajor Updates in this 2014 addendum to the 2012 Expanded Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished and these updates are only found in this trade paperback and the e-book version. There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic...
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The History of Middle-Earth: The Unofficial Guide to the Languages, People, and Books of Middle-EarthJ.R.R. Tolkien didn't just write a book when he came up with the Lord of the Rings series--he created an entire world: Middle-Earth. This unofficial guide to Middle-Earth helps new and old fans alike become familiar with the history of Middle-Earth--including the languages, places,...
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What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles SolvedWhich important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen? John Mullan shows that we can best...
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How to Live, What to Do: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace StevensAuthor: Joan RichardsonPublisher: University of Iowa PressPublished: 03/01/2018Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.40h x 4.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781609385491Review Citation(s): Choice 09/01/2018About the AuthorJoan Richardson is distinguished professor of English, comparative literature, and American studies at the graduate center at the City University of New...
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Henry David Thoreau: Walden, the Maine Woods, Collected Essays and Poems: A Library of America College EditionHere, in one volume for the first time, are the most important works of Henry David Thoreau, America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide influence. A landmark in American literature, Walden is at once a personal declaration of independence, a social...
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The Quatrains of Rumi: Ruba 'Iyat- Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi-RumiThis is the first complete translation of the nearly 2,000 quatrains attributed to Jalaluddin Rumi, the famous 13th century mystical poet. It is the result of over 22 years of collaboration by an American Rumi scholar and an Afghan scholar of Persian literature. It...
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Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West ForgotAnyone who has read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings can gather that their author hated tyranny, but few know that the novelist who once described himself as a hobbit "in all but size" was--even by hobbit standards--a zealous proponent of economic...
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Living Things: Collected PoemsLiving Things contains all the poems in Porter's National Book Award Finalist collection, An Altogether Different Language, plus forty-four new works. David Shapiro writes in his foreword, "Anne Porter's diction is as modest as that of William Carlos Williams or of a poet she...
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 2: The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century - Third EditionThis is a new edition of the second volume of an anthology that has been called "the new standard." Author: Joseph BlackPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 03/14/2016Pages: 1201Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.50lbsSize: 9.40h x 7.80w x 1.20dISBN: 9781554812905About the Author Of the ten general editors, Joseph...
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