Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Trench CoatObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We think we know the trench coat, but where does it come from and where will it take us? From its origins in the trenches of WW1,...
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Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of SpectacleThe essays in the collection examine, from a variety of perspectives and conceptual standpoints, the ways performative language in contemporary poetry can be politically charged. The poetic text, then, becomes a spectacle, which ultimately renegotiates the power dynamics implicit in the simple act of...
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Shakespeare's Advice to the PlayersThe best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue and when to accent a word. His text...
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Love Against Substitution: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and the Meaning of MarriageAre we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions through depictions of marriage. The writings studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be unique to the point of being irreplaceable,...
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Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the SensesFrom medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion...
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The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in PrincetonA unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States In September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United...
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Journal of Vampire Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2 (2021)Journal of Vampire Studies is the official journal of the Vampire Studies Association, a not-for-profit founded to stimulate, disseminate and publish vampire scholarship. In this issue, Álvaro García Marín analyses an obscure Serbian vampire case from the 1720s; Michael E. Bell contextualises New England...
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in CaliforniaAs author of the "Wilderness Letter" and major award-winning novels, histories, essays, and biographies, Wallace Stegner worked throughout his life to protect western lands, places, and peoples. His writing was and remains an inspiration and guide for countless people attempting to cultivate a sense...
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Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the GastronarrativeFood Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives; the role of cooking in Sor...
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The Savage Detectives RereadThe Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño's novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of...
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By A River, On A HillBy a River, On a Hill brings you into the lives of twins born during the depression in a small steel mill town in Western Pennsylvania and carries you through the depression, the war, the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, and on to...
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The People of the AbyssThe People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London's poverty-stricken East End, The People of the Abyss bears witness to the difficulties faced by hundreds and thousands...
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Longing and Other StoriesJun'ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut...
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The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of FantasyA rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceans In The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment and movie camera technology...
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Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim CrowA deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice In recent years, Jordan Peele's Get Out, Marvel's Black Panther, and HBO's Watchmen have been lauded for the innovative ways they repurpose...
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A Poetics of the Press: Interviews with Poets, Printers, & PublishersLiterary Nonfiction. Poetics. Art. The publication of Donald Allen's The New American Poetry in 1960, as well as the Vancouver and Berkeley poetry conferences, sparked a poetic renaissance. It was an era rich in exploration and innovation that articulated a new relationship between form...
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Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai AgeCultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess those imprints for what...
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The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini's Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. WritersA new story about the relationships between major twentieth-century English-language poets. Why did poets from the United States, Britain, and Ireland gather in a small town in Italy during the early years of Mussolini's regime? These writers were--or became--some of the most famous poets...
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Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest HeroSuperman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and Joe...
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Gulf Gothic: Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona's Undead VoicesGulf Gothic moves through deep time across languages and borders, presenting haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between people all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. Collaborating in an interdisciplinary manner, literary and cultural critics...
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