Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Ivan Bunin: Collected Stories"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have...
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Environmental TheaterHere are the exercises which began as radical departures from standard actor training etiquette and which stand now as classic means through which the performer discovers his or her true power of transformation. This expanded edition offers a new generation of theater artists the...
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Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related LiteratureAuthor: Sarah Iles JohnstonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/01/1990Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.51dISBN: 9781555404277This title is not returnable
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Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional ParadoxLinda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such...
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Lady Audley's Secret"This intelligent edition offers a wonderful introduction not just to Lady Audley's Secret, but to the whole publishing phenomenon of sensation fiction." -- Kate Flint, Rutgers University Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 08/19/2003Pages: 510Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN:...
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Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish ReaderPaper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish. Author: Margaret CavendishPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 01/20/2000Pages: 332Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9781551111735About the Author Sylvia Bowerbank holds a joint apointment in...
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The English Poetic Mind'The English Poetic Mind' (1932) is Williams' discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth. The text is reflective of Williams' imaginative and critical approach to literature and his appreciation of poetry...
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Art of Red Sonja, Volume 2Fiery in spirit, skilled in combat, lusty and bawdy in her revelry, the crimson-tressed heroine Red Sonja, known also as "The She-Devil with a Sword", is renowned as fantasy's most prominent female character. Since 2005, Dynamite Entertainment has been the proud home to Red...
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The Poetic Edda: A Collection of Old Norse PoemsThe Poetic EddaA Collection of Norse PoemsTranslated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesBy Henry Adams BellowsTwo Volumes in OneAmerican Scandinavian FoundationThe Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse poems. Several versions exist, all consisting primarily of...
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Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and FuturesCo-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian...
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Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale: An Intermediate Ancient Greek ReaderXenophon of Ephesus's "pulp-fiction" novel, "An Ephesian Tale", is an excellent text for students who have completed the first year of college-level Ancient Greek or its equivalent. Its length is quite short, its syntax is straightforward, and its narrative - an adventure romance between...
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Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab WorldWhen the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-class status in this new country, controlled by a military regime that restricted their movement...
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CoffeeObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up....
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Edgar Allan Poe, Complete CollectionEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story,...
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Conversations with Joan DidionJoan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in American culture to a degree unmatched over the past half century. Two generations of writers have taken her as the measure...
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An AnthologySpanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context....
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian LiteratureWeaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher B. Teuton begins with a study of Mesoamerican writings, Diné...
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The Writing of Middle Earth: How to write the script of the Holbbits, Dwarves and Elves.The Writing of Middle Earth will introduce you to the fascinating Hobbit and dwarfish runes and to the mysterious Tengwar script of the elves of JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. You will learn how to decipher inscriptions on Thror's Map, Durin's Door and the One...
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Reflections on BiographyReflections on Biography is intended for all readers of biography--lifelong or occasional, critical or casual--and is written by an award-winning biographer, Paula R. Backscheider. The author examines biography from many angles and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and some of the...
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States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth CenturyIn an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of...
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