Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern IrelandGetting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Drawing on...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins in ContextGerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most innovative British poets of the nineteenth century. This book provides an authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins's life and writing. Consisting of thirty-eight essays by leading scholars, the book covers topics that have...
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Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary MartyrsGendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs takes readers on a journey through the lives and legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs, revealing how their sacrifices have been remembered, commemorated, and manipulated throughout history. This innovative book blends...
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From The Old Land: A summary of the Ferdowsi's Shahnameh talesThe book "From the Old Land" is a summary of the Ferdowsi's Shahnameh tales. Elham Dabiran, the Compiler of this book tried to convert the stories from verse to prose in the book. The language used in the writing of the book is simple...
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Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: Essays on Violence and GraceIn any age, humans wrestle with apparently inexorable forces. Today, we face the threat of global terrorism. In the aftermath of September 11, few could miss sensing that a great evil was at work in the world. In Flannery O'Connor's time, the threats came...
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Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-MakingPoetry discovers and speaks a truth ordinary language cannot express. And the passionate message in Finding What You Didn't Lose is that we're all poets--capable of giving voice to such truth. Poet-teacher John Fox reveals how imagery, sound, metaphor, rhythm, and other poetic elements...
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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and MeAn award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves "Remarkable, brave and compassionate."--Rowan Williams, New Statesman In Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that...
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Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian AmericaWinner of the 2023-2024 CLAGS Fellowship AwardIlluminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word "camp" the camp, as a geopolitical space and...
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Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic FormArguing that the 19th century concept of "living form" (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived...
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Emily Bront?, Wuthering Heights MapFollow along with this illustrated map to all the places mentioned in Emily Bront?'s remarkable 1847 novel. While Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange and the nearby town of Gimmerton are fictional, their possible real-life inspirations are identified. This map also features an illustrated chart of...
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Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family LegacyEllen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, the daughters of Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, grew up in the heart of Concord, Massachusetts's famed literary community. In a culture that celebrated self-reliance, Ellen and Edith formed a partnership that only strengthened as their...
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Driving Lessons: A Road Trip Through American Travel LiteratureWeaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the history of American literature In Driving Lessons, Christopher B. Strain sets out on a quintessential American road trip, exploring not just the roads and byways of...
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great StorytellerA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's imagination and the world he created. See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind...
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Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After SocialismCultural Capitalism explores Russian literature's eager embrace of capitalism in the post-Soviet era. When the Soviet Union fell, books were suddenly bought and sold as commodities. Russia's first bestseller lists brought attention and prestige. Even literary prizes turned to the market for legitimacy. The...
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Crossings: Creative Ecologies of CruisingIt's difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising...
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Crossings: Creative Ecologies of CruisingIt's difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising...
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Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her ReadersFlannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "Great American Catholic Author," but this was not always the case. With Creating Flannery O'Connor, Daniel Moran explains how O'Connor attained that status, and how she felt about it, by examining the development of her literary...
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Conversations with Percival EverettFor the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But...
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Chinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics, 1946-2020Chinese intellectuals have long chafed under the dominance of dualities--the sense that they are trapped between two diametrically opposed forces, with no choice but to pick one side or the other. Over the years, they have been driven into binary debates such as reform...
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Celts, Gaels, and Britons: Studies in Language and Literature from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Honour of Patrick Sims-WilliamsCelts, Gaels, and Britons offers a miscellany of essays exploring three closely connected areas within the fields of Celtic Studies in order to shed new light on the ancient and medieval Celtic languages and their literatures. Taking as its inspiration the scholarship of Professor...
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