Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952-2009This extensive selection of Tanikawa Shuntaro's poetry reflects the full depth and breadth of his work, from his appearance as a fresh new voice to the mastery of his later poetry. It traces his artistic development and his shift in focus from man's cosmic...
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Tajkahayk"Tajkahayk" is probably one of the most foretelling Armenian political tracts of the 19th century, written on the eve of what came to be known as the "Armenian Question." Raffi, a gifted political and literary commentator, could see the clash between an emerging Armenian...
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Struck by Apollo: Hölderlin's Journeys to Bordeaux and Back and BeyondDavid Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University; Brauer Visiting Professor of German Studies, Brown University; and Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando and...
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in LiteratureAn "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works...
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation"Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work."- from the Foreword by Françoise Vergès.What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desire, and migration?Moving across genres, memories, belongings, and borders, these luminous essays by poets,...
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Reading Stephen KingAuthor: Brian James FreemanPublisher: Cemetery Dance PublicationsPublished: 11/24/2023Pages: 226Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52dISBN: 9781587676994
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Race in American Science FictionNoting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and...
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Poetry's Possible WorldsIn her debut essay collection, award-winning poet and critic Lesley Wheeler tells the story of her father's unraveling. While she studies poetry in New Zealand on a Fulbright fellowship, his dishonesty smashes her parents' marriage and destroys their savings. Nothing is resolved, even after...
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Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of PoemsLiterary Nonfiction. Poetics. ORDERING THE STORM empowers readers to see the poetry collection as an artistic medium in itself, and offers diverse perspectives on the subject. Experienced writers and beginners alike will find inspiration and encouragement in the words of exceptional poets such as...
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One Man's MeatToo personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out...
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Off the RecordEditor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers. The essays collected...
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Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First CenturyA wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird. Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and...
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier PoetsWith Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Alone and Hero, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and...
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Machiavelli on WarMachiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official for military matters to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that...
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Jefferson And Madison - The Great CollaborationJEFFERSON AND MADISON- The Great Collaboration BY Adrienne Koch New York Alfred A. Knopf. PREFACE: LONG STUDY of the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson con vinced me of the need for further research into the devel opment of Jeffersons thought. And this became impossible without...
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In The Beginning... From Abraham to Israel - Expanded Edition: Synchronizing the Bible, Enoch, Jasher, and JubileesThe Ancient Texts and the Bible series was compiled by Ahava Lilburn and produced by Minister 2 Others. This ten volume set synchronizes the manuscripts of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees into the Bible, making one complete storyline. The books are interwoven using the Torah...
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Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of BlacknessContributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations...
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Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic SlaveryIn Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for...
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Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic SlaveryIn Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for...
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Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-HallettA beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen.It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in...
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