Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading...
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The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching FrontierThe cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest DestinyAs Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle...
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The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary InterculturalismDespite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts...
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Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish TermsDictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms is a unique and much needed guide to the way many Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic words and meanings are used by English speakers. Sol Steinmetz draws upon his years of dictionary editorial...
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Studying English LiteratureStudying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to...
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Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the AnthropoceneWhile Thomas Pynchon is usually described as an American author who primarily writes about American reality, Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene argues that his major novels, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, can profitably be read as a global...
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Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer ReadingThe publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of...
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On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of PoliticsFive hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence's free institutions? The father of political realism? A revolutionary populist? A calculating rationalist? A Renaissance humanist?...
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We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black FeminismDrawing on the collected archives of distinguished twentieth-century Black woman writers such as Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, Marina Magloire traces a new history of Black feminist thought in relation to Afro-diasporic religion. Beginning in the 1930s with...
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Down and Out in Paris and London"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, immersed himself in the slums of Paris and London, and reinvented himself as George Orwell, one of the most revered prose stylists...
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The Flight of the Wild Gander: A Skeleton Key Study GuideThis Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's The Flight of the Wild Gander lets you read Campbell alongside a Campbell expert, focusing on the origins of myth and the enduring power of metaphor and symbols. In this helpful guide, you'll find chapter summaries,...
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J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle EarthWith a new introduction by the author Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet,...
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To Go Into the WordsTo Go Into the Words is the latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of poets such as William Bronk, Helen Adam, and Nathaniel Mackey, the book engages the contemporary poetic fascination...
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Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin AmericaIn this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto...
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The Avant-Garde Tradition in LiteratureAuthor: Richard KostelanetzPublisher: Prometheus BooksPublished: 01/01/1982Pages: 424Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.99h x 5.99w x 1.27dISBN: 9780879751746
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The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in HondurasA fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy.Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, led a complicated life often marked by tragedy and contradictions....
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Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and TaiwanIndigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems,...
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Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett'I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.' The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett's unique brand of wit made him both a bestseller and an enduring, endearing source of...
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Daddy LessonsCowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakeningPart memoir, part literary study, part formalist exercise in excitement, a transgressive text of pleasure, bodies, the Lord, and the West.In this post-gender, post-sexuality, queer prairie Decameron, Steacy Easton's sexual...
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