Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Iris Murdoch and the Literary ImaginationThis volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from across the world who...
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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and FilmExamines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Author: Cheryl C. D. HughesPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438492148This title is not returnable
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Tragedy and CivilizationDrawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles' plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human...
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Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia ChildEver since American soldiers returned home after World War II with a passion for pâté and escargots instead of pork and beans, our preferences have moved from cooked to raw, from canned to fresh, from bland to savory, from water to wine. And guiding...
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The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant SubjectsIn The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant neoliberal narratives of success, cheerfulness, and self-actualization....
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Comics Gone Ape!: The Missing Link to Primates in ComicsThey may be only one notch below humans on the evolutionary ladder, but gorillas and monkeys have for decades climbed to the top of the comic-book world as monsters, super-villains, sentient masterminds, soldiers, aliens, buffoons and super-heroes. Comics Gone Ape! is the definitive missing...
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The Book of Misers: Al-BukhalaAl-Jahiz (776-869) was one of the greatest exponents of Arabic prose of all time. His scholarship, the breadth of his interests, and his ability to express his ideas and arguments with vigour and humour were outstanding; "The Book of Misers" is his comical masterpiece,...
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Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, SignsAn absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and...
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Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-PresentationWhile the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries--careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce--romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood.In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the...
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Key Concepts in Victorian StudiesKey Concepts in Victorian Studies is a comprehensive and accessible resource for students of the long nineteenth century. The volume is divided into a number of cross-referenced sections which address the preoccupations and historical events of this crucial period in recent history and culture....
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On Liberty and Other Writings: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Three major essays--On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)--that illustrate Mill's liberal political philosophy at the height of his powers. Editorial matter--including a richly detailed introduction--by Nadia Urbinati. Nine major commentaries--by Alan Ryan, Jonathan Riley,...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked...
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Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese MediaThe maverick cultural entrepreneur Li Yu survived the tumultuous Ming-Qing dynastic transition of the mid-seventeenth century through a commercially successful practice founded on intermedial experimentation. He engaged an astonishingly broad variety of cultural forms: from theatrical performance and literary production to fashion and wellness;...
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The Oxford Chaucer Two Volume Set: Volumes 1 and 2This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his...
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African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave NarrativeIn the wake of the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, inequalities and disparities were brought to light across the publishing industry. The need for more diverse, representative young adult literature gained new traction, resulting in an influx of young adult speculative...
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Climate Change and Original Sin: The Moral Ecology of John Milton's PoetryPrior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed humanity's responsibility for climate...
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Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and SpectacleEssays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture Tricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. This...
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Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and HomeAuthor: JohnsonPublisher: Olive Branch PressPublished: 07/11/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9781623717469
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Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa CatherA tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a lifelong lover of Willa Cather's work The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and...
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Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter MostHome to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is home to fifty-eight...
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