Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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WineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often wealth. Bottles sell for half...
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Birha Da Sultan - Shiv Kumar Batalvi Nu Chitran Rahi ShradhanjaliFirst ever paintings done on the poems of the legendary Punjabi poet- Shiv Kumar Batalvi by a Punjabi artist. The book comprises of 20 paintings done on 20 poems of Shiv Kumar Batalvi. The book is useful for art lovers and lovers of Punjabi...
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High CapitalismAuthor: Walter BenjaminPublisher: VersoPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.25w x 0.45dISBN: 9781859841921
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North of 36North of 36, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and...
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All Of MeThis book is an insight of me, my thoughts, my love, my life, my relationships it's all about me. Experiences and obstacles I had to overcome, if I didn't find this talent and a way to channel my emotions I don't know where I'd...
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Grown-Up Child: A MemoirCHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stalled, forcing the family into a transient lifestyle as he chased one PhD program after another, from Texas...
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The Murakami Pilgrimage: A Guide to the Real-Life Places of Haruki Murakami's FictionThe Murakami Pilgrimage is a comprehensive Japan travel guide which focuses on the locations featured in the novels of Haruki Murakami. Put yourself into your favorite characters' shoes as you explore Tokyo, Hokkaido, Shikoku and more You'll learn all about the neighborhoods and landmarks...
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Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist YouthHow did Vladimir Putin galvanize the Russian people to back his genocidal war in Ukraine and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, on-the-ground narrative reveals how Russia's fascist generation came into being-and the dark future that awaits the...
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War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in LebanonWar Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces...
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Light from a Nearby Window: Contemporary Mexican PoetryLight from a Nearby Window introduces a new generation of poets who have become a driving force in Mexican literature today.Until quite recently, contemporary Mexican poetry has been little-known and virtually unavailable to English-speaking readers. This bilingual anthology includes twenty-one poets--twelve men and nine...
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Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and CultureDressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism, and contemplation. Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that...
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Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian LiteratureThe story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely inspirational, spin on the tale. Published in...
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Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exemplifying a lack of originality and sensibility in the period's scientific literature-the very qualities that such literature had...
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Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial LouisianaIn 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there...
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A gaia ciência - literatura e música popular no BrasilCadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. The critic José Miguel Wisnik has become a reference for the insertion of the analysis of popular...
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The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi MoviesGeek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomenon Dune, charting the series' life from cult sci-fi novels to some of the most visionary movies of all time. Using original, deep-access reporting, extensive research, and insightful commentary, The...
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Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in WhitefaceWHAT IF JAY GATSBY IS A BLACK MAN PASSING AS A WHITE ONE? "Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface" expounds upon the thesis that Jay Gatsby, the much beloved hero of "The Great Gatsby", is a man of mixed black and white parentage...
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On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the UsIn America, censorship surges in periods of demographic and political change. Its primary purpose is to silence challenges to an established elite or norm. Today, censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities, the better...
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Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial LouisianaIn 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there...
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Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black FleshThis book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed. Author:...
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