Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern LiteratureDriven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping-crucial to understanding life in the southern United States-from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century,...
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A History of Russian LiteratureRussia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present...
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French Lessons in Late-Medieval England: The Liber Donati and Commune ParlanceFrench Lessons in Late-Medieval England presents two fifteenth-century manuals designed to support facility in French among the English, the Liber donati and Commune parlance. These texts treat the grammar, lexis, and orthography of French as well as compiling a selection of entertaining dialogues that...
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Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's TravelWhat would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women...
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Octavia E. Butler"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside...
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My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham GreeneWhen a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction he's famous for. While living in southern France in 1972,...
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Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA) 2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Edited Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture Award (Honorable...
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Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American LiteratureInterpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers' reactions to short texts during crucial moments of the reading experience. These readers are students at universities in the US and several Spanish-speaking countries. Far from reducing the reading experience to a...
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Mientras los hombres mueren: Carmen CondeCarmen Conde is a major figure in twentieth-century Spanish poetry. Though neglected up to now, Mientras los hombres mueren is the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It was first published, in a limited edition, in Italy...
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the HeartA copiously illustrated account of the famed Paris bookstore on its 65th anniversaryThis first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Ana s Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette...
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They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly CenterIn 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Center, where they were housed in converted animal stalls. The Wartime Civil Control Administration...
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition): American Literature Gothic Fiction Horror Stories Mystery and Suspense Classic Horror FiThis collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any library. A compilation of Edgar Allan Poe's well-known works, this classic leather-bound edition is perfect as a keepsake. It includes some...
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Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family HistoryAmid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the...
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Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary ImaginationIn Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening...
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Stress Test: How Donald Trump Threatens American DemocracyA frenzy of misbehavior and misjudgment currently threatens the American polity. Donald Trump is the center of the storm. His words, deeds and basic instincts are fundamentally at odds with America's long-held essential ideals. But Trump isn't the only problem. Many of his friends,...
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Uncle Tom: From Martyr to TraitorUncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has...
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The Gospel According to Flannery O'ConnorJordan Cofer examines the influence of the Bible upon Flannery O'Connor's fiction. While there are many studies exploring how her Catholicism affected her fiction, this book argues that O'Connor is heavily influenced by the Bible itself. Specifically, it explicates the largely undocumented ways in...
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Der Umschlag von allem in nichtsDieses Buch macht die griechische Tragödie und ihre philosophische Reflexion seit der Antike für eine Theorie tragischer Erfahrung fruchtbar, die die leidenden Individuen in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Asmus Trautsch erschlie t die existentielle Dimension der antiken Gattung für die Gegenwart und zeigt, dass die...
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Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese NovelBandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern...
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The City of Dreadful NightThe Classic Poem of Urban Alienation by James ThomsonThe City of Dreadful Night was first published as a serial in the National Reformer in 1874 and then in book form in 1880. Its author, James Thomson, was known at the time primarily for his...
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