Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and PotentialityHow does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science fiction does not claim to predict what will actually happen in times...
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Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible: A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the GospelG. K. Chesterton famously claimed that America is "a nation with the soul of a church." He was wrong. In Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible, Ralph Wood argues that our churches have the soul of a nation because they have come to...
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Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory CultureHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies The Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the "Unite the Right" rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist and antisemitic slurs in Charlottesville, and the...
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Ezra Jack Keats at Play in the World of Children's BooksA past recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, W. Nikola-Lisa explores the centrality of play in the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. The eclectic collection of essays in...
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Ezra Jack Keats at Play in the World of Children's BooksA past recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, W. Nikola-Lisa explores the centrality of play in the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. The eclectic collection of essays in...
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Ennead VI.6-9Plato's most influential disciple and proponent. Plotinus (AD 204/5-270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. Practically nothing is known of his early life, but at the age of 28 he...
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Embodied Performance: Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh TheaterIn this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--a leading scholar of noh theater--provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan's most celebrated art forms. Although noh has often been associated with the elite, Embodied Performance explores its links to a wider popular culture,...
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that...
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that...
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VIII: Sophists, Part 1A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that...
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX: Sophists, Part 2A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that...
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Dr. Seuss and the Art of War: Secret Military LessonsIf you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military strategist Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss? Until Dr. Seuss &...
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Dominion UndeservedThat the writings of John Milton continue to provoke study and analysis centuries after his lifetime speaks no doubt to his literary greatness but also to the many ways in which his art both engaged and transcended the political and theological tensions of his...
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Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Val?ry, and Modern French CriticismA critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thought In the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of quantifying, measuring, and evaluating "intelligence," and using it to separate and compare individuals. Disarming Intelligence...
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Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Val?ry, and Modern French CriticismA critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thought In the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of quantifying, measuring, and evaluating "intelligence," and using it to separate and compare individuals. Disarming Intelligence...
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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and ArtDesire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva's essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Probing beyond the claims of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and others, Kristeva...
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Deep ReadingThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural...
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Confessions, Volume I: Books 1-8The classic account of crisis and conversion. Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While studying to become a...
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Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth CenturyMany people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced...
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Clement of Alexandria: Exhortation to the Greeks. the Rich Man's Salvation. to the Newly BaptizedA scholarly evangelist. Clement of Alexandria, famous Father of the Church, is known chiefly from his own works. He was born, perhaps at Athens, about AD 150, son of non-Christian parents; he converted to Christianity probably in early manhood. He became a presbyter in...
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