Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790)In 1880 Nietzsche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises on botany...
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Queer Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices of Irish FictionsThe first comprehensive survey of LGBTQ fiction in contemporary Ireland. Before Ireland decriminalized same-sex sexual activity in 1993, the nation was essentially devoid of an LGBTQ literary tradition, due to the political and cultural dominance of conservative, censorious ideology. Though the situation has drastically...
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The Other Cinderella: a Three Act Play for ChildrenThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Use and Abuse of Statistics. --This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Land of PicenoIndigenous peoples cancelled by a burgeoning empire. Devastating earthquakes level ancient monuments. Marauding invaders loot and pillage art treasures. And yet, verdant hillsides ripple with vineyards and olive groves. The dramatic blue Sibillini Mountains shelter shepherds, freedom fighters, and necromancers. Lined with palms and...
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Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred CenterFiguring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew writers used their exile from the Holy Land as a license for invention. The question at the heart...
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John Donne in ContextJohn Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross misogyny. This book offers a comprehensive account of early modern life and culture as it relates to Donne's...
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To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of AppropriationTo the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors--Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein--Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and...
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Snow Lit Rev, No. 9Poetry. Drama. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Latinx Studies. Art. Film. Music. Contributors include Caroline Clark, Gillian Carnegie, Nancy Collins, Sheree Chen, Alexander Dickow, Timothy Harris, Ralph Hawkins, Rebecca Hodgkinson, Paul Holman, Kumiko Kiuchi, June Leaf, Osip Mandelstam, D. S. Marriott,...
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California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American ImaginaryCalifornia Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of "Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of...
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Exemplary Violence: Rewriting History in Colonial ColombiaExemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts--Pedro Simón's Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile's El carnero, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita's Historia general--each of which reveals the colonizer's reliance...
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Biopoéticas para las biopolíticas: El pensamiento literario latinoamericano ante la cuestión animalEste libro aborda el estado de las investigaciones que vinculan a la literatura y a la cr tica literaria latinoamericanas recientes con la corriente de pensamiento posthumanista. Para ello, pone a prueba la noci n de biopo tica, un dispositivo de lectura que apunta...
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In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman MailerNorman Mailer, Susan Mailer's father, was among the most celebrated, talented, and controversial writers of the 20th Century. The Naked and the Dead (1948), inspired by his experience in World War II, was a bestseller and made him famous at the age of 25....
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Italians in AmericaLiterary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Translated by Mark Pietralunga. Since its first publication in 1937, ITALIANS IN AMERICA has been recognized as one of the most important studies on the Italian immigrant community in North America of its time.Author: Amerigo RuggieroPublisher: Bordighera PressPublished: 11/10/2020Pages:...
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Timelessness: Conversations on Life, Literature, Spirituality, and CultureNear the end of his life, novelist, essayist and poet James Cowan joined fellow author Arthur Versluis in five remarkable conversations on how his journeys into the Australian Outback and his years spent among the Aborigines are indelibly linked with his vision for the...
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Goethes "Faust", der Freimaurer-Code und die Vorbilder aus den antiken Geheimkulten wie den Mysterien von Isis und Eleusis: Goethes "Faust"-Dichtung bW hrend es kaum mehr ein gro es Geheimnis ist, dass Mozarts "Zauberfl te" zahlreiche versteckte freimaurerische Botschaften enth lt, so scheint dagegen der Freimaurer-Code in Goethes "Faust"-Dichtung seine Geheimnisse in gro en und wesentlichen Teilen sogar vor den achtsamen Augen der Literaturwissenschaft wahren...
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Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature: With an Excerpt from Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson"Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature" is a 1906 work by Russian historian and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Within it, Kropotkin presents a broad, general idea of the subject by examining modern literature and its most notable contributors. This volume will appeal to those...
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Gold, Grit, Guns: Miners on Bc's Fraser River in 1858The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand."An extraordinary book." - The TyeeOnly four extensive miners' journals are known to have survived from 1858. Quoting generously from the diaries, Alexander Globe focuses on the miners' actual words...
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Emotional Settings in Early Modern Pedagogical Culture: Hamlet, the Faerie Queene, and Arcadia1. Chapter One: Discipline and Resistance in the Schoolroom: Emotional Possibilities.- 2. Chapter Two: Paternal Authority in the Home: Emotional Negotiations.- 3. Chapter Three: Sidney and Heroic Paideia.- 4. Chapter Four: Learning and Loss in Spenser's The Faerie Queene.- 5. Chapters Five: Familial Feeling...
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Faust, Part One: A New Translation with IllustrationsThis luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, accompanied by original illustrations, brings Goethe's timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language. Author: Johann Wolfgang Van GoethePublisher: Deep Vellum PublishingPublished: 01/19/2021Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize:...
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