Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Not All Quiet Before the Storm: A Political Study of the WestNot All Quiet Before the Storm: A Political Study of the West offers a comprehensive political and philosophical critique concerning the increasing popularity of socialism among liberal intellectuals, leftist generations of the young, and even Christian democrats. The author presents a series of extensive...
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Anaphora and EpiphoraAnaphora and Epiphora are two forms when it comes to poetry. Editor of the book is Dante Antonio, USA Selections have been done by Tarun Agarwal, India In this book the authors are from - USA, Nigeria, Ukraine, Canada, India and Fiji. Author: Jordan...
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Thomas Durfey's «Love for Money, or the Boarding School» (1691): A Critical EditionThomas Durfey's Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a...
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Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created NancyFrom Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told through the life story of Ernie Bushmiller and his iconic comic strip Nancy. "As the widest-ranging cartoon chronicler of American absurdity in our time, Bill Griffith has...
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Life's Little IroniesLife's Little Ironies, 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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Reading Rituals: The Importance of Habits in Cultivating a Love of BooksThis book is a thought-provoking exploration of the habits and practices that shape our reading lives. The author argues that the way we approach reading has a profound impact on our intellectual development, and that cultivating good reading habits is essential for personal growth...
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Giuseppe Sarti: Musicista Del Secolo XVIII (1883)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Goddesses: A Skeleton Key Study GuideBy Joanna Gardner, Olivia Happel-Block, Rachel Lugn, and Stephanie Zajchowski.In this Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, you'll find summaries of Campbell's views about many different goddesses, as well as quotes, reading suggestions, discussion topics, and prompts...
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Decadence and the Making of ModernismWe are currently updating our website and have not yet posted complete information for this title. Many of our books are in the Google preview program, which allows readers to view up to 20% of the book. If this title is active in the...
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Keywords for Environmental StudiesIntroduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature Studies Understandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding...
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Jason and the Argonauts Through the AgesThe story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has...
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Lectures on ShakespeareFrom one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School...
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The Songs of Chu: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poetry by Qu Yuan and OthersSources show Qu Yuan (?340-278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms...
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Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary IconIconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her...
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe is part of the Timeless Classics series and comprises every known story penned by the legendary gothic American writer. Poe's name conjures up ideas of murderers and insane people, as well as premature funerals and enigmatic women...
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The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary StyleThis new edition of Jerome McGann's exciting work, out of print for years, has been called the most significant intervention in Romantic studies since his The Romantic Ideology. It takes as its prime aim the reading of neglected poetry, principally by women, which qualifies...
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Cicero: Pro MiloneThe Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving...
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Oral Literature of the LuoThis is the sixth title in a series of titles focussing on the oral literary tradition of various East African ethnic groups - the Maasai, the Embu and the Mbeere amongst others - published by EAEP. Okumba Miruka, particularly known for his contribution to...
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Roots and BranchesProfessor Tom Shippey is best known for his books 'The Road to Middle-earth' and 'J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century'. Yet they are not the only contributions of his to Tolkien studies. Over the years, he has written and lectured widely on Tolkien-related topics....
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Die Gestaltung Psychischer Konflikte Einiger Frauengestalten Im Werk Heinrich Von Kleists: Alkmene, Die Marquise Von O..., Penthesilea, Kaethchen VonDer in Kleists Marionettentheater-Aufsatz formulierte Konflikt zwischen Gefuhl und Verstand wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit im Hinblick auf die Gestaltung seiner Frauenfiguren untersucht. Dieser Konflikt konkretisiert sich in dem Widerspruch zwischen personlicher Liebesbindung und gesellschaftlichen Normen, die die Erfullung dieser Liebe zu verhindern trachten....
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