Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel KotikOriginally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author's experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life...
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Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary PerspectivesThe Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore nor...
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Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and LiteratureNorse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will no longer support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts...
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Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural WorkWhat are two hands worth?In linking forms of cultural expression to labor, occupational injuries, and deaths, Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work centers what is usually decentered--the complex culture of working-class people. Janet Zandy begins by examining the literal loss of lives to...
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The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British RomanticismWith their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Whether publicly displayed or serving as the basis of a written genre, these rough drawings played a central role in the cultural ferment of...
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Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek FolktalesTotkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time-in Creel and English--the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe. In 1915, Earnest Gouge was encouraged by ethnographer John Reed...
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Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic NarrativesAn exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and psychological spaces that women inhabit. Victoria Aarons argues that Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied with...
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Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and IdentityTolkien and Wales is the first book to offer a detailed examination of the influence of Wales on Tolkien's fiction and scholarly work, including some relatively neglected texts.Author: Carl PhelpsteadPublisher: University of Wales PressPublished: 07/11/2011Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60dISBN:...
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Cool Characters: Irony and American FictionCharting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, Cool Characters examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political life from World War II to the present, showing how irony migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the...
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Why Read the Classics?A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.Author: Italo CalvinoPublisher: Mariner Books ClassicsPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9780544146372About the AuthorITALO CALVINO's superb storytelling gifts earned him...
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Scandal on StageNew plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include...
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The Art of PoetryA charter member of the legendary New York School of poets that includes John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch has become one of America's best known and best loved poets. His apt parodies and zany poetic conceits have earned him the...
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Artaud and His DoublesArtaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals Artaud's affinities with a disturbing array of...
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of MurderOn July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on...
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The Roaring Girl: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl is based on the text from English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. It is accompanied by generous explanatory annotations, five illustrations, and a detailed introduction. "Contexts" is thematically arranged to include...
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection, Martin Amis, "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME), takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary...
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What's in Shakespeare's Names'What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.' So says Juliet in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet but, originally published in 1978, Murray Levith shows just how wrong Juliet was. Shakespeare was extremely...
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Fanned and Winnowed Opinions: Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold JenkinsOriginally published in 1987, "Fanned and Winnowed Opinions" celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century's foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare. All of the essays address Shakespearean topics, and many of the sixteen focus on the years between 1595 and...
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Public and Private Man in ShakespeareThe potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the...
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Shakespeare's Roman WorldsThe 'infinite variety' of Shakespeare's Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they have given rise. Originally published in 1989, the distinguishing feature of this study is that it endeavours to convey a clear idea of the relationship between...
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