Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem PlaysWhat is it that makes Shakespeare's problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas's new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture...
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The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and AfterThe Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare's late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-42 (which presumes dramatic activity stopped with...
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The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and LuxuryIn the Eighteenth-century, critics of capitalism denounced the growth of luxury and effeminacy; supporters applauded the increase of refinement and the improved status of women. This pioneering study explores the way the association of commerce and femininity permeated cultural production. It looks at the...
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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil WarsAuthor: Heidi CraigPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/09/2023Pages: 255Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781009224031This title is not returnable
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Critique of CritiqueWhat is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of...
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Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and BordersIn this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women's comics to explore the representation of Jewish women's bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning national, cultural, and artistic borders, the essays shine a...
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Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare: 'Rich in Will'Beginning with how the signifier 'will' operates in Shakespearean contexts, this book, unlike other studies, deals fully with how Shakespeare's plays treat the issue of rape and sexual coercion, and how far the plays reflect early modern views on the role of sex and...
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Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican WomenA study of the family in contemporary Puerto Rican fiction. Colonial narratives described Puerto Rico as a familial plantation governed by white men and served by Black women, but Puerto Rican women writing today are changing the story. This book surveys diasporic fiction written...
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Jean-Luc Nancy Among the PhilosophersThis volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy's thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come...
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Letters and Lives of the Tennyson WomenContradicting common perception of them as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young poet and reveals that the women in Tennyson's family circle were prolific and engaging correspondents. Their letters, preserved in archives...
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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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