Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinIn "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" the life story of one of the most important figures in American history is recounted. Franklin was more than just a founding father of the country; he was also a prolific writer, tradesman, scientist, diplomat, and philosopher. His...
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The Tacky SouthAs a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen...
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Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic WorldA cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period's philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief...
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The Translator's VisibilityAt the intersection of translation studies and Latin American literary studies, The Translator's Visibility examines contemporary novels by a cohort of writers - including prominent figures such as Cristina Rivera Garza, César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Valeria Luiselli, and Luis Fernando Verissimo - who foreground...
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Many MahābhāratasMany Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in nearly...
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Aeneid. VirgilAuthor: C. Day Lewis, VirgilPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 450Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.16w x 1.18dISBN: 9780199537488
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The Art of George TuskaAuthor: Dewey CassellPublisher: Two Morrows PublishingPublished: 03/14/2005Pages: 125Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.52w x 0.28dISBN: 9781893905405This title is only available via back order
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Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's AnthologySista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women--and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming...
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Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of CareVital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book--by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish--explore the unconscious motions of corporeal...
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The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental DisorderThis study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad attempts to create healthy spaces for life and work amid the pollution, disease, accidents, and noise of industrial...
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Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017Growing Out of Communism explores the rise of a new body of literature for children and teens following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent transformation of the publishing industry. Lanoux, Herold, and Bukhina first consider the Soviet foundations of...
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Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global AgeFrom a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changes Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate...
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Dolphin Editions: Homer, Iliad 1This introductory Homer reader, entirely in Ancient Greek, sets the student of the 21st century along the same paths of learning by which Homer was understood in the ancient world. Encountering and understanding the Iliad in its original language is to experience it in...
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Telephone: Essays in Two VoicesTELEPHONE is, for me, a stellar example of what can be achieved in collaborative work where two voices figure out how to link connective threads that bring out the best in each of their words, images, and narrative flourishes. This is a real gift...
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Zooming, Zippy Jokes about VehiclesAuthor: Julia GarsteckiPublisher: Black Rabbit BooksPublished: 01/11/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.10w x 0.20dISBN: 9781644665640Audience: Ages 9-12
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The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global GenreOne of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few American cultural exports have been as successful globally as the Western, a phenomenon commonly attributed to the widespread circulation of fiction, film, and television. The...
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How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical LiteraciesIn How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins challenges the clichéd understanding of comics as a "universal" language, circulating without regard for cultures or borders. Instead, she develops a new methodology of reading for difference. Kelp-Stebbins's anticolonial, feminist, and antiracist analytical framework...
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Omar Khayyam PoemsThe poems attributed to Omar Khayyam have a universal and timeless philosophical theme: life is a meaningful journey even if brief and uncertain. They inspire an unconstrained free-thinking mindset and a wise realization that guides thinking persons: it is impossible to see the absolute...
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Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of CrisisWhat does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible...
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The Villain's Journey: Descent and Return in Science Fiction and FantasyThe villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy...
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