Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Frances Burney's "Evelina": The Book, Its History, and Its ParatextEvelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel's material embodiment in the...
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Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary WorldSomething extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the Establishment...
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Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and HopeEcstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human experience. Written...
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Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century EuropeConstance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance's life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters,...
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Victorian Alchemy: Science, magic and ancient EgyptAn engaging study of how Victorian-era representations of ancient Egypt blended science and mysticism. With its material remnants paradoxically symbolizing both antiquity and modernity to Victorian audiences, ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that...
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Aurores Et Crépuscules Dans La Thébaïde de StaceThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Ce livre propose une étude intertextuelle des descriptions d'aurores et de crépuscules dans la Thébaïde de Stace. Les images poétiques de l'Aurore aux doigts de...
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Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century and TodayAsk someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by...
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Reading »Race« Relationally: Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's NovelsWhat does it mean to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation? In this study of Colson Whitehead's first six novels, Marlon Lieber argues that this question has permeated the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's writing since his 1999 debut The Intuitionist. Drawing...
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Reading Atmosfears: The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary EcofictionWe live in a critical moment in history, often called the Anthropocene , that is defined by unprecedented scales of uncertainty. Natalie Dederichs draws on insights from the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics...
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The Complete Works of Álvaro de CamposÁlvaro de Campos is one of the most influential heteronyms created by Portugal's great modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. According to Pessoa, Campos was born in Tavira (Algarve) in 1890 and studied mechanical engineering in Glasgow, although he never managed to complete his degree. In...
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Rehumanizing the Language CurriculumThis volume brings together work by renowned scholars in the field of foreign/second/heritage languages and literatures who employ a variety of scholarly tools to examine opportunities associated with literature as a force for rehumanizing and invigorating target language (TL) education in the 21st century....
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Lorca's Immanent MysticismThis book explores Federico García Lorca's late poetry and drama within its context of mysticism. Lorca's singular language reveals compelling evidence of innate spiritual potential, influenced by poets from Christian, Sufi, Buddhist, and other mystic traditions, from his earliest works to its culmination in...
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Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the Twenty-First CenturyThis book makes the case for Bertolt Brecht's continued importance at a time when events of the 21st century cry out for a studied means of producing theatre for social change. Here is a unique step-by-step process for realizing Brecht's ways of working onstage...
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Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and LiberationAn engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literatureIn Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained...
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Neoromantik Der Jahrhundertwende: Transformationen Eines Romantischen Erzählmodells Um 1900Dieses Open-Access-Buch beschreibt die rege Wiederaufnahme des Romantischen in der literarischen Landschaft um 1900. Es zeichnet die vergessene Diskursgeschichte einer sogenannten 'Neuromantik' nach, um anschlie end zu analysieren, was genau sich in diesen Texten im Vergleich zur historischen Romantik verändert hat. Die Neoromantik der...
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United StatesMemories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African Diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the experiences of...
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Comics Art in ChinaAuthor: John a. Lent, Ying XuPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublished: 04/21/2023Pages: 234Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.74lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.68dISBN: 9781496846471About the AuthorJohn A. Lent taught at the university level from 1960 to 2011, with stints in the Philippines, Malaysia, Canada, China, and the...
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Shakespeare's Botanical ImaginationWriting on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices. Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination moves plants to the foreground of...
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Les TragiquesThis 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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Les TragiquesThis 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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