Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Campfire Smoke and Trail Dust: Tales from a High Sierra Pack CookSitting around a high country campfire, packers and wranglers entertain the dudes with guitars, songs, and cowboy poetry. When it becomes her turn, the old pack cook tells tales of the "high lonesome". After almost half a century riding and cooking throughout the mountains,...
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Outward: Adrienne Rich's Expanding SolitudesThe first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich's full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships Adrienne Rich is best known as a feminist poet and activist. This iconic status owes especially to her work during the 1970s,...
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Not a Big Deal: Narrating to UnsettleNot a Big Deal asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or rebutted with alternative facts. When readers already recognize "defamiliarizing texts" as a category, how might texts still work toward the...
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Life in SpacePoetry. LIFE IN SPACE is translated by Joan Brooks and includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan, Charles Bernstein, and Kevin M.F. Platt, as well as Anastasiya Osipova (with Marijeta Bozovic, Catherine Ciepiela, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Pavel Khazanov, Mila Nazyrova, Eugene Ostashevsky, Val Vinokur,...
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Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South AfricaAn anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today's scholars and radical thinkers Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first collection dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Leading feminist theorist, Desiree Lewis, and...
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Avidly Reads Guilty PleasuresMy guilty pleasure wasn't just reading low-brow fiction or even female-authored fiction, it was being femme itself. What is it about ribald romance novels, luxurious interior design, and frothy wedding dresses that often make women feel their desires come with a shadow of shame?...
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Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes"Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man's incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes's marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show...
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The Poetics of Early Russian Crime Fiction 1860-1917: Deciphering Stories of DetectionCrime fiction enjoys almost unparalleled success in post-Soviet Russia; but what do we know about its origins and development in the nineteenth century? Claire Whitehead's ground-breaking and in-depth study rescues early Russian crime fiction from obscurity and undertakes a detailed examination of how the...
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The History of Language Learning and Teaching II: 19th-20th Century EuropeThis three-volume set brings together current research in the history of language learning and teaching (HoLLT) in Europe and beyond. Providing the first overview of research in the field, it will be an indispensable reference for teachers, teacher educators and all those interested in...
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Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical ReaderArden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making...
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Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the RomanceIn Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume--all best-selling romance writers--explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and controversial book, the authors dispute some of the...
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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture Volume 1The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical...
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Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of PrintFrom Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that reveal...
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Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson's Master HoursFor more than half a century, the story of Emily Dickinson's "Master" documents has been the largely biographical tale of three letters to an unidentified individual. Writing in Time seeks to tell a different story--the story of the documents themselves. Rather than presenting the...
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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020: Volume 4This volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is...
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Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue DuréeFour years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a collected works of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format but as a series of more humble quarto pamphlets. For mysterious reasons, perhaps...
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Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern EnglandIn Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material...
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Psychoanalytical Notebooks: Purloined LettersReading Lacan to the letter - a close reading of the late Lacan applied to life, literature, and clinic, and a fascinating analysis of a man who struggled to hold himself together by purloining a famous painting and forming a relationship with it. "Patrick...
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Handwriting Practice Workbook: With Positive Affirmations For African American Girls: Trace Print Letters, Words & Sentences: For Little Black BrownLooking for a fun handwriting practice workbook to keep your little girls engaged?This lovely book is the perfect resource to teach your girls to write and improve their handwriting Section #1: Tracing and writing of the alphabet letters from A-Z (both capital and small...
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Halloween Adult Coloring Book (Zombie, Pumpkin, Haunted House): Great Halloween coloring book. Fun to color.Adults and children of all ages would enjoNew awesome Halloween pictures. Make your time funny with Halloween pictures. Color with pleasureAuthor: Blue Zine PublishingPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 08/22/2020Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.21dISBN: 9798677928116This title is not returnable
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