Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Best Presidential Writing: From 1789 to the PresentA sweeping and groundbreaking treasury of the most essential presidential writings, featuring a mix of the beloved and the little-known, from stirring speeches and shrewd remarks to behind-the-scenes drafts and unpublished autobiographies. From the early years of our nation's history, when George Washington wrote...
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Tragedy and Postcolonial LiteratureThis book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile...
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SexistenceSex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are...
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Queer Between the Covers: Histories of Queer Publishing and Publishing Queer VoicesQueer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. Chronicling the gay struggle for acceptance and liberation, the book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged between the covers of books in...
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ManaliveManalive details the story of Mr. Innocent Smith, a new tenant at a London boarding house, who uses a great wind that follows him to breathe life into the residents at Beacon House. Mr. Innocent Smith uses his comedic nature and eccentric antics to...
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The Voyage of St BrendanIn The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned...
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Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces.Author: Jon PadgettPublisher: Grimscribe PressPublished: 05/18/2020Pages:...
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The Missionary Sutras: The Forty-Two Paragraph Sutra & Eight Realizations of a Mahasattva SutraLiterary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Red Pine. The two sutras translated in this chapbook were among the first to arrive in China in the first and second centuries and among the first to be translated. Compiled from other texts as...
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Foreign Sounds or Sounds ForeignJohn Yau has long championed the overlooked, neglected, and misunderstood. Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign brings together a selection of reviews and essays touching upon a wide range of subjects. The result is a decidedly alternative view of what to pay attention to-to what...
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Grief and the Hero: The Futility of Longing in the IliadGrief and the Hero examines Achilles' experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad's study of anger. No action can undo his friend Patroklos' death, but the experience of death drives him to behave as though he can achieve something...
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The New Species of WritingWilliam Park received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He has taught at Hamilton College, Columbia, the University of Navarre, and for thirty-eight years at Sarah Lawrence College, where he also co-founded the...
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Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of CharacterHow did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers' lives and their works? When did the person of the author--both as context and target of textual interpretation--come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development...
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created HerThe true story behind the iconic fictional detective is "a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing" (The Seattle Times).An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearThe plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930--and...
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Spatial and Discursive Violence in the Us SouthwestIn Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura S nchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the history of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. S nchez and Pita analyze a range of Chicano/a and...
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2020The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features excerpts from major projects that challenge American certitudes: the Washington Post Magazine's "Prison" issue, detailing the scope of mass incarceration, and the New York Times...
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Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and CultureYoung adult literature featuring LGBTQ+ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more frequently in film, on...
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Tarot Tracings: Essays on literature and divinationLovers, villains, murderers, magicians, spirit conjurors, and ghosts. You'd think this was a popular book of fiction blending tales of love, war, and magic. It isn't. It's a book written for the curious reader who might like to know what some of the greatest...
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Son of Rebel Bookseller: A Very Large Homework AssignmentI AM NOT MY SO-CALLED ILLNESSThis celebration of Samuel Laties braids his visionary and humorous fiction, poetry, and essays together with Andrew Laties' reminiscences--along with the tale of Andy's struggle to invest Sam's death with meaning by rescuing a legendary bookstore. In counterpoint, son...
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A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to TwitterAn engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures Aphorisms--or short philosophical sayings--appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form....
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Poet of Revolution: The Making of John MiltonA groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalization John Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose...
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