Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Paratexts of the English Bible, 1525-1611English bibles, from Tyndale's 1525 New Testament to the 1611 King James, feature calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prayers, philological glosses, inset historical essays, elaborate multi-page diagrams, single-leaf summaries of scripture, prefaces by eminent churchmen, doctrinal notes by leading theologians, a dialogue on predestination, a...
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Milton and the Resources of the LineThis book will change how readers read not only Milton but any poetry. Whereas prose is written in sentences, poetry is written in lines, lines that may or may not coincide with the syntax of the sentence. Lines add an aural and visual mode...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent FilmF. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film is the first full-length monograph focusing on the silent movie adaptations of the celebrated author's work. This ground-breaking book reveals the crucial role that Hollywood played in establishing Fitzgerald's burgeoning reputation in the 1920s.Author: Martina MastandreaPublisher: BrillPublished: 08/18/2022Pages:...
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Poetry, Painting, Park: Goethe and Claude LorrainImbued with a pulsating energy that emanates from the sun, Claude Lorrain's landscape draws on the interplay of light and darkness to effect a 'living whole' and evoke the symbolic. In a life-long conversation with Lorrain - recorded in texts as diverse as 'Amor...
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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents...
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The Idea of the Canterbury TalesThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and LiteratureLiterature utters the unutterable, not through logic, not through science, not through argument, but through a pitch of eloquence so pronounced the conscientious reader cannot fail to pay attention. Louis Groarke argues that literature is an honorific term we use to describe texts that...
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A Narnian Vision of the AtonementHow can we have redemption or atonement (at-one-ment) with God? Ancient Christians proposed a ransom theory, according to which God pays the ransom for us through heroic self-sacrifice so we can be liberated from the power of the demonic, sin, and death. This theory...
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Nothing is being suppressedThis book is a pioneering attempt to roll back misrepresentation and depersonalisation and recover one of the most high-achieving eras of British poetry. The '70s saw the collapse of the post-war settlement amid apparently insoluble problems over inflation and profitability. Consensus broke down and...
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Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial...
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Reading David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and LiteratureThis book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature. Philosophy is not a mere supplement to or decoration of his writing, nor does he use literature to illustrate...
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Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and the Faerie QueeneThis is the first full-length study to be devoted to the humour of The Faerie Queene. Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But Victoria Coldham-Fussell argues that his sense of humour...
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The Persistence of Realism in Modernist FictionForm vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even among scholars who seek to undo them. The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how realism's defining concerns - sympathy, class, social determination...
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Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American LiteratureExamines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.'s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he...
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The Struggle of the ModernShelley said, in his Defence of Poetry, that poetry should be both centre and circumference of knowledge. In his new book, Spender takes Shelley's claim and relates it to modern literature. He points out that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, writers have been conscious...
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Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious WorkFor much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and workers are emerging to refashion this image. Living Labor examines these...
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Samuel BeckettA book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett. After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In this book she shares her journey of discovery with readers who may...
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On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle: Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech PoetryPostcolonial reflections on Indonesia's influence upon the avant-garde poetry of a non-colonial European. In 1926, the Communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898-1951) traveled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In the writings from his journal--texts simultaneously poetic and comic--both landlocked Bohemia and the...
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The Matter of Language: Abstraction and PoetryA critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the center of thought, the twenty-first century has, so far, been the century of matter. The Matter of Language is a critical...
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Understanding Kristeva, Understanding ModernismJulia Kristeva has revolutionized the study of modernism by developing a theoretical approach that is uniquely attuned to the dynamic interplay between, on the one hand, linguistic and formal experimentation, and, on the other hand, subjective crisis and socio-political upheaval. Inspired by the contestatory...
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