Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-Making the ReaderThe Double Life of Books confronts a central challenge for the history of reading: how to investigate and then describe the elusive process of what the leading book historian Robert Darnton calls 'inner appropriation.' It does so by bringing two voices together for the...
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The Detroit Genre: Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023Detroit has an essential relationship to genre in American literature and popular culture. The contemporary formations of the suburban sitcom, the post-apocalyptic genre, the sci-fi dystopia, crime fiction, the superhero genre, and contemporary horror would not exist in the way they do today without...
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The DAO of Complexity: Making Sense and Making Waves in Turbulent TimesThe pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geo-political unrest - just a few of the issues causing turbulence in today's world. We are living and working in times that are complex and fast changing. If complexity theory is good for anything, it must be able...
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The Angle of Horror by Cristina Fern?ndez Cubas: An English Translation and Critical EditionFrom Cristina Fern?ndez Cubas, Spain's award-winning master of the short story, comes a collection of unsettling, thought-provoking, and often hilarious stories, The Angle of Horror. A socially awkward twenty-something who transforms from Jekyll to Hyde by playing the tuba; a miserly curmudgeon whose ultimate...
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Shakespeare: The BasicsShakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays, Sean McEvoy considers the language, cultural contexts and modern interpretations.This essential guide to a range of contemporary Shakespearean criticism explores and unpacks the different...
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Rhoda BroughtonRhoda Broughton (1840-1920), whose career spanned over fifty years, was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian era. She burst into literary prominence-and notoriety-in 1867, with the publication in volume form of her first two novels, Not Wisely, but Too Well and...
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting inINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeistOne In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and...
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Nonfiction, Memoir, or Fiction?: Dissecting the Works of Laura Ingalls WilderThis project is a critical paper partially fulfilling the requirements for a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction at Ashland University. It examines the works of beloved pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder, teasing out the elements of her stories that...
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Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern England: Strange HistoriesDirects scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'. Themes and motifs from the Middle Ages are found across the drama, poetry, prose fiction, polemic, and satire of the later Elizabethan and...
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Juli Zeh: A Critical CompanionThis volume casts a critical light on one of Germany's bestselling and most controversial authors. Juli Zeh's literary work is not only widely read in Germany, but also featured on high school and college syllabi both in Germany and abroad. In recent years and...
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John Millington Synge, the Aran Islands, and His Influences: A Short StudyJohn Millington Synge, who along with William Butler Yeats and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century, was chiefly inspired by the four trips he took to the Aran Islands in the late 1880s and early 1890s....
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Jan Seale: New and Selected PoemsFor years Jan Seale's carefully crafted poetry has captivated audiences with its wit, sharp diction, and seamlessness. This eighth volume of the Texas Poets Laureate series discovers the eternal in the transient--coupling the mythological with the present, the spiritual with the sensual, the joyful...
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Jane Austen's DarknessAuthor: Julia YostPublisher: Wiseblood BooksPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 86Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.18dISBN: 9781963319842This title is not returnable
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In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875-1974In Search of Admiration and Respect examines the institutionalization of Chinese cultural diplomacy in the period between high imperialism and the international ascendance of the People's Republic of China. During these years, Chinese intellectuals and officials tried to promote the idea of China's cultural...
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Iamblichus of Chalcis: The LettersAuthor: Iamblichus, John M. Dillon, Wolfgang PolleichtnerPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 10/16/2009Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34dISBN: 9781589831612Review Citation(s): Chronicle of Higher Education 11/13/2009 pg. 17Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 3This title is not returnable
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From Boys to Men: The Boy Problem and the Childhood of Famous Americans SeriesWhile adult concern about gender in children's books has made recent headlines, this discussion is far from new. As Gregory M. Pfitzer reveals, the writers and editors at Bobbs-Merrill, the publisher of the Childhood of Famous Americans book series published between 1932 and 1958,...
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Finding the Way to 'Long Day's Journey Into Night': Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill at Tao HouseA profound new way to approach Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta...
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Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century BritainIn this ambitious work, Collin Jennings applies computational methods to eighteenth-century fiction, history, and poetry to reveal the nonlinear courses of reading they produce. Hallmark genres of the British Enlightenment, such as the novel and the stadial history, are typically viewed as narratives of...
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Emily Brontë: Selected WritingsEmily Brontë is one of the few modern writers in English whose distinction as a novelist is matched by her distinction as a poet. She lived and died more or less completely out of the public eye and only towards the end of the...
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Eliot NowOver a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot's poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collection presents unabashedly fresh approaches to Eliot, while simultaneously guiding readers through the new materials that are available for the first time outside...
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