Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American EssayAlthough they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time,...
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Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The InvisiblesGrant Morrison's THE INVISIBLES has been hailed as an ambitious comics masterpiece, the key to Morrison's entire body of work, and the inspiration for THE MATRIX. But it's also frequently written off as incomprehensible. Using a conversational, accessible style, Patrick Meaney (director of GRANT...
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Mysteries of Free Masonry: Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's LodgeAuthor: William MorganPublisher: University of Michigan LibraryPublished: 07/07/2011Pages: 114Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781458500670
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Critical Essays on William FaulknerCritical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. Ranging from 1980 to 2020, the twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner's work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer--particularly in his treatment of race--the...
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Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children's LiteratureContributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Andrew Trevarrow, and Richardine Woodall Home. School. Nature. The spaces children occupy, both physically and imaginatively, are never neutral. Instead,...
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Conversations with Joe R. LansdaleJoe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to...
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Conversations with Nalo HopkinsonA key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl...
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Cheat: A Man's Guide to InfidelityMONOGAMY HAS MET ITS MATCH When it comes to scoring on the side, this book is your best friend. Comedians Bill Burr, Joe DeRosa, and Robert Kelly have experienced the rich pleasures and unspeakable risks of romantic infidelity, and survived to tell their tales....
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Rupert Brooke: The Bisexual BrookeKeith Hale, editor of Friends & Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914, here examines the bowdlerization of Brooke in existing biographies and looks into the poet's self-proclaimed bisexual identity. Hale examines the same-sex relationships Brooke enjoyed with Michael Sadleir, Charles...
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1913This book contains the diaries of the well-known Franz Kafka during the period 1910-1913, and would make a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone who is a fan of his works.Author: Max BrodPublisher: Spargo PressPublished: 11/15/2010Pages: 350Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...
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Transnational CervantesThis ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national...
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Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and BeyondSince the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied. Taking criticism of Smith's work beyond its traditional focus on postcolonialism and multicultural identity, Reading Zadie Smith...
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Black ComicsWinner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work.Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic...
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Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the DecolonialThe whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the editors and contributors to Latinx Environmentalisms map the ways Latinx...
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The Christian World of the HobbitIn his beloved story The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien takes readers into a world unlike any other, yet so much seems familiar. As Bilbo journeys there and back again, glimpses of the spiritual are seen. The Christian World of The Hobbit does what no book...
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In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American MasterpieceMixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award...
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How to Read A Chinese Poem: A Bilingual Anthology of Tang PoetryThis bilingual edition of Tang poems offers a new approach to reading and understanding classical Chinese poetry. Included are nearly two hundred regulated verses written by the great poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Li Shangyin, and...
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Twelfth Night: Language and WritingFrances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth Night, exploring its themes of grief, obsessive love, social climbing and gender identity, and helping you towards your own close-readings.Author: Frances E. DolanPublisher: Arden ShakespearePublished: 06/19/2014Pages: 192Binding...
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Spenser: The Faerie QueeneThe Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers...
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Renaissance Literature 2eThis extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances the work of...
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