Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Childrenas LiteratureChildren's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about...
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Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries: Annotated Lists and Guides: Volume XII: OvidFounded in 1945 by P. O. Kristeller, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has evolved over time to reflect developments in the field of reception studies; each article begins with an overview of a Greek or Latin author's reception and contains detailed and accurate information...
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The Cult of ChildhoodCould our fascination with childhood and the issues of child abuse, abortion, and family therapy mean that we are caught in the myth of purity and innocence? Boas exposes the assumptions that continue to plague nearly everything we do and say about children.Author: George...
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Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930sThis penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary fads ever to strike America details how dance marathons manifested a potent from of drama. Between the two world wars they were a phenomenon in which working-class people engaged in emblematic struggles for survival. Battling...
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The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg ClarkWalter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel The Ox-Bow Incident, was one of the important writers of the twentieth century. This work is an examination of a complex, anguished writer and an assessment of Clark's pivotal place in the literary history of...
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State of ExileCristina Peri Rossi was born in Uruguay and is considered a leading light of the "Latin American Boom" generation. In 1972, after her work was banned under a repressive military regime, she left her country, moving to Spain.This collection of poems, written during her...
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Poems of Fernando PessoaFernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely...
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Destruction of the Jaguar: From the Books of Chilam BalamChristopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally considered to be transcriptions and...
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Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose CompositionThis frequently reprinted volume is the 'sine qua non' for all whowould attempt to write faultless classical Latin Prose. It isimpressively detailed in explaining syntactical nuances, in itsexemplification andin the range of its exercise. Bradley's Arnold remains an essentialsource.Author: J. F. MountfordPublisher: Bristol Classical...
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The Scottish Novels: Kidnapped: Catriona: The Master of Ballantrae: Weir of HermistonKidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country.Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure...
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The Holocaust as CultureHungarian Imre Kert sz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks specifically to this...
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The Eisenstein ReaderPresents, in a concise form, a selection of Sergei Eisenstein's significant writings. The texts, drawn from the BFI's "Selected Works of Eisenstein," address subjects including sound, film language, and his theories of "montage." This reader provides an accessible introduction to Eisenstein's work.Author: Sergei EisensteinPublisher:...
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Dance Between Two Cultures: Reinterpreting Romanticism in SpainOffers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and...
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Herman Melville's Whaling YearsBased on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author's life--the four years he spent aboard whaling...
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Donna Tartt's The Secret HistoryContinuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most...
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Kabbalah and CriticismWhile Bloom is appreciated for his originality, range and clarity, less notice has been taken of the remarkable unity that is displayed in his writings from the earlier studies on Shelley, Blake and Romanticism, up to A Map of Misreading. That unity is brilliantly...
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The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth CenturyNew in paperback. Of related interest: A History of Writing in Japan, by Christopher SeeleyAuthor: Peter KornickiPublisher: University of Hawaii PressPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 520Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.34w x 1.15dISBN: 9780824823375Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 257About the AuthorKornicki, Peter:...
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The Historical Fiction of Mori OgaiThe fiction of Mori Ogai, written after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, secured his promiment place in modern Japanese literature. This collection of stories, set in the Tokugawa Period, provide a means for Ogai to deal with contemporary moral and philosophical values...
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Lovecidal: Walking with the DisappearedIn this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state...
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Cultural Techniques: Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the RealIn a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so...
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