Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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France/Kafka: An Author in TheoryWhile his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the...
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The New William Faulkner StudiesAuthor: Sarah Gleeson-WhitePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 274Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781108840897This title is not returnable
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A Bittersweet AttachmentLonely walks on Sunday evenings. Coming home after three and a half years. Photographs in school uniforms. The emptiness in the aftermath of finishing an ice cream tub. Hot showers and cold coffees. Being unable to sleep after finishing a rom-com. Tight hugs in...
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International Cryptids & LegendsAll across the globe, from the beginning of time there have been numerous firsthand encounters with what some refer to as, "real life monsters." What many believe to be fiction, or a figment of one's imagination, has become very real for many, and has...
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Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 9: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and CommentaryBook 9 of Silius Italicus' first-century Latin epic poem Punica begins the narrative of the Battle of Cannae (August 216 BC). This book is an integral part of the epic's three-book movement that narrates one of the largest battles in Roman history. It opens...
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The Early Italian PoetsThis 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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The Intervals of Robert Frost: A Critical BibliographyThis 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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Ajy Tojen by Raquel JodorowskyAfterword by Margaret RandallIntroduction by Pedro CasusolPoetryDual-language parallel text (Spanish / English)164 PagesISBN-13: 978-1-953377-17-3$17.95 (paperback) This facsimile edition of Ajy Tojen reproduces in its entirety the 12th issue of El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn (Mexico, October 1964), devoted entirely to the work of Raquel...
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Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese DiasporaIn various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their "homelands" in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with space and place, as well as...
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Goethe: Eine Einführung in Werk Und DeutungZiel dieser Einführung ist es, Goethes Werke heutigen Leserinnen und Lesern nahezubringen. Der Band präsentiert die Texte in einer werkbiographischen Anordnung, die in drei gro en Teilen verfährt: "Die frühen Werke" (1749-1786), "Die klassizistischen Werke" (1786-1805) sowie "Die späten Werke" (1805-1832). Eine Einleitung zu...
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Modulares Erzählen: Serialität Und Mouvance in Der Erzähltradition Der Sieben Weisen MeisterThe Narratologia series publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration...
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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 1 Poetry of Ad-Dindan: A Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd. an Edition with Translation and IntroduThis work presents the complete collection of oral poetry of a bedouin poet in Central Arabia--transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings--, an extensive glossary, and chapters on i.a. the Najdi tradition in poetry, linguistic features, and prosody.Author: Marcel KurpershoekPublisher: BrillPublished: 10/05/2022Pages:...
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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History: Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the DawāsirA Saudi Tribal History, the fourth volume of Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, presents the oral traditions of the Dawāsir tribal confederation which continue to shape its members' collective consciousness. It comprises an analytical introduction, the Arabic text in transcription with English...
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Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western StageDeath in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live...
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After Clarice: Reading Lispector's Legacy in the Twenty-First CenturyForty years after her death, Clarice Lispector's startling oeuvre continues to fascinate readers and scholars. Internationally acclaimed writers, from Hélène Cixous to Colm Tóibín, have acknowledged the transformative influence of her writing on their own work. Translations of her novels and short stories appear...
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Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban ImaginationPart I Cities & Theory2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society3. How to Map the Invisible4. Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future5. Paris, Latour, and Calvino6. Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole...
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The Sociolinguistics of Written Identity: Constructing a SelfThis book examines the ways in which a writer's presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power. Conversations about written voice and style have traditionally revolved around the aesthetics of stylistic choice. These choices, while they help establish a writer's presence in...
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Re-centring Mother Earth: Ecological Reading of Contemporary Works of FictionLiterary critics have focused on the nexus between literature and the ecological environment. As a mirror of society, literature encapsulates the natural ecosystem to address environmental degradation as one of the major issues being confronted by communities the world over. Individual literary critics have...
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Science FiktionA German twist on an Anglophone tradition, Science Fiktion provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of the Berlin Wall. When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick...
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Christianity and the Writer's TaskShould writers aim to comfort their readers or to shock them out of comfort? Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), one of the great Catholic authors of the twentieth century, argues for the latter. In this incisive series of letters and essays, collected here for the first...
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