Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Women Poets of the English Civil WarThis anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom...
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She-Wolf: A Cultural History of Female WerewolvesShe-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. The book includes contributors from various disciplines, and offers a cross-period, interdisciplinary exploration of a perennially popular cultural production....
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SpadesFirst published, best selling collection of poetry and prose by J. Raymond.Author: J. RaymondPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/13/2016Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.34dISBN: 9781523246427This title is not returnable
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The Tragedy of Julius CaesarThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/09/2015Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20dISBN: 9781512126044Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 10.8Point Value: 6Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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Fathers in Jane AustenFathers in Jane Austen The role of fathers and father figures in Jane Austen's novels, showing how the destiny of the daughter is dependent upon the father's character and foibles. Fathers in Jane Austen puts forward the view that fathers hold the key to...
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Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster WallaceIn recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely...
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Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's EndA literary history of the Great Acceleration, Remainders examines an archive of postwar American poetry that reflects on new dimensions of ecological crisis. These poems portray various forms of remainders--from obsolescent goods and waste products to atmospheric pollution and melting glaciers--that convey the ecological...
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Nature Beyond Solitude: Notes from the FieldJohn Seibert Farnsworth's delightful field notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. We follow him to a series of field stations where he teams...
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Mind of ThucydidesThe publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving...
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Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and DigitizationLanguage in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role in Walter J. Ong's acclaimed speculations on human culture. After his death, his archives were found to contain unpublished drafts of a final book manuscript that Ong envisioned as a distillation of his...
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On DutiesBenjamin Patrick Newton's translation of Cicero's On Duties is the most complete edition of a text that has been considered a source of moral authority throughout classical, medieval, and modern times. Marcus Tullius Cicero was a preeminent Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher who introduced...
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The Divine Face in Four Writers: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. LewisAn important contribution to studies in literature and religion, The Divine Face in Four Writers traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face, and the centrality of facial expressions in characterization, in the works of William...
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Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of SadomasochismTo understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault's assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs...
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Iago: The Strategies of EvilFrom one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, Harold Bloom presents Othello's Iago, perhaps the Bard's most compelling villain--the fourth in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities. Few antagonists in all of literature have displayed...
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles and Reviews Written Between 1886 and 1900The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel...
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The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Romania, TurkeyThis collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Arnold J. Toynbee, D. Mitrany, D....
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Franz Kafka and Michel Foucault: Power, Resistance, and the Art of Self-CreationWith the publication of Michel Foucault's last essays detailing his account of the aesthetics of existence and a post-metaphysical ethics, we now have an outline for a comprehensive Foucaultian analytical framework. Foucault's analytical schema is arranged around three interdependent observations. First, subjects are formed...
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Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and BeyondContributions by Emily Anderson, Elif S. Armbruster, Jenna Brack, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Christiane E. Farnan, Melanie J. Fishbane, Vera R. Foley, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Anna Thompson Hajdik, Keri Holt, Shosuke Kinugawa, Margaret Noodin, Anne K. Phillips, Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Katharine Slater, Lindsay Stephens,...
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Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science FictionBlack and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes-contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr,...
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A Vindication on the Rights of WomanA Vindication on the Rights of Woman is a powerful and persuasive piece of writing that should be read by all to get a better, more open-minded view of the world.Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 03/08/2014Pages: 122Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.02h x...
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