Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Storied South: Voices of Writers and ArtistsThe Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully...
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Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series MattersFrom 1966 to 1968, both on ABC and in theaters, America embraced Batman as a campy cultural icon. But in the ensuing decades, many vilified the show as an embarrassment that needed to be swept under the rug if Batman -- and super-heroes --...
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Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American ModernityMost cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of mass culture. Patrick Kindig's Fascination, however, tells a different...
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Dostoevsky's ProvocateursConfronting Bakhtin's formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readers--and to explore the reasons behind his adversarial approach Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky's deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient and precocious....
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American GraphicWhat do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically...
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Narrative, Catastrophe and Historicity in Eighteenth-Century French LiteratureHow do communities tell and re-tell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This book contends that such stories are central to how communities claim a position within history. It explores this question, so vital...
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Crimethink: Politics and Speculative FictionCrimethink is a collection of essays exploring the ways in which politics and the literature of the imagination intersect. All proceeds are donated to Doctors Without Borders.Author: Greg Beatty, Romie Stott, Lisa AgnewPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 08/01/2010Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.00h x...
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Common Blessings / Common Curses: (Funny Web Comic Book, Gift for College Graduates and Millennials)Common Blessings / Common Curses is a lighthearted reversible book that explores the ups and downs of day-to-day life. Read it upright for modern-day blessings, or flip it upside down for contemporary curses. Blessings include waking up to good hair days or having enough...
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Crap Dates: Disastrous Encounters from Single LifeA good date can be exhilarating: a shared joke, an improbable spark, long moments of gazing fondly into each other's eyes. Not so for the dating disasters featured in this collection of laugh-out-loud actual tweets about the most terrible evenings imaginable. From seriously unwelcome...
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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The IriThe Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's...
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Never Flirt with Puppy Killers: And Other Better Book TitlesFrom his wildly popular Tumblr page, Dan Wilbur offers his delightfully cruel summary of the books you were forced to read in high school--with all that resentment and angst loaded into a punchy re-title. Incisive, vindictive, and brutally funny, each page features a recognizable...
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The Lectures, Essays and Literary Criticism of Virginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the...
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The Collected Essays of Virginia WoolfHailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century, Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s whose works inspired countless women to take up the cause. Primarily, Woolf communicated her ideas through her essays,...
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Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk Life - Studies in Race, Culture and TraditionAn intensive study of Scotland's folklore and a detailed evaluation of the characteristic features that brought Celtic lore into prominence. This volume includes comparative notes and historical summaries of stories of alien intrusions, settlements, and expulsions. First published in 1935, the data presented in...
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Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk Life - Studies in Race, Culture and TraditionAn intensive study of Scotland's folklore and a detailed evaluation of the characteristic features that brought Celtic lore into prominence. This volume includes comparative notes and historical summaries of stories of alien intrusions, settlements, and expulsions. First published in 1935, the data presented in...
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J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural HistorySince its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful off-Broadway...
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Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake NewsAs a public, school, or academic librarian or educator, you can help library users to become more conscious and responsible consumers of information. As you read, you'll gain a better understanding and appreciation of the core concepts involved in promoting critical information literacy, such...
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Horror Literature Through History [2 Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest FearsMany of today's horror story fans--who appreciate horror through movies, television, video games, graphic novels, and other forms--probably don't realize that horror literature is not only one of the most popular types of literature but one of the oldest. People have always been mesmerized...
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Jane Austen's Women: An IntroductionWhy does Jane Austen "mania" continue unabated in a postmodern world? How does the brilliant Regency novelist speak so personally to today's women that they view her as their best friend? Jane Austen's Women answers these questions by exploring Austen's affirming yet challenging vision...
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Changed Forever, Volume IChanged Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi,...
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