Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Paradox of Thanatos: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; From Self-Destruction to Self-LiberationMore often associated with hedonism and cheap thrills than with notions of alienation and suffering, Beat literature has rarely been envisaged from the perspective of the paradoxical dynamics at play in the writings. What this book evidences is that the sacrosanct quest for transcendence...
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Invisible Woman; Growing Up Black in GermanyInvisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II. As an occupation baby , born in a small...
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Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope: From the Political to the UtopianAuthor: Hugh GradyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/19/2022Pages: 280Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781009098090About the AuthorGrady, Hugh: - Hugh Grady is Professor Emeritus at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, where he specialized in Shakespeare, early modern English literature, and critical theory....
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The Witching HourOn October 6, 2005, The Witching Hour, a Harry Potter symposium, commenced in Salem, Massachusetts. For five days, attendees had a chance to don their cloaks, grasp their wands, tote their magical texts and Apparate to the Historic District of Salem for magic and...
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How Literature Plays with the Brain"Literature matters," says Paul B. Armstrong, "for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story." In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features...
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Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic ExperienceThis new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth's subjects include literary theorists and critics, psychoanalysts,...
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The Anatomy of Blackness: Science & Slavery in an Age of EnlightenmentThis volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises,...
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The Fairy Way of Writing: Shakespeare to TolkienA history of popular superstitions, tales, and magic in British literature. In The Fairy Way of Writing, Kevin Pask seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare's plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase "fairy way of writing"...
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The Myth of the SuperheroHow our favorite superheroes reflect the moral, religious, and ethical values of American society.A refugee from his broken planet who saves earth (more than once), Superman was sent to America as his father's final act before dying. Does this make him the ultimate immigrant...
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The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe ShelleyWinner of the 2013 Richard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipOutstanding Academic Title, Choice"His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude." With these words, the radical journalist and poet...
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The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: (Edited with notes by Robert Bridges)Relatively unknown in his own lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins is the now accredited as the author of some of the finest and most complex poems in the English language. As a Victorian poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, Hopkins pioneered a revolutionary form...
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The Road Not Taken and Other PoemsWinner of four Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry, Robert Frost is best remembered for his depictions of early 20th century rural New England life and for his command of American colloquial speech. Criticized by some as being out of touch with the Modernist movement...
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In Memoriam A. H. H.Composed by Alfred Tennyson as a requiem for his college friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1833, "In Memoriam A. H. H." is a poem written over a seventeen year period and completed in 1849. Widely considered as...
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The Complete Poems of Walt WhitmanWith the first publication of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, Walt Whitman was solidified as an American poet of undeniable importance. The poems contained in that slim volume candidly spoke of politics, slavery, sexuality, consciousness, and the spiritual world. His content was as radical...
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Song of MyselfOne of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world. Originally published as part of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, "Song of Myself" is as accessible and important today as when it was...
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Beowulf Sparknotes Literature Guide: Volume 18When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.Author:...
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The Icelandic SagasCONTENTS The Origin of the Sagas The Written Saga Historical Sagas relating to Iceland and Greenland Historical Sagas relating to Norway and other Northern Lands Mythical and Romantic Sagas Sagas from Latin Sources English Translations and other AidsAuthor: W. A. CraigiePublisher: University Press of...
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Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare (Dodo Press)Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family....
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Poems on Various Subjects: Religious and Moral (Dodo Press)Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first published African American poet whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature. She was born in Gambia, Africa, and became a slave at age seven. She was purchased by the Boston Wheatley family, who taught her...
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Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic ImaginationFaith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to...
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