Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Hamlet: Language and WritingThis lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and...
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The This Much Is True - 15 Directors on Documentary Filmmaking: 14 Directors on Documentary FilmmakingThis Much Is True is a landmark volume about the art of directing documentaries, with contributions from some of the most eminent documentary filmmakers working today, including Nick Broomfield, Andrew Jarecki, Kim Longinotto, Kevin Macdonald, James Marsh and Albert Maysles. Each chapter focuses on...
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The Elder Eddas, and the Younger Eddas (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)Saemund Sigfusson lived in Iceland. He was credited with The Elder Eddas which is a collection of poems. The poems themselves date in all probability from the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, and are many of them only fragments of longer heroic chants now otherwise...
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Milton: Paradise LostMilton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature, of any time and in any language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon...
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Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature: From Darío to CarpentierPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed by a 'postmodern' cultural studies as a condition...
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Best Words, Best Order: Essays on PoetryIn this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides...
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Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance NovelsTake a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them alone and possibly without key pieces...
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Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of ReformVictorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims to social authority in repudiations of such conventional warrants as birth, wealth, numerical preponderance, command of fact and, specifically for women,...
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Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial AmericaOthello famously supplicates, 'Speak of me as I am', pleading for the Venetians to 'nothing extenuate', leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello's anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story's potential misrepresentation. As the first monograph to examine Othello's history of...
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Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in "The Canterbury Tales": "Wild" Analysis and the Symptomatic StorytellerBeginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, for...
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From Scrolls to Scrolling: Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media CulturesThroughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms--from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital...
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Emotions of Amazement in Old English Hagiography; Ælfric's approach to Wonder, Awe and the SublimeThis monograph examines three aesthetic emotions in lfric's Lives of Saints. Drawing on recent research on emotional communities, this research combines methods from Cognitive Sciences and other studies on early Medieval English language and literature in order to explore lfric's usage of the terms...
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John DonneFrom standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.In his...
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Their Own Society: Prose on PoetryTheir Own Society is a selection of essays, reviews, and talks written during Mitchell's career as a poet & teacher that considers what poetry is, does, and sometimes struggles to do. The book makes no central thesis about the state of American poetry today,...
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One Word at a Time: How to Write a Fiction Book for BeginnersWho doesn't love a good story? It has been said that within each of us are endless tales to tell, and many of us are eager to let those stories out into the world. Whether the pen touches the paper or the fingers press...
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Poikile Physis: Biological Literature in Greek During the Roman Empire: Genres, Scopes, and ProblemsBiological literature of the Roman imperial period remains somehow 'underestimated'. It is even quite difficult to speak of biological literature for this period at all: biology (apart from medicine) did not represent, indeed, a specific 'subgenre' of scientific literature. Nevertheless, writings as disparate as...
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Scholia in Euripidis >AndromachamThis edition contains the Greek text of the scholia (vetera and recentiora) and the glosses to Euripides' Andromacha with a critical apparatus and an apparatus of loci similes. The purpose of this work is to improve Schwartz's edition both in recensio and constitution of...
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The Epoch of Universalism 1769-1989 / L'époque de l'universalisme 1769-19892019 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. But the remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall coincided with another event of global importance that caught much less attention: the 250th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's birth. There is an undeniable historical and...
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Kulturtopographie des deutschsprachigen Südwestens im späteren Mittelalter.Der Sammelband präsentiert in miteinander vernetzbaren Fallbeispielen erstmals die Überlegungen und ersten Ergebnisse einer aus Literaturwissenschaftlern, Handschriftenforschern, Kunsthistorikern und Historikern zusammengesetzten internationalen Forschergruppe, welche über die Anwendung eines um rezeptionsgeschichtliche und intermediale Aspekte erweiterten überlieferungsgeschichtlichen Ansatzes zum literarischen und kulturellen Relief einer Landschaft nachdenkt....
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Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: The Life of Jane CummingUncovers the life of Jane Cumming, who scandalized her contemporaries with tales of sexual deviancy but also defied cultural norms, standing up to male authority figures and showing resilience. In 1810 Edinburgh, the orphaned Scottish-Indian schoolgirl Jane Cumming alleged that her two schoolmistresses were...
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