Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay FilmThe Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms--the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and the self-portrait--is cinema in the first person. It is a cinema of thought,...
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The Winter's Tale: Third SeriesOne of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her...
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Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, C.1100-C.1500Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French in medieval Britain. With co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the Middle Ages than our now standard...
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Dante's Cosmos: Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 6Dante's Cosmos is the sixth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers public lectures which have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars...
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From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient MesopotamiaA selection and abridgment of Benjamin Foster's comprehensive, two-volume work on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, Before the Muses. This paperback edition is well-suited for college courses in Biblical Studies, Classical Studies, Religious Thought, Mythology, or Comparative Literature. Among the many compositions included are: Epic...
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E.E. Cummings to May Swenson"The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible kind of poem is here in its best examples. No one has ever done a better...
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Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn PassagesMatsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the...
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The Procession of MemoriesFatherless and abandoned by his mother at age six, Nobel Laureate, Harry Martinson, grew up mostly in rural foster homes in the south of Sweden in the early years of the 20th century. He left school at thirteen and became a sailor and vagabond--a...
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Annie Ernaux: An Introduction to the Writer and Her AudienceThe award-winning novels of Annie Ernaux are controversial, innovative, and address the topical issues of gender and social class. Surprisingly, there has been no major study of her work, despite the fact that it is increasingly taught and has been widely translated. This book...
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The Quiet ManJohn Ford's "The Quiet Man" (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home; for others, it is...
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Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate EnergyTwo literary criticism pieces that have shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s are now available in one volume with a new foreword. Providing a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry, this collection focuses on the technical workings of poetic...
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Sir Thomas Browne: Selected WritingsSir Thomas Browne (1605-82), physician and philosopher, is celebrated principally for his Religio Medici and his study of burial customs, Urn Burial, masterpieces of English prose. But a portrait of Browne as a 17th-century intellectual must include much that is rarely seen except by...
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Introducing Cicero: A Latin ReaderThis anthology is designed to meet the needs of Latin students today, acknowledging present constraints on their study-time. It adopts the authors' approach of their Ecce Romani series. To enable students to read Latin reasonably quickly, generous assistance is given with vocabulary and explanatory...
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Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's PlayworldsFour hundred years after Shakespeare's death, his plays live on in theater and popular culture, given new life through countless innovative approaches to their performance and interpretation. Just as our enthusiasm for seeing the plays performed--and transformed--affirms their continued life, death scenes in Shakespeare's...
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The Complete Poems of Thomas WyattThe complete poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, as well as biographical material.Author: Thomas WyattPublisher: Benediction ClassicsPublished: 06/17/2011Pages: 264Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781849024006This title is not returnable
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Night's Black AgentsThe Ghost of Sychaeus: At length, in dead of night, the ghost appearsOf her unhappy lord: the specter stares, And, with erected eyes, his bloody bosom bares.The cruel altars and his fate he tells--The Aeneid The literature of classical antiquity bristles with witches, ghosts,...
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Postcolonial Literatures in ContextPostcolonial Literatures in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to postcolonial literatures in English (and English translation) and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including old and new diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous...
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The Post-Vulgate Quest for the Holy Grail/The Post-Vulgate Death of ArthurThe revised version of The Quest of the Holy Grail gives a greater role to Perceval, and introduces a number of knights not found in the Vulgate; but the largest change is that much of the story of Tristan (and of his rivalPalamedes) is...
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A Companion to the Book of Margery KempeMargery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical context. Margery Kempe's Book provides rare access to the "marginal voice" of a lay medieval woman, and is now the focus of much critical study. This Companion seeks to complement the existing almost...
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The Book of the Order of ChivalryNew English translation of Llull's classic and significant text, restoring the nuances of the original. Ramon Llull (1232-1316) composed The Book of the Order of Chivalry between 1274 and 1276 as both an instrument of reform and an agent for change. His aim was...
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