Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in Us Southern and Icelandic LiteraturesIntersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern and American writers by exploring comparable depictions of race, colonialism, Whiteness, gender, and sexuality in Icelandic literature. This book explores the liminality, ambiguity, and general unease that result when...
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Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in Us Southern and Icelandic LiteraturesIntersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern and American writers by exploring comparable depictions of race, colonialism, Whiteness, gender, and sexuality in Icelandic literature. This book explores the liminality, ambiguity, and general unease that result when...
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In StorytellingStorytelling can be easy, fun, and above all doable, especially with the simple, easy-to-follow directions given by these two master storytellers. This book provides everything you need to become a master storyteller yourself. Simple examples and summary directions for exercises and games reinforce and...
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Indigenous PoeticsIndigenous Poetics is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets in the United States who explore how the genre helps to radically understand, contemplate, and realize something deeper about ourselves, our communities, and our worlds. The collection illuminates the creative process, identity,...
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird WesternHell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre. This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex and sexuality are imagined in weird western literature, film, television, and...
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Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1223-1240): Select SermonsGermanos II (1223-40) was the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople at a critical period after its fall in 1204 to the fourth crusade, when Byzantium looked doomed to irrelevance, as its emperor and patriarch eked out a shadowy existence in exile at Nicaea. Germanos II's...
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Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music, and CinemaFrancophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music and Cinema is a compilation of essays that breaks new ground in the exploration of recent and contemporary cultural expressions emerging from Francophone Oceania. This books explores Francophone Oceania today: a region rich in literary, artistic, and...
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Doing It with the Cosmos: Henry Miller's Big Sur Struggle for Love Beyond SexAuthor: Elayne Wareing FitzpatrickPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.54w x 0.66dISBN: 9781401010492This title is not returnable
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Dead Reckonings No. 36 (Fall 2024)Table of ContentsA Return to Horrific Form ........... Greg GburLaird Barron, Not a Speck of Light.A Dark Magician Meets a Victorian Sleuth ........... Leigh BlackmoreRandall Collins, The Case of the Philosophers' Ring by Dr John H. Watson: A Novel.Some Notes on a Necroentity: Reflections...
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse"This book re-framed my entire adolescence. I highly recommend you read it." -- LING MAFrom the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls ("stylish and inspired"--New York Times Book Review), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and...
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Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern SpainThe first book-length study to address the impact of the legacies of slavery on Spanish cultural representations and institutions.This groundbreaking volume explores how culture produced in Spain, from the nineteenth century to the present, both reflects and shapes ways of understanding the history and...
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Cross-Generic Perspectives on Traditional Chinese LiteratureThis volume explores cross-generic analysis as a hermeneutic approach to traditional Chinese literature through nine case studies, which cover a combined temporal span from the tenth to the twentieth century. The contributors examine connections, parallels, and dialogic relations among canonical literary forms and other...
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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Writing and Reading Environmental Disorder in Ancient TextsHow did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions?Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity challenges prevailing ideas that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on...
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Conrad's Presence in Contemporary Culture: Adaptations and AppropriationsThe anthology consists of essays authored by scholars of different nationalities from diverse cultures, nations and primary languages. They cover Conrad's presence across multiple media (fiction, films, comics, and graphic novels). The collection is unique because the contributors focused on Conrad's presence in contemporary...
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Clever Little Books: Martial's Epigrams and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern EuropeClever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among male elites in early modern Europe. Valued for its wit and concision, Martial's sometimes shocking poetry was highly regarded in...
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Chaucer Here and NowA collection of essays exploring Geoffrey Chaucer's life, work, and enduring impact. The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection, you will meet wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer, feminist Chaucer, misogynist...
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Canon, historia y archivo. Volumen I. La segunda promoci?n de escritores afrodescendientes en el siglo xix cubanoCanon, historia y archivo aborda los problemas del establecimiento de un canon nacional y regional de la di?spora africana en el Caribe. Contextualiza y define, a trav?s de una panor?mica de la l?rica afrodescendiente en el siglo xix cubano, los rasgos de una segunda...
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Butterfly ValleyAuthor: Inger ChristensenPublisher: Dedalus PressPublished: 04/01/2012Pages: 40Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.28h x 5.90w x 0.20dISBN: 9781901233827This title is not returnable
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Brazilian Political Theatre: Aesthetics and EngagementThis book retrieves the narrative and social context of Brazilian historical performances and artistic movements to restore, with the support of a vast literature review, aesthetic analysis and the debate around engagement, the due complexity to the multifaceted concept of political theatre. Broadening the...
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Black Knights: Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval RaceA new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their European neighbors during the Middle Ages. Unlike in European vernaculars, Arabic-language ideas about ethnic difference...
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