Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian FictionIn The Feeling of Letting Die, Jennifer MacLure explores how Victorian novels depict the feelings that both fuel and are produced by an economic system that lets some people die in service of the free market. MacLure argues that Victorian authors present capitalism's death...
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The Deorhord: An Old English BestiaryAn entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called "a delightful book" Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild...
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The Bloodied Nightgown and Other EssaysThe New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection. Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it--its authors, its...
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Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical EngagementIn this timely collection, teacher-scholars of "the long eighteenth century," a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks on education, a global contagion, and a reckoning with centuries of trauma experienced by...
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Spanish Grammar For Beginners: A Comprehensive Workbook with Essential Lessons and Everyday PhrasesUncover the dynamic world of Spanish language with "Spanish Grammar For Beginners: A Comprehensive Workbook with Essential Lessons and Everyday Phrases." This isn't just another language book; it's your direct route to mastering Spanish in an engaging and enjoyable way.Struggling to learn Spanish grammar?...
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Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American LiteratureRecasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts--including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth--to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major...
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Secondary Action Heroes of Golden Age ComicsThe 1940s saw the birth of many enduring superheroes like Superman, Batman, Captain America and Captain Marvel. Outside of the superhero genre, the golden age of comics also featured a host of lesser-known, evil-fighting action figures, and this book contains a wealth of information...
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Romanticism and the Poetics of OrientationWhat happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new lines, borders, and orientations--those that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West? What is, who stands for, and where exactly is the "Orient" in British Romantic...
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Prophets"A brilliant study of the Hebrew prophets, one of the most penetrating works . . . [of] our time."-- Will HerbergFrom the legendary twentieth-century Jewish Theologian and author of Man is Not Alone and God in Search of Man, comes a beautiful new hardcover...
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Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. SaidEdward Said has long been considered one of the world's most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture,...
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Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through the Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeA superbly rich and engrossing exploration of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Paths in the Snow traces the literary allusions and echoes to be found in this beloved novel, drawing the reader deeper into the magic and meaning of Narnia.Author:...
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On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume IWriting advice tends to be full of 'rules' and 'tips' which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. In On Writing and Worldbuilding, we will discuss specific and applicable ideas to consider, from effective methods of delivering exposition and foreshadowing, to...
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Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic ImaginationConfronting murder in the newspaper, on screen, and in sensational trials, we often feel the killer is fundamentally incomprehensible and morally alien. But this was not always the popular response to murder. In Murder Most Foul, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder...
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Monk Eats an Afro"The most stunning debut collection I've ever encountered... makes the writer in me envious and the reader in me joyful."--Michael CirelliAuthor: Yolanda WisherPublisher: Hanging Loose PressPublished: 05/01/2014Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30dISBN: 9781934909423Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/21/2014About the AuthorWisher, Yolanda:...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and PoliticsLiberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this edition of Liberties: Anita Shapira - Statehood and the Jews; Christian Lorentzen - confessions of a New York writer; Oksana...
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In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting PoemsA collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion--it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In...
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Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France'Impressions from Paris' studies the contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris during the Interwar Years, from the 1920s to 1940. The "Roaring Twenties" constituted years of experimentation and freedom to test new techniques and lifestyles at a time affected...
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Great Feats by the Democrats: Slavery, Civil War, KKK, Poll Tax, Baby Chop Shop, The War on Poverty, Afghanistan and moreThe readers will embark on a journey that explores the essence of being a Democrat. This remarkable book challenges the common perception that understanding Democrats is a complex and elusive task. Instead, it asserts that the answers lie within the pages of this comprehensive...
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Elmer Kelton: Essays and MemoriesWhen Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the New York Times called a "novelist who brought the sensibility of the old-style western to bear on a modern Texas landscape of oil fields and...
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Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book TwoThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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