Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling BooksMore than any other book of the last fifty years (and perhaps ever), the Harry Potter novels have captured the imagination of children and adults around the world. Yet no one has ever been able to unlock the secret of Harry's wild popularity ....
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Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural HybriditiesAlthough Brazil is home to the largest African diaspora, the religions of its African descendants have often been syncretized and submerged, first under the force of colonialism and enslavement and later under the spurious banner of a harmonious national Brazilian character. Relocating the Sacred...
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Muriel Spark's Early Fiction: Literary Subversion and Experiments with FormThis book presents a detailed critical analysis of a period of significant formal and thematic innovation in Muriel Spark's literary career. Spanning the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, it identifies formative instances of literary experimentation in texts including The Comforters, The Driver's Seat and The...
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Canonization and AlterityThis volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from antiquity to the...
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The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the TombsThis is the first book to view Shakespeare's plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to...
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MushroomObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They are grouped...
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VĂn Hóa VĂn ChƯƠng ViỆt NamỞ Việt Nam, từ trước đến nay, chúng ta bàn nhiều về văn chương cũng như về văn hoá, nhưng lại ít khi đề cập đến văn hoá văn chương, cho dù, theo tôi, việc nghiên cứu văn hoá văn chương có thể giúp...
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Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual PracticeWhat if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual practice that deepens our faith?In Reading for the Love of God, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson does just that--and then shows readers how to reap the...
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical HumanitiesThis is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively.Author: Anne Whitehead, Angela Woods, AtkinsonPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/31/2022Pages: 700Binding...
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Modern Language Review (117: 4) October 2022The October 2022 issue of Modern Language ReviewContentsMassinger's Roman Actor and Rotrou's Saint GenestDirt and Truth in Serao and ZolaPilgrimage, Place, and Saint FrideswideGavino Ledda in the Tavianis' Padre padroneMaría de Zayas's Aventurarse perdiendoReinaldo Arenas's Arturo, la estrella más brillanteSpeeches in Support of Exhibitions...
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Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in LiteratureThis book investigates literary representations and self-representations of people with cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend categories of migrancy and diaspora.Author: Elizabeth JacksonPublisher: BrillPublished: 10/05/2022Pages: 184Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004514317This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian LiteratureWriting the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literature--and the way we read, classify, and critique literature--impacts our understanding of the world at a time of conflict. Using the bitterly-contested Algerian Civil War as a case study, Joseph Ford...
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Die Schön Magelona; eine fast lustige Historie von dem Ritter mit den silbern Schlüsseln und von der Schönen Magelona gar lustig zu lesenThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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Grand-Guignolesque: Classic and Contemporary Horror TheatreWhile the infamous Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Paris closed its doors in 1962, the particular form of horror theatre it spawned lives on and has, moreover, witnessed something of a resurgence over the past twenty years. During its heyday it inspired many imitators, though...
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Being Matt Murdock: One Fan's Journey Into the Science of DaredevilYou will never look at Marvel's fan-favorite character Daredevil the same way again! In fact, you may even start to look at your own world a bit differently too. Welcome aboard a genre-bending ride that combines an ambitious exploration of the science of the...
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Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and PracticesWhat can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? 'Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices' focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how...
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Editing and Commenting on Statius' SilvaeThe Silvae by Statius dethroned Virgil from the Studio in Naples, fostered the creation of a new genre, offered a model for court poetry, and seduced the most prestigious Humanists in the most vibrant centres of Renaissance Italy and the Netherlands. The collection preserves...
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Untersuchungen über Goethes Faust in seiner ältesten GestaltDieses Buch ""Untersuchungen über Goethes Faust in seiner ältesten Gestalt "" wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als wichtig angesehen, und damit dieses Werk niemals vergessen wird, haben wir uns bemüht, es zu bewahren, indem wir dieses Buch in einem modernen Format für gegenwärtige und...
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Almansor: Eine TragödieDieses Buch ""Almansor: Eine Tragödie "" wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als wichtig angesehen, und damit dieses Werk niemals vergessen wird, haben wir uns bemüht, es zu bewahren, indem wir dieses Buch in einem modernen Format für gegenwärtige und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses...
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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance EnglandAuthor: William E. EngelPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 10/13/2022Pages: 310Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781108843393This title is not returnable
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