Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Actual Fictions: Literary Representation and Character Network AnalysisThis Element sheds a new light on the ubiquitous yet complex notion of mimesis. By systematically comparing the social dynamics of the Dutch population at a given time with the social dynamics of characters in Dutch literary fiction published in the same period, it...
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Deep Time: A Literary HistoryHow the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"--most often associated with geological epochs--began as a metaphorical language...
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Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century BritainThis study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the...
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Orwell and EmpireConsiders George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing. George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Orwell and Empire is a study of his writing about...
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Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, MusilValue in Modernity examines a historical paradigm in ethics that has hitherto not been identified as such: existential modernism. Peter Poellner discusses the central claims of this paradigm through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler,...
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Trump, Tumult and Transcendence: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021TRUMP, TUMULT AND TRANSCENDENCE: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021 is a penetrating perspective of the Trump presidency set against the roller coaster upheaval of the Coronavirus pandemic, racial tension of the MAGA faithful arrayed against the Black Lives Matter movement, and the mercurial zeitgeist of...
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Theorie der KlassikDas Buch stellt den Anspruch, Phänomene, die man als "Klassiker" bezeichnet, besser zu verstehen und zugleich tradierte Vorstellungen darüber, was als klassisch gilt oder zu gelten hat, zu korrigieren. Dazu wird "Klassik" nicht, wie in den historischen und ideologiekritischen Debatten üblich, als Epochenbegriff verstanden,...
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My Language Is a Jealous LoverMany great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover...
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Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of PrintDuring the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful...
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Shakespeare and the ActorWhat is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and CultureWho are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of...
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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents...
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En busca de los ladrones del fuegoDesde la mitología griega, y con el mito de Prometeo honrado por robar el fuego de los dioses para entregarlo a los humanos, tenemos en este elemento el símbolo de la sabiduría, el conocimiento, lo que nutre el deseo de saber. La poeta y...
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Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary PlayWhat roles do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the audience will never play? Combining perspectives from philosophy, literary theory and game studies, this book provides the first in-depth investigation into the significance of...
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Formalists against Imperialism: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian OrientalismIn January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian...
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Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An AnthologyThis anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive,...
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Modern Brazilian Short StoriesThe seventeen stories in this anthology have been carefully chosen to provide a wide, representative range of recent and contemporary Brazilian themes and styles. The scenes vary from a nearly abandoned village or a ranch in the northeastern backlands to the streets of Rio...
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Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and FreedomRuss Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood are inconsistent, ambivalent, and...
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Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His NovelsMachado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazil's rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Caldwell's critical and biographical study explores Machado's purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908. She traces the ideas and...
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George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of RealismThis study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal...
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