Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Art of Red Sonja, Volume 2Fiery in spirit, skilled in combat, lusty and bawdy in her revelry, the crimson-tressed heroine Red Sonja, known also as "The She-Devil with a Sword", is renowned as fantasy's most prominent female character. Since 2005, Dynamite Entertainment has been the proud home to Red...
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The Poetic Edda: A Collection of Old Norse PoemsThe Poetic EddaA Collection of Norse PoemsTranslated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and NotesBy Henry Adams BellowsTwo Volumes in OneAmerican Scandinavian FoundationThe Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse poems. Several versions exist, all consisting primarily of...
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Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and FuturesCo-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian...
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Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale: An Intermediate Ancient Greek ReaderXenophon of Ephesus's "pulp-fiction" novel, "An Ephesian Tale", is an excellent text for students who have completed the first year of college-level Ancient Greek or its equivalent. Its length is quite short, its syntax is straightforward, and its narrative - an adventure romance between...
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Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab WorldWhen the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship. Those who remained, however, were relegated to second-class status in this new country, controlled by a military regime that restricted their movement...
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CoffeeObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up....
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Edgar Allan Poe, Complete CollectionEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story,...
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Conversations with Joan DidionJoan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in American culture to a degree unmatched over the past half century. Two generations of writers have taken her as the measure...
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Modern Sudanese Poetry: An AnthologySpanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context....
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian LiteratureWeaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher B. Teuton begins with a study of Mesoamerican writings, Diné...
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The Writing of Middle Earth: How to write the script of the Holbbits, Dwarves and Elves.The Writing of Middle Earth will introduce you to the fascinating Hobbit and dwarfish runes and to the mysterious Tengwar script of the elves of JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth. You will learn how to decipher inscriptions on Thror's Map, Durin's Door and the One...
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Reflections on BiographyReflections on Biography is intended for all readers of biography--lifelong or occasional, critical or casual--and is written by an award-winning biographer, Paula R. Backscheider. The author examines biography from many angles and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and some of the...
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States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth CenturyIn an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of...
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Troilus and Cressida: Third SeriesA revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a problem play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan...
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The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary CanonIn this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential...
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Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus - solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins...
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The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval FragmentThe discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.Beginning with an...
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Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of MourningDeeply versed in recent theoretical discussions of the lyric form in general and the elegy in particular, Adele Bardazzi also brings to bear queer thinking on temporarily and philosophical treatments of mourning to shift the understanding of Montale's verse, contesting the division between an...
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Yeats and Revisionism: A Half Century of the Dancer and the DanceThe books collects Daniel T. O'Hara's half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim...
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Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, ArchivesThe most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the Oscar Wilde and His Circle archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world's largest collection of materials relating to the life and...
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