Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Chicano Controversy: Oscar Acosta and Richard RodriguezChicano Controversy takes a unique approach to two colorful and controversial Chicano writers: Oscar Acosta and Richard Rodriguez. Paul Guajardo argues that Acosta's involvement with the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was somewhat opportunistic as Acosta was always uneasy about his...
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Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American MemoryHospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance of-ten seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular...
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Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was...
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The Poems of Sidney LanierThe poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape and the romantic spirit of the Old South, his concerns for the natural world, spirituality, and the character of...
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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black TechnopoeticsInvestigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fictionThe Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the...
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The Public World/Syntactically ImpermanenceA new collection of essays and poetry from the poet Library Journal called "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American literature."The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence is a brilliant consideration of the strategies of poetry, and the similarities...
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Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts, and CriticismsThe first substantial collection of essays about the trickster since 1955 Mythical Trickster Figures, is the first substantial collection of essays about the trickster to appear since Radin's 1955 The Trickster. Contributions by leading scholars treat a wide range of manifestations of this mischievous...
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Isherwood on WritingIn the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme "A Writer and His World." During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the...
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Thou Shalt Not Speak My LanguageIt has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects...
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In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with CommunismHere is a detailed glimpse into the lives and times of Yiddish writers enthralled with Communism at the turn of the century through the mid-1930s. Centering mainly on the Soviet Jewish literati but with an eye to their American counterparts, the book follows their...
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Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and ProphecyH.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase the shape of things to come - described his life's work as one of critical anticipation. This book unravels the complex layers of meaning in The Time Machine, and shows...
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Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's LiteratureRadical leftist stories...for children In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a...
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The Derrick Bell ReaderAn essential collection of the writings of progressive lawyer and race activist Derrick Bell Lawyer, activist, teacher, writer: for over 40 years, Derrick Bell provoked his critics and challenged his readers with uncompromising candor and progressive views on race and class in America. A...
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Bob Seger's House and Other StoriesBob Seger's House and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by some of Michigan's most well-known fiction writers. This collection of twenty-two short stories serves as a celebration not only of the tenth anniversary of the Made in Michigan Writers Series...
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Red Riding Hood for All Ages: A Fairy-Tale Icon in Cross-Cultural ContextsRed Riding Hood for All Ages investigates the modern recasting of one of the world's most beloved and frequently told tales. Author Sandra L. Beckett examines an international selection of contemporary fiction for children, adolescents, and adults to find a wide range of narrative...
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Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British RomanticismWords Made Flesh demonstrates how Romantic-era writers affect, mediate, and ultimately alter our very sense of embodiment in ways that have lasting effects on readers' affective, political, and spiritual lives. Dempsey argues that Romanticism's contribution to our understanding of the postsecular becomes clearer when...
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The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and CivilizationThe story of literature in sixteen acts--from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the...
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Coriolanus"O mother, mother What have you done?"--Coriolanus Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this gripping political and personal tragedy--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including - an original Introduction to Coriolanus- incisive...
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Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern EnglandThe Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated...
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A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel SparkA Good Comb, a small gift edition of Muriel Spark's brilliant asides, sayings, and aphorisms, is a book for sheer enjoyment. No writer offers such lively, pointed, puckish insights: Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities. It is impossible to persuade a...
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