Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Embodied Self in Plato: Phaedo - Republic - TimaeusThis book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that the indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any scientific argument but also...
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The Duchess of Malfi: A Norton Critical Edition"Neill's edit of the play is very well done. ... If there's a more knowledgeable or erudite unraveling of the play, I haven't seen it." --Steve Sohmer, ComitatusThis Norton Critical Edition of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together...
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The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's WritingFeaturing the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500-1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume...
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The Black Box: Writing the RaceA magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years...
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Tales of Faith: A Guide to Sharing the Gospel Through LiteratureHow can we share the Gospel and make disciples in our modern culture? Many people, including young people from Christian homes, are walking away from the faith, or have never had it presented to them in a compelling manner. However, our polemical, distracted media...
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Style: A Queer CosmologyAssembles texts, performances, and personae from American culture to assert the elemental natureof style While "style" is equated with fashion or convention in common parlance, Style: A Queer Cosmologydefines the term as a mode of expression that makes us more like ourselves and less...
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Study Guide to The Ugly American by Burdick and LedererA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Burdick and Lederer's The Ugly American, with commentary on Nationalism, Communism, foreign policy, and diplomacy across America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. As a classic account and document of America's role in French...
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: The first British edition of the novel, published in 1886 by Longmans, Green, and Co., the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read and corrected proofs. Deborah Lutz's thorough introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes...
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[Set Verwandlungsgeschichten, 2 Bände, Tusculum]Author: Publius Ovidius Naso, ApuleiusPublisher: Walter de GruyterPublished: 07/04/2023Pages: 1627Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.93lbsISBN: 9783111314303Language: GermanThis title is only available via back order
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[Set Satire, 3 Bände, Tusculum]Author: Juvenal, Martial, Aules PersiusPublisher: Walter de GruyterPublished: 08/21/2023Pages: 2245Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.13lbsISBN: 9783111315133Language: GermanThis title is only available via back order
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Selling the Humanities: EssaysSelling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out. There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to economic feasibility and job placement, not...
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Selected Writings of Judith Sargent MurrayAs a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. As a committed feminist, she urged American women to enter a "new era in female...
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Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the SouthNew Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores...
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Saints and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature: Sublime and Abject BodiesFrom rubbery martyrs to wraith-like ascetics, and from pestilential dragons to troublesome giants, the bodies that fascinated audiences of saints' lives during the Middle Ages increasingly inform theoretical debates in medieval studies concerning corporeality. Saints and Monsters draws on notions of the 'sublime' and...
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Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial LiteraturesHow Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and Senegal Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic's global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by vast distances. By...
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Resonances against Fascism: Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds from Kurt Weill to Black Lives MatterMakes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.Author: Laura ChiesaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46dISBN: 9781438496306This title is not returnable
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Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval ChinaPoet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first...
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Philosophische Schriften: Griechisch - DeutschSince 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating...
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PencilObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it,...
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Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual PracticeHow should we understand the bugarrón, a man who has sex with other men while regarding himself as heterosexual? Reaching beyond queer and gay studies, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo's research suggests that this paradoxical figure mutated into what he calls the "neobugarrón," a neoliberal market-oriented...
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![[Set Satire, 3 Bände, Tusculum] by Juvenal](http://booksdeli.com/cdn/shop/files/img_64ead9bb-9b60-4e97-94df-6b7262693311_533x.jpg?v=1705583132)
