Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient ChinaExamines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.Author: Albert GalvanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/02/2024Pages: 380Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85dISBN: 9781438493763This title is not returnable
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Spectral Memories of Post-Crash Iceland: Memory, Identity and the Haunted Imagination in Contemporary Literature and ArtHow does the spectre appear in Icelandic literature and visual art created in the aftermath of the economic crash in Iceland in 2008? Why does it emerge at that specific point in time and what can it tell us about repressed collective memories in...
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Revolution in Poetic LanguageIn Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and...
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RelicObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr,...
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Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century Case StudiesThis book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first...
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Reading Hemingway's for Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and CommentaryAuthor: Alex VernonPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 02/20/2024Pages: 408Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781606354728
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Question A Day Journal for Kids Ages 6-9: Total 365 days To Record Memories with Writing Prompts (Guided Self-Exploration Thoughtful Prompts)This cute "Question a day journal for kids ages 6-9" is a perfect book for kids to explore who they are! It's a fun and easy way for children to keep track and look back about their life. It is a perfect self-exploration guided...
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Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer SpectatorA new analysis of the connection between the horror genre and the queer community. Queer for Fear is the groundbreaking empirical study of the LGBTQ+ community that not only documents the opinions, habits, and tastes of the horror-loving queer spectator but also evidences how...
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Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-BeingIn Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in...
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Mary, and the Wrongs of WomanAuthor: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 03/11/1999Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 7.64h x 5.02w x 0.56dISBN: 9780192835369This title is not returnable
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Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal AppealTwo-thirds of Shakespeare's plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare's plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions...
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Italian Trans GeographiesProvides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.Author: Danila CannamelaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06dISBN: 9781438494586This title is not returnable
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In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's NarrativeTwo years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever found, and possibly the first novel...
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Hamletics: Shakespeare, Kafka, BeckettOne of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles...
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Guachimanes: Doce aguafuertesGuachimanes: doce aguafuertes para ilustrar la novela del petroleo, fue escrita por mi abuelo para describir de qué manera la explotación petrolera en Venezuela, explotó, transculturizó y corrompió a la población venezolana.La obra fue escrita y solo pudo ser publicada en Chile, el año...
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God's Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones VeryA biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet. In September of 1838, a few months after Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his controversial Divinity School address, a twenty-five-year-old tutor and divinity student at Harvard named Jones Very stood before his beginning Greek class...
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Geopoetry: Geology, Materiality, EcopoeticsAt its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development in post-World War II poetics. In Geopoetry, Dale Enggass argues that certain literary works enact geologic processes, such as erosion and deposition, and thereby suggest that language...
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Feminism's Progress: Gender Politics in British and American Literature and Television Since 1830Carol Colatrella is Professor of Literature and Codirector of the Center for Women, Science, and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the coeditor (with Joseph Alkana) of Cohesion and Dissent in America, also published by SUNY Press.Author: Carol ColatrellaPublisher: State University...
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EuphonyEuphony: Micro Prose Poems contains works best defined as thoughts, both observational and insightful, expressed in laconic form. The collection delivers the reader through subatomic communiques, electric "jolts of awareness," about the ever-shifting realm of human emotion and experience-a world both known and exotic....
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918Empire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. This wide-ranging selection reveals the diversity of...
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