Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Poetry for the ManyJeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour's election slogan "For the many, not the few." That...
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Poetry and the Built Environment: A Theory of the Flesh of ArtLike gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to us. So it is when...
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Perversions of the Market: Sadism, Masochism, and the Culture of CapitalismPerversions of the Market argues that capitalism fosters sadism and masochism--not as individual psychological proclivities but as widespread institutionalized patterns of behavior. The book is divided into two parts: one historical and the other theoretical. In the first, Eugene W. Holland shows how, as...
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Origin of the German TrauerspielOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else--the play of mourning. Howard Eiland's completely new English translation,...
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Og (King of Bashan) - Papyrus, PapyriThe projected thirty-volume Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the canonical texts of the Bible as they were accepted in Judaism...
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Molecular Cathedral: The Poetry of John LentMolecular Cathedral is the first ever selection of the extraordinary poems of John Lent, renowned Okanagen-based writing instructor and poet. Lent's work is restlessly experimental and yet always approachable especially as it remains dedicated to seeking clarities between the poet and the reader. These...
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Loren Eiseley's Writing Across the Nature and Culture DivideAuthor: Qianqian ChengPublisher: Lexington BooksPublished: 11/21/2024Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781666902495
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Lewis Carroll: Collections and CollectorsThis is the first book on the history and culture of collecting the works of Lewis Carroll as well as the worldwide industry of items and art based on Carroll's works in popular culture. Ten large, major private collections from around the world are...
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Le Petit Prince (French Edition)Author: Antoine de Saint-Exup?ryPublisher: Pages Planet PublishingPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 94Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23dISBN: 9789361906183Language: FrenchThis title is not returnable
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Le Petit Prince (French Edition)Author: Antoine de Saint-Exup?ryPublisher: Pages Planet PublishingPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 94Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38dISBN: 9789361901485Language: FrenchThis title is not returnable
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Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the AmericasA necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx...
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Korea and the "Others": Studies on Korean Actions and Reactions Towards the Rest of the WorldThis book intends to be a reaction to a remarkable paradox within Korean studies, easily encountered even by non-experts. While many Korean studies journals strongly encourage the submission of "multicultural" and "transnational" articles, in fact, very few scholars in the world are able to...
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King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen KingOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore his canon in religious contexts, in political and historical contexts, in...
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Histories of the Future: On Shakespeare and Thinking AheadWhat early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future What do early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future? Joining a series of urgent conversations about "the future" as an object of analysis and...
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Greatest American PoetsThis remarkable collection pays tribute to the timeless poetry of legendary wordsmiths, presenting the brilliance of iconic American poets like Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Poe, Longfellow, Emerson, Thoreau, Bradstreet, and Whittier. Each poem is a treasure, capturing the essence of American life, love, and the...
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Found in Translation: The Unexpected Origins of Place NamesHave you ever stopped and thought about the name of your home country or one you're travelling to? What it means, where it came from, how it came to be? From The Land of Many Rabbits to The Land of the Thunder Dragon, and...
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Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative EconomyEmpire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture" in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The globalization of English literature, along with British forms...
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Dickens and the GothicThis Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs the Gothic to evaluate how institutions and formations of history impinge on the individual. An analysis of these forms of Gothic entrapment reveals how these institutions and representations of history...
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Dante's Performance: Music, Dance, and Drama in the "Commedia"Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante's Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageants, liturgical drama, psalm singing, or dance performance. The sacred poem finds influence in medieval theories of the performing arts as well as actual performances which...
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Colette: My Literary MotherThe power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of...
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