Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Building Modern Jewish Culture: The Yiddish Kultur-LigeIn the midst of the violent conflicts of 1918 ambitious plans for new cultural formations emerged on the territory of the former Russian Empire. The most important Jewish community organization was the Kultur-Lige. Founded to 'organize the Jewish masses and develop Yiddish culture', the...
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Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book HistoryFrom the marginalia of their readers to the social and cultural means of their production, books bear the imprint of our humanity. Embodying the marks, traces, and scars of colonial survival, Indigenous books are contested spaces. A constellation of nontextual components surrounded Native American-authored...
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Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American LiteratureThis book expands on a literary tradition where Black writers articulate the impact of slavery's legacy over time. Along with Black Feminist studies, this book demonstrates how trauma studies can transcend Eurocentric roots by encompassing traumatic experiences of other cultures through intersectionality. Author: Apryl...
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His TimeJack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as central to his...
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As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon's Birch Bark Stories in Their ContextsOriginally published in 1893 and 1901, Simon Pokagon's birch bark stories were printed on thinly peeled and elegantly bound birch bark. In this edition, these rare booklets are reprinted with new essays that set the stories in cultural, linguistic, historical, and even geological context....
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An Ordered ExperienceIn this, his first book, Timur Shah draws on his fascination for world folklore, infusing its pages with an extraordinary array of traditions and opinions, as well as his own adventures.A helter-skelter journey quite unlike any other, An Ordered Experience sashays through both ancient...
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A Mystery, Crime & Noir NotebookA MYSTERY, CRIME & NOIR NOTEBOOKThis book is a compilation of almost 50 articles written over a period of 40 years by noted collector/author/publisher Gary Lovisi. They include topics about some of his favorite books in the mystery, crime and noir genres. Many of...
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Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of TasteInfamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness--the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon--Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation. But perhaps he should be. In his private...
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Allegorical Moments: Call to the EverydayConsiders allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinkingAllegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Traditionally, allegorical interpretation was intended...
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Afterlives of Endor: Witchcraft, Theatricality, and Uncertainty from the Malleus Maleficarum to ShakespeareAfterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions...
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Selected EssaysIt is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the language, and there are quite a few of his essays which...
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The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-MenA data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author's subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. By the time Chris Claremont's run as author of Uncanny X-Men ended in 1991, he had changed comic books forever. During his sixteen years...
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The Literary Life of YājñavalkyaIn this fascinating study, Steven E. Lindquist investigates the intersections between historical context and literary production in the "life" of Yājñavalkya, the most important ancient Indian literary figure prior to the Buddha. Known for his sharp tongue and deep thought, Yājñavalkya is associated with...
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Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the DamnedThis book explores Cormac McCarthy's literature (novels, plays, screenplays, philosophical essays and unpublished archive material) to uncover a distinct literary philosophy. More specifically, this study elucidates how McCarthy articulates a philosophical perspective which pivots on philosophical themes of mortality, the political, education, nihilism, materialism...
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Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science FictionA new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China's new era, speaking to a future filled with uncertainties. Deeply entangled with the politics and culture of a changing China, contemporary science...
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Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and JapanThe creation of a new school system in the Philippines in 1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior, following its politics of violence with benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of...
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Songs for OlympiaIn the twilight of life, a black ribbon emerges from a frame and coils itself inside the mind of one of the great French chroniclers of the internal. Across the world, a young girl stares at an image in a book: a woman, naked...
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Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End TimesSamuel Beckett's work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett's characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that...
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Romantic Immanence: Interventions in Alterity, 1780-1840Romantic Immanence examines literary examples of an alternative experience of otherness-an experience of alterity the Romantics understood as an embodied, immanent encounter with raw reality. The Romantics' enthusiasm for encounters in nature and the imagination that exceeded the limits of rational thought is well...
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Walking with Anne Brontë: Insights and ReflectionsWhether on the seashore or on the trails between clumps of Haworth heather, let us walk with Anne Brontë and listen to her discussing the kind of truth "that always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it." Join us...
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