Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Love and the Politics of Intimacy: Bodies, Boundaries, LiberationLove and the Politics of Intimacy articulates the concept of love within the relationship between the intimate and the social, rethinking how intimacy is conceived and experienced in the context of 21st-century neoliberalism. Reflecting on experiences of intimate, romantic and sexual love, and the...
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Leipzig. One Thousand Years of German History: Bach, Luther, Faust. The City of Books and MusicLeipzig is the city of books and music. Johann Sebastian Bach composed his cantatas in the St. Thomas Church; Martin Luther disputed the future of Christianity at Germany's second oldest university; and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust" got into a brawl at Auerbach's Keller,...
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Latin American Writers at WorkThe fourth book in the Modern Library's Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from...
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Honeyvoiced: A Translation of Pindar's Songs for AthletesThis new translation of Pindar's songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in order to represent the beauty of his language for a modern audience as closely as possible. Pindar's poetry is synonymous with difficulty for scholars and students of classical...
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Good Medicine Stories: Literary and Critical Explorations of Settler-Colonial Trauma, the Canadian Trc, and Indigenous ResurgenceEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Addressing the history, impacts, and legacies of the Indian Residential School system, the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission is one of the few commissions to have been established in a long-standing...
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George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards GodContemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where there is reliable, substantial, and relevant information about the situation, and where they will get prompt feedback about the effect of their...
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From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and HungerPoetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Latino Literature Prize. Cervantes stretches the resources of language, imagery, and the dialectics of love, hunger, and aesthetics. "Cervantes is a poet with a clear, strong voice.... Her work is refreshing and deceptively...
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Environmental Thought in the Graeco-Roman World: 'Ecological' Sensitivity, 'Sustainable' Behaviour and 'Biodiversity'. a Historical PerspectiveThe debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain forms of environmental interrelation and 'ecological' sensitivity in the Graeco-Roman world. The notions of environmental depletion, exploitation and loss of plant species, and the...
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Empire Inside Out: Religion, Conquest, and Community in Kṛṣṇadevarāya's ĀmuktamālyadaExamining the interplay of religion, history, and literature through a case study of King Krsnadevaraya's celebrated Telugu poem Āmuktamālyada, Ilanit Loewy Shacham showcases the groundbreaking worldview that this often-overlooked poem embodies. Krsnadevaraya (r.1509-1529) ruled over the Vijayanagara Empire during its heyday, and his monumental...
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Dificultad del Fantasma, LaAuthor: Leila GuerrieroPublisher: AnagramaPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 12.00lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.50dISBN: 9788433927255Language: Spanish
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Critical Race Theory, Ta-Nehisi Coates and his Book Between the World and Me'Between the World and Me' won awards for nonfiction, made its author Ta-Nehisi Coates plenty of money and was called 'required reading' by Toni Morrison. It is also a book set firmly on the foundation of Critical Race Theory, though its author seems unaware....
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Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to SpenserIn Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition, R. D. Perry reveals how poetic coteries formed and maintained the English literary tradition. Perry shows that, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Edmund Spenser, the poets who bridged the medieval and early modern periods...
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Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: The Loved One: Volume 10 an Anglo-American TragedyThis volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants....
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Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. Examining the...
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Brave New Words: The Power of Writing NowEach of the 15 essays explores the crucial place of the writer, past and present. Their work articulates 'brave new words' at the heart of battles against limitations on fundamental rights of citizenship, the closure of national borders, fake news, and an increasing reluctance...
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Balanchine and Me: Be Relevant, Not ReverentBorn in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1904, George Balanchine was the 20th century's towering figure of classical ballet. Coming to America in 1933, Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet, where he hired the Danish-born Peter Martins as...
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Authority: EssaysA bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? Since her canonical 2017 essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself...
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A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval ChinaBetween 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, customs, and flora and fauna in distant lands. Some depicted individuals of unusual spiritual or moral achievement. But most told of ordinary people's...
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Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction"A rare voice, someone who challenges orthodoxies in the way that many journalists and public intellectuals claim to do but don't. It is bracing to spend time in the company of such a smart, plain-spoken and unpredictable person."--Wall Street JournalA striking collection of essays...
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What Is Cultural Criticism?Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice In What Is Cultural Criticism?, two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics and intellectual practice. The debate opens with Francis Mulhern's account of what he terms 'metacultural discourse'. This embraces...
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