Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Chesterton: The Nightmare Goodness of GodThe literary giant G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the "Great Optimist"--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those who live...
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The Crescent Moon"The Crescent Moon" is an incredible collection of introspective poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Originally written in Bengali, the poet himself translated the book into English. Most of the poems in 'The Crescent Moon' focus on the love in a mother-child relationship and itsgrowth over...
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The First And Second Books Of Adam And EveThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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When I Was a Witch & Other StoriesA powerful collection of early feminist stories from the activist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman created a world that could be viewed from the feminist gaze. She focused on how women were not just stay-at-home mothers they were expected to be but also...
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Scotland's Harvest: Scottish Poetry and World War TwoThis study is the first exploration of the impact of World War Two on Scottish poets of both the front line and the home front. World War One has always been thought of as a poet's war, one of horror and futility. The poetry...
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Shakespeare Without PrintEverything we know about Shakespeare - his world, his words, his work - is preconceived by print. This knowledge extends to cultural expressions that seek to evade ink, paper, and moveable type, such as performance, such as acting. Print privileges qualities quite alien to...
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Translating Early Modern China: Illegible CitiesThe history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming...
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Blue HumanitiesAuthor: Serpil OppermannPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/10/2023Pages: 75Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17dISBN: 9781009393270
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and DisabilityThis Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. Through the alternative ideas of mind and embodiment generated by physiological and psychological impairments, an understanding...
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Egil's SagaEgil's Saga is the 10th-century Nordic equivalent of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Translated from the Icelandic withan introduction, notes and an essay, this is the first time Eddison's version of this epic heroic saga has been published in paperback. The saga of Egil,...
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Chamoru Legends: A Gathering of StoriesCHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez, unique illustrations of each legend by Guam artists, and versions of the legends in the CHamoru language by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera. The book includes CHamoru classics like the...
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Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your WorldIn the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host...
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of WorkFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jim nez brings...
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The Jacqueline Rose ReaderJacqueline Rose is a world-renowned critic and one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today. She is also among the most wide ranging, with books on Zionism, feminism, Sylvia Plath, children's fiction, and psychoanalysis. During the past decade, through...
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Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek WorldAuthor: Geoffrey E. Maurice Ste CroixPublisher: Cornell University PressPublished: 01/31/1982Pages: 732Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.67lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.56dISBN: 9780801414428Audience: Young Adult
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Ends of Empire: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985In this bold and provocative book, Laura Brown explores the representation of women in English literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole--a time during which an expansionist economic system was consolidated, a fertile ideology advocating a benevolent and progressive imperialism took root,...
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objectsnimal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological anthropocentricity. Sheep, wolves, camels, flowers, chairs, magnets, landscapes, refuse and gems...
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The Cambridge Companion to Science FictionScience fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look...
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Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva EspanaCompiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a...
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The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of ChangeThe Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the beginning of the first millennium it had acquired written explanations and a series...
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