Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The World According to Joan DidionAn intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not...
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Another BeautyThis brilliant memoir is Adam Zagajewski's recollection of 1960s and 1970s communist Poland, where he was a fledgling writer, student of philosophy, and vocal dissident at the university in Krakow, Poland's most beautiful and ancient city.Author: Adam ZagajewskiPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublished: 03/04/2002Pages: 240Binding...
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Finding Duende: Duende: Play and Theory Imagination, Inspiration, EvasionA new translation of Federico García Lorca's captivating lecture on duende. For years, Federico García Lorca's lecture on duende has been a source of insight for writers and performers, including Ted Hughes, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, and Amanda Gorman. Duende: Play and Theory not...
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Julia KristevaOne of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work, including her ideas on:...
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love StoryFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved...
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Hands Around [Reigen]: A Cycle of Ten DialoguesThis book "" Hands Around [Reigen]: A Cycle of Ten Dialogues "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for...
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The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and LiteratureIn The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical,...
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Romanticism: 100 Poems'Romanticism', though a debated term, is broadly understood as a cultural movement which gripped the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Embodying a poetics of feeling intersecting with nature and the notion of the sublime, its experiential aesthetics were furthermore...
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The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth CenturyAuthor: Alister D. InglisPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 10/02/2023Pages: 344Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438492551
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Love and Death in Kubrick: A Critical Study of the Films from Lolita Through Eyes Wide ShutThe films of Stanley Kubrick have left an indelible mark on the history of American cinema. This text explores the auteur's legacy, specifically positioning his body of work within the context of cultural theory. A single chapter is devoted to each of Kubrick's seven...
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The New Nancy: Flexible and Relatable Daily Comics in the Twenty-First CenturyIn The New Nancy Jeff Karnicky explores how today's successful daily comic strips are flexible and relatable, and he uses Olivia Jaimes's 2018 reboot of the long-running comic strip Nancy to illustrate the ways that contemporary comics have adapted to twenty-first-century technology and culture....
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Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison WritingIn Reckoning with Restorative Justice, Leanne Trapedo Sims explores the experiences of women who are incarcerated at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawai'i. Adopting a decolonial and pro-abolitionist lens, she focuses particularly on women's participation in...
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Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and PinterFifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the...
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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek CultureAt the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its...
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Leucippe and ClitophonAchilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqué of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers...
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Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot StructuresBuilding on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known epic stories while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery. Author: Brenda E. F. BeckPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 04/12/2023Pages: 476Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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The Russian Avant-Garde and Radical Modernism: An Introductory ReaderThe Russian avant-garde was a composite of antagonistic groups who wished to overthrow the basic aesthetics of classical realism. Modernism was the totality of these numerous aesthetic theories, which achieved a measure of coherence immediately after the First World War. This collection of essays...
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Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More CorrespondenceIrving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on literary, educational, cultural, religious, and political topics, they influenced countless important thinkers, such as...
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Entanglements: Threads Woven from History, Memory and the BodyAuthor: Leah SouffrantPublisher: Unbound Edition PressPublished: 07/11/2023Pages: 166Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.80w x 0.90dISBN: 9798987019917
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The American Scholar"The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" (1837) The American Scholar (1837), is an address...
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