Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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BackloguesIn Backlogues Joseph Minden explores how the act of remembering recreates spaces of oppression and how complicity in ancient power structures sustains modern day violence. Minden writes about the detritus of British history, from the Birkenhead Iron Works to the Bay of Biscay to...
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The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial ArchetypeWith its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli's wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid Dabashi articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince--a metaphor of political authority, a figurative ideal deeply rooted in the...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the...
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Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and ControversiesThis work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and...
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A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek TheaterContemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the...
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Bold Conscience: Luther to Shakespeare to MiltonHow the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action Bold Conscience chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint--what Shakespeare labels "coward conscience"--to one of bold and forthright self-assertion....
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Laugh-Out-Loud Animal Jokes for Kids Lib/EAuthor: Rob Elliott, Dylan AugustPublisher: Mission AudioPublished: 12/31/2016Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200518494Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorElliott, Rob: - Rob Elliott is the bestselling author of Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids, More Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids, Laugh-Out-Loud Spooky Jokes for Kids, Laugh-Out-Loud Christmas Jokes for Kids, Laugh-Out-Loud...
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Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They SeeA new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime...
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Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central AmericaExplores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.Author: Jennifer Carolina Gómez MenjívarPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438492810About the AuthorJennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar is Associate Professor...
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Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Volume 5This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects--abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended--as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply researched and creatively conceived chapters, scholars join with film practitioners in approaching the unfinished film as an ideal site for revealing...
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China in Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century African LiteratureChina in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope encompasses how China, which emerged as a main engine of the world economy by the...
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Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth TodayAn original and thought-provoking journey into J. R. R. Tolkien's world, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before. *Finalist for the The 2023 Tolkien Society Best Book Award* What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that...
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish LiteratureThe Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses--monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified--that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life, Renée Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present's desire to...
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Entranced Earth: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape Volume 45A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin American art, literature, music, and film, Jens Andermann asks what emerges at the...
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No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and ProseCollects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poetAuthor: Anne SextonPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 09/30/1985Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.50dISBN: 9780472063666This title is only available via back order
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Ciudadanías liminales. Vida cotidiana y espacio urbano en la Cuba postsoviéticaEn la Cuba de las postutop as y el desencanto, cu l es la relaci n entre la ciudad y sus habitantes? En qu medida pueden acceder los cubanos a la producci n y vitalidad de la polis? Ciudadan as liminales explora la representaci...
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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth CenturyWriting Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures--returning to the Boswell and Burney circle--but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging...
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From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010Aboriginal Canadians tell their own stories, about their own people, in their own voice, from their own perspective.If as recently as forty years ago there was no recognizable body of work by Canadian writers, as recently as thirty years ago there was no Native...
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Walter Scott at 250: Looking ForwardAt 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as present. His times were times of crisis. Scott, then, has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response...
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Limpy's Adult Lexicon: Raw, Politically Incorrect, Improper & Unexpurgated as Overheard & Noodled by Joseph HeywoodFrom the author of the Woods Cop and Lute Bapcat mystery series comes a new book for the fans. When Heywood was writing his first Woods Cop novel, into his mind crawled a character called Limpy Allerdyce, who is a master poacher-predator-violator in the...
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