Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your HeadMarvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel...
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Living Revision: A Writer's Craft as Spiritual Practice"Revision is the spiritual practice of transformation--of seeing text, and therefore the world, with new eyes. Done well, revision returns us to our original love." In Living Revision, award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew guides writers through the writing and revision process. With...
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Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural HybriditiesMaps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.Author: Niyi AfolabiPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/02/2023Pages: 366Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82dISBN: 9781438490724About the AuthorNiyi Afolabi is Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the...
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StatelessIn Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods-post WW I...
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Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short StoriesA moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. "A writer," Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, "is a reader who is moved to emulation." New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus...
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Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist: Second Edition Revised and Expanded"A combination of circumstances means that we know more about J.R.R. Tolkien than about almost any other author, from any period. Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts, there remains a certain opacity about Tolkien, both professionally and personally.As this book shows, there is...
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Bookworm: Conversations with Michael SilverblattA Landmark Collection of Michael Silverblatt's Interviews from KCRW's Bookworm.Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW's Bookworm, the nation's premier literary radio program, has been bringing writers and readers together in close company for more than three decades. Audiences around the world tune in each week...
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers MatterA noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom. Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed questions about good and evil, moral responsibility, and human freedom...
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Becoming Ezra Jack KeatsBecoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, Becoming Ezra Jack Keats covers the breadth of Keats's life, taking readers through...
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Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and PeopleWhen her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew what to expect. But rather than finding a homemade cookbook full of apple stack cake, leather britches, pickled watermelon, or other "traditional" mountain recipes, Locklear...
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Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American MasterThe latest volume in the Unsung Masters Series brings to readers the work of Bert Meyers. Here, we offer a large selection of his very best poetry alongside essays and appreciations from José Angel Araguz, Jim Bogen, Victoria Chang, Amy Gerstler, Garrett Hongo, Daniel...
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Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic NarrativesAn exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and psychological spaces that women inhabit. Victoria Aarons argues that Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied with...
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Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant ColonialismIn Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism, Tullio Pagano examines Italian emigration to Argentina and the Rio de la Plata region through the writings of Italian economists, poets, anthropologists, and political activists from the 1860s to the beginning of World War I....
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Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott"Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure."--The New Yorker "Remind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention."--New York Times The riveting biography of Ursula Parrott--best-selling author, Hollywood screenwriter, and voice for the modern woman. Credited with popularizing...
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Mythology for DummiesDiscover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to this wild collection of creatures, humans,...
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Juliet: The Life and Afterlives of Shakespeare's First Tragic HeroineThe enduring cultural legacy of Shakespeare's Juliet Capulet -- a history "as vital and provocative as the character herself" (Literary Review). Romeo and Juliet may be the greatest love story ever told, but who is Juliet? Demure ingénue? Or dangerous Mediterranean madwoman? From tearstained...
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Phantom Pain WingsAn iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma and the collective...
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Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and TraklA reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.Author: Ian Alexander MoorePublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/02/2023Pages: 420Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781438490663About the AuthorIan Alexander Moore is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at...
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Common SenseAmong the most influential authors and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was born in England but went on to play an important role in both the American and French Revolutions. In 1774, he emigrated to America where, for a time, he helped...
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Superheroes!: The History of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon from Ant-Man to ZorroSuperheroes! is the ultimate reference book about the men and women in tights who fight for what's right and the comic book phenomenon that conquered the world. Author: Brian SolomonPublisher: Applause BooksPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.12w x 0.84dISBN: 9781493064519Review Citation(s):...
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