Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Jason and the Argonauts Through the AgesThe story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has...
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Lectures on ShakespeareFrom one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School...
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The Songs of Chu: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poetry by Qu Yuan and OthersSources show Qu Yuan (?340-278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms...
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Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary IconIconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her...
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe is part of the Timeless Classics series and comprises every known story penned by the legendary gothic American writer. Poe's name conjures up ideas of murderers and insane people, as well as premature funerals and enigmatic women...
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The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary StyleThis new edition of Jerome McGann's exciting work, out of print for years, has been called the most significant intervention in Romantic studies since his The Romantic Ideology. It takes as its prime aim the reading of neglected poetry, principally by women, which qualifies...
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Cicero: Pro MiloneThe Pro Milone numbers among Cicero's most famous speeches. In it he defends his friend T. Annius Milo against the charge of murdering P. Clodius Pulcher, Cicero's own archenemy. Clodius' death, Milo's trial, and their aftermath consumed Roman public life in 52 BC, involving...
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Oral Literature of the LuoThis is the sixth title in a series of titles focussing on the oral literary tradition of various East African ethnic groups - the Maasai, the Embu and the Mbeere amongst others - published by EAEP. Okumba Miruka, particularly known for his contribution to...
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Roots and BranchesProfessor Tom Shippey is best known for his books 'The Road to Middle-earth' and 'J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century'. Yet they are not the only contributions of his to Tolkien studies. Over the years, he has written and lectured widely on Tolkien-related topics....
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Die Gestaltung Psychischer Konflikte Einiger Frauengestalten Im Werk Heinrich Von Kleists: Alkmene, Die Marquise Von O..., Penthesilea, Kaethchen VonDer in Kleists Marionettentheater-Aufsatz formulierte Konflikt zwischen Gefuhl und Verstand wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit im Hinblick auf die Gestaltung seiner Frauenfiguren untersucht. Dieser Konflikt konkretisiert sich in dem Widerspruch zwischen personlicher Liebesbindung und gesellschaftlichen Normen, die die Erfullung dieser Liebe zu verhindern trachten....
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Shakespeare and LatinidadShakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare's plays. It is the first truly comprehensive treatment of this style of adaptation, bringing together the diverse...
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Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and LettersEverything Is Sampled examines the shifting modes of production and circulation of African artistic forms since the 1980s, focusing on digital culture as the most currently decisive setting for these changes. Drawing on works of cinema, literature, music, and visual art, Akin Adesokan. addresses...
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Brill's Companion to Cassius DioThis Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical cannon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on...
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Proust Et La MusiqueLes études sur le rôle de la musique dans l'oeuvre de Proust ont presque toutes un trait en commun: celui de se situer, au moins en partie, dans la recherche musico-littéraire traditionnelle qui relève les allusions, identifie les oeuvres auxquelles il est fait référence...
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Beckett's Afterlives: Adaptation, Remediation, AppropriationBeckett's afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett's oeuvre. This collection analyses the remarkable diversity of creative engagements across different media and cultural contexts that have ensured the survival and continuing relevance of Beckett's work in a constantly changing...
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Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century GenealogyThis book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature, an author can accrue significant and lasting economic and cultural power. We take for granted, now, that authority dwells in...
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Unphenomenal Shakespeare: Pending Critical QuarrelsIn the aftermath of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, the field of Shakespeare Studies has been increasingly overrun by post-theoretical, phenomenological claims. Many of the critical tendencies that hold the field today--post-humanism, speculative realism, ecocriticism, historical phenomenology, new materialism, performance studies, animal studies, affect...
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Reading Spaces in Modern Japan: The Evolution of Sites and Practices of ReadingThis study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof from a historical perspective. After setting the scene in a short introduction, it examines the development of Kanda-Jinbōchō, the area of Tokyo that has remained...
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Duino Elegies: A New Translation and CommentaryA new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meaning.Author: Rainer Maria RilkePublisher: Camden House (NY)Published: 03/21/2023Pages: 330Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781640140981
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Nathalie Sarraute: A Life BetweenThe definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writer A leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe. Ann...
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