Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring BarbarianRobert E. Howard penned a series of fantasy stories in 1932 featuring Conan, a hulking warrior from "Cimmeria" who roamed the mythical Hyborian Age landscape engaging in heroic adventures. More than the quirky manifestation of Depression-era magazines, Conan the Barbarian has endured as a...
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Late Romanticism and the End of PoliticsIn the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands,...
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The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient IsraelThe figure of the giant has haunted the literatures of the ancient Mediterranean world, from the Greek Gigantomachy and other Aegean epic literatures to the biblical contexts of the ancient Near East. In The Last of the Rephaim, Brian Doak argues that the giants...
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The Language of CanaanThis is a study of New England figurative language from 1600 to 1850, from the English and Continental origins of Puritanism to the symbolic writings of Thoreau. It enriches our understanding of Puritan thought and expression and traces the influence of Puritanism on later...
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How to Read the Egyptian Book of the DeadThe ancient Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful, and inescapable that controlling their destiny within it was their constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness, and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld,...
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From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling: Co-Starring Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Bill Clinton, the Supremes, and Barack ObamaFrom "I Like Ike" to razor-wire and National Guard troops ringing the U.S. Capitol, from Carl Perkins's "Blue Suede Shoes" to Brotha Lynch Hung's "Meat Cleaver," the United States has changed. Seven decades of material abundance and unprecedented technological advances have entwined with pronounced...
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The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai GogolThrough careful textual readings of Gogol's most famous works, Karlinsky argues that Gogol's homosexual orientation-which Gogol himself could not accept or forgive in himself-may provide the missing key to the riddle of Gogol's personality. "A brilliant new biography that will long be prized for...
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Algorithmic Culture Before the InternetToday, algorithms exercise outsize influence on cultural decision-making, shaping and even reshaping the concept of culture. How were automated, computational processes empowered to perform this work? What forces prompted the emergence of algorithmic culture? Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how...
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Literature in 30 Seconds or Less!: 100 Classics Cut Down for the Pace of the Modern WorldBuild your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works.Bursting with illuminating synopses of humanity's great works, you no longer have to lower your gaze when the conversation turns to...
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Modernist IntimaciesModernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence. Intimacy can no longer be seen as an exclusively private, familiar sphere of life independent of socio-political realities, and the...
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Study Guide to Lord of the Flies and Other Works by William GoldingA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Titles in this study guide include Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and Free Fall. As...
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Thirty-Odd Functions of Voice in the Poetry of Alice NotleyLiterary Nonfiction. Alice Notley has consistently peopled her poetry with the voices of those around her: kids, friends, husbands, strangers, and the dead. THIRTY-ODD FUNCTIONS OF VOICE IN THE POETRY OF ALICE NOTLEY offers an array of interpretations of this technique. While not aspiring...
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Jouissance: A Lacanian ConceptWhether inscribed within the context of capitalist or neoliberal logic and its imperative to "enjoy," as a critique of all forms of heteronormativity, a liberating force in a positive reading of biopolitics, the point of inflection in the ethics of psychoanalysis, or articulated in...
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The Long Embrace: 21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip LevinePhilip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as many exceptional long poems as Levine, and his influence...
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Voices on the Waters: Conversations with Five Mindanao WritersVoices on the Waters continues the project of mapping the contemporary literary terrain in southern Philippines. The first was Habagatanon (2015), which won the National Book Award in 2016 and featured six writers from Davao City. In this volume, Ricardo M. de Ungria turns...
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The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical IntroductionC. T. Hsia studies in depth the six landmarks of Chinese fiction: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, Journey to the West, Chin P'ing Mei, The Scholars, and Dream of the Red Chamber. While he provides pertinent historical and bibliographical information...
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Die Aussenseiter Im Anti-Utopischen RomanGegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist das Motiv des gesellschaftlichen Aussenseiters in der sozialkritischen anglo-amerikanischen Zukunftsliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Durch eine Kombination von textsoziologischen, werkimmanenten und rezeptionstheoretischen Analyseansatzen werden die sozio-politischen, die darstellungstechnischen und die wirkungsasthetischen Aspekte des Aussenseitermotivs bestimmt."Author: Hartmut WeberPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler...
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Arbeit Am Inzest: Richard Wagner Und Thomas MannUnter der Vielzahl literarischer Inzesttater gehoren Richard Wagner und Thomas Mann sicher zu den eminentesten. Wagner stellte im "Ring des Nibelungen" seine Menschheitsutopie, seine Kunsttheorie, sogar die Struktur des Werkes unter das Signum der -Blutschande-. Fur Thomas Mann war Inzest Lebensthema. Inzest ist ihm...
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An Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical PerspectiveSouth Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on an old topic. Creative thinkers are often distinguished by their willingness to challenge...
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The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular LiteratureColloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories...
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