Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French TextualityThe essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way...
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The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna BarnesThe Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book...
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Novel Sensations: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of QualiaA radical intervention into critical debates over the status of sensation within modernist literature Offers novel and insightful readings of key modernist authors within their philosophical contexts Critiques a range of 'neuroaesthetic' approaches to literary criticism Proposes new ways of thinking about the relationship...
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The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain: A Study in Literary FormFriendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary works Donald Gilbert-Santamaría shows how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the...
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Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary LondonExplores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped them Uncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors...
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The Little Art Colony and Us Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, TaosExplores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth century Historicizes and theorizes the role and function of the little art community as a geo-social formation Comparative, place-based study of three semiperipheral (non-metropolitan) sites New readings of major authors Jeffers,...
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Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and FableWhat is a ham-and-egger? What are Anglo-Saxon attitudes? Who or what is liable to jump the shark? Who first tried to nail jelly to the wall? The answers to these and many more questions are in this fascinating book. Here in one volume you...
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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean DiasporaCaribbean Philosophical Association Nicolás Cristóbal GuillénBatista Outstanding Book Award Caribbean Studies Association Barbara T.Christian Literary Award, Honorable Mention In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors--Edwidge Danticat, JamaicaKincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Dany Laferriére, and more--whose workshave been well received...
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Fabiola; Or, The Church of the CatacombsThe book "" Fabiola; Or, The Church of the Catacombs, 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 present and...
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A BookThe book "" A Book, 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 present and future generations. This whole book...
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Menander: EpitrepontesThis book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains what we know about the play, how we know it, and how far we can tentatively...
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Citizenship 1928: How Democracy killed the War Department Training Manual, TM 2000-25"CITIZENSHIP 1928" is a review of the War Department Technical Manual 2000-25, Citizenship. This manual was originally authorized on 30 November 1928, as ordered by the US Government War Department. It was printed in April of 1929 by the US Government Printing Office. Democratic...
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The Manuscript Book of Stephen C. FosterIn 1851, Stephen C. Foster purchased a blank notebook, in which he wrote original manuscripts for both famous songs such as "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" and "Old Folks at Home," as well as lesser-known songs such as "The Little Ballad Girl," "Ellen Bayne,"...
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Making German Jewish Literature Anew: Authorship, Memory, and PlaceIn Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional...
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Kleines mittelhochdeutsches WörterbuchMit dem Kleinen mittelhochdeutschen Wörterbuch liegt zum ersten Mal seit dem Erscheinen von Matthias Lexers Taschenwörterbuch im Jahre 1879 ein neues Nachschlagewerk für mittelhochdeutsche Texte vor. Es ist als Hilfsmittel für alle konzipiert, die mittelhochdeutsche Texte lesen und verstehen wollen - in erster Linie...
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Infected Empires: Decolonizing ZombiesGiven the current moment--polarized populations, increasing climate fears, and decline of supranational institutions in favor of a rising tide of nationalisms-- it is easy to understand the proliferation of apocalyptic and dystopian elements in popular culture. Infected Empires examines one of the most popular...
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The Oxford Handbook of DecadenceThe meaning of decadence varies with context, depending on what (or who) is understood to have declined, decayed, or degenerated. These negative meanings are familiar from history (the decline and fall of Rome), sociology (the decay of communities), morality (the degeneration of values), and...
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Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century BritainIn bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if...
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Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book CultureWorks of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry...
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Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French LiteratureExploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matterCacaphonies takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. Readers and critics have too long overlooked excrement's vital role in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century French canon. In a stark challenge to...
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