Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Proust, a Jewish WayMarcel Proust once wrote, "There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for...
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Mid-Century Women's Writing: Disrupting the Public/Private DivideThis book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces.Author: Melissa DinsmanPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/23/2024Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63dISBN: 9781526169778About the AuthorMelissa Dinsman is Associate Professor of English at York College,...
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Mess and Mess andDouglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it's not to flee understanding, but to map (mis-)understanding as a verb." The map's guide is MESS AND MESS AND, in which Kearney defines the terms that member his poetics, taking even prefixes...
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Medieval Manuscripts and Their Provenance: Essays in Honour of Barbara A. ShailorEssays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts. The essays collected here celebrate the work of Barbara Shailor, the distinguished scholar of medieval manuscripts. They explore various aspects of their provenance. The subjects addressed range from studies of the history of individual...
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Medieval French Interlocutions: Shifting Perspectives on a Language in ContactSpecialists in other languages offer perspectives on the widespread use of French in a range of contexts, from German courtly narratives to biblical exegesis in Hebrew. French came into contact with many other languages in the Middle Ages: not just English, Italian and Latin,...
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Justice in Arthur Miller's the CrucibleResponding directly to the era of U.S. politics known as McCarthyism, Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible positions the Salem witch trials at the center of a narrative that seeks to dance with and around questions of justice, power, and suspicion. This compelling edition...
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James Baldwin's Sonny's BluesA close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" that provides insight into his life and ideas about art. Tom Jenks's reading of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" follows a scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, discussion of the pattern by which Baldwin indelibly writes "Sonny's Blues"...
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IslandObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago "a little world within itself," unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path - strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are...
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Introduction to Japanese Horror FilmThis book is a major historical and cultural overview of an increasingly popular genre. Starting with the cultural phenomenon of Godzilla, it explores the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s through to contemporary classics of Japanese horror cinema such as Ringu and Ju-On:...
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How to Read «Ulysses», and WhyThis short guidebook, written specifically for first-time readers of Ulysses by a veteran teacher of Joyce's novel, offers a way in to one of the most pleasure-giving books ever created. After an introduction surveying Joyce's techniques, both traditional (the creation of plausible characters and...
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Heroes for an Age of Anxiety: Standing on the Shoulders of GiantsThroughout history, natural disasters, wars, disease and political upheaval have yielded heroes - models that in one way or another we can emulate and whose example holds up for us the finest of human instincts. The heroes profiled here have all left footprints on...
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Global Trespassers: Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary CultureEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Global Trespassers is the first critical study of cultural representations of minoritized migrant figures permitted to remain and encouraged to prosper in the Global North. In pursuing 'good immigrant' figures across...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on WritingA collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's remarks on his craft, taken from his works and letters to friends and colleagues--an essential trove of advice for aspiring writers. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously decreed, "An author ought to write for the youth of his own...
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Frankenstein, a Longman Cultural EditionFrom the Longman Cultural Editions series, this second edition of Frankenstein presents Mary Shelley's remarkable novel in several provocative and illuminating contexts: cultural, critical, and literary. Series Editor Susan J. Wolfson presents the 1818 version of Mary Shelley's famous novel in its cultural and...
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El juguete RabiosoEl protagonista de El Juguete Rabioso, una novela casi autobiogr fica que refleja el caos de comienzos del siglo XX en Buenos Aires, es Silvio Astier, un adolescente expulsado del colegio, que vive como una humillaci n su pobreza, e intenta vanamente escapar de...
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Disability Works: Performance After RehabilitationA cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics,...
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Dinner PiecesAn innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man."Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the...
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Dinner PiecesAn innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man."Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the...
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Creative Writing: A Workbook with ReadingsCreative Writing: A Workbook with Readings provides a complete creative writing course: from ways to jump-start your writing and inspire your creativity, right through to presenting your work to agents and publishers.It covers the genres of fiction, poetry and life writing (including autobiography, biography...
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Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and AudiencesThis book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences' judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.Author: Patricia WarehPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9781526149855About the AuthorPatricia...
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