Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Transnational CervantesThis ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national...
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Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and BeyondSince the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied. Taking criticism of Smith's work beyond its traditional focus on postcolonialism and multicultural identity, Reading Zadie Smith...
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Black ComicsWinner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work.Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic...
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Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the DecolonialThe whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insights of environmental justice scholarship as well as critical race and ethnic studies, the editors and contributors to Latinx Environmentalisms map the ways Latinx...
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The Christian World of the HobbitIn his beloved story The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien takes readers into a world unlike any other, yet so much seems familiar. As Bilbo journeys there and back again, glimpses of the spiritual are seen. The Christian World of The Hobbit does what no book...
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In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American MasterpieceMixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award...
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How to Read A Chinese Poem: A Bilingual Anthology of Tang PoetryThis bilingual edition of Tang poems offers a new approach to reading and understanding classical Chinese poetry. Included are nearly two hundred regulated verses written by the great poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Li Shangyin, and...
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Twelfth Night: Language and WritingFrances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth Night, exploring its themes of grief, obsessive love, social climbing and gender identity, and helping you towards your own close-readings.Author: Frances E. DolanPublisher: Arden ShakespearePublished: 06/19/2014Pages: 192Binding...
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Spenser: The Faerie QueeneThe Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now the standard edition for all readers...
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Renaissance Literature 2eThis extensively revised anthology makes available the most important poetry and prose from the period between the accession of Henry VIII in 1509 and the English Revolution of 1640. Responding to the broadening of the canon in recent years, it balances the work of...
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The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He LovedRaymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle...
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The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary ImpactThis innovative study compares nineteenth-century Arabic translations of the Bible to determine how it emerged as a foundational text of Arab modernity. Bible translation gained global traction through the work of Anglophone Christian missionaries, who made an attempt at synchronising translated Bibles in world...
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Ageing in the Modern Arabic NovelAuthor: Samira AghacyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42dISBN: 9781474466769
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The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the ArtsFrom the birth of the museum to the explosion of mass-produced illustrated books, the Romantic period (c. 1770-1840) was a moment of rapid change and fruitful experimentation in the fields of art and literature alike. New advances in print production encouraged a wider range...
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The Gothic Forms of Victorian PoetryA lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in 'low-brow' titles...
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Prudentius, >PsychomachiaDie Psychomachia des Prudentius stellt das erste vollkommen allegorische Epos des Abendlandes dar. Es ist insbesondere in der Kunst und Literatur des Mittelalters vielfältig rezipiert worden. Magnus Frisch legt nun erstmals einen Gesamtkommentar zu diesem Werk aus der Spätantike vor, der lange ein Desiderat...
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Reform Und Liturgie Im Nürnberger Katharinenkloster: Die Sterbe- Und Begräbnisliturgie Des 15. Jahrhunderts. Edition Und KommentarHerausgegeben von Elias H. Füllenbach OP (federführender Herausgeber), Ulrich Engel OP, Paul Dominikus Hellmeier OP, Ulrich Horst OP und Klaus-Bernward Springer. Mit neuen Methoden und Fragestellungen ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Erforschung der Geschichte der Bettelorden vorangetrieben und ihre über die engere Ordens-...
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2022/2023Das Stefan-George-Jahrbuch erscheint seit 1996 im zweijährigen Rhythmus. Es versteht sich als offenes, der sachlichen Diskussion verpflichtetes Organ der George-Forschung. Platz finden Vorträge, Aufsätze, kleinere Editionen und Rezensionen zu Stefan George (1868-1933), seinem Werk, seinem Kreis, zur Rezeptionsgeschichte, aber auch Beiträge zu Epochenproblemen, zu...
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Dynamiken historischer SchreibszenenDie Bedingungen der Kulturtechnik des Schreibens unterliegen vielfältigen historischen Veränderungen. Nicht nur Technologien und Schreibwerkzeuge ändern sich, sondern auch kulturelle Semantiken von Selbst und Selbstbezüglichkeit, Autorschaft, Geheimnis, Sozialität wandeln sich im Laufe der Jahrhunderte. Konzepte von Raum, Medialität, Produktion, aber auch Praktiken sind keine...
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Geschichte der altgermanistischen EditionDer Beginn der germanistischen Editionstätigkeit im frühen 19. Jahrhundert ist wesentlich von Arbeiten zur älteren deutschen Literatur geprägt. Anhand von hervorgehobenen Editionen und Persönlichkeiten, begonnen mit Karl Lachmann, den Brüdern Grimm und Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen, wird in diesem Band die Entwicklung der...
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