Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Little Book of X-MenThey debuted in 1963, but weren't the instant sensations that the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man had been; twenty years later, they were the most exciting (or x-citing!) property in comics. Fans couldn't get enough of Wolverine! Storm! Cyclops! Beast! Nightcrawler! Jean Grey! Not to...
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Understanding Alice WalkerUnderstanding Alice Walker serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifaceted canon. Thadious M. Davis begins with Walker's biography and her formative experiences in the South...
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Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft"I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described." Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to the fact that fiction has...
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Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English CalendarAstrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological, astrological, and medical theories that undergirded calendars, traces...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Volume 1Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In plays, films, TV shows, and other media, one generation after another has reimagined...
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Trauma Theory As an Approach to Analyzing Literary Texts: An Updated and Expanded Edition, with ReadingsTrauma Theory As an Approach to Analyzing Literary Texts investigates the hypothesis that cultural trauma affects a society's literary production (really, its artistic production as a whole), resulting in a narrative voice we have come to call "postmodern" since midway through the twentieth century...
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Slave State: Rereading Orwell's 1984David Lowenthal transposes present society onto that in the novel, 1984, and illustrates "how the quest for a perfect society led instead to the worst--in the course of revolting against which the true ends of life are established." It is more than suspicion: the...
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God's Poems: The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian ImaginationPoetry is exciting, but elusive to most. This is troublesome for Christians because the Bible, John Poch reminds us, is largely composed of poetical verse. In God's Poems, Poch re-introduces sacred text as purposefully poetic, and explains what that means and invites the reader...
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Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and StudentsRooted in the day-to-day experience of teaching and written for those without specialist technical knowledge, this is a new edition of the go-to guide to using digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom. In response to the rapidly changing nature of the field,...
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Solar Eclipse 1914"Readers will be deeply grateful to thelate Peter Oram for giving new life to thework of a major Russian poet who hasnever been fully recognized in the English-speakingworld - even if his haunting wordshave been heard in Russian by the millionswho have seen his...
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The Importance of Being PoirotWritten by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during the Great World Wars. His incomparable treatment of literary craft developing alongside...
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Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic InsistencesAs an acclaimed poet, editor, critic, translator, and educator, Charles Bernstein, in his decades-long commitment to poetry and poetics, criticism, and literary scholarship, reflects a profound understanding of the importance of language to every level of culture-making. Throughout his life, Bernstein has facilitated a...
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Dissensuous Modernism: Women Writers, the Senses, and TechnologyPlacing women writers at the center of the sensory and technological experimentation that characterized the modernist movement, Dissensuous Modernism shows how women of the era challenged gendered narratives that limited their power and agency and waged dissent through their radical sensuouswriting.Allyson DeMaagd critiques an...
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India's Power EliteIndia's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized...
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1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the ModernIn 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of the war, searching for new creative and political...
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Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's PoetryIn the first monograph on W. S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and infinity that ensouls the poet's entire oeuvre. His analysis foregrounds what Merwin calls "the other side of despair," the...
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The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's ReadersWas the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by...
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Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World CinemaFrederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson's remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts--such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche--and his historical schema...
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Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black LifeHONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATIONA view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of...
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The Philip Roth We Don't Know: Sex, Race, and AutobiographyThroughout, Berlinerblau confronts the critics of Roth --as well as his defenders, many of whom were uncritical friends of the famous author--arguing that the man taught us all to doubt pastorals, whether in life or in our intellectual discourse.Author: Jacques BerlinerblauPublisher: University of Virginia...
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