Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature Between Ideology and the UnconsciousUnveiling the fantasies that drove the Enlightenment and created modern literature Nathan Gorelick's The Unwritten Enlightenment: Literature between Ideology and the Unconscious traces the relations between literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins in the Enlightenment era's novels and novelistic discourse, where the...
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The UnsignificantThe Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Award-finalist Srikanth Reddy presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015.True to its title, The Unsignificant is concerned with what it's not about--not the logical proofs...
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The Theory of the NovelA definitive study compiled from essays written by many noted authors on the various facets of the art of the novel, Theory of the Novel is Philip Stevick's latest collection of impressive works. A comprehensive anthology contain 53 commentaries on the various facets of...
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The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and KōranYanagawa Seigan (1789-1858) and his wife Kōran (1804-79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry--works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China's borders. Together, they led...
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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical MythThe Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous. The...
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The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic ProseThe Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and...
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The Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial TravellerThe Uncommercial Traveller is a remarkable display of creative journalism from Dickens's final decade, balancing Sketches by Boz at the beginning of his career. The 37 short papers, which first appeared in his weekly journal All The Year Round, offer sensitive and penetrating perspectives...
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The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood ReadingDo you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children extend far beyond our childhoods; they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past - collective and individual, remembered...
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The Flaky Mummy: A Quirky Guide To Surviving MotherhoodMotherhood is supposedly akin to sainthood-a blissful, happy mother looking adoringly at her smiley, chirpy baby. And not a cocktail in sight. But the Flaky Mummy pulls the truth out from under the carpet-in a world full of dirty diapers, the only salvation is...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the EnvironmentEnvironmental criticism is a relatively new discipline that brings the global problem of environmental crisis to the forefront of literary and cultural studies. This introduction defines what eco-criticism is and provides a set of conceptual tools to encourage students to look at the texts...
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The Cambridge Companion to William BlakeA poet, painter, and engraver, William Blake died in 1827 in obscurity. Yet he has become one of the most anthologized writers in English and one of the most collected British artists. His urge to create masterpieces of revelation has left complex (and sometimes...
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That Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle WestThat Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle West, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation...
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Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist NovelSwallowing a World offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it's typically cast as a (white, male) genre of U.S. fiction, maximalism, Benjamin Bergholtz argues, is an aesthetic response to globalization and a global phenomenon in its own right. Bergholtz considers a...
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Study Guide to The Philosophy of St Thomas AquinasA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by St. Thomas, philosopher canonized by the Catholic Church. Titles in this study guide include On Kingship and Summa Theologica. As an influential philosopher of the thirteenth-century, his work greatly...
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Study Guide to Les Misérables by Victor HugoA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables, arguably one of the most recognized novels to come from the 19th century and is still studied today. As a novel of both the Romantic and Realism...
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Specters of CavafyThe Greek Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in European modernism and world literature. His poetry explored the conditions for animating the past and making lost worlds or people haunt the present. Yet he also described himself...
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Songs of Innocence, and Songs of ExperienceSongs of Innocence and Experience brings together two books of poetry by William Blake that delve into these two opposing states of the human soul. His Songs of Innocence are often cheerful and sweet and always demonstrate the purity of youth, as Blake explores...
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Science Fiction: 101: Exploring the Craft of Science FictionBefore Robert Silverberg won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and became Grand Master of science fiction, he was a young man learning the art and craft of writing the genre. In Science Fiction: 101, Silverberg reveals the roots of modern science fiction with thought-provoking...
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Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature Volume 102What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a...
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Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature Volume 102What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a...
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