Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's HeroidesSeeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the stereotypical roles of Roman women, motherhood enables the Ovidian heroines to challenge traditional norms with irreverent perspectives on gender categories and familial relationships. To...
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Salinger's Soul: His Personal & Religious OdysseyA close-up look at how J.D. Salinger's private life influenced his famous stories. J.D. Salinger remains one of America's best known but least understood writers. His 1951 book, The Catcher in the Rye, lives on as one of the most iconic American novels of...
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Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic TraditionThe Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century CE, and here Celia M. Campbell offers a bold new interpretive approach. Reasserting the significance of the ancient hymnic tradition, she argues that the...
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Riding the Earthboy 40Author: James WelchPublisher: Penguin Adult Hc/TrPublished: 10/05/2004Pages: 68Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.38h x 5.44w x 0.26dISBN: 9780143034391Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorJames Welch (1940 - 2003) was the author of the novels Winter in the Blood, The Death of Jim Loney, Fools Crow (for which...
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Reading GenesisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with...
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Radical Philosophy 2.01Radical Philosophy is a London-based intellectual magazine which has been self-published since its founding in 1972.Radical Philosophy 2.01 (2018) contentsCrimes of solidarity Martina TazzioliPostmodernity, not yet Nathan BrownHegel and the Advent of Modernity Jamila M. H. MascatDossier: On the 1917 commemorations Revolutionary commemoration Hannah...
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Performing Shakespeare's Women: Playing DeadShakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors, whose bodies become...
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Penelope: PoemsWhat People Are Saying"Homer and Beckett remind us the major stories of life all involve waiting. Indeed, Odysseus's long journey home is in itself a form of waiting. And, of course, there is Penelope at her loom, as intelligent and cunning as her husband....
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Other Colors: Essays and a StoryA luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red. "One of the essential writers that both East and West can gratefully claim...
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Open Scholarship in the HumanitiesExploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created, shared, and accessed, this open access book offers new insights on the history, development, and future directions of openness in the humanities and identifies key...
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Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist EthicsIn Buddhist cosmology, pretas make up one of several categories of rebirth. They are best known as "hungry ghosts," pitiful beings with miniscule mouths and bloated stomachs whose state of extreme starvation is a result of stinginess and immorality in a former life. But...
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Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves: Bookmarked"There was a book. Oh man was there a book. It is still to this day a book I mention it to any book lover if asked for a recommendation. The best books stick with you, often reminding you of the power, and potential,...
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Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 5This fifth volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings, gathering together the choicest papers delivered at the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium at the 2022 NecronomiCon, features an array of pioneering and provocative essays on numerous aspects of H. P. Lovecraft's work. N. R. Jenzen-Jones, George...
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Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945-1979Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry and literary activism. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and traditions, Living in History begins by examining the legacies of empire and exile in the work...
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Literary Theories: A Reader and GuideThe first reader and introductory guide to literary theory--includes close readings and a full glossary and bibliographyLiterary Theories is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume. Divided into 12 sections covering structuralism, feminism, marxism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, post-structuralism, postmodernism, new historicism,...
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How to Draw a Circle: On Reading and WritingWhat is it to write a poem? What work do words do when placed with care and vision into the intensely charged space of poetic effort? How to Draw a Circle does not seek to answer those questions, but to encounter them as fully...
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How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New CriticismShows how the method of close reading traveled from the United States to Brazil and Israel, revealing its profound impact on global modernisms and reframing the lasting significance of New Criticism.Author: Yael SegalovitzPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 09/01/2024Pages: 318Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize:...
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George P?rezBorn in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, artist and writer George Pérez (1954-2022) cut his teeth in the 1970s as an artist at Marvel who worked on lesser titles like The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Creatures on the Loose, and...
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Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American NovelIn 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced his third novel, a slim work for which he had high expectations. Despite such hopes, the novel received mixed reviews and lackluster sales. Over the decades, however, the reputation of The Great Gatsby has grown and millions of...
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Friendship and the NovelFriends are at the centre of novels by everyone from George Eliot to Elena Ferrante. It is nearly impossible to name a work of fiction that is not enriched by the tensions and magnetisms of friendship. Friendship and the Novel focuses on the affective...
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