Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational FuturesA Queer History of Adolescence reveals categories of age--and adolescence, specifically--as an undeniable and essential mechanism in the production of difference itself. Drawing from a dynamic and varied archive, including British and American newspapers, medical papers and pamphlets, and adolescent and children's literature circulating...
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Stephen King and American HistoryThis book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out, how one understands one's...
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Los Libros, Eso Es Bueno Para Los Bebés"Los libros son buenos para los beb s? Pero si son demasiado peque os y no lo comprenden." Lejos de este supuesto, Marie Bonnaf afirma que nunca es demasiado pronto para acercar a los ni os a los libros. Y es que los beb...
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No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for AdultsChildren's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literature--when it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common?...
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By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's CapitalFollowing her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital," Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital...
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Witches' SabbathLiterary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906-1945). To Sachs, the work was a statement of account, a moral memo. Or should I say immoral? He recounts...
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Fun Yener Zayt Shvel / On the Other Side of the Threshold: Artiklen funem Zhurnal Afn Shvel, 2005-2020/ Articles from the Magazine Afn Shvel, 2005-202This is a collection of articles by Sheva Zucker, well-known Yiddish scholar and editor of the Yiddish magazine Afn Shvel from 2005-2015. The majority of the articles were written during those years and published in the magazine. The essays in this book are arranged...
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In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other WritingsWorks of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in...
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Study Guide to The Jungle by Upton SinclairA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, a novel portraying the harsh conditions and exploitation of immigrants in major US cities in the early twentieth century. As a novel of the turn of the twentieth...
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Study Guide to Sister Carrie by Theodore DreiserA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Theodore Dresier's Sister Carrie, known by many to be the greatest of the American urban novels. As a novel of the turn of the 20th Century, Sister Carrie moved away from Victorian...
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Study Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emily Bront 's Wuthering Heights, one of the most famous novels of Victorian literature. As Emily Bront s sole work, Wuthering Heights unveils the harsh reality behind a toxic and abusive relationship,...
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Study Guide to Babbitt by Sinclair LewisA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, a novel that contributed to Lewis' eventual Nobel Prize award. As a satirical novel of the roaring twenties, Babbitt addresses the "American Dream" as was idolized by the middle...
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Study Guide to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an instant success across all popular media. As an anti-war novel of the 1960s, Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five as a double story: the main character suffers from the traumatic effects...
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Study Guide to Hard Times by Charles DickensA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Hard Times, a novel that brought to light the harsh conditions of factory workers during the nineteenth century. As a novel set in nineteenth-century England, many lower class citizens worked...
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History of Ancient Greek Scholarship: From the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine AgeThis is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform fied of "ancient scholarship" from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The...
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Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His ContemporariesJohn Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing...
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Nothing Happened: A HistoryThe past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that nothing...
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The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth CenturyFollowing The People and the Books, which covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration...
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The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao YearsIt is now forty years after Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. During this time, the collective memory of these events has been sanitized, reduced to...
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Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullersUNDERSTANDING THE SHORT FICTION OF CARSON MCCULLERS uses diverse critical techniques to identify how McCullers's writing maintains lasting appeal because it captures both the joy and sadness of humanity, especially the meaning we draw from connections with others and the pain of isolation when...
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