Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Aristotle Reads HippocratesDespite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work,...
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A Companion to Josephus in the Medieval WestThe works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout the Latin west during the Middle Ages. Each generation of Christian scholars had to contend with the Jewish writer's text, reputation, and content. This...
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Writing the Cozy Mystery: Authors' Perspectives on Their CraftThis book brings together essays written by a number of well-known writers of cozy mysteries, including Sherry Harris, Amanda Flower, Leslie Budewitz, and Edith Maxwell, among others, who provide insight into their approaches to writing. Topics covered include how they work with the form,...
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Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and PlutarchDoubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical new mode of doubtful writing; one with which Montaigne...
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Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts Since 1960, Second EditionThis book examines the work of 14 female artists since 1960 with a particular focus on how the artist incorporated gender issues or feminist thought into her respective art form, giving literal expression to the lives and experiences of women over the past 60...
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Womb Work: Womb-Centered Health Narratives as Reparative PRAXIS in Black Women's FictionEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Black women writers and scholars have been engaged in the process of repairing and restoring history especially as it documents...
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What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today.Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader,...
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Virginia Woolf and the AnthropoceneThe first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates...
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Virginia Woolf and CapitalismVirginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf's engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire...
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Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit PhenomenaSpirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible, however, Reed Carlson argues that possession is also depicted in this earlier literature, though...
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Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American CultureHow nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious" Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it--most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem...
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The Worlds of George RR Martin: The Inspirations Behind Game of ThronesIn the many realms of modern fantasy there is only one true King, and his name is George Raymond Richard Martin. With A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin has created a world on a scale almost unrivalled by any other single writer. Approaching...
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The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of LiteratureA fascinating tour of literature through the medium of its most emblematic invention - the book. How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects...
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The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self"Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder."--Ada Lim?nIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith...
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The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger's Magical MaterialismThe Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger's entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity, poetry, and thinking--in short, the ineffectual--are critical for Heidegger as they offer the only path to...
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There Are Things We Live Among: Essays on the Object WorldLiterary Nonfiction. Conversational, humane, and forthright, Jennifer Moxley brings her remarkable strengths as a poet to bear on the essay tradition. At once literary and personal, THERE ARE THINGS WE LIVE AMONG follows the thread connecting texts and objects in her life, from her...
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The No-Pressure Book Journal: A No-Guilt, No-Shame, No-Stress Journal to Help You Read Better and Enjoy Books AgainHosts of the hit podcast Reading Glasses bring you the only reading journal you'll ever need, designed to help book lovers read, rant, and reflect with undeniable ease. No stress. No pressure. Brea and Mallory, passionate bibliophiles, and hosts of the Reading Glasses podcast...
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The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid IranThe Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran. Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol Empire, the volume focuses on the Ilkhanate...
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The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of WritingOne of America's most honored and respected essayists, Sven Birkerts, returns with a riveting new collection. In The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of Writing, Birkerts reflects on fundamental questions every writer grapples with at one time or another: "Ah, the old questions, the...
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The Literary Lacan: From Literature to Lituraterre and BeyondSome of the most well-known psychoanalysts and literary theorists explore Jacques Lacan's influence on literature. The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. The...
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