Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Jimmy's Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black ReligionA novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential The relationship of James Baldwin's life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and...
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Jane Austen's Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic NovelsAn elegantly illustrated celebration of Jane Austen's life and literature as told through the flowers, plants, and landscapes that inspired her. Through explorations of the botanical inspirations and symbolism in Austen's work and personal life, as well as historical information about the gardens and...
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Jane Austen and MasculinityThis wide-ranging collection of contemporary scholarship is the first to consider representations of men and masculinity in the work and adaptations of Jane Austen. Established and emerging Austen scholars from around the world discuss critical issues raised by her fictional treatment of masculinity, such...
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Jane Austen: A LifeWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and...
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I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected NonfictionThis second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking. In her essay "Why I Write"...
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Imagining Jesus Christ in Middle English Literature, 1275-1475: Royal Traitor, Heroic LambThis book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work. These tropes derive from Scripture,...
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How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New ScienceA provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today--the canine thinker from Kafka's story "Investigations of a Dog." Written toward the end of Kafka's life, "Investigations of a Dog" (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most...
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Herodotus: Book IIIThis accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book III of Herodotus' nine-book work is one of the richest in its exploration of themes, such as the practices and customs of different...
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Greek Myths for a Post-Truth WorldYiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities.It shows how Greek myths continue to stir our emotions and shape our experiences,...
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Graveyard GothicGraveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothic graveyard (and other burial sites) from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, as expressed in numerous forms of culture and media...
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Gothic Appalachian LiteratureGothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of the representation of economic, environmental, and political concerns.Author: Sarah RobertsonPublisher: Anthem PressPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 98Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize:...
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Goodbye Buddy: "Honoring the Unbreakable Bond: A Journey Through Pet Loss, The Death Process, and Healing."Join a heartfelt journey as a boy navigates the pain of losing his beloved dog, discovering love, comfort, and healing along the way. This book is for parents, educators, & children who need help communicating the difficult process of losing an animal companion.Author: A....
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Goodbye Buddy: "Honoring the Unbreakable Bond: A Journey Through Pet Loss, The Death Process, and Healing."Join a heartfelt journey as a boy navigates the pain of losing his beloved dog, discovering love, comfort, and healing along the way. This book is for parents, educators, & children who need help communicating the difficult process of losing an animal companion.Author: A....
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Genres of Transition: Literature and Economy in Portuguese-Speaking Southern AfricaThis book argues that literary production in Portuguese-speaking southern Africa has developed distinctive aesthetic idioms that critically respond to crises of global capitalism and related failures of post-colonial governance. Drawing from recent research at the intersection of world-systems analysis and materialist theories of world...
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Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting PoemsA rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheetahs chase oryx, and goshawks glare from falconers' arms,...
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Emporialism: Department Store Fictions and the Politics of the MediterraneanThis book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of emporialism, or the convergence between the spaces and imaginaries of empires and emporia in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided among the British, French, and Ottoman empires. By "emporia," Kamal refers to the...
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Elective Affinities: Rethinking Entanglements Between Latin America and East-Central EuropeFrom the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and culturally diverse, but never random. The Iron Curtain, in particular, forced both regions to negotiate transatlantic elective affinities , to take a stance in...
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Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial RomeA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome finally took control of Egypt. This occupation simultaneously facilitated and circumscribed the...
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Dickens and SwitzerlandDickens and Switzerland brings to light the many surprising connections between the country, which Dickens visited on several occasions, and the author's life and work. The close links between Dickens's biography, his writing and Switzerland have never before been examined so thoroughly. Rather than...
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Crime Fiction in the Age of #MetooInformed by fourth-wave feminism, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely reading of crime fiction in the age of #MeToo. The book explores five major fourth-wave feminist topics, #MeToo, rape culture, toxic masculinity, LBGTQ+ perspectives, and transgender. These topics...
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