Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and MeAuthor: Douglas FieldPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781526175175About the AuthorDouglas Field is a writer and academic who teaches American literature at the University of Manchester. He has published two books on James Baldwin, the most recent of which is All Those...
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Unsettling Thoreau: Native Americans, Settler Colonialism, and the Power of PlaceHenry David Thoreau's life-long fascination with Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of interest, and it is also a source of modern debate. This is a figure who both had a deep interest in Native American history and culture and was...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Deluxe Hardbound EditionIn light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing his entire estate. Despite his and his wife's compassionate treatment of their slaves, Shelby is compelled to sell two of them to Mr. Haley, a...
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Tropes of Engagement: Chaucer's Italian Poetics of IntertextualityWhile scholars have long explored connections between Chaucer and Boccaccio, relatively few have asked why Chaucer makes such a habit of obscuring the influence of his favourite vernacular author. Tropes of Engagement asks the question of what motivated Chaucer to camouflage his debt to...
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Transnational Literature of Resistance: Guyana and Palestine, 1950s-1980sFills a gap in comparative studies, interrogating strategies of Empire in dominating the Indigenous and linking two modern cultures from the Global South.Transnational Literature of Resistancecompares and contrasts resistance literatures from Guyana - a British exploitation colony - and Palestine - a settler colony...
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Three Talks: Metaphor and Metonymy, Meaning and Mystery, Magic and MoralityThree Talks is the first prose collection by the award-winning poet and educator Brenda Hillman. These short essays on six M's of the art of poetry make the form accessible in a novel way, exploring words that might appear incompatible but become dancing partners...
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The Way to Hell: Machiavelli for Catastrophic TimesAn incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises Catastrophe looms. Political, environmental, epidemic, and military crises arrive with increasing frequency. In The Way to Hell, Nathan Crick...
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The Waiting Water: Order, Sacrifice, and Submergence in German RealismThe Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature--death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it. With somber regularity, they...
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The Topkapı Qurʾān Manuscript H.S. 32: History, Text, and VariantsThis study presents a comprehensive and systematic examination of a revered Qurʾān manuscript, commonly attributed to the third Islamic Caliph, ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān (d. 35/656), housed at the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul, Türkiye (identified as H.S. 32). Halaseh offers a meticulous analysis of...
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The Sonnets of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: A Dual Language TranslationNever afraid to think for himself, Pico judged Petrarch's poetry as "something to entice in the first instance, but does not satisfy further." Yet, he did not stop there. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was a man who rattled his contemporary Great Chain of Beiing....
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The Singer of Tales: Third EditionFirst published in 1960, Albert B. Lord's The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia,...
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The PrefacesAuthor: Henry JamesPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/13/2024Pages: 829Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.96lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.27w x 2.02dISBN: 9781107002685
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The Poetry of Louise Glück: A Thematic Introduction Volume 1A dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years, Louise Glück has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 and was named U.S. poet laureate for 2003-2004. In a full-length study...
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Theory of the LyricWhat sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric--the older Romantic model and the modern conception that has...
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Theological Tractates. the Consolation of PhilosophyA Christian polymath embraces reason against misfortune in poetry and prose. Boethius (Boetius)--Anicius Manlius Severinus--Roman statesman and philosopher (ca. AD 480-524), was son of Flavius Manlius Boetius, after whose death he was looked after by several men, especially Memmius Symmachus. He married Symmachus' daughter,...
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The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, CriticsHelen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show--lucidly and invitingly--just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as...
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The Meaning Of Moby Dick""The Meaning of Moby Dick"" by William S. Gleim is a literary analysis of the classic novel ""Moby Dick"" by Herman Melville. The book delves into the symbolism, themes, and motifs of the novel, exploring the deeper meanings behind Melville's words. Gleim also examines...
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The Joyce of Everyday LifePart of James Joyce's genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, "a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that...
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The Horror Aesthetic: Essays from the Dark Corners of the GenreMany creatures lurk in the dark, weaving on top of one another, roiling together like waves on the night sea. The darkness forms in layers to encompass the land, fill the corners, and obscure angles. Untold mysteries lie just beyond reach told in many...
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The Hero and the Victim: Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War FictionTwo decades after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a canon of American literature about the war has begun to emerge. Gregory Brazeal's The Hero and the Victim situates Iraq War fiction in war literature's broader history. In contrast to the emphasis of...
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