Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British EmpireHow ordinary forms of writing--including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines--shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages...
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Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in LiteratureThe Bible and theology are contested spaces, battlegrounds where participants guard entrenched beliefs against perceived threats. But literature, observes novelist Salman Rushdie, opens the universe. It expands what we perceive and understand, and ultimately what we are. Writers make our world feel larger and...
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PearlPearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over,...
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Otherworldly Mothering: The Maternal Grammar of Black Women's Writing, 1970-1990Otherworldly Mothering argues that literary works by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara reimagine subjectivity in processual and relational terms through a rewriting of maternal praxis, a technique that unveils the historical continuities between antebellum and neoliberal America....
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Novios de Federico, LosAuthor: Pablo de DalmasesPublisher: AlmuzaraPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 324Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788419387912Language: Spanish
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Nobre Alcorao: PortugueseNobre Alcorao in Portuguese: Translation Nobre Alcorao]. O Alcor o a maior d diva de Deus humanidade e a sua sabedoria de uma esp cie nica, exposto, em termos breves, o prop sito do Livro consiste em ser o recepitor das revela es divinas,...
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Murder in the West End Volume II (hardback): The Plays of Agatha Christie and Her DisciplesDuring the first two decades of the twentieth century, only a few criminous plays premiered in London's West End. The Tragedy of Nan (1908), by John Masefield, is the story of Nan Hardwick, whose father was hung for stealing sheep and she moves in...
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Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.Author: Nicole C. DittmerPublisher: Rlpg/GalleysPublished: 04/08/2024Pages:...
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Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English TranslationDescription Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Dillinger, and Al Capone were all are criminals who robbed and killed, yet they were considered good outlaws, celebrated in sensational newspapers, newsreels, and dime novels of the day, and later in film and television, for their...
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Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction: Six Novels in "a Style Entirely New"Jane Austen's creative process has been largely unexamined. This book explores her development as a writer: what she adapted from tradition for her needs; what she learned novel to novel; how she used that learning in future works; and how her ultimate mastery of...
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H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book: Weirdly IllustratedAcclaimed artist Michael Bukowski takes the weird scribbled entries in H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book that formed the foundation of the author's more infamous stories and creates a memorable addition to any bookshelf devoted to the weird. Featuring a mix of full-color spreads and cleverly...
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Heroes for an Age of Anxiety: Standing on the Shoulders of GiantsAuthor: Dana HuntleyPublisher: Central Park South PublishingPublished: 08/06/2024Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52dISBN: 9781956452709
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Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance LiteratureA prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds. In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical innovation by locating a cultural imaginary of transition in...
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Folk Tales from the Deccan - Part 1 (Full Colour)Author: Arifa NaeemPublisher: White Falcon PublishingPublished: 08/09/2024Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.15dISBN: 9798892224048
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Estudiar Antigone: Análisis de pasajes clave de la obra de AnouilhAn lisis de pasajes clave de la obra de Anouilh ANTIGONA.Author: Gloria LauzannePublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 11/30/2018Pages: 36Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09dISBN: 9781790554058Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Early American WritingDrawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature--including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years,...
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Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and ReconstructionDuring the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled bodies came to represent the future of a nation that had been torn apart,...
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Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy FictionA "savvy study" (Publishers Weekly) and a fascinating exploration of the roles many spy novelists played during World War II and the influence of intelligence work on their writing.World War II deception operations created elaborate fictions and subterfuges to prevent the enemy from apprehending...
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Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of SubcreationMark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or...
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Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Investigations in American CultureThis collection of eight wide-ranging essays on aspects of American culture, first published in 1988, has been out of print for many years. It explores guns, cars, racism, politics and paranoia in startling ways, unparallelled before or since. It is even more relevant today....
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