Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Classical Reception: New Challenges in a Changing WorldIn a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that...
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Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland: An Anthology of Medieval Irish Texts and InterpretationsThrough an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this volumeshowcases the expertise in classical learning that flourished in medieval Gaelic Ireland. Providing translations of all excerpts, it situates better known 'antiquity sagas' in the Middle Irish language, such as Togail...
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British Romanticism and Prison ReformIn eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century--with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment--did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison,...
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Black Speculative Feminisms: Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's FictionHow do Black women writing speculative fiction explore the use of memory as a potential strategy for liberation? In Black Speculative Feminisms, Cassandra L. Jones looks at the writings of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Rasheedah Phillips, and Nnedi Okorafor to chart...
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Babel' in Context (Rus): A Study in Cultural IdentityЭфраим Зихер - почетный профессор сравнительного литературоведения в Университете им. Бен-Гуриона. Автор многочисленных публикаций об Исааке Бабеле и современной еврейской культуре, в которых он уделяет особое внимание теме еврейской идентичности в диаспоре и Израиле. Зихер составил два сборника рассказов Бабеля на русском языке и...
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A Way to Live Now: How Journalism Shaped Ernest HemingwayA Way to Live Now juxtaposes the dual roles of fiction writer and journalist throughout the career of Ernest Hemingway. Focusing on the author's appearances in Esquire over forty years, John Fenstermaker traces the evolving nature of Hemingway's presence in its pages: first as...
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Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete WorksThis new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King...
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An Opaque Mirror for Trajan: A Literary Analysis and Interpretation of Plutarch's Regum Et Imperatorum ApophthegmataPlutarch's Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata (Sayings of Kings and Commanders) holds a peculiar position in his oeuvre. This collection of almost 500 anecdotes of barbarian, Greek, and Roman rulers and generals is introduced by a dedicatory letter to Trajan as a summary of the...
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All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark CoolidgeAll This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic...
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A History of Haitian LiteratureFrom nineteenth-century antislavery pamphleteering to accounts of ecological catastrophe in twenty-first-century fiction, Haitian literature has resounded across the globe since the nation's revolutionaries declared independence in 1804. Starting with pre-revolutionary writing, including the emergence of Haitian Creole letters, extending to the long, largely francophone...
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A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025Edited by the magazine's poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Gl?ck, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin,...
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Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian LiteratureIn Women at Odds, Riya Das demonstrates the limitations of female solidarity for the New Woman in Victorian society. On the one hand, feminist antagonism disrupts the status quo in unanticipated ways, and it helps open new domestic and professional pathways for women. On...
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Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American MoviesHollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the movies,...
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White Property, Black Trespass: Racial Capitalism and the Religious Function of Mass CriminalizationUncovers the inherently religious structure of the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and dispossessed peoples Most popular critical accounts of mass criminalization interpret police and prisons as purely social or political phenomena. While such accounts have been indispensable in moving millions into collective action and...
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Una Pena En ObservacionEscrito tras la tr?gica muerte de su amada esposa como una manera de sobrevivir los "dif?ciles momentos de la medianoche", Una Pena en Observaci?n relata los m?s sinceros pensamientos de C. S. Lewis sobre los temas fundamentales de la vida, la muerte y la...
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The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of FormThe Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary...
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The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel NasserIhsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position...
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The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished LivesAuthor: Melanie MicirPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51dISBN: 9780691259260About the AuthorMelanie Micir is assistant professor of English and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St....
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The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense SpillersHortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies. Edited by...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. LawrenceShowcasing the most exciting contemporary scholarship on D. H. Lawrence, this comprehensive collection serves as both an overview of the field at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions in D. H. Lawrence studies. Explicitly interdisciplinary in its focus and...
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