Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Joy (or Something Darker, But Like It): Poetry & ParentingJoy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that considers poetry in the context of parenting--what poems and poets might teach us about parenting, what parenting might teach us about poetry,...
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In Theory: Nations, Classes, LiteraturesAfter theSecond World War, nationalism emerged as the principle expression ofresistance to Western imperialism in a variety of regions from theIndian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin America and thePacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference and the formation of theNon-Aligned Movement, many of...
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading LifeAuthor: Anne BogelPublisher: Baker BooksPublished: 04/23/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.34dISBN: 9781540904621This title is not returnable
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"Everything Came to Me at Once": the Intellectual Vision of Ren? GirardSome academics beguile you with a few interesting ideas while other academics shake your world. Ren? Girard belongs in the second camp. He demonstrates the uniqueness and indispensability of Christian revelation to a culture that is skeptical of the Gospel, and does so in...
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Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative EconomyShows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.Author: Waiyee LohPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/01/2024Pages: 220Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438498270This title is not returnable
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El Mundo Zurdo 8: Selected Works from the 2019 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzald?aEl Mundo Zurdo 8 is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzald?a, selected from the 2019 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzald?a.Contributors include: Mariana Alessandri,...
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El Mundo Zurdo 2: Selected Works from the 2010 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzald?aEl Mundo Zurdo 2 is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzald?a, selected from the 2010 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzald?a. Contributors include: Laurel...
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Denationalizing Identities: The Politics of Performance in the Chinese DiasporaDenationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights--Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun--shows the impact of theater on ideas of "Chineseness" across China,...
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Denationalizing Identities: The Politics of Performance in the Chinese DiasporaDenationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights--Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun--shows the impact of theater on ideas of "Chineseness" across China,...
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Dead Reckonings No. 35 (Spring 2024)Table of ContentsEvenson Collection Well Worth Reading ........... Tony FonsecaBrian Evenson, None of You Shall Be Spared.Two Authors, Art, High Weirdness, and Being Down-and-Out on the Streets of California ........... G?za A. G. ReillyRobert Guffey, Cryptopolis and Other Stories.An Excellent End to Handheld Press:...
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Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels in One SittingCelebrate the bicentennial birthday of Charles Dickens with this Miniature Edition packed with witty summaries of the novels of one of history's most beloved storytellers. All fans of great literature can enjoy these perfectly portable renditions of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations,...
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Biographia Literaria"The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM." -Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIn his Biographia Literaria, Coleridge explains...
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Approaches to Emotion in Middle English LiteratureOver the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature -- in...
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AfterLife: There Will Be Trouble (Book 1 of 3 Book Series), PG-Rated VersionOver-all.AfterLife lays out the difficulty we face in the coexistence of both a good God and evil. The book explores the problem in storylines on Earth and in Paradise. An angel is the main character who travels between Paradise and Earth to witness the...
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A Companion to the Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation and Its European Vernacular ContextsThe Boke of Gostely Grace is a Middle English translation of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241-1298), a Benedictine/Cistercian nun at the convent of Helfta. This new Companion will add momentum to the current interdisciplinary and theoretical debate...
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U and I: A True StoryBaker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size--fellow novelist and omnipresent influence John Updike. "Willfully outrageous and often very funny".--The New York Times.Author:...
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Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/LongingToni Morrison's readers and critics typically focus more on the "what" than the "how" of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison's expressed narrative intention of providing "spaces for the reader" to help...
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They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated and Forgotten Mystery NovelsIf characters die in a mystery novel, and no one reads their story, have they died in vain? Mystery experts -- booksellers, reviewers, genre devotees -- introduce you to personal favorites: obscure classics, up-and-coming new writers, great books that unaccountably disappeared and lesser-known titles...
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer: Text & Critical IntroductionThis book uniquely offers everything a reader needs to appreciate the text.It gives the reader a newly edited Middle English text with side-by-side modernization and a commentary. Also included are chapters on the General Prologue, the Structure of the Wife's Prologue and Tale, the...
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The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new worldThat has such people in't!' Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was...
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