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  • Engagiert Sein in Der Gegenwart: Formen - Diskurse - Perspektiven by Dampc-Jarosz, Renata
    Engagiert Sein in Der Gegenwart: Formen - Diskurse - Perspektiven
    This volume explores the category of engagement by looking at literary and artistic projects by international authors that are conceived as interventionist, critical and radical. The reference point of such works is usually concrete changes in social, political, cultural reality. The confrontation with different...
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  • Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction by Ward, Kiron
    Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction
    Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bola?o, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Chapters provide important new insights into the new ways that authors approach, reclaim, and...
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  • Emotional Contagion: The Aristotelian Compassio in Medieval Medicine and Philosophy by Delaurenti, B?atrice
    Emotional Contagion: The Aristotelian Compassio in Medieval Medicine and Philosophy
    This book addresses a universal problem: the transmission of psycho-physiological reactions from one person to another, and illuminates the twofold enigma, that of the trajectory of the term compassio, and that of explaining the phenomenon it denoted.Author: B?atrice DelaurentiPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 03/11/2025Pages: 320Binding...
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  • El Principito (Spanish edition) by Saint-Exup?ry, Antoine de
    El Principito (Spanish edition)
    En este cl?sico atemporal, un joven pr?ncipe de un planeta lejano emprende un viaje a trav?s del universo, encontr?ndose con personajes singulares que le ense?an valiosas lecciones sobre la amistad, el amor y el sentido de la vida. Narrado con ternura y profundidad, El...
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  • Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker by Leader, Zachary
    Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
    The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century--an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's reputation. Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as "the greatest...
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  • Dissimulatio Artis by Schmeller, Thomas
    Dissimulatio Artis
    Bei Paulus findet sich eine programmatische Ablehnung der Rhetorik, die Teil einer dissimulatio artis (Verheimlichung der [eigenen rhetorischen] Kunst) und damit selbst ein rhetorisches Mittel sein konnte. Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die dissimulatio artis in der griechisch-romischen Literatur erstmals detailliert vor, fragt nach Analogien...
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  • Die Weggeworfene Leiter: Gedanken Uber Religion Und Poesie by Lehnert, Christian
    Die Weggeworfene Leiter: Gedanken Uber Religion Und Poesie
    Der Dichter und Theologe Christian Lehnert sucht in seinen Vorlesungen zur Wiener Poetikdozentur Schwellen auf. Wittgensteins Rede von der weggeworfenen Leiter aufnehmend, erkundet er an den Grenzen der Sprache die Verwandtschaft von poetischen und religiosen Suchbewegungen ins Ungesagte. Das Verstummen Gottes am Kreuz und...
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  • Die Jugend Der Literatur: Literarische Entwurfe Von Jugend 1830-1950 by Kolk, Rainer
    Die Jugend Der Literatur: Literarische Entwurfe Von Jugend 1830-1950
    Jugend ist als Element einer Krisensemantik zu sehen, die um die moderne Individualitat zirkuliert. Literatur wendet sich Lebenslaufen zu, insbesondere mit liminalen Phasen, Orientierungsunsicherheiten und institutionellen Rahmungen. Rainer Kolk macht in diesem Band deutlich, dass emphatische Zukunftshoffnungen im Vormarz von normalisierten Darstellungen in der...
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  • Dichtungen Der Schuljahre 1710-1715: 1: Texte. 2: Einf?hrung, Nachweise Und Erl?uterungen by B?lhoff, Reiner
    Dichtungen Der Schuljahre 1710-1715: 1: Texte. 2: Einf?hrung, Nachweise Und Erl?uterungen
    Until now, there has been no complete critical textual edition of the works of G?nther, after Carl Enders was unable to realize his publishing plans and since Wilhelm Kr?mer's edition remained incomplete. The new edition takes all of the works of the great Silesian...
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  • Dichtungen Der Ersten Wanderjahre 1719-1721: 1: Texte. 2: Nachweise Und Erl?uterungen by B?lhoff, Reiner
    Dichtungen Der Ersten Wanderjahre 1719-1721: 1: Texte. 2: Nachweise Und Erl?uterungen
    Band III enthält alle Dichtungen aus der ersten Hälfte von Günthers Wanderjahren, als er nach Medizinstudium und Hofdichter-Bewerbung für jeweils kurze Zeit in Breslau, Lauban, Brieg, Kreuzburg, Bischdorf und wieder in Breslau lebte. Aufgebaut ist die Sammlung nach demselben Gattungssystem wie die bisherigen Bände,...
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  • Dialog - Begegnung - Erinnerung: Studien Zu Theorie Und Geschichte Der Literatur by Lehmann, Jurgen
    Dialog - Begegnung - Erinnerung: Studien Zu Theorie Und Geschichte Der Literatur
    Das vorliegende Buch bietet einen Uberblick uber die langjahrige literaturwissenschaftliche Tatigkeit des Erlanger Germanisten, Slawisten und Komparatisten Jurgen Lehmann. Am Beispiel reprasentativer Beitrage dokumentiert der Band die vielfaltigen Interessen und Arbeitsgebiete Lehmanns in den Bereichen Literaturtheorie, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Die den...
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  • de la Bible a Kafka by Dauzat, Pierre-Emmanuel
    de la Bible a Kafka
    Les livres indispensables nous accablent avec plus de force encore que la mort de l'aime. Ce qu'ils ont en commun, ce qui rattache les rares exemples profanes au canonique, c'est bel et bien leur statut de textes sacres, de convocation et d'assignation a l'humanite....
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  • Das Versprechen Der Freundschaft: Politik Und Asthetische Praxis Judisch-Nichtjudischer Freundschaften in Der Deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte Se by Michaelis-Konig, Andree
    Das Versprechen Der Freundschaft: Politik Und Asthetische Praxis Judisch-Nichtjudischer Freundschaften in Der Deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte Se
    Die vorliegende Studie bietet eine am Begriffsfeld der Freundschaft neu ausgerichtete literaturgeschichtliche Perspektive auf die kommunikative Begegnungssituation deutschsprachiger judischer und nichtjudischer Autor*innen seit der Aufklarung. Dazu wird eine diachrone Reihe exemplarischer Freundschaftskonstellationen vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert untersucht (u. a. Moses Mendelssohn und...
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  • Dante in Conversation with Contemporary Theorists: Insights for the Western Secular Cognoscenti by Cirelli, Blaise
    Dante in Conversation with Contemporary Theorists: Insights for the Western Secular Cognoscenti
    Dante's Divine Comedy appears on the reading list of almost every university's Humanities Studies department. But often it is thought of as a relic from the past. What if instead of considering the Divine Comedy as a historical artifact, one engaged the text as...
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  • Dance to Freedom by Gandhi, Ak
    Dance to Freedom
    Dance to Freedom uncovers the untold tales of tawaifs, unrecognized heroes in India's fight for independence. Highlighting their vital contribution to the freedom movement, this book showcases their artistic brilliance and resilience against British oppression. It celebrates their enduring influence on Indian culture and...
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  • Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Contemporary Sagas: Constructing Continuity at a Time of Transformation by Koreck?, Lucie
    Cultural Memory in the Icelandic Contemporary Sagas: Constructing Continuity at a Time of Transformation
    Author: Lucie Koreck?Publisher: de GruyterPublished: 02/17/2025Pages: 278Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9783111348421About the AuthorLucie Koreck?, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women by Gray, Jennifer
    Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women
    Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women is the first contribution to literary food study to examine Middle Eastern women's writing. Using twenty-first century transnational theory, the volume establishes books with recipes as tools of culinary diplomacy....
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  • Conversations with Dorothy Allison by Claxton, Mae Miller
    Conversations with Dorothy Allison
    Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known--along with Larry Brown and Lee Smith--as a purveyor of the working-class, contemporary South. Allison has frequently used her position, through passionate lectures and enthusiastic interviews, to...
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  • Cicero - Opera Omnia Ed. Andreas Cratander, Basel 1528: Reproduction of the Copy of the University Library in Basel Reproduktion Des Exemplars Der Bas by Manuwald, Gesine
    Cicero - Opera Omnia Ed. Andreas Cratander, Basel 1528: Reproduction of the Copy of the University Library in Basel Reproduktion Des Exemplars Der Bas
    This publication offers a complete reproduction of Andreas Cratander's monumental edition of the complete works of Cicero (Basel 1528), which marked a high point of Humanist book printing in Basel. The high-quality reprint of the two volumes allows the reader to experience historic book...
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  • Cervantine Blackness by Jones, Nicholas R.
    Cervantine Blackness
    There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes's works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author's compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what...
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Literary criticism books are essential resources for anyone interested in analyzing and understanding literature on a deeper level. These books offer insights into various literary theories, critique methods, and analytical approaches that help readers and scholars interpret and evaluate literary works.

Literary criticism books delve into the analysis of literature, exploring how different aspects such as themes, characters, and narratives contribute to a text's meaning and impact. They provide valuable frameworks and perspectives that enhance the reader's ability to engage critically with literary texts.

Criticism literature includes works that assess and interpret the value and significance of various literary genres, styles, and authors. Books such as "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom and "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster are highly regarded for their comprehensive exploration of literary traditions and techniques.

Literary criticism theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding literature. These theories include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonialism, among others. Books like "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács offer foundational knowledge in these critical perspectives, providing readers with tools to analyze texts through various lenses.

For those seeking the best books to read on literary criticism, it’s helpful to explore both classic and contemporary texts. Works like "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" by Lois Tyson and "The Elements of Literary Style" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley offer practical advice and theoretical insights for readers and students.

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A. Literary criticism books are used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. They offer various theoretical frameworks and methods to understand and critique literary works, helping readers and scholars explore themes, characters, and narrative techniques in depth.

Q. Can you recommend some foundational books on literary criticism theory?

A. Yes, some foundational books on literary criticism theory include "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton, which provides an overview of various critical approaches, and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács, which explores the evolution and form of the novel.

Q. What is criticism literature, and why is it important?

A. Criticism literature refers to works that analyze and assess the value and significance of literary texts. It is important because it helps readers and scholars gain a deeper understanding of literature, its context, and its impact, enhancing appreciation and critical engagement with texts.

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