Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Only One Can WinRex Thorne, a tremendous young Calvary scout decided to leave the cavalry so he could start a ranch. While his fianc? was traveling by stagecoach to meet him at the ranch she was kidnapped by some rowdy's. He took up their trail and followed...
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NewspaperObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record,...
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Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton's WritingsIn Milton and the Parables of Jesus, David V. Urban examines Milton's self-referential use of figures from the New Testament parables in his works of poetry and prose.Urban's informative introduction explores the history of parable interpretation and the writings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Reformed...
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Life of Aesop the PhilosopherThe Life of Aesop the Philosopher, an anonymous Greek literary work, presents one version of the novelistic biography of Aesop, which dates to the fourth to fifth century CE. In this volume, Grammatiki A. Karla offers an extended introduction to the Life of Aesop...
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Letter Writing in Greco-Roman AntiquityMaking use of letters--both formal and personal--that have been preserved through the ages, Stanley Stowers analyzes the cultural setting within which Christianity arose.The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts in which the New...
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Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and HumanistThe first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance--a fact...
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Ink and Tears: Memory, Mourning, and Writing in the Yu FamilyHow does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This fascinating study shows how members of the prominent Yu family passed down their personal and familial memories over five generations,...
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In Dialogue with Dickens: The Mind of the HeartWritten in the form of a back-and-forth dialogue between the two authors, this book is about the relationship between feeling and thinking in Dickens's novels. It presents Dickens as a psychological thinker, whose generative thought may be conscious, unconscious, half-conscious, or in transit between...
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Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book: Agents - Networks - ResponsesThis collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore...
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Dante's Divine Comedy: A Reading GuideThe first of its kind, this guide enables readers to get as close as possible to the words of Dante's Comedy. Opening up interpretative possibilities that only become available through reading the poem in its original form, it equips students with an enjoyable and...
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Beckett's Children: A Literary MemoirBeckett's Children is a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation that probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe in search of traces of their long-rumored status as father and daughter. Although Howe has denied...
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A Doll's HouseOne of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. In the central character of Nora, Ibsen epitomized the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity....
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What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon...
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What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon...
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Wasps and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished...
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Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic CaribbeanHow writers and artists use sciencefiction to speak to the current moment in the Caribbean Exploringthe remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating fromSpanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are...
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Thoreau's GodMeditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine. Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the...
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The Tale of Genji: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Dennis Washburn's acclaimed and unabridged translation of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century literary masterpiece, widely considered the world's first novel. Editorial matter by Dennis Washburn. Fourteen background selections--from the eleventh-century The Daughter of Sugawara no Takasue to Virginia Woolf--carefully selected to...
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The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in MovementDraws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.Author: Adam W. CoonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2024Pages: 358Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438497778This title is not returnable
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The Night Has A Thousand Eyes And Other Poems (1899)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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