Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American CultureThe Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture questions bordering as an organizing principle of culture, conflict, and politics. Shannon Dowd argues that Central and South American border conflicts such as the Chaco War, between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935); the Soccer...
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The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and ReadersIn The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to...
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The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third ReichExamines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust. The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands...
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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: Volumes 1-3At various points over the last 400 years, key political, economic and social processes, have worked to hinder or promote the expansion and dissemination of information across Britain and Ireland via newspapers and periodicals. In a contemporary era characterized by debate on the limits...
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The Darkest TimelineLike Black Mirror on steroids, The Darkest Timeline issues 9 vignettes of doom in the form of theoretical essays that outline not the likelihood, but the certainty of our demise as a species. Taking into account an array of apocalyptic modalities, Bram E. Gieben...
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short StoryThis Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as...
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The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, GrahamStyle is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds...
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St Erkenwald: A Critical EditionAn ancient tomb is discovered deep in the foundations of St Paul's. It is decorated with a mysterious inscription in letters of gold. The body within is unblemished, dressed as a judge and with a crown and sceptre. Obviously an important person, but unidentified....
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The New Arcadia, Second Revised EditionModern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary...
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Selected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAuthor: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Large Print PressPublished: 12/01/2009Pages: 681Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50dISBN: 9781410421760This title is only available via back order
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Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954-79The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters. Seedtime--Jaccottet's notebooks--is an especially good introduction to this leading francophone Swiss author, containing the poet's observations of the natural world and his reflections on literature, art,...
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Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and PsychoanalysisSecret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer reveals, such rivalries played out in explicit criticism, inventive misreadings, and...
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Rethinking George MacDonald: Contexts and ContemporariesGeorge MacDonald (1824-1905) is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: however, his place in his own time is seldom examined. This omission does MacDonald a grave disservice. By ignoring a fundamental aspect of...
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Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭārCyrus Ali Zargar is Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism and Sufi...
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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry ForensicallyWhat makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? While there are as many ways to read a poem as there are types of poetry, every poem demands a conscious attention to language. Reading poems forensically helps us bring that attention to our own...
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Reading Homer's OdysseyFinalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities...
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Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century NovelHow Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between...
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Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American EnlightenmentProfessing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-catastrophic realization in American history. D. Marcel DeCoste surveys McCarthy's...
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Plutarch and His Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman EmpireThe volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period. It contains twenty-eight contributions which adopt a comparative approach and put into sharper relief ongoing debates and shared concerns, revealing a complex topography of...
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Mapping Middle-Earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's CartographiesIn this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien's corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader...
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