Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of GlobalizationThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or...
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Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien's LegendariumThe theory of Northern Courage was J.R.R. Tolkien's designation for the heroic ethos found in 'Germanic' or Northern heroic lays and epics. Tolkien admired the nobility of the old heroes, such as Beowulf, but wrestled with the inherent cruelty of the Welands, Ingelds, and...
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Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: Or Language Haunted by SexJulia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author. Kristeva ranges widely across Dostoyevsky's novels...
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Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural ProductionNearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship examines how Vietnamese American cultural productions register lived experiences of racism in...
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Dans L Enfer Des TournaAuthor: Samira BellilPublisher: Gallimard EducationPublished: 05/01/2003Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9782070429905Language: French
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Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020Dangerous Innocence investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the "southern outsider" in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americans' enduring...
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Cultivating Vocation in Literary StudiesThe concept of 'vocation' has garnered significant attention as a means of speaking about purposeful living and the multiple responsibilities of civic life, which converge with the broader goals of liberal education. This volume addresses the important role that literary studies can and should...
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Counterfeiters: An Historical ComedyOriginally published: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.Author: Hugh KennerPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 10/01/2005Pages: 174Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.80w x 0.52dISBN: 9781564784162About the AuthorKenner, Hugh: - Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) was one of America's great literary critics. He wrote on a range of subjects...
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Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First CenturyA groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century. Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection...
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Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of LettersAuthor: Baidik BhattacharyaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/08/2024Pages: 302Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781009422642
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Building Christian Character Through the Hobbit: Bible-Study and Companion BookBuilding Christian Character through The Hobbit is a companion book with a built-in Bible-study based upon Bilbo's adventures. Not only does it explore the many ways that Christian virtues are modeled in The Hobbit, but it also examines the terrific parallels between Bilbo's journey...
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Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of a hero's fight against monsters and sets it against a complex background of political intrigue and tribal warfare. Situated in sixth-century Scandinavia, the...
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Babylonian Creation MythsFor much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2...
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Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic MobilityAfter the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology,...
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A Robin's Egg Renaissance: Chicago Modernism & the Great WarThe history of modernism in Chicago, as told by the writers who were there. London, Paris, and New York all have their chroniclers, and now Chicago gets her due. A city of enormous contemporary literary vitality, it also was the home of a profoundly...
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Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesJames Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. This volume, with over 12,000 individual annotations (and more than double the word count of Ulysses itself), explains these references and allusions in...
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American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print CulturesThe study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation--New England is a good example--D. Berton Emerson argues the same...
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Alt Kid Lit: What Children's Literature Might BeContributions by Kristopher Alexander, Amanda K. Allen, Brianna Anderson, Catherine Burwell, Katharine Capshaw, Negin Dahya, Gabriel Duckels, Paige Gray, Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Natasha Hurley, Kenneth B. Kidd, Erica Law-Montes, Derritt Mason, Brandon Murakami, Tehmina Pirzada, Cristina Rhodes, Cristina Rivera, Jakob Rosendal, TreaAndrea M. Russworm,...
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Young UltraistaThis book aims to broaden Borgesian scholarship by presenting the ignored and suppressed juvenilia, 1919-1923-the poetry, essays, manifestos and criticism-of a "literary genius" who, two decades later, would become one of the twentieth century's most celebrated authors. Borges aficionados, upon reading this book, will...
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Writing Early ChinaEdward L. Shaughnessy is Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Rewriting Early Chinese Texts, also published by SUNY Press.Author: Edward L. ShaughnessyPublisher: State University...
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