Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk WarReassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the...
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Branded"Electrifying, dark, and delicious I devoured every tantalizing word..." Renee Rose, USA Today Bestselling authorLips brushing my ear, Caspian offers me a fair exchange. My life in exchange for the freedom of two children.Infamous for his cruelty, renowned for his wealth, the most powerful...
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JouissanceWhether inscribed within the context of capitalist or neoliberal logic and its imperative to "enjoy," as a critique of all forms of heteronormativity, a liberating force in a positive reading of biopolitics, the point of inflection in the ethics of psychoanalysis, or articulated in...
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 5: The Victorian Era - Third EditionThis is a new edition of the fifth volume of an anthology that has been called the "new standard." Author: Joseph BlackPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 07/16/2021Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 9.30h x 7.70w x 1.50dISBN: 9781554814916About the AuthorJoseph Black, University of Massachusetts Leonard Conolly, Trent...
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Vampirology: The Science of Horror's Most Famous FiendOur fascination with the vampire myth has scarcely diminished since Bram Stoker first published the classic Dracula tale in 1897, but how much of the lore is based in fact and can science explain the origins of the most famous fiend? Vampirology charts the...
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Why Bowie MattersA unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on...
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Talking at the Gates: A Life of James BaldwinAn intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement and open about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in...
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: EssaysRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art, music, literature, and political stances that have defined the twenty-first century. Even as...
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Fractured EcologiesFractured Ecologies participates in environmental praxis through literary practice. How does experimental writing contribute to the ways we think about ecology? This collection of papers, bent essays, and playful poetic impressions positions marginal aesthetic forms front and center. The idea of Fractured Ecologies is...
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Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar FictionThe canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress--recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However, is this celebratory...
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The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed's Wild and the Art of Memoir (...Afterwords)Literary Nonfiction. How did Cheryl Strayed turn a solo hike into an inspirational memoir, beloved by millions? Memoirist and professor Alden Jones sets out to explore why. But when a sudden personal crisis occurs while she is writing, Jones realizes she must confront some...
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Study Guide to The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, a 1938 Pulitzer Prize winner. As an expositional novel of the 1930s, Rawlings wrote of the Florida Crackers, wildlife, and vegetation of the region in such minute...
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Study Guide to The Idiot by Fyodor DostoyevskyA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, a literary classic due to Dostoyevsky's unique shifting writing styles and characterizations. As a mid-nineteenth century European work, The Idiot aims to highlight perfection in an imperfect world...
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Study Guide to The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, regarded by The New York Times as one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923. As a 1951 coming-of-age novel, The Catcher in the...
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Study Guide to Moby Dick by Herman MelvilleA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as "indisputably the greatest whaling novel." As an 1851 tragic epic, Moby Dick tells the story of a captain's expedition to track down...
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History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the AnthropoceneIn History 4 Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and...
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Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental IllnessMental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, while psychologists and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have in turn been interested in and influenced by literature. Pioneers within philosophy, psychiatry and literature share the endeavour...
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My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected PoemsOne of China's most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith *Shortlisted for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize*Yi Lei published her poem "A Single Woman's Bedroom" in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She...
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Silvery World and Other Stories: Anthology of Korean LiteratureThis anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in translation from the early years of the twentieth century that demonstrate the political and ideological divides that Koreans experienced during this time.Author: Michael J. PettidPublisher: Cornell East Asia SeriesPublished: 09/16/2019Pages: 316Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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A Little History of PoetryA vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New...
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