Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Masque of Anarchy;A PoemThis vintage book contains Percy Bysshe Shelley's seminal 1819 poem, "Masque of Anarchy". The poem, though written in a relaxed and familiar manner, is highly characteristic of Shelly's other works. It has the usual ardour of his tone, the unbounded sensibility by which he...
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The Little Prince: The Visual EncyclopediaThis exceptional volume celebrates one of the greatest heroes in world cultural heritage: the Little Prince. Created in conjunction with some of the story's greatest connoisseurs, this visual dictionary presents every aspect of The Little Prince: a behind-the-scenes look at the writing of the...
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The Great Game: Essays on PoeticsIn this essay collection, Amit Majmudar meditates on the poetic canon of the West and the traditions of world literature. In The Great Game, poet, critic, translator, and literary omnivore Amit Majmudar ranges widely, writing with characteristic verve on canonical authors such as Milton,...
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The Castaway's Tale: Robert Drury, Daniel Defoe and the Story That Has Linked Them for 300 YearsIn 1729, a remarkable book appeared in London. The author, Robert Drury, took up residence at Old Tom's coffeehouse in the center of the city, welcoming the curious to hear his incredible tale: a voyage to Asia on an East India ship, floundering off...
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The Cambridge Companion to HomerThe two Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, have long been considered masterpieces, and their influence on subsequent Greek and Western literature has been immense. An international team of experts discusses the poems, their background and composition, and subsequent reception to the present...
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The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot TwistsEnjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favorite novels, discover the winners of prestigious awards...
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The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal AgeThe Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence. It examines the Bildungsroman as a flourishing...
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Telling the Bees: An Interspecies MonologueIn a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts, theories, musings, and meditations. The result was an apian journal that...
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Tales of LoveAssuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Julia Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self. Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of...
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Stories of the Street: Reimagining Found TextsWhen walking down the street, it is not uncommon to see lost items that have escaped their proper receptacles, but how often does one stop to read the messages left behind? David Lazar has stopped often, capturing the pieces of a "lost world on...
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Stephen King: Stories from Five Decades of Storytelling50 years ago a book titled Carrie was released. The book's author was the then 26-year-old Stephen King. In the five decades since then, he has released another 87 books and is now one of the world's most famous writers.Hans-?ke Lilja, one of the...
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Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia MemoryTracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay between past and present and its anachronistic retro-speculation, Neo-Victorian-infused...
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love StoryAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, Oprah Daily, Publishers Weekly, Vogue, Vulture, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, The Story Exchange, The Messenger, Real Simple, How to Be, BookPage From the New York Times...
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Shakespeare's Silent Partner: An inquiry into the Shakespeare problem and authorshipThis inevitably controversial new work casts entirely new light on who wrote the Shakespeare plays.The Shakespeare authorship question is the longest running and most heated literary controversy in history. In a major new contribution David Taylor offers a comprehensive review of how and why...
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Shadows & Verse: Classic Dark Poems with Celebrity CommentaryShadows & Verse: Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary is a very special collection of poems and song lyrics that explore 'darkness' in all its many forms -the supernatural, grief, PTSD, loss, the unknown, death, and even joy. Darkness itself is not always bad or...
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Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern FranceAnxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to print. These views take root in a conception of reading as an immersive activity, exemplified by the experience...
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Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesRachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experimentation and a desire to push...
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?Qui?n le teme a la teor?a?: manual de iniciaci?n en cr?ticas literarias y culturalesLa teor?a tiene muchas posibilidades, aunque supone grandes retos. Qui?n le teme a la teor?a?: Manual de iniciaci?n en cr?ticas literarias y culturales presenta algunas de sus herramientas anal?ticas y, sobre todo, provee mecanismos para interrogar los textos con los que interact?as en la...
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Queer Pop: Aesthetic Interventions in Contemporary CulturePopular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and performers who question the contours of traditional sexual and gender identities, including but not limited to members of LGBTQIA* communities. When encountered on the stage or screen,...
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OuidaThis new study of Marie Louise de la Ram?e (1839-1908), who wrote under the pseudonym Ouida, considers the best-selling Victorian author's vivid, evocative work and especially the complex, even complicated ways in which she envisions and portrays gender.Author: Helena EsserPublisher: Edward Everett RootPublished: 09/30/2024Pages:...
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