Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of LivingWe tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up...
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of UsNATIONAL BESTSELLER This "lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary" (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume's life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic--and controversial--young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber. Everyone knows Judy...
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The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and PlantsAuthor: Bonnie Lander JohnsonPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/13/2025Pages: 406Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781108837736
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American PoetryWith chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America.The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry covers such topics as: - Major...
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The Black Box: Writing the RaceA New York Times Notable Book "Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its...
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The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations En La Frontera, Volume 2An anthology that reimagines Shakespeare's works from the perspective of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. For decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theater-makers have worked to repurpose the plays of William Shakespeare to reflect the histories and lived realities of the United States-Mexico Borderlands, or La Frontera....
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Tasting and Testing Books: Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow ReadingHonorable Mention, 2023-2024 Research Society of American Periodicals Book Prize In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one...
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Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion's LightSlouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note to Joan Didion.In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively...loves it so radically that he remakes it in...
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Second Chances: Shakespeare and FreudA powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy."--Rowan Williams, New Statesman In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how...
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Screening Work: The Films of Christian PetzoldChristian Petzold (b. 1960) is arguably the most prominent filmmaker working in Germany today, with a growing international reputation for his carefully fashioned narrative studies of identity and relationships. Running through the core of his films is the theme of work, in various forms...
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Salman Rushdie the Believer: A Satanic Journey Mirroring BeliefThis book's critical approach offers an interpretation that seeks to illuminate Salman Rushdie's own struggle with religious identity. The focus on Rushdie's The Satanic Verses as a display of personal struggle transcends the post publication's controversy surrounding the novel. It also suggests a possible...
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Reader's House Magazine - Scott Mariani: Interviews with award winning authors;We are thrilled to announce that the upcoming issue (49) of Reader's House Magazine will feature the esteemed Author Scott Mariani on our cover. As a Sunday Times Bestselling Author, Mariani has captivated readers worldwide with his unique blend of modern thriller action and...
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Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and MonstersTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERQueer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and...
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Powers of Reading: From Plato to AudiobooksA historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading "Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of address, one that is as archaic as it is contemporary. When we read, are...
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Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders"Collected together in this volume are long poems and stanzas attributed to the characters who appear in sagas of Icelanders (family sagas), including such well known figures as Egill Skallagrimsson, Gisli Sursson and Grettir Asmundarson. The poetry from twenty-four complete sagas and four short...
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Permission to Be Seen"Permission to Be Seen" by Aurora Jade is a deeply personal debut poetry collection that deals with the universal struggle to feel seen and understood. Divided into four chapters-roots, thorns, storm, and bloom-the book traces the journey from growing unseen in a broken home,...
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Palimpsests and Related Phenomena Across Languages and CulturesIn the traditional view of European scholarship, palimpsests are parchment manuscripts from Antiquity or the Middle Ages whose original content has been erased, scraped away, or washed off and later overwritten with new content. This removed content is usually the focus of research. The...
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On WonderAuthor: Tita ChicoPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/27/2025Pages: 78Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781009539678
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Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of TechTracing the convergence of ecology and engineering over the last three decades, this book pinpoints a new environmental paradigm that the author calls Nature Remade. Allison Carruth's Novel Ecologies shows how the tech industry has taken up the wilderness mythologies that shaped one strain...
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Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial MexicoNahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico investigates how Nahuas conceptualized their futures in the early colonial period. Scholar Ezekiel G. Stear delves deeply into canonical texts such as the Florentine Codex and the Cr?nica mexicayotl as well as understudied texts such...
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