Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Works of Thomas Traherne VII: Christian Ethicks and Roman ForgeriesHereford Cathedral is proud of its four stained-glass windows commemorating Traherne, but these volumes are as glorious a memorial. DAILY TELEGRAPH [Christopher Howse] Thomas Traherne (1637-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until the early twentieth century,...
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Raymond Chandler: The Detections of TotalityThe master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he...
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Turkish Literature as World LiteratureEssays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman literary scene are complemented by...
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Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin AmericaA publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina's 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged...
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Prismatic TranslationTranslation can be seen as producing a text in one language that will count as equivalent to a text in another. It can also be seen as a release of multiple signifying possibilities, an opening of the source text to Language in all its...
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Dante's Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual JourneyDante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost,...
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On Samuel R. Delany's DhalgrenSamuel R. Delany is the winner of two Hugos and four Nebula Awards. He has been honored with lifetime achievement awards, including SFWA's Grand Master, the Eaton Award, the Lambda Pilgrim Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and was inducted into the Science Fiction...
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How the Soviet Jew Was MadeA close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish...
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Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, TransformationThis volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary...
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Canadian Performance Documents and Debates: A SourcebookCanadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents...
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Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women WritersAuthor: Barbara ChristianPublisher: Teachers College PressPublished: 06/16/1986Pages: 261Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.30w x 0.52dISBN: 9780807762530
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The Divine Comedy"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third." - T. S. Eliot"Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature." - Ian Thompson."I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food,...
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ClamorLiterary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Music. Translated by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio. Artwork by Julie Simon-Titecat. Hocine Tandjaoui's poetic memoir, CLAMOR, is a gripping testimonial to the transnational solidarities forged across the decolonizing world in the 1950s and 60s, from...
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Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero ComicsExplores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and...
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On CamusA window onto one of the most consequential friendships in philosophical history, that of Sartre and Camus--and on its end. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his...
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Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval MediterraneanIn Jewish Literary Eros, Isabelle Levy explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish writings. Examining medieval prosimetra (texts composed of alternating prose and verse), Levy demonstrates that secular love is the common theme across Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Italian texts. At the crossroads...
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Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman ThoughtHow did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world?What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain as it is or will it undergo a catastrophic change? What role do the gods, human morality, and...
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The Cambridge Companion to Early American LiteratureThis Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence...
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On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing 50th Anniversary EditionPoetry. California Interest. Afterword by Lytle Shaw. The Song Cave presents an expanded edition of the long out of print City Lights Books classic ON THE MESA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BOLINAS WRITING in celebration of its 50th anniversary. This is a gathering of poets,...
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Written on WaterNow back in print, these witty, insightful ssays on fashion, cinema, wartime, and everyday life demonstrate why Eileen Chang was and is a major icon of twentieth-century Chinese literature. Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated and influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural...
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