Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the BorderlandEssays by a founder of the Borderland Foundation in East-Central Europe explore the meanings of community in a fractured world. How do we build civil society? How does a society repair itself after violence? How do we live in a world with others different...
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Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of LoveIn Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love, José David Saldívar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. He explores Díaz's imaginative work and the diasporic and immigrant world he inhabits, showing how his influences converged in...
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Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean WarWarring Genealogies examines the elaboration of kinships between Chicano/a and Asian American cultural production, such as the 1954 proxy adoption of a Korean boy by Leavenworth prisoners. Joo Ok Kim considers white supremacist expressions of kinship--in prison magazines, memorials, U.S. military songbooks--as well as...
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Uneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian LiteratureUneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian Literature interweaves the personal journey of an academic into reflections around self, language and translation with an eye on the intangibly available category of experience. It dwells on quieter modes of being political, of making knowledge democratic and...
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The Wheelwright's ShopAlthough first published in 1923, to the reader newly acquainted with its pages, The Wheelwright's Shop may seem like a revelation. It describes the life and work of third-generation English wheelwright George Sturt near the end of the nineteenth century-a time shortly before efficiency...
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The Essential IsocratesThe Essential Isocrates is a comprehensive introduction to Isocrates, one of ancient Greece's foremost orators. Jon D. Mikalson presents Isocrates largely in his own words, with original English translations of selections of his writings on his life and times and on morality, religion, philosophy,...
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Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, ResistanceSurrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues that...
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Dynamic Matter: Transforming Renaissance ObjectsDynamic Matter investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects. Eschewing the critical tendency to study how objects relate to human needs and desires, this work foregrounds the objects themselves, demonstrating their potential to transform their environments as they travel across time and space.Integrating early...
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Historia AugustaThe Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna between the lives of the Gordians...
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The Present VoiceLiterary Nonfiction. Translated by Lindsay Turner. Ryoko Sekiguchi's THE PRESENT VOICE is a series of meditations on the voice, the body, media, mortality, and loss timely and important for our moment of exile, global displacement, and social distance.Author: Ryoko SekiguchiPublisher: Threadsuns PressPublished: 07/15/2021Pages: 71Binding...
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In Our TimeThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Hemingway's first major work (1925) along with two episodes that he discarded from In Our Time, "Three Shots" and "On Writing."J. Gerald Kennedy's insightful introduction, note on the text, and detailed explanatory footnotes.A rich selection of contextual materials essential...
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Craft Class: The Writing Workshop in American CultureThe hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor. In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term workshop for an experimental course in playwriting he had been planning with...
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Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet RussiaResurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia traces the "kopecks to rubles" journey of Russian comics at the turn of the century. As the follow-up to José Alaniz's groundbreaking Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (2010), Resurrection authoritatively and exhaustively details the Russian comic landscape of the...
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Approaches to Teaching the Plum in the Golden Vase (the Golden Lotus)The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chinese fiction written by a single (though anonymous) author. Featuring both complex structural elements and psychological and...
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World Literature: Reading and Writing through the ClassicsWorld Literature, the fifth volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, is designed to cultivate not only a love for great literature, but also college-ready writing skills and deep cultural literacy. Students work with unabridged great classics (purchased separately), including novels, short stories, poems,...
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OrnamentalismFocusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification and past...
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Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the AmericasLiterature is often assumed to be monolingual: publishing rights are sold on the basis of linguistic territories and translated books are assumed to move from one "original" language to another. Yet a wide range of contemporary literary works mix and meld two or more...
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Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of NationIn Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses...
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Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary ImaginationChrist and Apollo juxtaposes Christian definiteness to romantic mythologizing. A strong warning might be in order: anyone coming to this book expecting a comparison of Jesus Christ to the god Apollo or a treatment of Greek mythology next to the Christian story will be...
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Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American LiteraturesA wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks "An intricate history of Native textual production, use, and circulation that reshapes how we think about relationships between Native materials and settler-colonial collections."--Rose Miron, D'Arcy McNickle Center...
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