Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Accumulation and Subjectivity: Rethinking Marx in Latin AmericaSince the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconceptualizing the relationship between political economy and the life of the subject. The fourteen essays in...
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On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, DisplacementA look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita Dean On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
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Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social ThoughtThis book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious praise uses acclaim to censure or to critique....
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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VIAuthor: Christopher PellingPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/06/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75dISBN: 9781316630211About the AuthorPelling, Christopher: - Christopher Pelling is Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. His books include, most recently, Herodotus and the Question Why...
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Us and Them: Canada, Canadians and The BeatlesUs and Them chronicles the depth to which Canada and Canadians were part of The Beatles' story-their formation, growth and break up. Entertaining and well researched, Us and Them places John, Paul, George and Ringo as a band and as solo artists in a...
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Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the UniversityA timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism. This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the...
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Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of MethodismThe Life of Wesley was one of Southey's most influential and bestselling works. It was the first biography of John Wesley - the major figure in the largest religious movement of the eighteenth century - to be published by anyone beyond the Methodist community....
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Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of MethodismThe Life of Wesley was one of Southey's most influential and bestselling works. It was the first biography of John Wesley - the major figure in the largest religious movement of the eighteenth century - to be published by anyone beyond the Methodist community....
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Inferno: Italian-English Parallel TextA unique parallel edition of Dante's Inferno with Dante's Italian and Longfellow's celebrated poetic translation on facing pages."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...
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The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical PracticeIn The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians-Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip-hop musician DJ Screw-Boon outlines how...
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Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative MovementThis is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten,...
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The Book Lover's Guide to LondonMany of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colorful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London's writers have bought the city to life through some of the...
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Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of ManWinner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize "This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others subvert the racist comparisons that have 'been used against them...
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Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-VisibleGrammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of...
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The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and MeFifty years and one billion dollars in gross box-office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The Godfather Effect skillfully analyzes the reasons behind this ongoing global phenomenon. Packed with behind-the-scenes...
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The Art of New Creation: Trajectories in Theology and the ArtsThe biblical themes of creation and new creation are inextricably bound to each other. For the God who created the world is the same God who recreates humanity in Jesus Christ and the same God who promises a new heaven and a new earth.How...
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Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of LiteratureBinding the Ghost is both manifesto and example of a new variety of reading that centers a theological perspective in considering what literature actually does. Neither dogmatic nor apologetic, sectarian or denominational, this mode of reading acknowledges the inherently charged strangeness of writing and...
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Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century LiteratureWhat happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity--for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject--and shows us paths...
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Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New SocietySoviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts. Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulletins, art folios and other...
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Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing: Readings, Conversations, PedagogiesFeminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing reexamines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing in essays that elaborate the specific literary strategies of women writers, that examine women's debts to and appropriations of different literary genres, and that offer...
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