Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Letters to Woodburn Harris and OthersThe diversity of H. P. Lovecraft's correspondents is exemplified in this volume, as are important aspects of his literary and professional career. His involvement with the pulp magazine Weird Tales is reflected in letters to J. C. Henneberger (the magazine's owner) and its first...
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Letters of a Javanese Princess (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)This collection of letters was written by Raden Adjeng Kartini, the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. After being granted the rare opportunity to attend a Dutch elementary school, at the age of twelve she went into seclusion in...
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Jāmī In Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿabd Al-Raḥmān Jāmī's Works in the Islamicate World, Ca. 9th/15th-14thJāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Jāmī's Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic...
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Jazz and American CultureAuthor: Michael BorshukPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/30/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.14w x 1.18dISBN: 9781009420198
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How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social...
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Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American NovelGordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the ubiquitous and controversial novelist who inaugurated the tradition of gay romance. The book is a fascinating account of a neglected major figure in gay literary history.Author: Joseph M....
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Glimmerings and Constellations: Creative and Critical Responses: Selected Plays of Jay Wright, Volume ThreeCreative and critical responses to the plays of award winning poet Jay Wright.The lauded poet Jay Wright is known for weaving global cosmologies into taut, rhythmically dynamic verses that double as poetic and philosophical treatises. Having recently published two volumes of his selected plays,...
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Franz Kafka: The Best Works"Franz Kafka: The Best Works" is an enthralling collection of Kafka's most influential writings, delving into the depths of existential unease, surrealism, and the human condition. From the iconic "Metamorphosis" to the enigmatic "The Trial" and introspective "The Castle," these stories explore the absurdity...
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Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley's CreationFew creations have risen from literary origins to reach world-wide importance like Frankenstein. This landmark volume celebrates the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's creation and its indelible impact on art and culture. The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a...
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Forces of Imagination: Writing on WritingFrom one of our most esteemed contemporary poets, a collection of essays about reading and poetics, written over many decades, and touching on many centuries. "We expect poets to give a first-hand account of what poetry is. But some poets, when they write criticism,...
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El último HombreEl ltimo hombre en la tierra es una novela apocal ptica de ciencia ficci n escrita por Mary Shelley, publicada por primera vez en 1826. El libro narra la historia de un mundo futurista que ha sido arrasado por una plaga. La novela fue...
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Dead Reckonings No. 34 (Fall 2023)Table of ContentsA Weird Gourmand's Delight ........... Daniel PietersenZara-Louise Stubbs, ed., The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird.The Subtle Aroma of Antiquity: Two Translations by Shawn Garrett ........... Karen Joan KohoutekJean Printemps, Whimsical Tales and Froylan Turcios, The Vampire; both tr. Shawn...
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Dawn of LaborDawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae's first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation's...
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Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid: Cultural Memory, Identity, and IdeologyConstructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology presents a new examination of memory, ethnic identity, and politics within the fictional world of this Roman epic, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil's characters, settings, and narrative and the political context of the...
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Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016In the years following World War I, the "international" emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While so-called political...
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Canada In Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-CanadiansCanada in Decay is the first scholarly book questioning the undemocratic policy of mass immigration and racial diversification in Canada. This book demolishes the myth that Canada is a "nation of immigrants" by demonstrating that Canada was founded by Indigenous Quebecois, Acadians, and English...
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Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and ArtIn a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the...
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Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain"This is one of the most delightful books I have ever read.' --Eric Idle "A unique, funny picture of Britain... A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport." Richard Osman "Awhirlwind adventure around Britain's bookshops and inside the head of a...
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A Night in the CountrySelected by Louise Glück as Winner of the 2023 Changes Book Prize, Laura Newbern's second collection is a work of burning, restrained urgency that looks at loss, isolation, the passage of time--and what endures despite. Written in a town that was once home to...
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All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary InfluenceThe English literary influence on classic American novelists' depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville's,...
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