Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Lovecraft Annual No. 15 (2021)This fifteenth issue of The Lovecraft Annual features cutting-edge scholarship on the life, work, and thought of H. P. Lovecraft. Among the biographical articles, we find Horace A. Smith examining aspects of Lovecraft's early interest in astronomy; Ken Faig, Jr.'s study of Lovecraft's relations...
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King Lear: Arden Performance EditionsKing Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power that had defined him. Arden Performance Editions are ideal...
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The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material HistoryA history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the "death of the book" has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens...
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Lysis. Symposium. PhaedrusPlato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family circa 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded...
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One-Block Revolution: 20 Years of Community BuildingWhen a public defender named Jim Sheehan received an unexpected inheritance, he decided to put his money to work for people and the planet. He purchased and renovated a cluster of six buildings in a dilapidated corner of downtown Spokane, Washington and repurposed them...
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Norton Introduction to LiteratureThe Fourteenth High School Edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature offers an exciting mix of contemporary and classic stories, poems, and plays that instructors love to teach. Organized by genre and theme, the book provides a flexible approach as well as tools that...
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Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist SyriaThe November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project--a Ba'thist cultural revolution--sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics...
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The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom ScholemThe Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem's thought....
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The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late AntiquityTime is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation - under Christianity's influence - happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began...
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Alphabet Tracing Workbook: Preschool Practice Handwriting Book, ABC Practice Paper, Learning Writing Letters for Toddlers, Kindergarten and KidsThe Fun Way to Learn HandwritingHelp your child master their handwriting skills with this fun animal letter tracing workbook Easy-to-follow worksheets feature letters with numbered arrows that show stroke order and direction to write. Why Kids Will Love this Book Helps with letter recognition...
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The Fur Trader: From Oslo to Oxford HouseThe Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.'s personal narrative detailing the years (1925-1928) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade. Mortensen's original...
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Sonic Bodies: Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval EnglandWhat is the body when it performs music? And what, conversely, is music as it reverberates through or pours out of a performing body? Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise--that music requires a body to perform it--to rethink the relationship between music, matter,...
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Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation: Volume 1: Frameworks, Arguments, English to 1250For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and extent of their importance have been insufficiently recognized. A longstanding identification of medieval western European...
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The Most Reluctant ConvertIn his teens, a young man wrote, ""I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them."" After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, ""I never sank so low as to pray."" To a religious...
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The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read...
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The Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter HammonThe Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter Hammon compiles the works of Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black writer. When his poem "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries" appeared in print as a broadside in 1761, Hammon unknowingly changed American literature...
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IntertextualityThis successful introduction to intertextuality deftly introduces this crucial area and relates its significance to key theories and movements in the study of literature. The third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter, looking at intermediality, and how the study of intertextuality...
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Poetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and PoetryPoetic Song Verse: Blues-Based Popular Music and Poetry invokes and critiques the relationship between blues-based popular music and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The volume is anchored in music from the 1960s, when a concentration of artists transformed modes of popular music...
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Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VIIIn Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, 'at its most emotional, vivid, and varied' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415-413 BCE). Book 7 opens with Athens seemingly on the point of victory,...
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Reading with LincolnThrough extensive reading and reflection, Abraham Lincoln fashioned a mind as powerfully intellectual and superlatively communicative as that of any other American political leader. Reading with Lincoln uncovers the how of Lincoln's inspiring rise to greatness by connecting the content of his reading to...
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