Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Forms of the AffectsWhat is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an interrupted horizontal line, or grief a figure of blazing light?Offering a bold corrective to the emphasis on embodiment...
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Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery SubjectsArguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those "monstrous intimacies" and their repetition as...
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The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary EcologyThe Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing...
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The Birth-MarkA stimulating examination of early American literatureSusan Howe approaches early American literature as pet and critic, blending scholarship with passionate commitment and unique view of her subject. The Birth-mark traces the collusive relationships among tradition, the constitution of critical editions, literary history and criticism,...
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The Parasite: Volume 1Influential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres's arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue--creating diversity and complexity...
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Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and MasculinityIn Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disputes the belief that speaking Standard English and giving up Black English Vernacular helps black students succeed academically. Young argues that this assumption not only exaggerates the differences between two compatible varieties of English but forces black...
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Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as...
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The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales and Their TellersThis comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and...
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Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum, Volume 9: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Annotated Lists and GuidesIn publication since 1960 and now in its ninth volume, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum furnishes concrete evidence of when, where, and how an ancient author was known and appreciated in monastic, university, and humanist circles. Each article presents a historical survey of the...
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Campo Santo"W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence-humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning and self-revelation. ....
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Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran HogwartsIn Harry Potter and Philosophy, seventeen philosophical experts unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, and uncover surprising insights that are enlightening both for wizards and the most discerning muggles.Author: David BaggettPublisher: Open CourtPublished: 09/10/2004Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.96h x 5.44w x 0.56dISBN: 9780812694550
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The Complete Old English PoemsFrom the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was...
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Urn BurialHydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne's associative mind wanders to...
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A Stein ReaderThis important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity. Ulla E. Dydo's textual scholarship demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of convention, and A Stein Reader changes the balance of work in print, concentrating on Stein's experimental work and including many...
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German Existentialism"On the day of German Labor, on the day of the Community of the People, the Rector of Freiburg University, Dr. Marin Heidegger, made his official entry into the National Socialist Party." And so begins one of the most controversial philosophical texts available today....
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Poem of the Cid: A Modern Translation with Notes by Paul BlackburnFew works have shaped a national literature as thoroughly as the Poem of the Cid has shaped the Spanish literary tradition. Tracing the life of the eleventh-century military commander Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called El Cid (from the Arabic Sayyidi, My Lord), this medieval...
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Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and PowerIn this illuminating study, Marilyn Randall takes on the question of why some cases of literary repetition become great art, while others are relegated to the ignominy of plagiarism. Her discussion reveals that plagiarism is not the objective textual fact it is often taken...
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Ugaritic Narrative PoetryAuthor: Simon B. ParkerPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.38w x 0.70dISBN: 9780788503375This title is not returnable
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The Modern Weird TaleThis is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from...
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and FantasyAs any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading--about all kinds of older...
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