Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Allegory and the Poetic Self: First-Person Narration in Late Medieval LiteratureTherise of an influential new family of poetry in the Middle Ages Thisbook is the first collective examination of late medieval intimate first-personnarratives that blur the lines between author, narrator, and protagonist andusually feature personification allegory and courtly love tropes, creating anexperimental new family...
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Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural TheaterLatinx peoples and culture have permeated Shakespearean performance in the United States for over 75 years--a phenomenon that, until now, has been largely overlooked as Shakespeare studies has taken a global turn in recent years. Author Carla Della Gatta argues that theater-makers and historians...
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Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern SpainWe are living in a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed tourists to Spain from all over the world. This has prompted the Spanish government to declare its cuisine as part of Spanish patrimony. Even with...
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Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of LiteratureRecent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility...
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The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the ReaderRethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce The Reader's Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader, and text....
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Victorian Nonfiction Prose: A CompanionThe Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology. Millions of texts emerged from a complex network of writers, editors, publishers and reviewers, to shape and be shaped by the dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society. Many of these works offer fundamental, often surprising...
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Armadale (Book-V)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The Devil's DictionaryThe Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades...
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Robinson Jeffers Family Travel Diaries: Volume One, British Isles, 1929In June 1929, the distinguished poet Robinson Jeffers--along with his wife Una and their twelve-year-old twin sons Donnan and Garth--set sail for Ireland, their first stop on a seven-month journey throughout the British Isles. During extended stays in Ireland, Scotland, and England, all four...
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The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global LiteratureHow decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cultural...
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Head Case: My Father, Alzheimer's & Other BrainstormsNorth Carolina writer and publisher Alexis Orgera's new memoir, HEAD CASE: MY FATHER, ALZHEIMER'S & OTHER BRAINSTORMS, is a lyric experiment written in the immediacy of grief during the end stages of her father's early Alzheimer's diagnosis at age 52--a disease that is a...
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National Literature in Multinational StatesIf literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginary--a sense of common history and destiny--it has also complicated, even challenged, the unifying vision assumed in the formation of a national literature and sense of nation. National Literature in Multinational States questions the...
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Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, CultureThis collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture. Ableism remains the most socially acceptable form of intolerance, with pejoratives referencing disability - and intellectual disability...
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Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening EngagementReading Poetry with College and University Students aims to help faculty foster students' intellectual and aesthetic engagement with poems while enabling them to sharpen critical and creative thinking skills. Reading authors across history and the globe--such as Julia Alvarez, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahmoud...
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Lorca's Poetic Practice from Poemas en prosa to Poeta en Nueva York: Ten EssaysThese ten essays by Andrew A. Anderson about Federico García Lorca's Poemas en prosa and/or Poeta en Nueva York are all concerned, in one way or another, with issues of content, technique, and style, as well as the challenges they present to literary-critical analysis...
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What Is a Jewish Classicist?: Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary PoliticsIn recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage...
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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social JusticeThe Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and issues of social justice and arts activism by an international team of leading scholars, directors, arts activists, and educators. Across four sections it explores the...
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Muslim Women's Writing from across South and Southeast AsiaThis essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim women's writing and the ways they navigate cultural, political, and controversial boundaries. Providing a global, contemporary collection of essays, this volume uses varied methods of analysis and methodology, including: - Contemporary forms of expression, such...
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Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and LiteratureMany films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series...
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The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of VulnerabilityAnalysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile...
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