Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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German Expressionist Cinema: The World of Light and ShadowBefore Hollywood's golden age, German expressionist film was arguably the most important cinematic movement in the medium's history. These 'symphonies of... iridescent movement' of Weimar cinema provide some of cinema's most iconic images, and its vivid contrasts and dark spaces constitute a major influence...
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Everyman and MankindEveryman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his efforts to secure himself a life thereafter, whilst Mankind shows a...
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The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead LettersWriters have been killing themselves for centuries. From Petronius in ancient Rome to the 20th Century Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, writers, more than any other kind of artist, have taken their own lives in an extraordinary number of ways. With bullets, poison, drugs and...
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Isla NegraFew writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile's coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an...
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Modern Masters Volume 13: Jerry OrdwayIn this latest volume of the Modern Masters series, Ordway's life and career are spotlighted as he discusses the work that's made him a fan-favorite, complete with an extensive art gallery. Also presented is a lavish color section, featuring more remarkable Ordway illustrations. One...
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The Celtic Heroic AgeA new fourth edition of an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts - a huge selection including both...
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Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu NuwasAbu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy, and the extraordinary range and virtuosity of his literary...
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from HomeEarly one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a...
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More Shadow Than BirdThe poems in "More Shadow Than Bird" are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived. This consciousness, even as it operates on a more symbolic level, is embodied-not abstract or...
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science FictionsIn an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late...
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A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of ConsciousnessChristianity is in crisis in the West. The Inkling friend of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, analysed why. He developed an account of our spiritual predicament that is radical and illuminating. Barfield realized that the human experience of life shifts fundamentally over...
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Salad AnniversaryMachi Tawara's first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the 'salad phenomenon' in Japanese culture was comparable to the 'bananamania' that...
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The Prose EddaThe Prose Edda is our richest treasure trove of Germanic and Norse mythology--starting with a creation myth, passing through the struggle of the gods, giants, dwarves, and elves for survival and supremacy, and ending in the Ragnarok, a final all-engulfing battle wherein the world...
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The Skinned Bird: EssaysFrom award-winning essayist Chelsea Biondolillo, THE SKINNED BIRD is about all the ways we break our own hearts. In lyric, fragmented essays-full of geological, ornithological and photographic interventions, with landscapes, loss, and longing-Biondolillo travels the terrain of leaving and finding home while keeping her...
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The BethrothedAuthor: Alessandro ManzoniPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 10/31/2018Pages: 534Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19dISBN: 9781731702647This title is not returnable
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2000 of the Best Films of All Time - 2019 Edition2000 Mini-Reviews of the Best Films of All TImeAuthor: Arthur H. TaferoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/02/2018Pages: 330Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781722212889About the AuthorOne of New York's leading film reviewers; currently a visiting professor at Jimei University in China.This...
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Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the PresentGreat Books of China invites readers to discover--or rediscover--some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it offers much insight into Chinese life. The long continuity of Chinese culture means that...
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Field of NonsenseThis magnificent and witty study by an unrecognized innovator seeks to define and explore the nature of nonsense in literature. Relying mainly on readings of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Elizabeth Sewell not only sets out plausible boundaries for what or does not constitutes...
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They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative WritingTHEY SAID: A MULTI-GENRE ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY COLLABORATIVE WRITING includes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as hybridized forms that push the boundaries of concepts like "genre" and "author."Contributors to this anthology include: Kelli Russell Agodon, Nin Andrews, Elisa Gabbert, Ross Gay, Carol...
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Censorship in Vietnam: Brave New WorldWhat does censorship do to a culture? How do censors justify their work? What are the mechanisms by which censorship-and self-censorship-alter people's sense of time and memory, truth and reality? Thomas Bass faced these questions when The Spy Who Loved Us, his account of...
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