Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Medievalism and ReceptionThe relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies. At the intersection of the twin fields of medievalism and reception studies is the timely and fascinating question of how a contested past is deployed in the context of a...
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Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the AmericasConsidered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is Brazil's most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contested and even enigmatic figure to readers in Brazil and abroad, his relative silence on slavery leaving him vulnerable to charges of...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume 5, Issue 1Liberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays about significant issues in culture and politics.In the Fall 2024 issue of Liberties: Sean Wilentz bluntly defines the stakes of this election; Katherine C. Epstein laments the death of...
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John Berger: Ways of LearningIona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger. In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John Berger's...
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Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of PsychoanalysisJulia Kristeva, herself a product of the famous May 1968 Paris student uprising, has long been fascinated by the concepts of rebellion and revolution. But is it still possible to build and nurture a culture of revolt in today's world? In this book, Kristeva...
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Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility Volume 5A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Intersectional Incoherence stages an encounter between the critical discourse on intersectionality and texts produced by Korean subjects of the Japanese...
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H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack ValleyFor decades, David Goudsward has been a leading authority on the obscurer historical and topographical corners of his native New England. In this lavish and detailed treatise, he has written the definitive treatment of Lovecraft's connections with the Merrimack Valley of coastal Massachusetts and...
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Hawthorne's Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American LiteratureAuthor: Fay Elanor EllwoodPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.17w x 0.70dISBN: 9780881469509
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Hatred and ForgivenessJulia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her...
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Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature: Translations by Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna BemporadFocusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry. The close examination of the linguistic and ideological diversity embedded in these authors' works shows how narratives...
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Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and PedagogyGENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a "genre turn" in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology,...
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Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman HistoriesFinnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories opens new ground by exploring the productive tension between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric readings of James Joyce's final modernist masterpiece. Drawing on the most up-to-date theories and methodologies (the Anthropocene, new materialism, petroculture studies, the blue humanities, animal...
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Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg: The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and ReptilesFrom celebrated herpetologist and science writer Marty Crump, a beautifully illustrated exploration of the interlinked stories of herp folklore, natural history, and conservation. Frogs are worshipped for bringing nourishing rains, but blamed for devastating floods. Turtles are admired for their wisdom and longevity, but...
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Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media Volume 6A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the...
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Batgirl and Beyond: The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham CityExplores the history of Batgirl from her groundbreaking comics debut to her disappointing live-action appearances and beyond.For over sixty years, every woman who took on the mantle of Batgirl has been a powerful, independent heroine, each belying the sidekick status the name implies and...
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A Room of One's OwnAuthor: Virginia WoolfPublisher: MacMillan Collector's LibraryPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 152Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781509843183Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.2Point Value: 7Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 74066 / Room of One's Own
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An Introduction to Literary StudiesThe fourth edition of this classic beginner's guide to literary studies has been fully updated throughout. Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in English and world literature as well as film and television series. Starting with the basics of...
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Against ProgressTo define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world...
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Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public SchoolsReframes religion's role in twentieth-century American public education The processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its history. Many regard the 1962 and 1963 US Supreme Court rulings against school prayer...
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White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and LanguageExamines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained? Examining women writers from...
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