Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year...
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PN Review 264The March-April 2022 issue. Major interview with American poet Carl Philips. Nuash Sabah, editor of Poetry Birmingham, in conversation. Frederic Raphael writes to Wittgenstein. Isobel Williams adds to her Shibari Catullus. John Clegg discovers Mrs Bleaney. New to PN Review this issue: Wendelin Wai...
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Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading in Search of Lost TimeNamed a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian revisits Marcel Proust's masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity--that of the novel's narrator and Proust's own. This engaging reexamination of In Search of...
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The Romantic Rhetoric of AccumulationThe Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are...
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All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark CoolidgeAll This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic...
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Wheel with a Single Spoke: And Other PoemsA selection of the best known poems by the Nobel nominated, Herder Prize-winning poet.Author: Nichita StanescuPublisher: Archipelago BooksPublished: 07/13/2012Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9781935744153Award: Best Translated Book Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorNichita Stanescu (1933-1983) was the most beloved and...
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Surprising, Goofy Jokes about HolidaysHolidays are times of amazing food and celebrating cheer that bring people together. They make for great jokes that readers will rush to share with their family and friends, too. Through an engaging design that brings the jokes to life with humorous illustrations, fun...
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Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic LiteratureSecrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in their writings, such that casual readers will only understand the surface meaning of their texts while those with greater insight will grasp the...
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation"One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the...
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Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African LiteratureThis handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in...
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Actual Fictions: Literary Representation and Character Network AnalysisThis Element sheds a new light on the ubiquitous yet complex notion of mimesis. By systematically comparing the social dynamics of the Dutch population at a given time with the social dynamics of characters in Dutch literary fiction published in the same period, it...
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Deep Time: A Literary HistoryHow the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"--most often associated with geological epochs--began as a metaphorical language...
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Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century BritainThis study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the...
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Orwell and EmpireConsiders George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing. George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Orwell and Empire is a study of his writing about...
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Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, MusilValue in Modernity examines a historical paradigm in ethics that has hitherto not been identified as such: existential modernism. Peter Poellner discusses the central claims of this paradigm through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler,...
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Trump, Tumult and Transcendence: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021TRUMP, TUMULT AND TRANSCENDENCE: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021 is a penetrating perspective of the Trump presidency set against the roller coaster upheaval of the Coronavirus pandemic, racial tension of the MAGA faithful arrayed against the Black Lives Matter movement, and the mercurial zeitgeist of...
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Theorie der KlassikDas Buch stellt den Anspruch, Phänomene, die man als "Klassiker" bezeichnet, besser zu verstehen und zugleich tradierte Vorstellungen darüber, was als klassisch gilt oder zu gelten hat, zu korrigieren. Dazu wird "Klassik" nicht, wie in den historischen und ideologiekritischen Debatten üblich, als Epochenbegriff verstanden,...
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My Language Is a Jealous LoverMany great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover...
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Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of PrintDuring the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful...
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Shakespeare and the ActorWhat is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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