Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and CultureWho are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of...
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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents...
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En busca de los ladrones del fuegoDesde la mitología griega, y con el mito de Prometeo honrado por robar el fuego de los dioses para entregarlo a los humanos, tenemos en este elemento el símbolo de la sabiduría, el conocimiento, lo que nutre el deseo de saber. La poeta y...
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Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary PlayWhat roles do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the audience will never play? Combining perspectives from philosophy, literary theory and game studies, this book provides the first in-depth investigation into the significance of...
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Formalists against Imperialism: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian OrientalismIn January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian...
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Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An AnthologyThis anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive,...
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Modern Brazilian Short StoriesThe seventeen stories in this anthology have been carefully chosen to provide a wide, representative range of recent and contemporary Brazilian themes and styles. The scenes vary from a nearly abandoned village or a ranch in the northeastern backlands to the streets of Rio...
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Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and FreedomRuss Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood are inconsistent, ambivalent, and...
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Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His NovelsMachado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazil's rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Caldwell's critical and biographical study explores Machado's purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908. She traces the ideas and...
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George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of RealismThis study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal...
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Wordsworth and the Cultivation of WomenFocusing on the poems of Wordsworth's "Great Decade," feminist critics have tended to see Wordsworth as an exploiter of women and "feminine" perspectives. In this original and provocative book, Judith Page examines works from throughout Wordsworth's long career to offer a more nuanced feminist...
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Stravinsky, God, and TimeThis ground-breaking study of Stravinsky's spirituality presents a new view of his music as unified, challenging the current view which describes it as often discontinuous and static. Stravinsky's spirituality is the origin of his radical restoration of time in music.Author: Helen SillsPublisher: BrillPublished: 06/30/2022Pages:...
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Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity ProblemAn examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will. What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity rests on the ideal...
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Latin: Or, the Empire of a SignA highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted...
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D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian PerspectiveD.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks; more specifically, how the reading of fiction influences behavior. Lawrence writes passionately about our alienation from ourselves, from other people, and from the cosmos. He believes that we need to heed the voices...
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The Masculinities of John Milton: Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major WorksThe Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton's men. Examining how Milton's fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major works, this study exposes the gaps between Milton's pleas for liberty and his assumptions that White men like himself...
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Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other MindsLeo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition--that approaching a text skeptically is easy, but trusting it is hard Two figures central to the Russian literary tradition--Tolstoy, the moralist, and Nabokov, the aesthete--seem to have sharply conflicting ideas...
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Brecht in India: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural TheatreBrecht in India analyses the dramaturgy and theatrical practices of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in post-independence India.The book explores how post-independence Indian drama is an instance of a cultural palimpsest, a site celebrating a dialogue between Western and Indian theatrical traditions, rather than...
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PN Review 263The January-February 2022 issue. Major essay by Alberto Manguel on translating Dante. Sasha Dugdale's radical new translation of Osip Mandelstam, with an important commentary by Andrew Kahn. Jenny Lewis on translating from languages one does not know first hand. Frederic Raphael pens one of...
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Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New WorldSince its original appearance in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to the Spanish New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores...
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