Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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On Ovid's MetamorphosesOvid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form...
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Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript TraditionThe first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman. The fifty-plus surviving manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plowman cast important light on the early public life of this central Middle English work, but they have been relatively neglected by scholarship....
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Teaching Asian North American TextsEssays for teaching Asian North American texts and their historical and cultural contexts.From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin...
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Teaching Central American Literature in a Global ContextIdeas for teaching critically the literature and film of Central America.Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish imperialism, capitalism, and globalization. In Teaching Central American Literature...
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Autobiography of Mark TwainAutobiography of Mark Twain (1907) is a collection of autobiographical writings by American humorist Mark Twain. Dictated toward the end of his life, the Autobiography of Mark Twain is a series of brief reflections on 74 years of fame, hard work, and adventure by...
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Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter's Slow ApproachAs a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films--and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the...
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Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern EuropeTirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be seen to be done. Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through...
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The Art and Thought of the Beowulf PoetIn The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. The Beowulf poet inherited an amoral heroic tradition, which focused principally on heroes compelled by circumstances to commit...
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Weathered Words: Formulaic Language and Verbal ArtFormulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered...
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Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern EnglandFollowing the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosion of print culture in England, including an unprecedented boom in biographical writing. Andrea Walkden offers a case-study examination of this fascinating trend, bringing together texts that generations of...
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Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment: One First Matter AllBringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton's monist materialism, the view that all existence arises from a single substance or reality. Contributors examine sensory matters of fragrance and sound, the...
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Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and ModernityFrancophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity approaches modern Sephardic literature in a comparative way to draw out similarities and differences among selected francophone novelists from various countries, with a focus on North Africa. The definition of Sepharad here is broader than just...
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Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian BorderzoneWhat is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . ." (Amos Oz, Judas) Among the great social shifts of the post-World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations....
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The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of HatredWhat stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this fantasy...
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Gary Soto: A Career in Poetry and ProseIn a 1995 interview, prolific Chicano writer Gary Soto noted, ""Wonderment has always been a part of my life."" This book surveys Soto's immense range of poems, stories, novels, essays and plays for audiences of prereaders to adults. Soto's world moves from the cotton...
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(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. In a Crip Affect reading of woman-authored medical fiction from the Comstock law era, this book astutely argues that women...
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Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary AfterlivesThis book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters including Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward through her journalism. Woolf's responses to her literary predecessors provide...
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Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other StoriesCelebrates the centennial of Katherine Mansfield's Bliss This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was...
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The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American ImaginationThe Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also...
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The Boy in the BushThe book "" The Boy in the Bush "", 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...
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