Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Librarians With SpinesThe editors behind the Librarian with Spines series have releasedthe third volume in this popular series. Volume III of LWS is anotheranthology-this time, 5 essays on radical librarianship and aSpanglish interview with Oregon Library Superstar Star Khan-thatengages with critical topics and themes that explore...
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Fairy Tales 101: An Accessible Introduction to Fairy TalesWhat exactly are fairy tales and how did they get their name?Have you ever wondered what fairy tales were like before Walt Disney got his hands on them?And who the heck are these Grimm brothers? Fairy Tales 101 is your one-stop shop for these...
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Asian American LiteratureThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for...
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A Narnian Vision of the AtonementHow can we have redemption or atonement (at-one-ment) with God? Ancient Christians proposed a ransom theory, according to which God pays the ransom for us through heroic self-sacrifice so we can be liberated from the power of the demonic, sin, and death. This theory...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Young Man who Sells his Soul for Eternal Youth and BeautyDorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord...
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Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and CultureThis substantial volume of essays is published in honour of Edward J. Hughes.Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and...
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Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante's Divine ComedySince the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but what is it that makes the poem so particularly involving? And why might videogames help us understand this better? Drawing on new theories in cognitive neuroscience...
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Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of LanguageIn Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114) and affirms the rather unstable, yet malleable, character of the vernacular tongue, which is tied both to natural variation and to pleasure. Examining the ways...
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Kulturen Im Dialog VI - Culture in Dialogo VI - Cultures in Dialogue VI: Sechstes Jungakademikerinnen-Forum in Suedtirol - Sesto Forum Per NeolaureatiJungakademikerInnen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee den interdisziplinären sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fördern ans Werk gemacht und setzen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit internationalen Fragen beziehungsweise regionalen Themen auseinander. Neolaureati di diverse facoltà con l'idea di promuovere il dialogo interdisciplinare come...
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I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the OtherUlrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence...
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The Land of Promise: A Comedy in Four ActsThis Book "The Land of Promise: A Comedy in Four Acts" 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...
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The Poetics of AristotleAristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In this text Aristotle offers an account of ποιητική, which refers to poetry and more literally "the poetic art," deriving...
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Karbala: A Historical Play by PremchandIn seventh-century Arabia, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussain, sacrificed his life and his family members and companions in the desert ofKarbala, Iraq, to resist the debauched ruler Yazid. In twentieth-century India, when the communal conflict was at its peak, Premchand wrote a play about...
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Dante, Artist of GestureDante, Artist of Gesture proposes a visual technique for reading Dante's Comedy, suggesting that the reader engages with Dante's striking images of souls as if these images were arranged in an architectural space. Art historians have shown how series of discrete images or scenes...
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In the Sweet Dry and DryThis Book "In the Sweet Dry and Dry" 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 generations....
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James Joyce - Collected PoemsThis book contains the collected poetry of James Joyce. It includes 'Chamber Music', 'Pomes Penyeach', and 'Ecce Puer'. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882 and is considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the...
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A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian PoetryPoetry has always maintained a particular relationship with mourning and its rituals, but what is it that lyric discourse has to offer in coping with death, grief, and bereavement? On the other hand, how does mourning become a central creative force in lyric poetry?...
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The Novel and the Problem of New LifeAuthor: Aaron MatzPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/03/2022Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781108970563
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CliffsComplete Shakespeare's The TempestIn the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.CliffsComplete The Tempest tells the famous...
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Shakespeare and the Strategies of an OpeningThe degree of Shakespeare's concern for a "living theatre," capable of perpetually diversifying in order to maintain its appeal, is immediately apparent in the imaginative opening strategies employed in his plays. In an effort to illuminate them, this book studies the early printed texts...
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