Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Seneca: MedeaComposed in early imperial Rome by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Stoic philosopher and tutor to the emperor Nero, the tragedy Medea is dominated by the superhuman energy of its protagonist: diva, killer, enchantress, force of nature. Seneca's treatment of the myth covers an episode identical...
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Allegory and IdeologyFredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as...
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time"It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the...
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Selected PoemsDuring the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941....
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River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative NonfictionWinner of the Gold Medal for Anthologies in the 2021 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsNationally recognized River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has published a host of new and significant voices in creative nonfiction--including essays, memoir, and literary journalism--since 1999. To celebrate twenty...
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Why Not ParadiseLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Of all the Buddhists in China, Japan, and Korea, the vast majority follow teachings centered on rebirth in the Pure Land, or Western Paradise, of Amitabha Buddha. All Buddhist sutras are about the mind, the mind...
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So Who Is John Galt, Anyway?: A Reader's Guide to Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"Ayn Rand's masterwork, Atlas Shrugged, is a rich and complex novel with an intricate plot in which dozens of moving parts mesh together and many minor themes are woven in amongst the novel's big philosophical issues. This is a guide to the literary, historical,...
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. ButlerOctavia E. Butler's works of science fiction invite readers to consider the structures of power in society and to ask what it means to be human. Butler addresses social justice issues such as poverty, racism, and violence against women and connects the history of...
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Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression AmericaSoul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John...
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Folklore in Old Norse - Old Norse in FolkloreDuring the 20th century, Old Norse philology has been strongly textually oriented. This is evident in saga scholarship, where the book-prose ideology turned the issue of the origin of individual sagas into an issue of direct influences from other written works. This focus has...
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Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic WritersDaughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal...
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The Guerrilla Is Like a PoetThis book is titled after the world-renowned poem of Jose Maria Sison, "The Guerrilla Is Like a Poet," which celebrates with natural imagery and in a lyrical way the Filipino people's revolutionary struggle for national liberation and democracy against foreign and feudal oppression and...
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Speaking Volumes: Ken Nordine's Word JazzCultural backgrounds to and close readings of the recorded and broadcast works of Ken Nordine. The postwar subcultural contexts of Nordine's experimental recordings. Analyses of individual tracks on extended play recordings, audio tapes and radio broadcasts. Author: Gregory Kent StephensonPublisher: Ober-Limbo VerlagPublished: 08/02/2019Pages: 134Binding...
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The Little Book of Captain AmericaHe made his debut in late 1940 in Captain America Comics No. 1, fighting Nazis at every turn. Twenty years after World War II, he was found frozen in ice. Now a man living in the wrong time, he became the leader of the...
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Die Anti-Utopische Tradition: Eine Ideen- Und Problemgeschichtliche DarstellungBesonders seit 1989 ist die Diskussion um das Ende der Utopien wieder heftig entbrannt. Die in der Debatte pr sentierten Argumente gegen Utopien sind dabei so alt wie die literarisch manifestierten Utopievorstellungen. Die spezifischen Artikulationsmuster werden in der Untersuchung zu einer ideengeschichtlichen Traditionslinie utopischen...
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AB Excessu Divi Augusti (Annales)Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegründet 1849, ist die weltweit älteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Sämtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio ergänzt. Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe...
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Rhapsodiae I-XIIDie Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegr ndet 1849, ist die weltweit lteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. S mtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische Praefatio erg nzt. Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der...
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Je näher ihm, desto vortrefflicherAlthough Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity...
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Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul CelanDie Ver ffentlichung der Korrespondenz Bachmanns und Celans erm glicht neue wissenschaftliche Zugriffe auf das Werk der Autoren. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt der Band vielf ltige Korrelationen zwischen Biographie und Dichtung auf: Die Briefe flankieren den literarischen Umgang der Autoren mit der Erfahrung des...
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Lettre-Traite de Pierre-Daniel Huet Sur l'Origine Des Romans: Edition Du Tricentenaire 1669-1969, Suivie de la Lecture Des Vieux Romans Par Jean ChapeAuthor: Fabienne GegouPublisher: KlincksieckPublished: 01/01/1971Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9782707802545Language: FrenchAbout the AuthorA egalement publie, aux editions Nizet, Antoine Furetiere, abbe de Chalivoy, ou la Chute d'un immortel (1962)This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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