Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Gilberto Gil - EncontrosEncontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Gilberto Gil is one of the most active Brazilian artists....
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From Hannibal to Sulla: The Birth of Civil War in Republican RomeThe second century BCE was a time of prolonged debate at Rome about the changing nature of warfare. From the outbreak of the Second Punic War in 218 to Rome's first civil war in 88 BCE, warfare shifted from the struggle against a great...
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El Humor JudioIn a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing Jewish comedy into "seven strands"―including...
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Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the StageDecentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and marginalized storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters dominant dramatic methodologies. Author: Carolyn M. DunnPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 12/01/2023Pages: 212Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of DisenchantmentA major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our...
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Complete Poetical Works of Francis Thompson;With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin FisherThis vintage book contains the complete poetical works of Francis Thompson. They include: "Poems On Children", "Daisy", "The Poppy", "To Monica Thought Dying", "The Making Of Viola", "To My Godchild", "To Olivia", "Little Jesus", "Sister Songs", "Love In Dian's Lap", "Proemion", etc. Francis Thompson...
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Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero: Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern GreeceThe volume aims at complementing the international literature on the interaction between Cicero and Greece. It offers new and unpublished material on Cicero's presence in Greece literally, deriving from his epistles, speeches and philosophical treatises, but also on his interaction with the Greek philosophical...
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Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos DangerouslyCatastrophic Historicism shows that historicism is a transcendental ontology that must be challenged by endangering the reduction of the past to a possession. The book then endangers the historicist reception of Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico's most iconic writer, interpreting her work as the...
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Brodsky Among Us: A MemoirA searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a...
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A Summer with PascalFrom an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law in fluid...
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A Black Story May Contain Sensitive ContentIn a q&a after a reading I gave at George Mason University in the spring of 2023, I paraphrased a conversation I had with my brother earlier that year. We were on the stoop of his home in Bed-Stuy, talking about technology, about AI...
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30 Great Myths about ChaucerThe facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist? A political opportunist? A spy? Is Chaucer's language too difficult for...
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White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle AgesThis ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the 'before' of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a...
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Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek DramaThe heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and...
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Tolkien's PoetryJ. R. R. Tolkien is best known for his prose work, especially his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Although there are many poems included in his novels that add depth to the narrative, Tolkien's talent as a writer of poetry...
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between CulturesBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world. With curiosity and sensitivity, she writes...
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The Writer as MigrantNovelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world. Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as Migrant sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across...
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The TRAGIC AbyssDr. Louise Cowan, general editor of this collection of eighteen essays on tragedy is the third in a series on literary genre, tragedy, comedy, epic, and lyric, issued by Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture publications. Dr. Glenn Arbery is editor of this volume...
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The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional WritingsAn essential collection of nonfiction essays by the National Book Award winning author of J R and A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's...
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The Professor and the Madman"The Professor and the Madman," masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" -- and literary history. The compilation of the "OED,"...
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