Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Canonisation as Innovation: Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BceDrawing on case-studies from the first millennium BCE, this volume explores canonisation as a form of cultural formation. The book asks why and how canonisation works and thereby investigates the importance of the concept of anchoring to arrive at innovation in particular.Author: Damien Agut-LabordèrePublisher:...
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Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus' Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius' text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic's constant oscillation between fact and fiction, highlighting Roman triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.Author: Elisabeth SchedelPublisher: BrillPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 428Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004522664This...
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Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German AestheticsThis volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it challenges long-standing teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the...
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Metaphysical HealingMetaphysical Healing is a short work by the healer, mystic, and educator Joel S. Goldsmith. It explores the true nature of self as an infinite spiritual consciousness that brings forth health, peace, and joy. Goldsmith was born in 1892 in New York City. His...
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Azares de lo cubano. Lecturas al margen de la naciónLo cubano en la poesía de Cintio Vitier, meditación señera sobre la relación entre poesía y nación, adolece de un esencialismo que no reconoce los prejuicios que lo sostienen. Ahora bien, si la imprecisión de lo cubano lastra sus argumentos, también deja entreabierta una...
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Studia PindaricaThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean GirlsHave you ever recognized Mrs. Elton in an office colleague? Or caught a glimpse of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the neighborhood crank? Have you spotted a young Emma Woodhouse in your teenage daughter's clique? Over two hundred years after their creation, Jane Austen's...
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Robin Hood: Legend and RealityDetailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the "real" Robin Hood. For over a century and a half scholars have debated whether or not the legend of Robin Hood was based on an actual outlaw and, if so, when and...
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Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Lincoln HighwayLooking to improve your book club discussions? Wish you had time to prepare for your reading group meetings more thoroughly? Then try this essential book club companion. Study Guides for Book Clubs provide all the information you need for your book club meeting. Each...
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SpeculationA wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character. Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with...
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Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War WritingMilitary literature was one of the most prevalent forms of writing to appear during the Romantic era, yet its genesis in this period is often overlooked. Ranging from histories to military policy, manuals, and a new kind of imaginative war literature in military memoirs...
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William Faulkner and the Materials of WritingWilliam Faulkner and the Materials of Writing examines the many physical texts in Faulkner's novels and stories from letters and telegrams to Bibles, billboards, and even the alphabetic shape of airport runways. Current investigations in print culture, book history, and media studies often emphasize...
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The Florilegium of MadnessOf Cunning Men and Other OdditiesSet in world established by The Cunning Man, six stories follow Hiram Woolley in the intermountain west of the 1930s as he uses Grandma Hettie's traditional magical lore to battle demons. He discovers an ancient horror that explains an...
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Fleshly Tabernacles: Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary EnglandIn Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Milton's imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic symbol, theological event, and narrative picture of humanity's potential, the Incarnation profoundly governs the way Milton structures his 1645 Poems, ponders the holy office of...
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Ethnic Minority Women's Writing in France: Publishing Practices and Identity Formation, 1998-2005In Ethnic Minority Women's Writing in France, Mouflard argues that the identity politics surrounding the immigration discourse of early twenty-first century France were reflected in the marketing and editing practices of the Metropole's key publishers, specifically with regards to non-white French women's literature. Echoing...
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Novels, Rhetoric, and Criticism: A Brief History of Belles Lettres and British Literary Culture, 1680 - 1900Developing a history of the English novel requires the inclusion of a vast range of cultural, economic, religious, social, and aesthetic influences. But the role of eighteenth-century English rhetorical theory in the emergence of the novel - and the critical discourse surrounding that emergence...
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The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black WingsThe Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is a thoroughly researched exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the celebrated Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina. Often called the Spanish Dylan, Sabina has established his own highly poetic space...
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Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of LiteratureA deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature's political role for the twenty-first century Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature's role in life and society? In...
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Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical TraditionGregory's festal orations are foundational for Byzantine literature. This book shows how besides his priestly role, Gregory plays that of a rhetor performing philosophy for a festival audience, channeling traditions of Classical philosophy and the Second Sophistic into Christian culture.Author: Byron MacdougallPublisher: BrillPublished: 07/28/2022Pages:...
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The InconstantThis book 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. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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