Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of LanguageGrowing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of the most important...
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TikkunTikkun refers to the Kabbalistic mythology associated with the Sephiroth, vessels created to contain the energies emanating from the divine (En-Sof). Those vessels were unable to contain those energies and were shattered by their force. The broken shards fall in a shower of sparks...
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Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal...
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I Was More American Than the Americans: Sylvère Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien GrauA personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it. In the mid-1970s, Sylvère Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing house. Since its creation, Semio-text(e) has been a place of stimulating dialogue...
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Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to PetromodernityA vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age Since at least the 1960s, plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life. They are undeniably utopian--wondrously innovative, cheap, malleable, durable, and convenient. Yet our proliferating use of plastics...
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Subjects in PoetryDaniel Brown's Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences the way they're made. It comprises one poet's attempt to plumb the nature of...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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Latin in Modern Fiction: Who Says It's a Dead Language?The goal of this book is to prove that Latin is not a dead language by demonstrating how prevalent and strong it still is in modern Western culture. In order to do so, the author, an English philologist with a long experience as a...
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Decolonizing American PhilosophyIn Decolonizing American Philosophy, Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds bring together leading scholars at the forefront of the field to ask: Can American philosophy, as the product of a colonial enterprise, be decolonized? Does American philosophy offer tools for decolonial projects? What might it...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts ImaginationIn Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these historically marginalized groups....
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The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and TechniquesAuthor: Henry RussellPublisher: Laurence KingPublished: 04/06/2021Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.80dISBN: 9781786277442
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On Novels and NovelistsA collection of essays on renowned French writers, including Sarraute, Renard, and Gide. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through...
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Star-Spangled PantiesShe's the Amazing Amazon The celebrated champion of her people She's WONDER WOMAN And she's the greatest superhero this world has ever seen.A lifelong fan lays out WW's legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment,...
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The Analyst's Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical PracticeMitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic traditions: Lacanian, Bionian, Kleinian, Contemporary Freudian. Investigating crucial questions Wilson asks: What is the nature of the psychoanalytic process? How are...
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Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian FictionWhat we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, Schaffer proposes a theory of...
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Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long ExhaustionHow literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned...
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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-ThinkingIn the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white--or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and...
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The Song of the Massacred Jewish PeopleThe remarkable poem written in Yiddsh by Yitzhak Katzenelson at the time of the Holocaust of the Jews in the second World War (1943), after which the poet and his son were murdered by the nazis. The poem is written in 15 sections, each...
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Sisterlocking Discoarse: Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century AcademyFinalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education CategoryIn Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman. In these ten essays, Valerie Lee traverses...
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Warning ShadowsA view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film. Artur Robison's Warning Shadows - in German simply Schatten, shadows - premiered in...
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