Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭārCyrus Ali Zargar is Al-Ghazali Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism and Sufi...
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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry ForensicallyWhat makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? While there are as many ways to read a poem as there are types of poetry, every poem demands a conscious attention to language. Reading poems forensically helps us bring that attention to our own...
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Reading Homer's OdysseyFinalist for the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics section Homer's Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odyssey continues to be studied in universities...
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Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century NovelHow Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between...
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Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American EnlightenmentProfessing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-catastrophic realization in American history. D. Marcel DeCoste surveys McCarthy's...
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Plutarch and His Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman EmpireThe volume puts into the spotlight overlaps and points of intersection between Plutarch and other writers of the imperial period. It contains twenty-eight contributions which adopt a comparative approach and put into sharper relief ongoing debates and shared concerns, revealing a complex topography of...
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Mapping Middle-Earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's CartographiesIn this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien's corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader...
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Love Poems from Spain and Spanish AmericaThe nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love and love between brother and sister. They also explore feelings of friendship, solidarity and the altruistic love of all mankind. Ranging...
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Loss, a Love Story: Imagined Histories and Brief EncountersA journey with the novels that shape our emotions, our romances, and ourselves Part memoir, part imagined history, this unique personal essay depicts the intimate experience of childhood bereavement, lost love affairs, and the complicated realities of motherhood and marriage. Framed by an extended...
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Life Is a DreamThe masterwork of Spain's preeminent dramatist--now in a new verse translationLife Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending...
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Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century BritainThe eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production....
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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood BrawlerMany saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in...
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Incredible Herb TrimpeFrom running the first photostat machine at Marvel Comics to being the first to illustrate Wolverine, no other member of the Marvel Bullpen has had such a varied and remarkable career as Herb Trimpe. He's best known for his definitive eight-year stint drawing the...
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Escenas de Traducción En Las Literaturas de América LatinaLa traduccion entendida como un fenomeno de negociacion asimetrica de lenguas e identidades constituye un aspecto central en los debates que pretenden explicar la "invisibilizacion" de la pluralidad cultural latinoamericana. Este libro se propone reflexionar sobre "escenas de traduccion" en una apuesta que busca...
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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme GibsonOriginally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more.With the intuition of an insider, Gibson asks the important questions: In what way...
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Doyle's World--Lost & Found: The Unknown Histories of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan DoylePRAISE for Doyle's World--Lost & Found "Everything you ever wanted to know about the dynamic duo""For fans of Sherlock Holmes and his creator, you can't do better than plunge into Doyle's World--Lost & Found The Unknown Histories of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan...
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Dorothy Parker in HollywoodAn expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker's life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as...
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Didion and BabitzJoan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions--and mutual antagonisms--of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. "Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan?" --Eve Babitz, in...
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Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic AgeThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural...
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David PeaceAs a Northern Ballard and the father of 'Yorkshire noir', David Peace offers the twenty-first-century reader unique novelized histories of events we think we know well. This new study provides a comprehensive introduction to the author and an overview of the debates surrounding his...
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