Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Literature in the Ashes of HistoryWhat does it mean for history to disappear?Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceCathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that...
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The Complete Essays of Michel de MontaigneWith the goal of describing man with complete frankness and using himself as his most frequent example, Michel de Montaigne first published his "Essays" in 1580. This collection of 107 chapters encompasses a wide variety of subjects, originally inspired by his study of Latin...
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Romeo and Juliet: The Graphic NovelThis classic romantic tragedy is retold here in eye-catching, attention-grabbing detail. Shakespeare's timeless play tells the story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, whose great misfortune is that they come from feuding families. This feud is so deep and abiding that it leads to...
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The Theatre of the AbsurdIn 1953, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new...
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Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation FictionThe first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation...
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Heidegger in Question: The Art of ExistingRobert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of...
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Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and SoulA poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their...
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John Ruskin: Selected WritingsThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and treatises to reviews, correspondence, and critical notes. Ruskin has been...
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Giovanni Boccaccio: Die Verliebte Fiammetta: Übersetzung Von Johann Engelbert NoyseIn der Zeitspanne von wenigen Jahrzehnten entstanden um 1600 zwei Übersetzungen von Giovanni Boccaccios Elegia di madonna Fiammetta (um 1343/44) unabhängig voneinander im oberdeutschen Sprachraum: beide blieben ungedruckt, vielleicht wegen der Thematik, eines inneren Monologes ( Klage ) einer verheiraten Dame über den Verlust...
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Affinities: On Art and FascinationA meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine auras, by one of Britain's finest literary minds. In Affinities, Brian Dillon, who Joyce Carol Oates has said writes "fascinating prose . . . on virtually any subject,"...
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Glitch PoeticsGlitches are errors where the digital bursts into our everyday lives as fragmented image, garbled text and aberrant event. In this book, Nathan Jones shows how writers work with the glitch as a literary effect. 'Glitch poetics' describes a new language of error in...
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How the Heather Looks: a joyous journey to the British sources of children's booksA feast for any lover of English children's books. -Christian HeraldOver sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved...
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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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