Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Other People's Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never EndWhat if the great love of your life is friendship?In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend forged deep friendships with two other couples--Mercy and Christine; and Emily and Jonnie--until, decades later, Jonnie died suddenly, in an accident, and Christine passed away after a...
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Mythologist in Microgroove: A Study of Italian Myths and Cultural Shifts with Fabrizio De André on Lead VocalsIn Mythologist in Microgroove: A Study of Italian Myths and Cultural Shifts with Fabrizio De André on Lead Vocals, author Julianne VanWagenen investigates the ways in which popular music, as well as other popular genres, engaged with and critiqued modern myth during years of...
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Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and SciencesThroughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written...
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Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's ChroniclerVirtually all modern versions of the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are derived from a single book: Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1469), one of the world's most renowned literary works. Yet the author, a fifteenth-century knight, has...
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Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the CurriculumWhen enormous amounts of information are available at our fingertips, how do we learn the things we need to know?In a world overflowing with information, how can we adapt our learning methods to thrive? Dave Cormier, a pioneering figure in digital education, presents a...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."--The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."--Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."--The New Yorker "The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."--The Independent What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes...
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Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical AntiquityUnfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced...
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"I Am Not Your Black, America!"Forget Every "Black" book you ever read; this Book is NOT "your black" book!This is the story of a first time author, who calls himself "Uncle Meshorn", as he debunks every label by which "uncle sam" has branded him with, including "uncle tom"!If MeShorn...
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Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923-1934The first extensive examination of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, prepared over a period of twenty years, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises asks new questions and explores new ways of reading Stein. This definitive study give us a finely detailed, deeply felt understanding...
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Gattungstheorie und Dichtungspraxis in neronisch-flavischer EpikThis anthology is dedicated to the Roman epic poets Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus. The contributions examine the contrast between genre theory and practice, the interplay of genre interference and intertextuality, and the tension between convention and innovation. The focus is on...
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From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an IconWinner of the Agatha Award for best nonfiction work A finalist for the Edgar Award for best critical/biographical work A finalist for the Anthony Award for best critical/nonfiction work Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has...
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Free within Ourselves: The Development of African American Children's LiteratureAfrican American children's literature is a vibrant form of expression. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this book overviews the history of African American children's literature from the antebellum South to the present day. The volume places African American children's literature in...
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Faulkner's Cartographies of ConsciousnessWilliam Faulkner continues to be an author who is widely read, studied, and admired. This book provides a new and interdisciplinary account of Faulkner's legacy, arguing that his fiction is just as relevant today as it was during his own time. Indeed, Faulkner's far-reaching...
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Diary of an Old Soul: Annotated Edition"Be thou the well by which I lie and rest; Be thou my tree of life, my garden ground; Be thou my home, my fire, my chamber blest, My book of wisdom, loved of all the best; Oh, be my friend, each day still...
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Devils, Women, and Jews: Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon StoriesAnalyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English.Author: Joan Young GreggPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/12/1997Pages: 275Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.77dISBN: 9780791434185This title...
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Conversations with Percival EverettFor the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But...
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Christopher Smart's 'a Song to David': An ExplicationThis unique interpretation of Christopher Smart's masterpiece begins with a biography which offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of Christopher Smart, an extraordinary poet who died in an insane asylum all but abandoned by family and friends. Convinced that the current names of...
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Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print,...
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Books Are My Best Friends: Cute Gift For Book Lovers - Reading TrackerGreat Gift For All The Book Lovers Out ThereHere's a perfect gift for those bookish types out there who read so many books, they need somewhere to keep a log of every book they'd finished.This beautifully soft and flexible paperback journal has room to...
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Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and ArtIn a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the...
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