Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, HawA perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings.Author: William F. RussellPublisher: HarmonyPublished: 01/28/1992Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.16h...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionIn 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture...
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Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st CenturyAn innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and...
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Writing Themselves Into the Movement: Child Authors of the Black Arts EraBetween 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year period, at least thirty anthologies of poetry and prose by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American children came out of adult-led workshops, classrooms, and...
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Writing Fantasy and Science FictionAlthough the problems of writing fantasy and science fiction include all those pertaining to the writing of any kind of fiction, particular problems arise in stories in which unprecedented things can and do happen, as well as stories that often involve unhuman characters of...
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Writing Europe in Renaissance France: Travels in Reality and ImaginationIn this original study, Niall Oddy explores representations of Europe in sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French writing to argue that Europe as an idea evolved in productive dialogue with emerging national consciousness, not as an alternative to the nation state. Analysing literary texts alongside...
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Unveiled: Overcoming Trauma to Walk in Your Divine PurposeIn these pages, you will find a blend of women's personal stories, scriptures, and spiritual wisdom designed to guide you on your journey. Each chapter serves as a testimony and stepping stone, encouraging the reader to confront your past, embrace your authentic self, and...
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The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature"In the best tradition of literary criticism... combines exact information with shrewd and searching penetration into the personal life of the artist." -The New York Times Where does artistic genius come from? Originally published in 1941, this classic work of literary critique by Edmund...
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The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and PoemsA poet's creative process comes to light in this latest book by National Book Award recipient Arthur Sze. Sze has assembled an illuminating selection of seven interviews, three essays, and poems to examine the evolution of his compositions, his decades teaching poetry, and his...
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The Stranger and the Chinese Moral ImaginationIn the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin."...
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The Sky Is Our Song: The Phaenomena of AratusAn ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus--dating from around 270 BCE--was widely known across the ancient world, second only in fame to the works of Homer....
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"The Pompe and Pride of Man": Pride and Humility in Early New EnglandHuddled on dank ships and tossed about in the waves of the Atlantic, English Puritans envisioned a new society predicated on the values of individual and communal humility. Pride, a pervasive sin, jeopardized their very survival and incited God's wrath. The first generation of...
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The Poem of My CidOne of the most powerful and sustained works in all medieval literature, without which no series could be considered complete. The Poem of My Cid deals with the exploits of the medieval Castilian warrior, beginning with the sorrow of his departure into exile and...
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The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction: From Girl to WomanInvestigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo Gonz?lez analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.Through the identification of mythic themes ('mythemes') and patterns within these novels, Gonz?lez...
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The Literary Gift in Early AmericaSome of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of literary objects in circulation across the diverse societies, economies, and cultures of the...
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative NonfictionAn account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre "When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing career, the choices he made . . . he puts...
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The Documented Child: Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children's LiteratureImmigrationis at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States' perception of itself. In The Documented Child, scholar Maya Socolovsky demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has shifted over the first two decades of the...
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The Documented Child: Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children's LiteratureImmigrationis at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States' perception of itself. In The Documented Child, scholar Maya Socolovsky demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has shifted over the first two decades of the...
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The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First CenturyFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismShortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyA history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on...
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The Call of the TribeThe intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe."...
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