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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The Book Lover's Journal: My Personal Reading RecordCalling all book lovers! Here is the reading journal youve always wanted. At last, a place to record the books youve read. Months and years from now, this journal will help you instantly recall long-forgotten details of your reading experience. This is also the...
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Unsettling Difference: Music Drama, the Bible, and the Critique of German Jewish IdentityUnsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall outside traditional understandings of minority culture. Exploring expressions of Jewish identity and difference in biblical-themed musical dramas and their literary sources, Adi Nester argues that...
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Touring ShakespeareAuthor: Jim TaylorPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 266Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781009381314This title is not returnable
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The Theory of the Modern StageIncluding Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing.Author: VariousPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyPublished: 02/01/2000Pages: 498Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 8.16h x 5.19w x 1.16dISBN: 9781557832795
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The Roman Satirists and Their MasksStarting from the conviction that Latin literature gains from being viewed as performance, the author sees the creation of different characters or "masks" in Latin literature as a result of the Greco-Roman training in rhetoric. She treats the texts of Roman satire as drama...
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There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, TooIn an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and...
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The Language of Margaret AtwoodThis book explores Margaret Atwood's distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses. It examines how strategies of misdirection, processes of doubling, and the creation of textual ambience play an essential role in Atwood's...
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The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthyThe Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's writing reveals how these themes intersect in an...
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The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthyThe Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's writing reveals how these themes intersect in an...
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The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women TeachersThe Erotic as Rhetorical Power offers a queer feminist history of rhetoric that recovers the civic contributions of women teachers in same-sex romantic friendships. Extending perspectives from ancient rhetoric to nineteenth-century progressivism, from Audre Lorde's Black lesbian feminist theory to its present-day uptakes, Pamela...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Queer ReadingWhat does it mean to read queerly? The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading upholds intersectional thinking to recognise the wide currency and appeal of queer studies for a new generation of scholars, activists, students and interested allies. Its four interconnecting parts - 'transing queer...
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The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and RaceAuthor: Manu Samriti ChanderPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/28/2024Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781009180153This title is not returnable
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The Bront?s and the Fairy TaleThe Bront?s and the Fairy Tale is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Bront?. It intervenes in debates on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale,...
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The BookFollowing the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of childhood and...
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The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the PostcolonyCan ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when the authority of modern education and culture places canonical western texts in the way of readers who live in worlds remote from their material contexts? The...
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The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the PostcolonyCan ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when the authority of modern education and culture places canonical western texts in the way of readers who live in worlds remote from their material contexts?The Amateur...
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Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero ComicsAlongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today's most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance. Supervillains are also central to superhero storytelling to the extent that the superhero genre cannot survive without supervillains....
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Storyteller's GuideAsk a storyteller a question and in response you get a story. The interviews in this handbook are packed with well-chosen anecdotes, metaphors, and parables illuminating the art of storytelling as it is practiced today in many varied settings. Rather than representing the opinion...
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