Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Edward the Second: Christopher MarloweThe introduction to this edition contains an analysis of the first quarto (including new evidence of its original dating) and a reconsideration of the play's complex relation to the Shakespearean histories that preceded and followed it. Charles R. Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's...
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Selected PoemsAuthor: Thomas HardyPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 09/26/2023Pages: 496Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 8.79h x 5.87w x 1.10dISBN: 9780300095289
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El Cuervo Y Otros Textos Poéticos (Bilingual Edition) / The Raven and Other Poet IC TextsConmemoramos los 175 años de la primera publicación del célebre poema El Cuervo con una antología bilingüe de la poesía esencial de Edgar Allan Poe. En una fantasmagórica noche de diciembre, en un lugar habitado solo por el silencio, el recuerdo y el pesar,...
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A History of Illuminated ManuscriptsMedieval manuscripts are among Western civilization's greatest glories. Laboriously written by hand and often sumptuously decorated, they have always been highly valued and remain as brilliant, fascinating and popular as ever. Christopher de Hamel vividly describes the circumstances in which such books were created...
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Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double PortraitFrancis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young...
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Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of TalkIn this book, Amy R. Wong unravels the colonial and racial logic behind seemingly innocuous assumptions about "speech" that our words belong to us, and that self-possession is a virtue. Through readings of late-Victorian fictions of empire, Wong revisits the scene of speech's ideological...
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Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene AnxietyOffering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthro-pocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since its origins in the eighteenth century, the Gothic has been intensely focused on "ominous matter"...
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Anthologie zur 'Unterscheidung der Geister'Die 'Unterscheidung der Geister' macht es sich zur Aufgabe, die Seelenregungen des Menschen sowie vermeintliche Gnadenerfahrungen auf ihren göttlichen, teuflischen oder natürlichen Ursprung hin zu überprüfen. Obgleich sie bereits in der frühchristlichen Wüstenväterspiritualität präsent ist, gewinnt sie im abendländischen Denken erst seit dem 12....
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Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval EnglandAn expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages. Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often resorted to the use of spoken or written...
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Styles of SeriousnessBeing serious demands serious kinds of work. In Styles of Seriousness, Steven Connor reflects on the surprisingly various ways in which a sense of the serious is made and maintained, revealing that while seriousness is the most powerful feeling, it is also the most...
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Time Come: Selected Prose'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces' - Kit de Waal'A book to be savored and re-read' - Derek Owusu________ Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential...
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A Long Way from HomeFrom one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance comes a narrative defining book chronicling his life from Jamaica to New York CityClaude McKay's long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem, Europe, North Africa, Russia, and back to America is chronicled in this...
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Historical Fiction NowHistorical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century. Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several authors writing across these categories, the volume explores the...
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Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of ScienceLiberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in cultural terms. Quantum fields and...
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American LiteratureIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965,...
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Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese LiteratureEdo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the realms of history and the fantastic, and breathed new life into literary tradition. But how to understand the politics of...
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You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This TogetherWhat happens when we can't joke about some of the most important stuff in life?In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should...
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Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in AmericaCensorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "the land of the free." This examination of banned books across U.S. history examines the motivations and effects of censorship, shows us how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps...
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Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. LewisA collection of 365 readings containing the best and most compelling writing culled from more than 4,000 pages of C.S.Lewis's famous published letters. Thoughout his life, C.S. Lewis - 'Jack' to his friends - spent a good portion of each day writing letters to...
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a PoemRenowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time;...
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