Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly CenterIn 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was issued, Japanese American families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Center, where they were housed in converted animal stalls. The Wartime Civil Control Administration...
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Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition): American Literature Gothic Fiction Horror Stories Mystery and Suspense Classic Horror FiThis collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any library. A compilation of Edgar Allan Poe's well-known works, this classic leather-bound edition is perfect as a keepsake. It includes some...
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Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family HistoryAmid the turmoil after her father's death-decisions to be made, the future of the family farm to be settled-Jane Brox, using her acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search soon leads her to the...
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Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary ImaginationIn Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination, Farrell O'Gorman presents the first study of the recurrent role of Catholicism in a Gothic tradition that is essential to the literature of the United States. In this tradition, Catholicism is depicted as threatening...
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Stress Test: How Donald Trump Threatens American DemocracyA frenzy of misbehavior and misjudgment currently threatens the American polity. Donald Trump is the center of the storm. His words, deeds and basic instincts are fundamentally at odds with America's long-held essential ideals. But Trump isn't the only problem. Many of his friends,...
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Uncle Tom: From Martyr to TraitorUncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has...
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The Gospel According to Flannery O'ConnorJordan Cofer examines the influence of the Bible upon Flannery O'Connor's fiction. While there are many studies exploring how her Catholicism affected her fiction, this book argues that O'Connor is heavily influenced by the Bible itself. Specifically, it explicates the largely undocumented ways in...
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Der Umschlag von allem in nichtsDieses Buch macht die griechische Tragödie und ihre philosophische Reflexion seit der Antike für eine Theorie tragischer Erfahrung fruchtbar, die die leidenden Individuen in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Asmus Trautsch erschlie t die existentielle Dimension der antiken Gattung für die Gegenwart und zeigt, dass die...
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Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese NovelBandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern...
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The City of Dreadful NightThe Classic Poem of Urban Alienation by James ThomsonThe City of Dreadful Night was first published as a serial in the National Reformer in 1874 and then in book form in 1880. Its author, James Thomson, was known at the time primarily for his...
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Ka Mo'olelo O Hi'iakaikapoliopeleThis volume presents The Epic Tale of Hi'iakaikapoliopele in its original Hawaiian. The story, as told by Ho'oulumāhiehie, is articulated with 375 chants. The author's captivating narration showcases his profound cultural knowledge and engaging style, highlighting Hi'iaka's role as a healer, source of inspiration,...
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Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent SheeanVincent Sheean, a groundbreaking American foreign correspondent and author, is known for reporting from Europe, North Africa, and Asia, writing news reports, articles, and books. A few books and articles have described Vincent Sheean's life, and briefly discussed his major nonfiction books. However, no...
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Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'ConnorIn Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted...
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StatelessIn Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods-post WW I...
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A BiographyOriginal, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi's life is intimately bound up with the history of immigration and social change in...
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California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western IdealCalifornia Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American women writers publishing between 1870 and 1965 to argue that both white women and women of color regionalized dominant national literary trends to negotiate the contradictions between an American liberal individualism and American...
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Jin Ping Mei - A Wild Horse in Chinese Literature: Essays on Texts, Illustrations and Translations of a Late Sixteenth-Century MasterpieceAuthor: Vibeke BørdahlPublisher: Nordic Institute of Asian StudiesPublished: 11/30/2022Pages: 470Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.10dISBN: 9788776943189About the AuthorVibeke Børdahl (Editor) Dr Vibeke Børdahl, a senior researcher at NIAS, has been described as one of the most accomplished scholars in the study...
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Time Regained: World Literature and CinemaAwarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields of world literature and world cinema have developed on parallel but largely separate tracks, with little recognition of their underlying...
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Good Morning Poems: A Start to the Day from Famous English-Language PoetsCanadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning. In a series of deeply astute and conversational essays, two-time Governor General's Award winner and inaugural Parlimentary...
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Amor Fati: Eternal Procession in Emerson and NietzscheThis book examines the meaning of love, the problem with science, the power of women, and the enigma of eternal return in Friedrich Nietzsche's reception of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Caroline Kelley's Amor Fati .... is compelling to read. It examines the...
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