Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Joy of Boobies: A CelebrationAuthor: Louisa FoleyPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 07/04/2023Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 6.27h x 4.77w x 0.61dISBN: 9780008546663About the AuthorLouisa Foley is an artist and illustrator based in Leeds, UK.Louisa specialises in making nude centric pieces highlighting the diversity, beauty and even humour of the 'nude' using illustration,...
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Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch: 7., Durchgesehene Und Verbesserte Auflage.Das seit Jahrzehnten bewährte Althochdeutsche Wörterbuch von Rudolf Schützeichel verzeichnet seit der 5. Auflage die wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, die für die althochdeutschen Texte als solche von Belang sind. In den in dieser Auflage gebotenen Wortschatz werden zahlreiche Ergänzungen aus verschiedenen Texten eingebracht, insbesondere aus...
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The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old...
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Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern LiteratureEssays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; includes such topics as: alliterative allusions, rebus writing, ominous homophony, portentous puns, and paronomasia.Author: Scott NoegelPublisher: EisenbraunsPublished: 06/30/2000Pages: 356Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous LiteraturesThis is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars include some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists, among them Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Craig Womack (Creek), Kimberley Blaeser (Anishinaabe),...
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Feminism's Progress: Gender Politics in British and American Literature and Television since 1830Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.Author: Carol ColatrellaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/01/2023Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781438493930About...
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Wuthering Heights (Deluxe Hardbound Edition): A Timeless Classic of Forbidden Love Heathcliff and Catherine English Literature Explore Themes of NaturHe's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." In this epic story of love, envy, betrayal, and revenge, Heathcliff and Catherine come together in a romance that destroys them and those around them. Set...
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Passive Voices (on the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech)Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.Author: Kristina MendicinoPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 305Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438491967This title is not returnable
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The Bend at the End of the RoadBarry N. Malzberg's fiction earned him the 1973 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, nominations for the Philip K. Dick and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, as well as two Hugo and six Nebula Award nominations. Born in 1939, he earned a degree from Syracuse University, worked...
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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.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of childhood and the everyday." With...
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Theatre History, Attribution Studies, and the Question of EvidenceOver the past decade, attribution scholars have come to a consensus that Shakespeare wrote some of the additions printed in the 1602 quarto of Kyd's Spanish Tragedy. This new development in textual studies has far-reaching consequences for established theatre-historical narratives. Accounting for Shakespeare's involvement...
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Snorri Sturluson and the Edda: The Conversion of Cultural Capital in Medieval ScandinaviaWhy would Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the most powerful and rapacious Icelander of his generation, dedicate so much time and effort to producing the Edda, a text that is widely recognized as the most significant medieval source for pre-Christian Norse myth and poetics? Kevin...
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See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and CommentaryA remarkable collection of essays and reviews on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in America to the shocking state of the GOP--from the national bestselling author of Birds of America and a master of contemporary American fiction. "The kind of...
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The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and...
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Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893-1943A study in cultural politics, the book illustrates how nine black movements used competing interpretations of folklore to achieve racial identity and pursue equality in America during 50 years of Jim Crow, 1893-1943.Author: Ronald Lamarr SharpsPublisher: Lexington BooksPublished: 06/16/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.66lbsSize: 9.00h...
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Laura Esquivel's Mexican Fictions: Like Water for Chocolate / The Law of Love / Swift as Desire / Malinche: A NovelOutstanding essayists in Latin American literature and film explore Laura Esquivel's critical reputation, contextualise her work in literary movements, and consider her four novels and the film based on Like Water for Chocolate from diverse critical perspectives. The Editor's An Introduction to Esquivel Criticismreviews...
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Planet Narnia Lib/E: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. LewisFor over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books...
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Complete Plus: The Poems of C.P. Cavafy in EnglishIn the eighth of his Twelve Poems for Cavafy (Dodeka Poiemata yia Kavafy, 1974 ) entitled 'Misunderstandings, ' the Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos assures his readers that the older, deceased Alexandrian poet is clearly out to entangle us in his singular complexity. By now,...
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Leabhar Na Hathghabhála: Poems of RepossessionThis is the first comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. It forms a sequel to Sean O Tuama and Thomas Kinsella's pioneering anthology, An Duanaire 1600-1900 / Poems of the Dispossessed (1981), but features many more poems in covering...
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Yo' Mama Is So...: 892 Insults, Comebacks, Putdowns, and Wisecracks about Yo' Whole Family!It's everyone's favorite form of insult comedy (as seen on MTV!) -- hundreds of crushingly funny one-liners about yo' mama -- and all yo' other relatives -- sure to shut people's mouths or make them howl with laughter. Yo' mama is so fat, when...
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