Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times"This lively appreciation of one of the most intimidating and massive novels ever written should persuade many hesitant readers to try scaling the heights of War and Peace sooner rather than later" (Publishers Weekly).Considered by many critics the greatest novel ever written, War and...
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The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in AmericaThis study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo's scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations.Author:...
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Hari KunzruThis book is the first edited collection to focus on the work of contemporary author Hari Kunzru. It contains major new essays on each of his novels - The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears and Red Pill - as well...
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John AshberyA critical biography of America's most influential postmodern poet. Mysterious, esoteric, and baffling, John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous, even charming, and ever responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This biography...
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On Mary Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New GenusMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women's equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution, her vindication delivered a systematic critique of the treatment of women across time and place....
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Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing ExercisesFrom synesthetic poems to questioning poems to the ghazal, Lightning Paths: 75 Poetry Writing Exercises has something fun or fascinating for every student and teacher as they explore the possibilities of poetry writing. The exercises teach and utilize technique while also focusing on and...
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Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee LiteratureU.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable "there." In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W. Bush declared that we would fight in the Middle East so we wouldn't have...
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The Tale of Toxic PositivityAuthor: Beatrix Pottymouth, Paul MagrsPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 07/04/2023Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 4.20h x 0.20w x 0.30dISBN: 9780008558154About the AuthorPaul Magrs brought out his first novel in 1995 when he was 25, which has been followed by many more. He has lectured in Creative Writing at...
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A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of Fools: The Laon Ordo JosephA newly identified medieval play for the Feast of Fools, with a new English translation and musical edition ready for performance. Scholars and non-scholars alike have long been fascinated by the medieval "Feast of Fools", the annual celebration on or around the New Year...
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The Poetic Edda Six Cosmology PoemsThe Edda poems were written down in the Old Norse language by Icelandic scholars during the 11th to 13th centuries AD. They contain a poetical, metaphorical lore about Cosmos and the fate of mortals on the path to immortality. A lore that is, despite...
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Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. JamesAuthor: S. T. JoshiPublisher: Hippocampus PressPublished: 07/15/2007Pages: 340Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.12w x 0.74dISBN: 9780977173488Review Citation(s): PW Notes and Reprints 10/29/2007 pg. 36This title is not returnable
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Black Culture and the Harlem RenaissanceHarlem symbolized the urbanization of black America in the 1920s and 1930s. Home to the largest concentration of African Americans who settled outside the South, it spawned the literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Its writers were in the vanguard of...
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Texas Literary Outlaws: Six Writers in the Sixties and BeyondAt the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texas's conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, these six writers--Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent--closely observed the effects of the...
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Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern SpainIn the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first...
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The New Oxford Shakespeare: Complete Set: Modern Critical Edition, Critical Reference Edition, Authorship CompanionThe New Oxford Shakespeare consists of four interconnected publications: the Modern Critical Edition (with modern spelling), the Critical Reference Edition (with original spelling), a companion volume on authorship, and an online version integrating all of this material on OUP's high-powered scholarly editions platform. Together,...
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The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the StateThe American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop,...
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Madame Bovary: A Norton Critical EditionMargaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including photographs and engravings, that inform students' understanding of middle-class life in nineteenth-century provincial...
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Neither Believer Nor Infidel: Skepticism and Faith in Melville's Shorter Fiction and PoetryShedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the author's literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith that infused Herman Melville's writings following Moby-Dick....
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Paul Celan's Unfinished Poetics: Readings in the Sous-OeuvrePaul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body of primary texts. Thomas C. Connolly seeks to destabilize canonical readings of Celan's work by exploring the sous-oeuvre, the marginalized...
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The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the StageWinner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama As Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces the roots of his family's particular unhappiness to learn...
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