Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Samuel Butler and the Science of the MindDarwin's theory of evolution was received with great interest all across Europe. The theory of evolution generated numerous debate among scientists, philosophers and the general public. Questions concerning the evolution of animals and humans, the existence of any blueprint or design in biology, and...
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Three Preludes to the Song of Roland: GUI of Burgundy, Roland at Saragossa, and OtinelThe first complete English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of around twenty related chansons de geste, known collectively as the Cycle...
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Mary Robinson and the GothicAuthor: Jerrold E. HoglePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/27/2023Pages: 75Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17dISBN: 9781009160872
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Tolkien and DiversityWelcoming over 700 delegates across the two-day event, the 2021 Tolkien Society summer seminar was the highest attended event in the Society's history. It invited scholars to consider the role that diversity plays in Middle-earth's linguistic and literary make-up: how does he explore race,...
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo ReisAuthor: José SaramagoPublisher: HarperviaPublished: 10/20/2022Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9780156996938Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/03/1992About the AuthorSaramago, José: - JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year...
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And the Rivers Thereof: Reflections on Riverine Images in the Writing of Jack KerouacAND THE RIVERS THEREOF: Following the flow of river imagery through the writings of Jack Kerouac - novels, short stories, journals & essays. Reflections upon the roles and resonances of watercourses in the Kerouacian chronicle. Author: Gregory StephensonPublisher: Felix Culpa PressPublished: 06/12/2023Pages: 46Binding Type:...
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A Long Essay on the Long Poem: Modern and Contemporary Poetics and PracticesA masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms--the long poem For decades, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has shown readers how genres, forms, and the literal acts of writing and reception can be understood as sites of struggle. In her own words,...
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Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science FictionIn this groundbreaking cultural history, Lisa Yaszek recovers a lost tradition of women's science fiction that flourished after 1945. This new kind of science fiction was set in a place called galactic suburbia, a literary frontier that was home to nearly 300 women writers....
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Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation"It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it...
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The Poetry BookAn accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them. The...
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The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka ShikiRather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from outdated conventions...
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The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring BookThe Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring Book demystifies gender and pleasantly confuses your assumptions as you are drawn into its mesmerizing bricolage of patterns, folds, and whorls. Color away the false binaries between male and female, words and text, inside and outside, art and nature. As...
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The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible...
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Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx DystopiasRobo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent--both within Mexico and in the United States--since the advent of the North American Free Trade...
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Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York CityFocusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work...
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Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait GalleryRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this...
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Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx DystopiasRobo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent--both within Mexico and in the United States--since the advent of the North American Free Trade...
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A Study in Scarlet"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life." In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes...
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The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry that...
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The Black Pilgrimage 2: Further Explorations in Supernatural FictionTHE GHOSTLY WORK OF M.R. JAMESThe celebrated writer M.R. James is arguably the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified and fascinated readers for over a hundred years. Now collected in this second volume, here are a...
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