Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of StoriesFiction is generally understood to be a fascinating, yet somehow deficient affair, merely derivative of reality. What if we could, instead, come up with an affirmative approach that takes stories seriously in their capacity to bring forth a substance of their own? Iconic texts...
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the CityAuthor: Michelle Van Parys, Scott PeeplesPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 04/25/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.70dISBN: 9780691247960About the AuthorScott Peeples is professor of English at the College of Charleston. His books include The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe and Edgar Allan...
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Eine Poetik Des Hasses: Negative Emotionalität Und Herabsetzendes Schreiben in Der GegenwartsliteraturIn seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hass auf verschiedene Weisen thematisiert wird. Dabei widmet er sich der Erschlie ung einer Poetik des Hasses, die sich gegen Kategorien...
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The Wisdom of Solomon and the Byzantine Reception of OrigenThis is a critical edition of a newly discovered Greek manuscript: a full commentary from Codex 199, Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, entitled 'Wisdom of Solomon--an interpretation of Solomon's Book of Wisdom, by Origen, as they say'. The book includes critical apparatus, commentary,...
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The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth CenturyThis highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that...
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The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo IshiguroThe Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with aesthetic value and political valency, with the vicissitudes of memory...
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Modern Language Review (118: 2) April 2023The April 2023 issue of Modern Language ReviewContentsMining and Writing: Corrie, Malva, MousseronNarrating the Monster in Early Modern EnglandThomas Mann's Nietzsche and the German ReformationBook reviewsAuthor: Lucy O'MearaPublisher: Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublished: 04/01/2023Pages: 134Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.29dISBN: 9781839542572This title...
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Reading Time in Music: Temporally VexedThis book examines the intersection of music and temporality in British literature of the long nineteenth century, arguing the temporal multiplicity of music as the most dynamic way to subvert mimetic bias. Temporally vexed sound spaces rupture the narrative, transgressing the hegemonic structures to...
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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native...
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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic LiteraturesIn Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, Anna-Leena Toivanen explores the representations and relationship of mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the 1990s to the 2010s. Representations of mobility practices are discussed against three categories...
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Not All Quiet Before the Storm: A Political Study of the WestNot All Quiet Before the Storm: A Political Study of the West offers a comprehensive political and philosophical critique concerning the increasing popularity of socialism among liberal intellectuals, leftist generations of the young, and even Christian democrats. The author presents a series of extensive...
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Anaphora and EpiphoraAnaphora and Epiphora are two forms when it comes to poetry. Editor of the book is Dante Antonio, USA Selections have been done by Tarun Agarwal, India In this book the authors are from - USA, Nigeria, Ukraine, Canada, India and Fiji. Author: Jordan...
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Thomas Durfey's «Love for Money, or the Boarding School» (1691): A Critical EditionThomas Durfey's Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a...
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Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created NancyFrom Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told through the life story of Ernie Bushmiller and his iconic comic strip Nancy. "As the widest-ranging cartoon chronicler of American absurdity in our time, Bill Griffith has...
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Life's Little IroniesLife's Little Ironies, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and...
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Reading Rituals: The Importance of Habits in Cultivating a Love of BooksThis book is a thought-provoking exploration of the habits and practices that shape our reading lives. The author argues that the way we approach reading has a profound impact on our intellectual development, and that cultivating good reading habits is essential for personal growth...
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Giuseppe Sarti: Musicista Del Secolo XVIII (1883)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Goddesses: A Skeleton Key Study GuideBy Joanna Gardner, Olivia Happel-Block, Rachel Lugn, and Stephanie Zajchowski.In this Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, you'll find summaries of Campbell's views about many different goddesses, as well as quotes, reading suggestions, discussion topics, and prompts...
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Decadence and the Making of ModernismWe are currently updating our website and have not yet posted complete information for this title. Many of our books are in the Google preview program, which allows readers to view up to 20% of the book. If this title is active in the...
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Keywords for Environmental StudiesIntroduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature Studies Understandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding...
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