Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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MysticismA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time. Why mysticism? It has been called "experience in its most intense form," and...
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Mother of Stories: An ElegyA tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.Author: Alice DaileyPublisher: Fordham University PressPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54dISBN: 9781531506476Review Citation(s): Library Journal 06/14/2024 pg....
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Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, and what these texts reveal about...
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Metamorphoses, Volume II: Books 9-15The poetry of change. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus...
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Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8The poetry of change. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus...
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Lovecraft Annual No. 18 (2024)Lovecraft Annual is published once a year, in Fall. Articles and letters should be sent to the editor, S. T. Joshi, ℅ Hippocampus Press, and must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope if return is desired. All reviews are assigned. Literary rights for...
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Lives of the Caesars, Volume I: The Deified Julius. the Deified Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius CaligulaAntiquity's imperial biographer par excellence. Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect...
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Literary Theory: The BasicsNow in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism.Literary Theory: The...
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ListeningsIn Listenings, Weiss "listens to the world breathing" in this insightful, often humorous, personal journey. These adventures in listening to music (iconic Woodstock, live concerts, on the radio), nature, sounds in the bedroom, in the body, on the street, language in translation, overheard conversations,...
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Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century NovelsHow Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights As novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from experience--sometimes grudgingly--that readers tend to make their own imaginative...
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Hölderlin's Hymn the IsterMartin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in...
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early GreeksNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.What is the nature of things?What is justice? How can I be myself?How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was...
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Horace Odes and EpodesMonumental verse. The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes boasts a faithful...
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Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of HomerInvocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard. Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity...
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History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume I: Books 1-2Classic political realism. Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he described...
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Haunted States: An American Gothic GuidebookA fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors - from witch trials to slavery and genocide - continue to haunt the national consciousness. Haunted States is a unique guidebook that explores the...
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Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold WarGeopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which Shakespeare is cited as an...
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Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni MorrisonPositions Toni Morrison's novels within the timely framework of geocriticism and spatial studiesCovers a wide range of Morrison's oeuvre, including Love, A Mercy, and JazzHighlights not only the significance of Morrison's novels within literary studies but also her intellectual, political, and cultural influenceAuthor: Herman...
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Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the AmericasGeographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary and canonical borders to investigate the interrelationships of African-descended Latinx...
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From Rus' to R?mur: Norse History, Culture, and Literature East and WestFrom Rus' to R?mur, volume 65 in the Islandica series and simultaneously an issue in the occasional journal New Norse Studies, offers six contributions that range across Europe from East to West and across three categories: "Historical Studies," "Literary Studies," and "New Editions." The...
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