Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Burden of Traumascapes: Discourses of Remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and BeyondDemonstrating the range of linguistic and semiotic practices which are deployed in the construction of war memory, The Burden of Traumascapes investigates the discourses of remembering that are enculturated in the everyday lives of the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Maida Kosatica explores how the memory...
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Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across DifferencesCritical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue between influential feminist writers on how to say no to the conditions of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation imposed by patriarchal and systemically racist capitalist societies. The book provides today's...
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The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to DanteSicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks...
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Vanitas als WiederholungDie Wiederholung des in Antike und Barock verankerten Vanitas-Motivs in der Kultur der Gegenwart mag anachronistisch anmuten. Dabei passt sie nicht nur zu einer Reihe anderer, aktueller Praxen, Vanitas thematisiert selbst bereits Wiederholung als das, was dann erst seit dem 19. Jahrhundert kontrovers diskutiert...
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Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of DisplacementThe nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of...
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The Routledge Companion to World LiteratureThis fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies. Separated...
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The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz: Essays on the Evolution of a Writer, 1973-1987Born into poverty with an abusive home life, Dean Koontz found a respite in books. As he began a writing career in the late 1960s, Koontz began injecting the dark experiences of his own life into his literature, and autobiography became a central thematic...
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Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean TragedyMost critics agree that Euripidean tragedy addresses a wealth of political questions, and that it successfully incorporates and engages with a variety of ancient Greek poetic traditions. Nevertheless, these topics and questions have generally been treated separately. In this book, Jonah Radding contends that...
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Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish SatireEach of the suitors in the Odyssey is eager to become the king of Ithaca by marrying Penelope and disqualifying Telemachus from his rightful royal inheritance. Their words are contentious, censorious, and intent on marking Odysseus' son as unfit for kingship. However, in keeping...
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La Imagen DescartadaC. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and the renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later ages as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the...
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The Art of Cervantes in Don Quixote: Critical EssaysFour centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes's great novel (the first novel), Don Quixote (1605; 1615), continues to fascinate readers and generate debate about key questions. Were the efforts of the deluded hidalgo and his corpulent squire to revive the lost age of...
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The Transcendent Vision of Mythopoeic FantasyAn ever-expanding critical library on fantasy fiction requires an analysis of why the genre is so ubiquitous, enduring and beloved. This work analyzes the mythic elements in foundational fantasy texts, arguing that mythopoeic fantasy reveals timeless truths that link human cultures past and present....
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Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American FictionWriting the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction examines contemporary novels profoundly shaped by a sense of historical consciousness. Authors including Ben Lerner, Colson Whitehead, Dana Spiotta, Hari Kunzru and Garth Greenwell each use flashbacks, historical parallels and non-sequential narrative arrangements to emphasise the re-emergence,...
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Romanticism and Consciousness, RevisitedWith explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and re-map the terrain laid out...
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Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de SiècleExplores the influence of contemporary radicalism over Oscar Wilde Offers a new, politicised interpretation of Wilde's most famous literary works Contextualises Wilde's writing by reading it against the contemporary political crises that it addressed Focuses on archival research, drawing on Wilde's correspondence, reviews, interviews,...
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Virginia Woolf's Apprenticeship: Becoming an EssayistThis study takes up Woolf's challenge to probe the relationship between education and work, specifically her education and her work as an essayist. It expands her education beyond her father's library to include not only a broader examination of her homeschooling but also her...
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Mary Wollstonecraft: CosmopolitanConsidering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Felicité de Genlis, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann and Margareta de Cambon, as well as British sentimental philosophers and the radical theologian Richard Price, this book argues that Wollstonecraft...
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Hecale. Hymns. EpigramsCallimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world...
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The Presidents of American Fiction: Fashioning the U.S. Political ImaginationThe Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written-consider,...
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist LiteratureAuthor: Ulrika MaudePublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 11/17/2022Pages: 560Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00dISBN: 9781350300705This title is only available via back order
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