Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Studying the NovelConsistently praised for its readability and scholarship, Studying the Novel is the ideal undergraduate companion to the study of the novel and shorter fiction. Revised throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the writing, reading, and analysis of fiction,...
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Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in PolandComics and Nation offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular culture in the one-hundred-year history of the Polish state, from its foundation in 1918 to the present. Drawing on dozens of press articles, interviews, and readers' letters, Ewa Stańczyk discusses how journalists,...
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Ovid's Heroides and the Augustan Principate43 BCE, the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. While the Roman republic had seen many conflicts, it was this civil war, headed by the vengeful triumvirate of Mark Anthony, Marcus Lepidus, and Octavian, that irrevocably transformed Rome with its upheaval. What followed...
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German #Metoo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and interrogating the ways that "rape cultures" persist. Responding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement,...
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Greek Tragedy and the DigitalAdopting an innovative and theoretical approach, Greek Tragedy and the Digital is an original study of the encounter between Greek tragedy and digital media in contemporary performance. It challenges Greek tragedy conventions through the contemporary arsenal of sound masks, avatars, live code poetry, new...
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Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940 Volume 42How did the avant-garde imagine its interconnected world? And how does this legacy affect our understanding of the global today? The writers and artists of the French avant-garde aspired to reach a global audience that would be wholly transformed by their work. In this...
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A Month in the CountryNatalya Petrovna is bewildered by her emotions when she falls in love with the young tutor engaged to teach her son. When she realizes, however, that she has a rival in her ward, Verochka, she attempts to engineer the girl's marriage to another. Turgenev's...
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Tales That TouchCultural texts born out of migration frequently defy easy categorization as they cross borders, languages, histories, and media in unpredictable ways. Instead of corralling them into identity categories, whether German or otherwise, the essays in this volume, building on the influential work of Leslie...
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Light on the Walls of Life - A Tribute Anthology to Lawrence FerlinghettiA tribute anthology to Lawrence Ferlinghetti affirming the lasting sacred power of poetry and insurgent artLawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) was a poet, publisher, painter, social activist, and cultural exemplar of broad simultaneous excellence. This tribute volume was authorized by Ferlinghetti shortly before his 100th birthday....
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Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: A Reader's GuideCrime and Punishment: A Reader's Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov's fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers root for him to get away from the scene...
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural PoeticsThrough readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural...
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The GardenerThe Gardener is a tremendous poetry collection of Bengali poetry by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume contains the following passage: "Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written...
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Transforming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone LiteratureOne of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas....
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Companion to Victor PelevinCompanion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and students, including how best to teach...
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A Monster for Many: Talking with H. P. LovecraftIn the 1990s, Robert H. Waugh-now Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz-emerged as one of the most profound and learned commentators on H. P. Lovecraft. He has brought to the study of the Providence writer a...
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Authorship's Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author"A book about writers and thinkers who were taught that the author is dead how their work consequently negotiates what it means to be an author"--Author: Philip SayersPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781501372186About the AuthorPhilip Sayers...
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Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the OrdinaryMarilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary posits that Robinson's widely celebrated novels and essays are best understood as emerging from a foundational theology that has 'the Ordinary' as its source. Reading Robinson's published work, and drawing on an original interview with Robinson, Andrew Cunning...
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The History of French Literature on FilmFrench novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary directed by...
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Early Modern Visions of Space: France and BeyondHow writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations. The volume's...
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What Is a Jewish Classicist?: Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary PoliticsIn recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage...
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