Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017Growing Out of Communism explores the rise of a new body of literature for children and teens following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent transformation of the publishing industry. Lanoux, Herold, and Bukhina first consider the Soviet foundations of...
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Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global AgeFrom a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changes Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate...
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Dolphin Editions: Homer, Iliad 1This introductory Homer reader, entirely in Ancient Greek, sets the student of the 21st century along the same paths of learning by which Homer was understood in the ancient world. Encountering and understanding the Iliad in its original language is to experience it in...
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Telephone: Essays in Two VoicesTELEPHONE is, for me, a stellar example of what can be achieved in collaborative work where two voices figure out how to link connective threads that bring out the best in each of their words, images, and narrative flourishes. This is a real gift...
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Zooming, Zippy Jokes about VehiclesAuthor: Julia GarsteckiPublisher: Black Rabbit BooksPublished: 01/11/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.10w x 0.20dISBN: 9781644665640Audience: Ages 9-12
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The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global GenreOne of the greatest untold stories about the globalization of the Western is the key role of comics. Few American cultural exports have been as successful globally as the Western, a phenomenon commonly attributed to the widespread circulation of fiction, film, and television. The...
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How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical LiteraciesIn How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins challenges the clichéd understanding of comics as a "universal" language, circulating without regard for cultures or borders. Instead, she develops a new methodology of reading for difference. Kelp-Stebbins's anticolonial, feminist, and antiracist analytical framework...
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Omar Khayyam PoemsThe poems attributed to Omar Khayyam have a universal and timeless philosophical theme: life is a meaningful journey even if brief and uncertain. They inspire an unconstrained free-thinking mindset and a wise realization that guides thinking persons: it is impossible to see the absolute...
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Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of CrisisWhat does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible...
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The Villain's Journey: Descent and Return in Science Fiction and FantasyThe villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy...
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Medieval English Travel: A Critical AnthologyMedieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introductory essays written by leading specialists; an anthology of important and less well-known texts, grouped by destination; and a selection of supporting bibliographiesorganized by type of voyage. This...
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Feminist Circulations: Rhetorical Explorations across Space and TimeLauer Series in Rhetoric and CompositionSeries Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer BayThe scholars in FEMINIST CIRCULATIONS: RHETORICAL EXPLORATIONS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME work at the nexus of gender, power, and movement to explore the rhetorical nature of circulation, especially considering how women from varying...
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After Agatha: Women Write CrimeAfter Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American, and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. Hundreds of women who identified as lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, able-bodied, disabled, feminist, left or right...
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The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty PoemsSince its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some 415,000 readers, listeners, teachers, and poets with its focus on a modern and contemporary American tradition that runs from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson up...
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Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York PlaysLike other compilations of medieval urban drama, the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth have most frequently been discussed in the context of...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Among His Private FriendsAn exciting, innovative approach to reading Shakespeare's Sonnets!"His sugared Sonnets among his private friends." That's how Shakespeare's Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with...
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Just You and the Page: Encounters with Twelve WritersJust You and the Page opens in 1971, with the dramatist Michael Wall hammering out his plays on a portable typewriter. It concludes in 2020, when the novelist and academic Josie Barnard is teaching students to compose novels on Instagram. Between them are Booker...
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Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular ImaginationThe publication Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination is part of the Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English Series. The text reflects growing interest in popular literary genres not only among the readers, but mainly in...
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Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the AmericasLiterature is often assumed to be monolingual: publishing rights are sold on the basis of linguistic territories and translated books are assumed to move from one "original" language to another. Yet a wide range of contemporary literary works mix and meld two or more...
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The World According to Clarkson How Hard Can It Be? Vol 4: The World According to Clarkson Volume 4Author: Jeremy ClarksonPublisher: Penguin UKPublished: 06/21/2011Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9780141048765About the AuthorJeremy Clarkson is a British writer and broadcaster who specialises in motoring. He began his career on the Rotherham Advertiser and since then has written for the...
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