Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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FatObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the stereotype, fat is...
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Archie's Rivals in Teen Comics, 1940s-1970s: An Illustrated HistoryThis is the first book to comprehensively examine the multitude of non-Archie teen humor comic books, including girls and boys such as Patsy Walker, Hedy Wolfe, Buzz Baxter and Wendy Parker from Marvel; Judy Foster, Buzzy, Binky and Scribbly from DC; Candy from Quality...
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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman RevisedOld rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam and Eve were. This is a lyrical telling of that legend and what happens to Lilith as she encounters...
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Jami'Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-1492) is a culminating figure in Perso-Islamic culture, whose reputation and influence have remained undiminished throughout the eastern Islamic world--the Ottoman empire and Central Asia, Iran, India, China, and the Malay world. Primarily celebrated as a poet, Jami was also an...
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Comics and StuffConsiders how comics display our everyday stuff--junk drawers, bookshelves, attics--as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable--you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed...
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The Century: PoemsWinner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in PoetryA Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020"A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence.In the tradition of witness poetry, The...
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Playing the Hero: Reading the Tain Bo CuailngeIn Playing the Hero, Ann Dooley examines the surviving manuscript versions of the greatest of the early Irish sagas, the Tain Bo Cuailnge (Cattle-Raid of Cooley), and creates a picture of the cultural conditions and literary mind-sets under which medieval scribes recreated the text....
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Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada RevolutionIn 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People's Revolutionary Government. The United States under President Reagan infamously invaded Grenada in 1983, staying until the New National Party won election,...
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After Poland: A Memoir Because of Primo LeviIn If This Is a Man, Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi wrote an ethical treatise on how to regain humanity after atrocity. His need to write developed at Auschwitz. Upon return to Italy in late 1945, he began to compose his first testimonial work....
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Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for ReadersOne of the South's most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines's unique literary style, depiction of the African American experience, and celebration of the rural South's oral tradition have brought him critical praise and numerous accolades, including a...
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Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond"I love music" (J.R.R. Tolkien)Music plays a crucial role in Tolkien's mythology, and his tales contain many songs as well as mentions of musicians and instruments.The present book edited by Julian Eilmann and Friedhelm Schneidewind is the successor to the well-received 2010 volume Music...
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the WorldOn the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes an "appealing new biography . . . that] illuminates Wordsworth's poetic originality." (Brad Leithauser, Wall Street Journal) "The finest modern introduction to Wordsworth's] work, life and impact. It shows how and why 'Wordsworth made a difference.'"--Boyd...
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Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary NationIn 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had...
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Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist FormA Literary Hub Favorite Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism. Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found...
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William Wordsworth: A LifeIn this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a...
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The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music...
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The Restoration of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against ScientismC. S. Lewis is best known for his Narnia tales and Christian apologetics, works that have sold more than 100 million copies. But Lewis was also a trained philosopher and a professor at Cambridge and Oxford. An intellectual giant, he fiercely and extensively critiqued...
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Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of MormonIn this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion...
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A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the EastIn this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and...
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The Suspended Passion: InterviewsA controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her...
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