Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Minor Notes, Volume 1A new Penguin Classics series that recovers and rediscovers the work of African American poets from the 19th and 20th centuries, curated by Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy A Penguin Classic As scholars of African American literature and cultural history, Bennett and McCarthy repeatedly...
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Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage: El Teatre Còmic En Català (1900-2016)Comedy has been a constant presence in the history of Catalan theatre, but it is rarely recognized as a separate generic identity, worthy of academic study as a whole. This volume is the first concentrated attempt to analyse Catalan theatre under the comic lens,...
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The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist NovelsIs plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between...
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From Ashes to Text: Andean Literature of Sexual Dissidence in the 20th CenturyAccording to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned more than the...
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The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, EnvironmentA critical reading of the unstable structures that organize biological and social life This timely and radically interdisciplinary volume uncovers the aesthetics and politics of infrastructure. From roads and bridges to harbors and canals, infrastructure is conventionally understood as the public works that allow...
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The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of IntimacyA literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet--and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the...
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Matthew Arnold and American CultureThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Communion of the Book: Milton and the Humanist Revolution in ReadingThe modern world was not created by the civilization of Renaissance Italy, the advent of the printing press, or the marriage restrictions imposed by the medieval church. Rather, it was widespread reading that brought about most of the cognitive, psychological, and social changes that...
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Why Modern Manuscripts MatterThis is a study of the politics, the commerce, and the aesthetics of heritage culture in the shape of authors' manuscripts. Draft or working manuscripts survive in quantity from the eighteenth century when, with the rise of print, readers learnt to value 'the hand'...
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Shakespeare's Syndicate: The First Folio, Its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book TradeIn 1623 a team of stationers published what has become the most famous volume in English literary history: William Shakespeare's First Folio. Who were these publishers and how might their stories be bound up with those found within the book they created? Ben Higgins...
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Charles Dickens: But for You, Dear StrangerA personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about. Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is...
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Gods and Fighting Men; The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady GregoryThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The Flying Doctor (Le Médecin Volant)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The CounterplotThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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A Poetic History of the Oceans: Literature and Maritime ModernityWhat is the ocean's role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, S ren Frank...
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Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary LifeRichmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton's less well-known fiction...
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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of GlobalizationWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, "semicircular" social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating,...
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Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish TheaterThis is the first book on staging and stage décor to focus specifically on early modern Spanish theater, from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The introduction provides an overview of Spanish theater design from the 16th century, with particular attention to the...
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The Cambridge History of Latina/O American LiteratureThis comprehensive history of US Latina/o literature from the colonial period through the present elucidates the complex roots of Latina/o writing within the Americas.Author: John Morán GonzálezPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/21/2022Pages: 856Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.70dISBN: 9781316634172This title is not...
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Spenser's World of Glass: A Reading of the Faerie QueeneThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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