Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Steps of Nemesis: A Dramatic Chronicle in Six Scenes from Party Life in the USSR (1936-1938)The first-ever English translation of this dramatic work by Nikolai Evreinov. In the 1910s the Russian theater director and theorist Nikolai Evreinov (1879-1953) insisted on the theatricalization of life. Twenty years later, Evreinov, who had left Russia in 1924, was in exile in Paris...
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Aspects of the SAQTaking the anti-Stratfordian view of the Shakespeare authorship question (SAQ) for granted, these essays delve into various topics that still divide those who have adopted this perspective. These include the Prince Tudor hypothesis, the various primary Shakespeare texts and their differences, the idea that...
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Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis Volume 10A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field. This collection of essays focuses on teaching at the intersection of early modern literature, book history, and digital media. It considers how teaching different fields and methods of study...
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Compelling Stories for English Language Learners: Creativity, Interculturality and Critical LiteracyThis book is a comprehensive and thorough introduction to children's and young adult literature in English language education. Reading is promoted as central to language education in order to experience perspectives from around the world, and the book demonstrates the many opportunities for teaching...
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Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre'This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi ('pear garden theatre'), heir and current expression of one of China's oldest unbroken xiqu ('Chinese opera') traditions. It considers the genre's history prior to the 20th century, its signal successes...
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Clément Marot's Epistles: Volume 582The first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot. Clément Marot (1496-1544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the...
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Poets and PuritansOriginally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers - as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social context...
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Le Coin des EnfantsAngela a une trentaine d'années.C'est une jeune femme sortie d'un carnet d'exils. On dirait une femme comme toutes les autres. Il n'en est rien. C'est une vagabonde sans visage au verbe haut, sans foi ni loi. Née de parents Congolais venus d'Afrique, frappée d'amnésie,...
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Bourdieu in der GermanistikZwei Jahrzehnte nach seinem Tod ist das Werk des Soziologen Pierre Bourdieu aus vielen Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften nicht mehr wegzudenken. Wie aber sieht es mit der Anwendung der Bourdieuschen Konzepte und Theorien in der Germanistik aus?Der Band bilanziert den Ertrag der entsprechenden sprach-...
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Animal-Human Relationships in Medieval Iceland: From Farm-Settlement to SagasA multi-disciplinary investigation of the links between people and animals, in reality and representation. Domestic animals played a range of roles in the imaginative world of medieval Icelanders: from partners in settlement and household allies, to violent offenders, foster-kin and surrogate wives, they were...
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Thomas Hoccleve: New ApproachesThis volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right. The Middle English poet...
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Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with NarrativeThrough narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative examines strategies of self-preservation of young people exposed to violence and persecution at different ages...
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Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular CultureThrough a critical discussion of an array of written and visual texts that feature a writer as a main character, Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture argues for a more nuanced conception of the role of writers in...
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Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans SeriesBetween 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. With colorful cover art and compelling--and often highly fictionalized--narrative storylines, these biographies celebrated the national virtues and achievements of famous women like Betsy Ross, Louisa May Alcott,...
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An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic MysticismAn Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to...
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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical NovelBrokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American "romancers" and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain's diffused, tenuous, and often...
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Uncanny Rest: For AntiphilosophyIn Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the "shelter-in-place" period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and...
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Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval ChinaLore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220-589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted through...
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Literature and SkepticismLiterature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature--in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the essay document the relationship between literature and skepticism in different but complementary and, at the...
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Between Camp and CursiBetween Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería--a form of "bad taste" that expresses a sense of social marginalization--is used to represent key social...
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