Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic ExperienceArgues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content Appeals to those interested in philosophy and literature, especially the philosophy of literature Brings together thinkers from the analytic and continental traditions in aesthetics Contains an updated and...
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Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazineMaps a coherent subfield of Romantic periodical studies through studying the trailblazing Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine An introduction by two established scholars that articulates a case for the more sustained, systematic study of Romantic periodicals and justifies the volume's focus by retracing Blackwood's emergence as...
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Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle EastAt the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an "other" that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the...
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Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian LiteratureWater is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary critical attention. This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water...
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Paris SpleenFirst published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire was inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's "Gaspard de la Nuit-Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot" or "Gaspard of the Night-Fantasies in the Manner...
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James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After FilmInvestigates how the cinematic tendency of Joyce's writing developed from media predating film First comprehensive consideration of Joyce in the context of pre-filmic 'cinematicity'. Research and analysis based on recent 'media archaeology'. Examines the shaping of Joyce's fiction by late-Victorian visual culture and science....
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Short Form American Poetry: The Modernist TraditionA ground-breaking analysis of the short form lineage in twentieth-century American poetry - Proposes a new genealogy of 20th century and contemporary American verse - Contains in-depth discussion of key American poets and movements - Will appeal to graduates and scholars in both the...
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Women's Writing of the Early Modern Period 1588-1688: An AnthologyThis multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period.Author: Stephanie Hodgson-WrightPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 07/15/2002Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.03dISBN: 9780748610976
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Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol. 4, issue 2Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. Another double issue! Cover art...
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Understanding Barthes, Understanding ModernismUnderstanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to Barthes's death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree...
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Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator"This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin's essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and...
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The Sea Dreamer: A Definitive Biography of Joseph ConradOf Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: 'There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist whoever wrote a novel.'Originally published...
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Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us NothingLong awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity--a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and...
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Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek TragedyThis volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as...
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Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France: Representation, Reimagination, RecoveryContemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures. Surviving accounts of the material culture of medieval Europe - including buildings, boats, reliquaries, wall paintings, textiles, ivory mirror cases, book bindings and much more - present a tantalising glimpse of...
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The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's WorldThe Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's World explores Shakespeare's complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable insights on a key aspect of Shakespeare's work that has been little...
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Conamara Chronicles: Tales from Iorras Aithneach"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist, revolutionary, and district justice Seán Mac Giollarnáth, whose 1941 book Annála Beaga ó Iorras...
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Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and TheaterHow do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities...
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Places of Childhood Fancy: Essays on Space and Speculation in Children's Book SeriesMany of us grew up exploring fascinating worlds--in books, films, and, most importantly, our imaginations--places filled with mythological characters and magical landscapes where we had stunning experiences punctuated by the harmless pleasures that any child's mind can conjure. These worlds sometimes end up in...
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ComedyOriginally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative, mainly in English, from Chaucer to Bernard Shaw. The theme is that comedy implies a philosophy of life that is fairly constant, despite the changes...
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