Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Study Guide to Babbitt by Sinclair LewisA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, a novel that contributed to Lewis' eventual Nobel Prize award. As a satirical novel of the roaring twenties, Babbitt addresses the "American Dream" as was idolized by the middle...
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Study Guide to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt VonnegutA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an instant success across all popular media. As an anti-war novel of the 1960s, Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five as a double story: the main character suffers from the traumatic effects...
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Study Guide to Hard Times by Charles DickensA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Hard Times, a novel that brought to light the harsh conditions of factory workers during the nineteenth century. As a novel set in nineteenth-century England, many lower class citizens worked...
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History of Ancient Greek Scholarship: From the Beginnings to the End of the Byzantine AgeThis is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform fied of "ancient scholarship" from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The...
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Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His ContemporariesJohn Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing...
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Nothing Happened: A HistoryThe past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that nothing...
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The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth CenturyFollowing The People and the Books, which covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration...
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The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao YearsIt is now forty years after Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. During this time, the collective memory of these events has been sanitized, reduced to...
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Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullersUNDERSTANDING THE SHORT FICTION OF CARSON MCCULLERS uses diverse critical techniques to identify how McCullers's writing maintains lasting appeal because it captures both the joy and sadness of humanity, especially the meaning we draw from connections with others and the pain of isolation when...
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Arthur Symons: Poet, Critic, Vagabond'If I have been a vagabond, and have never been able to root myself in any one place in the world, it is because I have no early memories of any one sky or soil. It has freed me from many prejudices in giving...
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Laughter After: Humor and the HolocaustLaughter After: Humor and the Holocaust argues that humor performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. Co-editors David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt have assembled an impressive list of contributors who examine what is at stake in deploying...
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Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic LiteratureWinner, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the...
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 19841984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, two plus two equals five--that gain potency with every year. Its vast influence...
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Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic WorldIn Hunting Nature, Thomas P. Hodge explores Ivan Turgenev's relationship to nature through his conception, description, and practice of hunting--the most unquenchable passion of his life. Informed by an ecocritical perspective, Hodge takes an approach that is equal parts interpretive and documentarian, grounding his...
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Kanji Practice Notebook: Beautiful Wave Cover - Genkouyoushi Notebook - Japanese Kanji Practice Paper Calligraphy Writing Workbook for StudentsThisJapanese Kanji Practice Notebook makes notebooks for japanese students to practice writing kanji, essays, and reports. One of the best ways to learn kanji is to practice writing kanji. Even if you just want to be able to read kanji, you will memorize kanji...
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Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under PostsocialismThis book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these diverse cultural forms and practices not only...
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Haiku Enlightenment: New Expanded EditionHaiku Enlightenment is a delightful, often playful look at haiku as both a poetic craft and a pathway of awakening - for poets, seekers and creative rebels. Gabriel Rosenstock has given us a rich collection of insights, distilled from a lifetime dedicated to the...
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Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuwebIn 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively obscure literary movement grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and...
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Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global ClassicGabriel Garc a M rquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary...
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Art and Artifact in AustenJane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores, attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat for portraits by her sister Cassandra,...
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