Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith ButlerConsidering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere.Through close readings...
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Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third EditionA user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative The boom in autobiographical narratives continues apace. It now encompasses a global spectrum of texts and practices in such media as graphic memoir, auto-photography,...
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Persians. Seven Against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus BoundFour unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens' first great tragedian. Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also...
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Pantheon: An Illustrated Handbook to the Greek Gods & GoddessesA beautifully illustrated handbook, profiling more than 50 characters from Greek Mythology "I love Caroline Lawrence and so should you." - Natalie Haynes "Huge fun!" - Tom Holland Get to know the ancient Greek gods and goddesses...and find out why their stories are still...
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Ovid, Metamorphoses XMetamorphoses is an epic-style, narrative poem written in hexameters. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book X contains some of Ovid's most memorable...
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Othello (Pocket Classics)Experience the heart-wrenching tragedy of Othello with this pocket-sized edition. Shakespeare's powerful exploration of jealousy, manipulation, and the destructive power of suspicion can now be carried with you, offering profound insights into the complexities of human nature. Tragic drama in the palm of your...
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Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. EumenidesThe tragic cycle of justice. Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also at Salamis, and had one of...
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Orations, Volume I: Orations 1-17 and 20: Olynthiacs. Philippics. Minor Public OrationsThe preeminent orator of ancient Athens. Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's rise to...
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On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh BrackettAshley Lawson's On Edge presents a new picture of postwar American literature, arguing that biases against genre fiction have unfairly disadvantaged the legacies of authors like Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett. Each of these women navigated a male-dominated postwar publishing world without...
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Nine GuardiansThe Nine Guardians is crowded with the magic and malice of warring gods and men.Author: Rosario CastellanosPublisher: Readers InternationalPublished: 04/01/1993Pages: 312Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 7.70h x 4.80w x 0.50dISBN: 9780930523909This title is not returnable
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MysticismA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time. Why mysticism? It has been called "experience in its most intense form," and...
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Mother of Stories: An ElegyA tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.Author: Alice DaileyPublisher: Fordham University PressPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54dISBN: 9781531506476Review Citation(s): Library Journal 06/14/2024 pg....
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Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500Monstrous Fantasies asks why medieval romances reimagining the crusades ending in a Christian victory circulated in England with such abundance after the 1291 Muslim reconquest of Acre, the last of the Latin crusader states in the Holy Land, and what these texts reveal about...
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Metamorphoses, Volume II: Books 9-15The poetry of change. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus...
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Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8The poetry of change. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus...
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Lovecraft Annual No. 18 (2024)Lovecraft Annual is published once a year, in Fall. Articles and letters should be sent to the editor, S. T. Joshi, ℅ Hippocampus Press, and must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope if return is desired. All reviews are assigned. Literary rights for...
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Lives of the Caesars, Volume I: The Deified Julius. the Deified Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius CaligulaAntiquity's imperial biographer par excellence. Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect...
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Literary Theory: The BasicsNow in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism.Literary Theory: The...
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ListeningsIn Listenings, Weiss "listens to the world breathing" in this insightful, often humorous, personal journey. These adventures in listening to music (iconic Woodstock, live concerts, on the radio), nature, sounds in the bedroom, in the body, on the street, language in translation, overheard conversations,...
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Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century NovelsHow Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heights As novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from experience--sometimes grudgingly--that readers tend to make their own imaginative...
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