Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in SpanishTransnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish approaches literature that has been forgotten or neglected in studies on other literatures in Spanish due, in part, to the fact that today Spanish is no longer spoken in the Philippines or in Asia. However,...
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The Prose Edda"The Prose Edda," a timeless compilation of Old Norse tales and poetic theories meticulously crafted by Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Offering a treasury of myths, legends, and insights into Viking Age beliefs, this cornerstone of Norse literature unveils the rich...
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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and MatterMany critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that...
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The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of FreedomAn ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life. In a series of stories and essays, James B. Haile, III, traces...
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The Cambridge Companion to Manga and AnimeThis Companion takes a unique approach, exploring manga and anime as two distinct but interrelated forms. Firmly based in Japanese sources, it offers a lively and accessible introduction, exploring the local contexts of production and reception in Japan, as well as the global influence...
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The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary HistoryA major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it...
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Shy of the Squirrel's Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing BooksThe Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) in 1951. Jargon quickly gained a reputation as the home of the poetic and literary avant-garde, including noted midcentury poets like Charles Olson and Lorine Niedecker. Williams...
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Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the SuperheroShaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze. Further, the book explores how voices of color have...
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Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and AfterlivesThis wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the present day. In honour...
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Shadows & Verse: Classic Dark Poems with Celebrity CommentaryShadows & Verse: Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary is a very special collection of poems and song lyrics that explore 'darkness' in all its many forms -the supernatural, grief, PTSD, loss, the unknown, death, and even joy. Darkness itself is not always bad or...
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Screaming at the Window: The Tragic Story of Blanche Monnier, the Prisoner of PoitiersBased on details and information reported in contemporaneous newspaper reports, Screaming at the Window is the true and tragic story of Blanche Monnier, the young daughter of Louise, an aristocratic mother and Emile, a former dean of the faculty of letters, who became known...
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Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian ModernismHow modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into poetry Isobel Palmer spotlights Russian modernist poets' and formalist theorists' conscious engagement with formal convention, showing how their efforts were tied up with broader attempts in the early Soviet...
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Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First CenturyTalk of repair has become ubiquitous in recent years. In the age of trauma culture, art and literature have a new purpose: to do justice, to console, comfort, and heal. Drawing on works of twenty-first-century French-language literature, this monograph shows how literature can not...
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Peripatos: A History of Ancient AristotelianismWith the exception of Paul Moraux's Die Aristotelismus bei den Griechen (in German), the most recent books on the history of ancient Aristotelianism are H. Balthussen 2016 (The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs) and A. Falcon 2018 (Aristotelismo). Both works do not follow the chronological order...
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Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in LiteratureVillage is not just a place, but an idea. Likewise, a city is not just a place, but a metaphor. Human imagination has conceived both village and city as opposite to one another. When we were tired of living in villages, we invented cities;...
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On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and DeathA critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literature On Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: "Hebrew revival," or the idea that Hebrew--a largely unspoken language before the twentieth century--was revitalized as part...
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On Close ReadingJohn Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental methods of literary study, few terms appear more frequently than "close reading,"...
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Notes of a Native SonA deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin's most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity Part of the Beacon Classics series Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's timeless and moving essays on...
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Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1850sEstablishing a fresh critical paradigm, this volume shows how the 1850s was significantly defined by forms of increasing intellectual, class, and geographical mobility. It saw the flourishing of major Victorian writers, including George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, Matthew Arnold, Charles...
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New Insights Into Conrad and PolandDespite the large number of publications on Joseph Conrad's Polishness--including previous volumes of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives--many questions remain. New Insights Into Conrad and Poland, edited by Wieslaw Krajka, brings together a variety of thematic and methodological approaches in search of...
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