Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Barroco and Other WritingsSevero Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained...
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A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary CanvasAuthor: Peter GrybauskasPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 260Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.50dISBN: 9781606354902
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Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and RhetoricThis book gestures toward a future in which, through a more nuanced and productive discourse, we can better support Jewish educators and students and engage Jewish members of the discipline as better accomplices in antiracism.Author: Alice S. Horning, Mara Lee GraysonPublisher: Peter Lang PublishingPublished:...
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Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film AdaptationsMarvel, like other media "universes," is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow...
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All Y'All: Queering Southernness in Us Fiction, 1980-2020The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or "queer." The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan speak to this connection between queerness...
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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really MatterBefore Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma--and everything changed.In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of Austen's...
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Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of HopeThe industrialization of print technologies in early nineteenth-century America transformed print culture in ways that parallel the transformation wrought by the digital revolution. Understanding how a previous era was shaped by the assumptions print technology engendered may enable us to recognize more clearly how...
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Wise Quotes - Shakespeare (401 Shakespeare Quotes): English Theater Playwright Elizabethan Era Quote CollectionThis excellent collection of quotes will inspire deep thoughts from one of history's greatest minds. Enjoy the works of a brilliant historical philosopher and figure by reading these amazing quotations to expand your own thinking, for learning and life.Whether you're looking for inspiration, motivation,...
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White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and LanguageExamines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained? Examining women writers from...
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Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second EssaysRichardson is well-known for his five previous volumes of poetry and for his critical work. Along with new poems, this book includes a large selection of aphorisms, which have brought him a whole new audience. They are witty, profound, and often very funny.Author: James...
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Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet UncannyToday's Russia, Unstuck in Time suggests, is a nation of time travelers, living either in memories of the Great Patriotic War and a society that provided for all its citizens or in an alternative future in which the USSR never collapsed. Eliot Borenstein examines...
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Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler's Critical and Synoptic Edition of UlyssesEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.2024 is the 40th anniversary of Hans Walter Gabler's critical and synoptic edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, published in 1984 by Garland. Ulysses Forty Years brings together a collection of essays...
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Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of LiteratureJulia Kristeva's Time and Sense is a major reassessment of Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time. Not only a meditation on Proust, it is also a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust...
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The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt: The Powers and Limits of PsychoanalysisFreud and psychoanalysis taught us that rebellion is what guarantees our independence and our creative abilities. But in the contemporary "entertainment" culture, is rebellion still a viable option? Is it still possible to build and embrace a counterculture? For whom--and against what? Julia Kristeva...
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The Robert Frost ReviewThe Robert Frost Review is a peer-reviewed annual publication of the Robert Frost Society, which was founded in 1978 to promote scholarlydiscussion of the poet's life and work. The Review is committed to publishing high quality scholarship in all areas of study related to...
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The Queen's Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Womens Empowerment and SovereigntyA fascinating exploration of the Divided Woman, the key to understanding why women cannot take a hero's journey. Every woman battles being a Divided Woman, whether she is a stay-at-home mom or a high-powered corporate executive. In this book, psychotherapist Dr. Stacey Simmons explores...
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The Practice of Enchantment: MythBlast Essays, 2020-2024It might often seem that the facts of life are hard, that we must stay ever alert for threats and pitfalls. The modern world seems to require strict rationality and pitiless focus, holding no place for magic, enchantment, or elusive ideas such as transcendence,...
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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth PatriarchDating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son. Purported to be...
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The Paganesque and the Tale of VǫlsiChallenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the "paganesque". A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new Christian religion, worship a diabolically animated preserved horse penis, intoning verses as they...
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The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse TranslationFrom the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem The Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively,...
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