Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical TraditionAuthor: Meyer H. AbramsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 09/15/1971Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10dISBN: 9780195014716This title is not returnable
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My World - And Welcome to It PaThe world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriage-all fall within Thurber's scope. Drawings by the Author.Author: James Thurber, ThurberPublisher:...
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Marcel Proust: A LifeThe celebrated novelist and influential cultural critic's classic biography of one of history's most important writers, Marcel Proust If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of the enigmatic genius behind Remembrance of Things Past, it is Edmund White, himself an award-...
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One Hundred Poets, One Poem EachA prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry Hyakunin Isshu is the most famous and popular collection of Japanese poetry, and the first work of Japanese literature ever to be translated into English. Compiled in the fourteenth century,...
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The Merry Wives of WindsorThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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The Life of Images"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, Simic] retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary--all excellent qualities for an essayist. There's ample warmth and charm here." --New York Times Book Review In addition to being one of America's most...
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What Light Can Do PBUniversally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world--with accompanying photos throughout.What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection,...
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Raise the Red Lantern: Three NovellasThe brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which...
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C. S. LewisThis is the true story of C.S. Lewis - one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century - whose books for children and adults have become much-loved classics.Part of the story of C.S. Lewis has been made famous through the film 'Shadowlands'. Here...
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Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s EnglandA moving and soul-stirring exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group that inspired and rejuvenated their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s Britain.In the years before...
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Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of NatureWhile much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness insists that it is analytically and politically indispensable, and that romanticism shows us why. Without a concept of nature, Greg Ellermann argues, our thinking is limited to the world...
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A Glimpse at the Travelogues of BaghdadThe history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi scholars provides insights from...
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Lost and Found Voices: Four Gay Male Writers in ExileOne writer is stranded by the Second World War. Another flees multiple revolutions to live the rest of his life in Rio de Janeiro. Two others, public about their sexuality at home, choose self-exile. In Lost and Found Voices Luc Beaudoin offers a critical...
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Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American LiteraturesFor hundreds of years, American artisanship and American authorship were entangled practices rather than distinct disciplines. Books, like other objects, were multisensory items all North American communities and cultures, including Native and settler colonial ones, regularly made and used. All cultures and communities narrated...
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Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish FictionWhile the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors. In Broken Irelands, McGlynn examines Irish fiction of the post-crash era, addressing the proliferation...
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Gendered Defenders: Marvel's Heroines in Transmedia SpacesGendered Defenders: Marvel's Heroines in Transmedia Spaces delivers dynamic and original analyses of how women perform in super heroic spaces. Contributors from a range of disciplinary perspectives-communications, international relations, cultural and media studies, English, history, and public policy-take on Marvel's representations of women and...
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Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish LiteratureA comprehensive exploration of the several subaltern types and social groups that were placed at the margins of national narratives in Spain during the nineteenth century.Una mirada profunda a los diversos tipos y grupos sociales que fueron relegados a los márgenes del relato nacional...
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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 47An annual volume, this time with special attention to the relevance of Brecht's work in today's world of resurgent authoritarianism and the need for resistance. The Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht's life and work and of topics of...
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One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and PracticeGiven that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was...
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Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, ReceptionHerodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, the book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select...
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