Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamFirst published in English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859 from its original Farsi, "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" is a collection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. Omar Khayyam's poetry,...
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Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions[When we read and write poetry, ] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again. -- from the Introduction Poetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry...
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Finding God in the Lord of the RingsConsidered the most popular books of the 20th century, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is more than a great story. It's a much-needed reminder that Christians are all on an epic quest. In examining the Christian themes in the trilogy, authors Kurt Bruner...
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The Broken Wings (Dodo Press)Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese American of Assyrian descent, an artist, poet and writer. He was born Gibran Khalil Gibran in Lebanon (at the time a Syrian Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent much of his productive life in the United States....
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The Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their WorksCharles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible.--Mortimer J. AdlerThis engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th...
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13 Ways of Looking at the NovelFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that "inspires wicked delight." --Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFrom classics such as the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji to fiction...
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Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental ExchangesSince the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes - and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab...
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Das französische ChansonDas französische Chanson ist ein intermediales Genre von nationaler und internationaler Tragweite. Im Zuge der Medienrevolutionen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts erfährt die französische Chanson-Kultur eine gattungsgeschichtlich relevante Weiterentwicklung. Damit ist auch eine verstärkte nationale Markierung des nun international erfolgreichen Genres verbunden. Die vorliegende...
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Grete Meisel-Hess: The New Woman and the Sexual CrisisThis first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century...
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Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950: The Broad MovementThis book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century American West.Author: Rachel...
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Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts: Memories of the VanquishedFranks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian Ppeninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers...
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After Engulfment: Cosmicism and Neocosmicism in H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Frank HerbertIn this pioneering work of criticism, spanning the genres of weird fiction and science fiction, Ellen J. Greenham examines H. P. Lovecraft's influence on canonical science fiction writers and the use of Lovecraft's cosmicism as a lens through which selected works by Philip K....
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Adapting Stephen King: Volume 2, Night Shift from Short Stories to ScreenplaysStephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author. His earliest short stories, collected in the Night Shift anthology, have been adapted into hit features including Creepshow, Children of the Corn, Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive, Graveyard...
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Another Love: A Politics of the UnrequitedIn a time when our loves feel conscripted and exhausted by what we often do not remember desiring, Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to...
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Raymond Williams at 100Raymond Williams was "by common consent" one of the "two most commanding intellectual figures in the New Left that emerged in Britain at the turn of the sixties," the other being Edward Thompson. Williams published in 1961 a text entitled "The Future of Marxism."...
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The Concept of Nature in MarxThe central importance of Marx's concept of nature in the formulation of historical materialism has been largely neglected in the extensive literature on Marx. Alfred Schmidt, philosophical successor to Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno in Frankfurt, seeks to elucidate it in this original study.Author:...
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Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the FutureIn order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction investigates a range of novels whose subject matter pertains to various aspects of the Anthropocene. These include...
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Theology, Religion, and DystopiaDystopia, from the Greek dus and topos "bad place," is a revelatory genre and concept that has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity at the start of the twenty-first century. This book addresses approaches to the study of dystopia from the academic fields of...
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Ambiguität im MittelalterThe series in German medieval studies includes central topics of current research debates in medieval studies and provides a place for groundbreaking research in the field. The series is intended to give international researchers/research teams the opportunity to effectively present innovative surveys and discussions...
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The Long Walk to Canterbury: A Personal JourneyThe Pilgrim's Way in England runs 140 miles on a chalk ridge from the Shrine of St. Swithun in Winchester Cathedral to the Shrine of St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. The pathway passes through Hampshire, Surrey, and Kent Counties through a variety...
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