Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Death of a Beekeeper: NovelThe celebrated Swedish author's American debut, The Death of a Beekeeper is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.Author: Lars GustafssonPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 11/17/1981Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsISBN: 9780811208109About the AuthorGustafsson, Lars: - Lars Gustafsson is one of...
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Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian FictionAuthor: Régine Michelle Jean-CharlesPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9780813948454
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Edinburgh German Yearbook 15: Tracing German Visions of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth CenturyReconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern "Other" in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East. Germany has long defined itself in...
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Zooming, Zippy Jokes about VehiclesSome zoom around racetracks. Others soar through the sky. Vehicles come in all shapes and sizes. And they make for great jokes that readers will rush to share with their family and friends. Through an engaging design that brings the jokes to life with...
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Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesFirst popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while...
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The Making of Identities in Athenian OratoryFocusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed identities for themselves and their opponents as part of a rhetorical strategy designed to persuade or manipulate the audience.According to...
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A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth StroutIncluding an exclusive interview with bestselling American novelist Elizabeth Strout, this groundbreaking study will engage literature scholars and general readers alike.Written in accessible language, this book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Elizabeth Strout's work. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize...
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Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel: A Study of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, William Faulkner, and OthersThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary WorldThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Blake's Human Form DivineThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life Volume 21Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who literally...
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Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of MurderNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as "difficult" become familiar to...
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Honoré de BalzacA book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic...
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Andere Ästhetik: Grundlagen - Fragen - PerspektivenThe CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century. This volume explains the benefit of this approach using contributions that range from the philologies...
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Way Worst Than Attica: the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New MexicoThis book on the 1980 Penitentiary of New Mexico riot is by far the most comprehensive, best-researched and most credible publication on this topic. It examines the prison administration, the correctional officers and the inmates in great detail. Clues to the impending riot are...
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ShakespeareWithout Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the same without the influence of Herder's "Shakespeare" (1773). One of the most...
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The Christian Revolutionary: John MiltonThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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English Literature in the Age of DisguiseThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Vorstufen Des Exils / Early Stages of ExileExile is usually defined as the time one lives elsewhere, involuntarily separated from home. However, exile can also be conceptualized more broadly as a process already starting at home, while traveling into exile and/or before arriving in the place of exile. These are the...
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Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing CommunityIn Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert applies contemporary theories of community to works of fiction about the slave trade in order to both shed new light on slave trade studies and rethink the very notion of community.Author: Raphaël LambertPublisher: BrillPublished: 04/28/2022Pages:...
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