Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-SidesPacking Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plantstudies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. Thebook's main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental, vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and todo that...
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The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and ScienceThis book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This period is distinctive in the history of responses to the unconscious because it gave rise to a line of thought according to which...
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The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance FictionPopular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity...
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Revived with Care: John Fletcher's Plays on the British Stage, 1885-2020This book presents a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of the modern performance history of plays in the John Fletcher canon, excluding his collaborations with Shakespeare. It examines how seventeen of Fletcher's plays have been interpreted in British productions. In addition, the book offers a consideration...
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Antarctica in British Children's LiteratureFor over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent...
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Rise: Poetry for Lovers and ThinkersRISE celebrates the diversity of our beautiful planet and its inhabitants and it unveils harsh truths that need to be faced before we can experience total-world transformation. Most importantly, it inspires us to dive deep within ourselves and truly introspect, especially during these uncertain...
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Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the AnthropoceneLabor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound...
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Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American ModernismA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this...
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Interruptions in Early Modern English DramaTo interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost's appearance in Hamlet to Celia's frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that delineates the balance of power within a scene. This book analyses interruptions...
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The Puritan ExperienceOriginally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which they grew. As well as Bunyan,...
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Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A SelectionAuthor: Richard HunterPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/13/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.60w x 0.77dISBN: 9781108843980About the AuthorHunter, Richard: - RICHARD HUNTER is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively...
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Toni Morrison: A Literary LifeA reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison--fiction, non-fiction, and other--drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels...
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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and PerformanceThe Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans' unquestionable influence on Mexico's history and culture and the historical studies recently...
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Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political TrialsSpectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political trials as instrumental in exercising or containing political violence. Legal scholar Başak Ertür argues instead that making sense...
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Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820)A detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholy First, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820) Considers...
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The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of His Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems and Other LiteratureNelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Although he continues to be remembered almost exclusively for his novels, this book aims to...
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King Lear 'After' Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British DramaAnalyses appropriations of King Lear in post-war British drama Provides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on the legacy of Shakespeare in post-war drama and culture. Features original case studies on...
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Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through...
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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted SexualitiesAuthor: Patricia PulhamPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51dISBN: 9781399504591
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Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. TestimoniaCallimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world...
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