Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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British Literature and Archaeology, 1880-1930British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse--its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods--uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future. This project...
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The Pastor in Print: Genre, Audience, and Religious Change in Early Modern EnglandThe pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors...
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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the EverydayA revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Explores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalists...
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Women's Friendship in Medieval LiteratureIn Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle Ages. Contributors focus on representations of women's friendships in medieval European literature and...
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The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and CultureThe works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the "Black...
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Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global Justice: Developing Systems Thinking through Literary StudyThis book responds to the pressing and increasingly recognized need to cultivate social wisdom for addressing major problems confronting humanity. Connecting literary studies with some of the biggest questions confronted by researchers and students today, the book provides a practical approach to thinking through,...
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Acting the Essence: The Performer's Work on the SelfActing the Essence examines the theory, practice, and history of the art of the performer from the perspective of its inner nature as work on oneself, within, around, and beyond the pedagogy of the actor. Ref lecting primarily on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski,...
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Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone FictionPrecarious Passages unites literature written bymembers of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizingnovels as simply "African American," "Black Canadian,""Black British," or "postcolonial African Caribbean," thisbook takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustainsa sense of a wider African diasporic...
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The Song of Bertrand Du GuesclinBertrand du Guesclin was one of the main architects of the recovery of France. From humble beginnings he rose to become one of the great heroic figures of French history. This is the first English translation of Cuvelier's epic poem about him. Bertrand du...
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A Literary Fellowship: Relationships and Rivalries in 19th-Century American LiteratureThe companion to an exhibition at the Grolier Club, this catalogue has an informative introduction, followed by eight chapters on American literary publishers and authors, each with detailed descriptions of the books, manuscripts, letters, and other items featured in the exhibition.Author: Susan Jaffe Tane,...
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Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North AmericaExplores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada Contemporary indigenous peoples in North America confront a unique predicament. While they are reclaiming their historic status as sovereign nations, mainstream...
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Simply HemingwayBorn in Oak Park, Illinois, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) traveled the globe, transforming his experiences in Paris, Spain, Italy, Africa, Key West, and Cuba into enduring fiction. As an 18-year-old ambulance driver during World War I, he was the first American injured in that conflict...
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Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and FilmSingle Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center...
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Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern IrelandPoetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions. Focusing on poets' responses in their writing to...
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Binu and the Great Wall of ChinaIn Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then one day Qiliang disappears....
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The Dynastic Drama of BeowulfA strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle. The original audience of Beowulf was steeped in ancient Scandinavian royal legend. But for modern readers of the poem, these traditions are frustratingly obscure and confusing. This book argues that Beowulf...
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Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese LiteratureMurakami Haruki, Ogawa Yōko, Tawada Yōko, Kanai Mieko, Hino Keizō, Murakami Ryū, Kawakami Hiromi, Murata Sayaka... These acclaimed authors are united by a shared fascination with fantastical conceptions of space. In highlighting these luminaries of contemporary Japanese literature, Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary...
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The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial ChinaOur relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do our connections with the...
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Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee WilliamsIn 2011, the centennial of Tennessee Williams's birth, events were held around the world honoring America's greatest playwright. There were festivals, conferences, and exhibitions held in places closely associated with Williams's life and career--New Orleans held major celebrations, as did New York, Key West,...
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The Mystical Presence of Christ: The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval ReligionThe Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion that experiences of seeing Christ's figure or hearing Christ speak are simply exceptional events that happen at...
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