Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Night We Called the Owls: Stories and PoemsAuthor: Luke WallinPublisher: Ember PressPublished: 09/15/2023Pages: 74Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19dISBN: 9780998688398This title is not returnable
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The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman"Thoroughly researched." The Spectator"Intriguing." BBC History Magazine"Vividly told." BBC History Revealed"A timely warning against persecution." Morning Star"Astute and thoughtful." History Today"An important work." All About History"Well-researched." The TabletOn the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping...
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The Gallant SpaniardThere are surprising omissions in the translated body of Spanish Golden Age literature, including in the body of work by Miguel de Cervantes. We have many highly competent translations of Don Quixote, but until now not a single English version of his play The...
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The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary StudiesThe English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive textbook, providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels. With advice and information on fundamental methods of literary analysis and research, Whitla equips students with the...
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The Aphorisms of Franz KafkaAuthor: Franz KafkaPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 10/24/2023Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.80dISBN: 9780691254784
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Studies in Classic American Literature (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)Author: D. H. LawrencePublisher: Warbler ClassicsPublished: 08/04/2023Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35dISBN: 9781959891857
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Somewhere Else in the Market: An Essay on the Poetry of J. H. PrynneThis Element develops a close reading of 'Britain's leading late modernist poet', J. H. Prynne. Examining the political and literary contexts of Prynne's work of the 1980s, the Element offers an intervention into the existing scholarship on Prynne through close attention to the ways...
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Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek DramaThis is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in the fifth century BCE...
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Reading Shakespeare's PoetryReading Shakespeare's Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare's poems and how they speak to readers Reading Shakespeare's Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poems, providing insights into the individual poems, their themes and composition, and their relation to the cultural context of...
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Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political ResponseThis volume speaks to the use of poetry in critical qualitative research and practice focused on social justice. In this collection, poetry is a response, a call to action, agitation, and a frame for future social justice work. The authors engage with poetry's potential...
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Origins of the Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies That Inspired Robert Jordan"Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal." --The New York Times on The Wheel of Time(R) seriesExplore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including: - A brand-new, redrawn world map by Ellisa Mitchell using change requests discovered in Robert...
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Notes on the Poet: A Little Book of CriticismAuthor: John PochPublisher: Measure Press Inc.Published: 09/04/2023Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.35dISBN: 9781939574367
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Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin AmericaIn this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto...
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Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-De-Siècle FranceIn 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical...
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Learn Spanish For Beginners - Learn 80% Of The Language With These 2000 Words!Embark on an exciting linguistic journey and immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Spanish with Learn Spanish For Beginners. Designed to rapidly accelerate your language learning, this comprehensive guide introduces a revolutionary approach that allows you to grasp a staggering 80% of Spanish...
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How Novels WorkDrawing on his weekly Guardian column, "Elements of Fiction," John Mullan offers an engaging look at the novel, focusing mostly on works of the last ten years as he illuminates the rich resources of novelistic technique. Mullan sheds light on some of the true...
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Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary PoliticsHasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other in the nineteenth century. Hannan Hever uses postcolonial theories and theories of nationality to analyze how Jews...
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From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical TimesHow contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening.In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with our understanding of time. Bringing together an unusual constellation of...
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Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the White DevilFrancis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique...
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Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and BeckettExamines the lives and careers of four distinguished Irish authors and analyzes the connections among them.Author: Richard EllmannPublisher: George BrazillerPublished: 09/17/1988Pages: 122Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.16h x 5.94w x 0.43dISBN: 9780807612088Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/22/1988About the AuthorEllmann, Richard: - Richard Ellmann was Goldsmiths' Professor...
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