Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural ProductionIn this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain. Focusing on the social experience, this book probes the tensions between...
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Voices From the Wreckage: Young Adult Voices in the #MeToo Movement'Voices From the Wreckage: Young Adult Voices in the #MeToo Movement' is an edited collection by Kimberly Greenfield Karshner (Lorain County Community College). This collection focuses on situating young adult voices in the #MeToo movement, and into American culture and identity. Children's and young...
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King Henry VIII: Third SeriesKing Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a...
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HotelObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to...
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A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on TheoryA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and PhotographyA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...
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Simply a Particular Contemporary: Interviews, 1970-79: Interviews, 1970-79A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...
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The Achievement of Cormac McCarthyNow back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Published in 1988, before McCarthy...
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MagazineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves...
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South Carolina OnstageSouth Carolina Onstage offers a collection of seven plays spanning two hundred years, all by South Carolina authors. It begins with a concise history of the theater in the Palmetto State, from the first dramatic productions in colonial Charleston through the rise of opera...
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Dominoes 2nd Edition 1 MacbethBy guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's works.Author: McCallumPublisher: OxfordPublished: 06/26/2017Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.26w x 0.28dISBN: 9780194609159Audience: 08 - 11
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Classical Greek Prose: A Basic VocabularyThis handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at greater length in a supplement, which also focuses on a number of crucial idioms....
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Why Read Four Quartets?Why Read Four Quartets? is offered to encourage readers unfamiliar with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece to ""take up, read, and inwardly digest"" these beautiful and sacred poems. Commentary is offered to hopefully make the poems more accessible to a general reader. Most critics and...
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Humanism, Empire, and Nation: Korean Literary and Cultural CriticismEssays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture.Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century--writing in the context of Japanese imperialism, World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War era--explored many pressing questions about modern life:...
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Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal CommonsAt the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An...
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Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Si�cle CultureExtraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.Author: Joseph BristowPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 04/12/2023Pages: 394Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30dISBN: 9781487546083
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson2023 Reprint of the Selected Essays of Emerson. Included are seven of Emerson's enduring essays: Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Law, The Over-Soul, Circles, Fate and Success.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement...
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The 'Scandal' of Marxism and Other Writings on PoliticsA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...
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Clarice Lispector - EncontrosClarice Lispector, Ukrainian naturalized Brazilian, is today rated as one of the greatest names in 20th century literature. Although she was discreet about her personal life, Clarice gave great interviews interviews, where she exposed her ideas on literature and existential and existential concerns. This...
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Myth and Modern LivingThe twenty-four essays in Myth and Modern Living confirm Joseph Campbell's profound observation that myths are not just fantastic tales out of dusty tomes, but have practical applications in the world today. Gerringer sees Campbell's perspective as experiential mythology, grounded in the human experience....
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