Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Violence Elsewhere 2: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany Since 2001Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times. Following the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, in postwar Germany thinking or speaking...
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Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare'Triggering'. When and where did the usageoriginate? No one is sure. There is, however, clear connection with thepsychiatric term 'trauma trigger' - stimuli which can detonate unhealed wounds. The concept of triggering took off infeminist magazines and social media 'chat' around 2010. Around 2013/14...
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To the Lighthouse: A Norton Critical Edition"This Norton Critical Edition presents Virginia Woolf's acclaimed part-autobiographical novel To the Lighthouse. The text of Woolf's 1927 U.S. edition (fully annotated with explanatory footnotes) consists of three parts that chronicle the seemingly ordinary lives of the Ramsay family, as they host various acquaintances,...
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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women: Writing Religious CommunitiesThe Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older...
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Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual HistoryDigital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. Martin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital...
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The Romantic Sublime and Representations of TechnologyEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.In this book Michele Speitz assembles the first full-length scholarly study of the British Romantic technological sublime, addressing a significant gap in scholarship on Romantic literature, technological aesthetics, and the history...
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The New Modernist Novel: Literary Criticism and the Task of ReadingSince the late twentieth century, new understandings of modernism have come with new attention to a range of writers. Yet if the academic study of modernism took shape around an older, narrower selection of writers and works, how can its modes of reading be...
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The Law in Graphic NarrativesComics, manga and anime can offer an interesting perspective from which to explore representations of the law in popular culture. This book offers a better understanding of the juridical subtexts of such cultural artefacts by bringing together scholars in legal theory and comparative and...
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The Horror Aesthetic: Essays from the Dark Corners of the GenreMany creatures lurk in the dark, weaving on top of one another, roiling together like waves on the night sea. The darkness forms in layers to encompass the land, fill the corners, and obscure angles. Untold mysteries lie just beyond reach told in many...
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The Handmaid's Tale Psychology: Seeing Off RedHow do people stay true to themselves in times of crisis? Where does anyone find the strength to stand up in the face of oppression? When will the worst side of human nature wither before the best?Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, has...
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The Emergence of Arabic Poetry: From Regional Identities to Islamic CanonizationA new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500-750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English To interpret the Quran's Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned to pre-Islamic poetry, a corpus that the Prophet Muhammad's cousin called "the archive...
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The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval JapanThe war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the...
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The Curious Reader's Field Guide to NonfictionJust as a field guide helps you identify plants or birds, this book helps you navigate the rich landscape of nonfiction as an avid reader. Discover how your favorite authors explain complex topics, capture and sustain your attention, and make deep, personal connections with...
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The City in the DistanceNancy's book offers nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.Author: Jean-Luc NancyPublisher: Fordham...
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The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain CapitalismWe live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains--art included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary culture and supply chains, Michael Shane Boyle has assembled a global inventory of aesthetics since the 1950s that reveals logistics to be...
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The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: Twenty-First-Century Literature, Media, and Visual CultureExplores the recent proliferation of cultural representations of Weimar Berlin in the German-speaking world, probing the connections between historical and contemporary texts, their contexts, and their creators. More than a century after its founding, there can be little doubt that Weimar is back. The...
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Supplement to SAA I-XXII: Letters, Treaties, Literary Texts, Legal and Administrative Documents, Astronomical Reports, Oracle Queries, and RituaThe State Archives of Assyria series was conceived in 1985 to make all texts from the royal archives of Nineveh available to both scholarly and lay audiences in the form of critical text editions. After thirty-seven years and twenty-two published volumes, the series has...
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Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A ReaderSinophone studies--the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world--has become increasingly interdisciplinary over the past decade. Today, it spans not only literary studies and cinema studies but also history, anthropology, musicology, linguistics, art history, and dance. More and more, it is in...
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Shakespeare LiedShakespeare Lied is Sky Gilbert's second rumination on Shakespeare to be published by Guernica Editions. It places 'the bard' at the centre of present day debates over 'political correctness.' James Baldwin said Shakespeare's goal was "to defeat all labels and complicate all battles by...
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Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen: Classical ConnectionsRupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry....
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