Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Strange Laughter: Early Penny Bloods and HumourPenny bloods (sometimes called penny dreadfuls), serialised fiction stories sold for a penny or less in England in the period between 1837 and 1850, are currently studied as part of the history of the Gothic, focusing on the Gothic inheritance that can be found...
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Intimate SouvenirsA literary memoir about a writer's coming of age in Gravesend, Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s; working with the homeless mentally ill in the Lower East Side in the 1980s; and expatriation to Paris in the 1990s. Includes a frontispiece illustration by Picasso's...
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Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and BordersIn this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women's comics to explore the representation of Jewish women's bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning national, cultural, and artistic borders, the essays shine a...
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The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient ChinaExamines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.Author: Albert GalvanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 380Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438493756About the AuthorAlbert Galvany Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country...
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The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew LiteratureThe Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary...
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Homer: The Very IdeaThe story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions...
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A New History of Classical RhetoricGeorge Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under...
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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied ParisWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Guéhenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter...
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MacPherson the Historian: History Writing, Empire and Enlightenment in the Works of James MacPhersonThis is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his prose histories, and his later political writing, Macpherson's subject was the past and he engaged with the latest Enlightenment...
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A Short History of FantasySome of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel....
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Write Like Hemingway: Find Your Voice, Discover Your Style Using the 10 Rules That Guided a Nobel LaureateAn examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style.Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable fiction. After graduating high school, and before heading...
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Ford Madox FordA critical biography of the great modernist editor and novelist. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad, Ford was a...
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Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public SpeechIn Echo and Critique, Florian Gargaillo skillfully charts the ways that poets have responded to the clichés of public speech from the start of the Second World War to the present. Beginning around 1939, many public intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic lamented...
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Exemplary England: Historical Inquiry and Literary Recompense in Pope, Gray, and RichardsonWhat meaning does the past hold for the present? History writing often prioritizes the ethos and actions of the "great men" of the past, those connected to formal expressions of power, as models worthy of imitation. The problem with such exemplars is that they...
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La Correa InvisibleLos papá s de Zack no saben có mo ayudarlo para que pueda pasar mejor por la pé rdida de Jojo, su mascota y mejor amigo en todo el mundo. Pero Emily, una buena amiga de Zack, sabe exactamente lo que sucede, pues cuando...
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Into the World's Great Heart: Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent MillayAn annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her life Throughout her life, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote hundreds of letters, which together create a colorful tapestry of...
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The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary WalkerThe Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an...
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Dreaming the MountainThe North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ-poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam--and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master, Tuệ Sỹ is...
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Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century StateThe formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and...
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Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, 25th Anniversary EditionCelebrating the 25th anniversary of its publication, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and Texas Tech University Press are proud to release a newly updated version of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, the seminal anthology of Vietnamese American literature. Contextualized by a new foreword...
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