Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Looking at Greek Drama: Origins, Contexts and Afterlives of Ancient Plays and PlaywrightsThis vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception includes chapters on authors and plays in their social and religious context as well as key aspects such as structure, character, staging and music.With contributions by 14 international scholars,...
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Liber Amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: A Bibliographical TributeAuthor: Daniel Starza SmithPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 01/10/2025Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.51h x 6.45w x 1.11dISBN: 9780192871855This title is not returnable
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Kazuo Ishiguro Against World LiteratureA study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic...
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Jewish Law: New PerspectivesNew Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientation towards its broader academic and cultural significance. It shifts the study of Jewish law from its focus on legal doctrine and history to legal theory, achieving...
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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and TransculturationUpdated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.Author: Mary Louise PrattPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 09/27/2007Pages: 296Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize:...
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Globalizing the Avant-GardeHow has the process of globalization shaped artistic practices on the one hand, and art history and theory on the other? The contributions in this volume approach this question from a range of perspectives, taking into account the role of travel, for example, or...
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Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, HistoryDid you know that the father of psychoanalysis believed in ghosts, or that Frederick Engels attended seances? Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History is the first collection of theoretical essays to evaluate these facts and consider the importance of the metaphor of haunting as it has...
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First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the AmericasExamining the power of speculative fiction to reimagine historical accounts of the conquest of the Americas The historical conquest of the Americas resides at the core of all first-contact narratives, which stage colonization and resistance in the generic guise of speculative fiction. Starting from...
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First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the AmericasExamining the power of speculative fiction to reimagine historical accounts of the conquest of the Americas The historical conquest of the Americas resides at the core of all first-contact narratives, which stage colonization and resistance in the generic guise of speculative fiction. Starting from...
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Feral & Hysterical: Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by WomenMove over Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Lovecraft--it's time to let the Scream Queens howl. In Sadie Hartmann's follow-up book to the Bram Stoker Award-winner 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, horror fans will be delighted to discover a whole new list...
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Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian AmericaWinner of the 2023-2024 CLAGS Fellowship AwardIlluminates an irreverent queer cultural strategy for grappling with and remaking abject histories of violence Extravagant Camp takes as its point of critical departure the multiple valences of the word "camp" the camp, as a geopolitical space and...
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El Kybalion (Spanish edition)Descubre los secretos ocultos del universo con El Kybalion, una obra cl?sica y esencial que revela los principios fundamentales de la filosof?a herm?tica. Escrito por los misteriosos Tres Iniciados, este libro ofrece una visi?n profunda y reveladora de las leyes universales que rigen la...
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El Capital"El Capital" es la obra maestra de Karl Marx, donde presenta un an?lisis profundo y detallado del sistema capitalista. A trav?s de un enfoque cr?tico y meticuloso, Marx examina la producci?n de valor, la explotaci?n laboral y las din?micas de poder dentro del capitalismo....
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Ecology and German Realism: Poetics, Politics, and the Conquest of NatureShows, contrary to the traditional view, that the major authors of German literary realism not only thematized environmental transformation but that it was central to their aesthetics. In nineteenth-century Europe, and particularly in Germany, the industrial revolution led to air and water pollution, urban...
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Cymbeline: The New Oxford Shakespeare'I see a man's life is a tedious one.' Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a tragedy of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter's secret marriage, he banishes her...
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Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood SuperheroCopyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain's attempt to copy the superhero's...
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Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish ?migr? AutobiographyConversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish ?migr? Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Focusing on personal testimonies that fuse historical trauma and spiritual illumination into...
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Catullus in Twentieth-Century Music: Lyrics and LyricismOne of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what is it that makes this 2,000-year-old voice so relevant, so personal, and so endlessly fascinating? Reinvigorating discussions around...
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A Room of One's Own OneVirginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own is a seminal essay that explores the intersection of gender and literature, advocating for women's intellectual freedom and creative independence. Through a blend of personal narrative, historical analysis, and feminist critique, Woolf argues that a woman must...
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Approaches to Teaching Stoker's DraculaEssays on teaching the most influential vampire novel of all timeThis volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the other. It also situates the novel among the kindred texts...
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