Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 6Life on the Mississippi, Part 6, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 1Life on the Mississippi, Part 1, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 4Life on the Mississippi, Part 4, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely...
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A Life of William Shakespeare: with portraits and facsimilesA Life of William Shakespeare: with portraits and facsimiles, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book...
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Der Findling. Zweiter BandDer Findling. Zweiter Band, wurde als ein Hauptwerk in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte anerkannt, und wir haben Vorkehrungen getroffen, um seine Bewahrung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in moderner Weise für gegenwärtige und zukünftige Generationen neu herausgeben. Dieses Buch wurde komplett neu abgetippt, überarbeitet...
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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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Biblical Themes in Science FictionBiblical Themes in Science Fiction is a handbook for exploring how biblical themes appear in contemporary science fiction. Contributors examine the relationship between ancient and modern depictions of Adam and Eve, the tower of Babel, Noah's ark, handmaids, utopian cities, the promised land, the...
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Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient ImaginationDisturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O'Connor's writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church,...
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Science Fiction: A Literary HistoryScience fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from 19th-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the "scientific...
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Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir NabokovNabokov's dream diary--published for the first time On October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher...
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Reading Lucretius in the RenaissanceAda Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet...
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural ScienceThoreau was a poet, a naturalist, a major American writer. Was he also a scientist? He was, Laura Dassow Walls suggests. Her book, the first to consider Thoreau as a serious and committed scientist, will change the way we understand his accomplishment and the...
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The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In his much-anticipated new book, one of the leading authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental Europe, the threat...
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 44Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of...
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Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State ViolenceMoroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the "years of lead"--a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco's independence in...
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral TraditionPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about...
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Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A Geographical Text AnalysisEngland's famed Lake District--best known as the place of inspiration for the Wordsworths, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other Romantic-era writers--is the locus of this pioneering study, which implements and critiques a new approach to literary analysis in the digital age. Deploying innovative methods from...
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Bowed Some, Chanted a Little: Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco RenaissanceThe literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest Philip Whalen (1923-2002) authored twenty collections of verse, more than twenty broadsides, two novels, a huge assemblage...
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Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American LiteraturesIn her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through-and travel across-the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars...
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The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911-16 Volume 60The Bluestockings of Japan introduces English-language readers to a formative chapter in the history of Japanese feminism by presenting for the first time in English translation a collection of writings from Seitō (Bluestockings), the famed New Women's journal of the 1910s. Launched in 1911...
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