Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Turgenev: MumuThis book contains the Russian text of Turgenev's Mumu, edited with an English language introduction, notes and extensive vocabulary.Author: J. Muckle, Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublished: 01/01/1998Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.56h x 5.48w x 0.26dISBN: 9781853992704
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Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian PoetryI.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation After six hundred years, the Persian lyrical poet Hafiz (d. 1389) still remains the most popular poet in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and other parts of Central Asia where Persian is spoken today as the mother tongue....
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Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the UnspeakableA traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison's writing With essays by Yvonne Atkinson, Marc C. Conner, Susan Corey, Maria DiBattista, Barbara Johnson, Cheryl Lester, Katherine Stern, and Michael Wood Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as...
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Inscribed Objects and the Development of Literature in Early JapanThe introduction of writing enables new forms of literature, but these can be invisible in works that survive as manuscripts. Through looking at inscriptions of poetry on garbage and as graffiti, we can glimpse how literature spread along with writing. This study uses these...
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The Kokinshū: Selected PoemsCompiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to elevate the prestige of vernacular Japanese poetry at the imperial court. From shortly after its completion to the end of the nineteenth century, it was...
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Pregnancy TestObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in...
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« a Ti Pa » Avec l'Antillectuel Léon Damas: Vers Une France Décoloniale?Troisième homme de la négritude, Léon Damas s'alignait sur la Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay) et Richard Wright, sur des surréalistes comme Apollinaire et G. Luca pour transmettre son message d'urgence: 'a ti pa', la France opère sa mue décoloniale. Damas est l'antillectuel...
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This Will Not Be GenerativeAuthor: Dixa Ramírez-d'OleoPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/25/2023Pages: 75Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16dISBN: 9781009320320
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Uncle Silas'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.' In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophobic Bartram-Haugh house with her mysterious Uncle Silas. Silas...
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The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century EnglandEnriching and complicating the history of fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century, this collection focuses on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, and advances important work on consumer culture...
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On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of StoriesFiction is generally understood to be a fascinating, yet somehow deficient affair, merely derivative of reality. What if we could, instead, come up with an affirmative approach that takes stories seriously in their capacity to bring forth a substance of their own? Iconic texts...
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the CityAuthor: Michelle Van Parys, Scott PeeplesPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 04/25/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.70dISBN: 9780691247960About the AuthorScott Peeples is professor of English at the College of Charleston. His books include The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe and Edgar Allan...
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Eine Poetik Des Hasses: Negative Emotionalität Und Herabsetzendes Schreiben in Der GegenwartsliteraturIn seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hass auf verschiedene Weisen thematisiert wird. Dabei widmet er sich der Erschlie ung einer Poetik des Hasses, die sich gegen Kategorien...
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The Wisdom of Solomon and the Byzantine Reception of OrigenThis is a critical edition of a newly discovered Greek manuscript: a full commentary from Codex 199, Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre, Constantinople, entitled 'Wisdom of Solomon--an interpretation of Solomon's Book of Wisdom, by Origen, as they say'. The book includes critical apparatus, commentary,...
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The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth CenturyThis highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that...
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The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo IshiguroThe Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with aesthetic value and political valency, with the vicissitudes of memory...
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Modern Language Review (118: 2) April 2023The April 2023 issue of Modern Language ReviewContentsMining and Writing: Corrie, Malva, MousseronNarrating the Monster in Early Modern EnglandThomas Mann's Nietzsche and the German ReformationBook reviewsAuthor: Lucy O'MearaPublisher: Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublished: 04/01/2023Pages: 134Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.29dISBN: 9781839542572This title...
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Reading Time in Music: Temporally VexedThis book examines the intersection of music and temporality in British literature of the long nineteenth century, arguing the temporal multiplicity of music as the most dynamic way to subvert mimetic bias. Temporally vexed sound spaces rupture the narrative, transgressing the hegemonic structures to...
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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native...
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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic LiteraturesIn Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, Anna-Leena Toivanen explores the representations and relationship of mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in Franco- and Anglophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the 1990s to the 2010s. Representations of mobility practices are discussed against three categories...
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