Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical ScienceMid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate change, pollution, and waste. In this...
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The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of TranslatabilityThis book examines the translation of Arabic literature into English, in conversation with contemporary literary scholarship and classical Arabic aesthetic and linguistic paradigms. Case studies reveal practices of translating that activate embodied forms of language and affective modes of reception to position Arabic literature...
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Freedom RereadFew writers rankle like Jonathan Franzen. Despite popular acclaim, robust sales, and august literary laurels, Franzen's polarizing persona shares the spotlight with--and sometimes steals it from--his tragicomic novels of Midwestern family life. In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of...
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On Mary Wollstonecraft's a Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New GenusMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women's equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution, her vindication delivered a systematic critique of the treatment of women across time and place....
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Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literariaCartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff's poems as cultural maps that reveal both a...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry and Politics shows how American poets have addressed political phenomena since 1900. This book helps students, teachers, and general readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics. Offering detailed...
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Figures de l'Excès Chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes Et Marina de Van: Ecrire Et Filmer Le Corps-FrontièreFigures de l'excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van de Dominique Carlini Versini interroge les images du corps excessif qui traversent les récits d'artistes contemporaines françaises selon une approche intermédiale. À partir des années 1990, une tendance à l'excès a été...
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Conversations with Beth HenleyWith roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always original,...
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Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate PersonsWinner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language Association Winner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies Association Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American...
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Scapegoat Carnivale's Tragic Trilogy: Euripides's Medea, Euripides's Bacchae, and Sophocles's Oedipus TyrannusBetween 2010 and 2017, Canada experienced an efflorescence of Greek tragedy, led by independent Montreal theatre company Scapegoat Carnivale's energetic performances of Euripides's Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus. The performances featured crisp new translations by co-artistic director Joseph Shragge, large casts, and...
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Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis SingerOld Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays--most of them previously unpublished in English--by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his...
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Sprachen Der WachsamkeitDer Band thematisiert die sprachliche und allgemein semiotische Dimension von Vigilanz, verstanden als Setzung von Wachsamkeitspflichten im Individuum und Koppelung zwischen individueller Aufmerksamkeit mit kulturell vermittelten, überindividuellen Zielsetzungen einerseits, mit konkreten Handlungs- und Kommunikationsoptionen andererseits. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet dabei die Überlegung, dass Zeichensysteme, indem...
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A History of the Surrealist NovelA History of the Surrealist Novel offers a rich, long, and elastic historiography of the surrealist novel, taking into consideration an abundance of texts previously left out of critical accounts. Its twenty thematically organized chapters examine surrealist prose texts written in French, English, Spanish,...
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Perspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez: Caribbean TroubadourPerspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez: Caribbean Troubadour explores both the big picture and the small details about the Colombian Nobel Prize winner: his development as an artist, the construction of his public persona, the characteristics and the significance of...
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A Different Land: Critical insight about life in IsraelThis is a translation from Hebrew of renowned author Rachman Chaim's first book and constitutes critique of Israel's institutions and society in general, and of its academic system in particular. It is interspersed with poems and letters that are revealing, and between its lines...
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When I Opened The Door - A Collection of Poetry"When I opened the door" is a metaphorical depiction of opening the door of your heart. This book is about a huge TRANSFORMATION in the life of the author. The book has the thoughts, feelings, emotions that a millennial goes through. Behind the door...
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Cesare Pavese Mythographer, Translator, Modernist: A Collection of Studies 70 Years after His DeathThis volume on Cesare Pavese is published on the 72nd anniversary of his death, and it aims to explore new perspectives to study this relevant intellectual. The multifaceted personality of Cesare Pavese took many different forms and allowed him to explore different aspects of...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern Volume 03Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern Volume 03, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern Volume 02Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern Volume 02, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in...
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Römerinnen: Zwei NovellenRömerinnen: Zwei Novellen, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen...
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