Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Study Guide to Lord of the Flies and Other Works by William GoldingA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Titles in this study guide include Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and Free Fall. As...
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Thirty-Odd Functions of Voice in the Poetry of Alice NotleyLiterary Nonfiction. Alice Notley has consistently peopled her poetry with the voices of those around her: kids, friends, husbands, strangers, and the dead. THIRTY-ODD FUNCTIONS OF VOICE IN THE POETRY OF ALICE NOTLEY offers an array of interpretations of this technique. While not aspiring...
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Jouissance: A Lacanian ConceptWhether inscribed within the context of capitalist or neoliberal logic and its imperative to "enjoy," as a critique of all forms of heteronormativity, a liberating force in a positive reading of biopolitics, the point of inflection in the ethics of psychoanalysis, or articulated in...
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The Long Embrace: 21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip LevinePhilip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as many exceptional long poems as Levine, and his influence...
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Voices on the Waters: Conversations with Five Mindanao WritersVoices on the Waters continues the project of mapping the contemporary literary terrain in southern Philippines. The first was Habagatanon (2015), which won the National Book Award in 2016 and featured six writers from Davao City. In this volume, Ricardo M. de Ungria turns...
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The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical IntroductionC. T. Hsia studies in depth the six landmarks of Chinese fiction: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, Journey to the West, Chin P'ing Mei, The Scholars, and Dream of the Red Chamber. While he provides pertinent historical and bibliographical information...
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Die Aussenseiter Im Anti-Utopischen RomanGegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist das Motiv des gesellschaftlichen Aussenseiters in der sozialkritischen anglo-amerikanischen Zukunftsliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Durch eine Kombination von textsoziologischen, werkimmanenten und rezeptionstheoretischen Analyseansatzen werden die sozio-politischen, die darstellungstechnischen und die wirkungsasthetischen Aspekte des Aussenseitermotivs bestimmt."Author: Hartmut WeberPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler...
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Arbeit Am Inzest: Richard Wagner Und Thomas MannUnter der Vielzahl literarischer Inzesttater gehoren Richard Wagner und Thomas Mann sicher zu den eminentesten. Wagner stellte im "Ring des Nibelungen" seine Menschheitsutopie, seine Kunsttheorie, sogar die Struktur des Werkes unter das Signum der -Blutschande-. Fur Thomas Mann war Inzest Lebensthema. Inzest ist ihm...
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An Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical PerspectiveSouth Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on an old topic. Creative thinkers are often distinguished by their willingness to challenge...
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The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular LiteratureColloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories...
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Piers Plowman: A Parallel-Text Edition of the A, B, C and Z Versions: Volume I. TextThis work-a parallel-text edition that contains all four versions of Piers Plowman-constitutes a major enterprise of textual scholarship and will provide for students of Langland a modern equivalent to Skeat's standard edition of 1886. This revised and corrected three-volume set is specifically designed to...
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Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New OrleansOver the course of the twentieth century, African Americans in New Orleans helped define the genres of jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and funk. In recent decades, younger generations of New Orleanians have created a rich and dynamic local rap scene, which has revolved...
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Memoir & Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a SlaveFirst published in 1834, this volume contains a collection of memoirs and poems by Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784). Wheatley was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into slavery in West Africa at the...
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Noises Off: A Play in Three ActsFrom the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen comes a play that's "spectacularly funny...a peerless backstage comedy" (The New York Times).Noises Off is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage "drama" that develops during Nothing On's final...
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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious DifferenceShakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today's...
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Byron and the Poetics of AdversityA long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken. Byron's great subject is what he...
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Moments of Capital: World Theory, World LiteratureUndertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature, Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three synchronous moments: primitive accumulation, expanded reproduction,...
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The Believer Issue 142: Summer2023In issue 142 of The Believer, Amy Fusselman trawls the streets of New York for "everyday weirdos" with filmmaker John Wilson; Joshua Hunt treks to the peak of Japan's "Mount Fear," rumored portal to the underworld; and Ted McDermott meets a scientist who claims...
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The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth CenturyTraces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.Author: Alister D. InglisPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 04/01/2023Pages: 344Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781438492544About the AuthorAlister D. Inglis is Professor of Chinese Language and...
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Victorian Alchemy: Science, magic and ancient EgyptExamining literature and other cultural forms, Victoria Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being 'rediscovered' in the modern world. Author: Eleanor DobsonPublisher: UCL PressPublished: 10/06/2022Pages: 279Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781787358508About the AuthorEleanor Dobson is associate professor of English literature...
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