Literary Criticism
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Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack CarceralityAsks how we can better understand a politics of refusal Writing a new story of Black politics, Jump emerges from the practice of enslaved Africans jumping overboard off their slavers' ships. Reading against the narrative that depoliticizes and denigrates the leaps of the enslaved...
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Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and FilmIn what ways can or should art engage with its social context? Authors, readers, and critics have been preoccupied with this question since the dawn of modern literature in Korea. Advocates of social engagement have typically focused on realist texts, seeing such works as...
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Homer: Odyssey: XIII-XXIVFirst published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan' series in 1948 and revised in 1958 and 1962 (with, for example, a new section on Mycenaean Greek in relation to Homer), This second volume on the Odyssey has remained the standard edition used by...
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Herodotus: Histories Book IIn the Histories, which could loosely be translated as 'Investigations' or 'Researches, ' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents' generation. Book 1 begins that story. It introduces both the world in which the...
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Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A MarriageTed Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they were also two of the most remarkable poets of the twentieth century. In this stunning new account of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook draws on a trove of newly available papers to craft a beautifully...
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Hartly House, Calcutta: Phebe GibbesThis novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings's Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervention in the...
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Graphic MedicineIn Graphic Medicine, comics artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and comics explore the lived experience of illness and disability through original texts, images, and the dynamic interplay between the two. The essays and autobiographical comics in this collection respond to the medical...
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Futures of Enlightenment PoetryThis book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new...
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Everybody's Protest Novel: Essays"I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer."--Toni Morrison This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of the American protest novel and the harmful representations of Black identity in film and fiction Originally published...
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Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian BargainA devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond ... From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain--the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power--has exerted a...
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Critical Forms: Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750-2020Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures,...
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Christina Stead's the Man Who Loved Children: BookmarkedCelebrated by writers including Jonathan Franzen, who said that "[t]his crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century," The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. The harrowing portrait of a...
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A Silent Language: The Nobel LectureThe essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible edition."If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening," says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language,...
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An Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Why We Can't WaitMartin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the treatment of...
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A History of the Harlem RenaissanceThe Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and...
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Visitors to Verona: Lovers, Gentlemen and AdventurersEven before the advent of mass tourism, Verona was a popular destination for travellers, including those undertaking the popular 'Grand Tour' across Europe. In this book, Caroline Webb compares the experiences of travellers from the era of Shakespeare to the years following the incorporation...
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The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music RevolutionHow a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music. In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel...
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The Oxford Concise Companion to English LiteratureBased on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised alphabetical entries give unrivaled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. The...
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The Literary Life of YājñavalkyaSteven E. Lindquist is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of Asian Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the editor of Religion and Identity in South Asia: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle.Author: Steven E....
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The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YoutubeInfluencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation. Influencers are...
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