Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Cambridge History of Native American LiteratureNative American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site...
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The Steampunk HandbookAuthor and lecturer Phoebe Darqueling has compiled and updated her best articles from The Steampunk Journal and beyond to surprise, inform, and delight Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy fans old and new. Within these pages, you'll find a stroll through the first 30 years of...
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More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly AnsweredThis compilation of medical and forensic science questions from crime writers around the world provides insight into medical and forensic science as well as a glimpse into the writer's creative mind. How do hallucinogenic drugs affect a blind person? Will snake venom injected into...
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Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek TragedyDo we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us from tragic suffering, or does the proximity to death tap into something more primal? Aristotle proposed catharsis, an emotional cleansing--or,...
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A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated CompendiumA Shakespeare Motley is a delightful cabinet of Shakespearean curiosities, arranged in alphabetical order, that will inform, enthuse, intrigue, and amuse anyone who wants to know more about the life and work of the world's best-known author. Drawing unusual connections, this ingenious guide will...
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Study Guide to The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le GuinA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, a book that pioneered the feminist science fiction movement. As a science-fiction, fantasy novel of the mid to late 1900s, The Left Hand of...
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Study Guide to The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which was the best selling book in 1939 and won the National Book Award. As a 1939 American realist novel, The Grapes of Wrath follows a...
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December: 39 Stories, 39 PicturesIn the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year.In stories drawn from...
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For NowIn this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."--Kirkus Reviews " Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is...
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The Art of Editing: Raymond Carver and David Foster WallaceThe place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one, requiring close attention to publishing history and (often inaccessible) archival resources to bring it into focus. In The Art of Editing, Tim Groenland shows that the critical tendency to...
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Paris Spleen: Little Poems in ProseA modernist classic translated for the twenty-first centuryBetween 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new--and in his own words "dangerous"--hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader...
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Chinese Literature: An IntroductionIn this brief yet thorough introduction to the key features and important names of Chinese literature, Ihor Pidhainy covers Chinese writings from oracle bones to the internet. Contextualizing the literature within political, historical and cultural frames, Prof. Pidhainy also provides a smorgasbord of examples...
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Great War Prostheses in American Literature and CultureDrawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America...
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Djinn CityIndelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in super dense, super chaotic Dhaka. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed to go...
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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black DanceIn her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings. Many learned of Ntozake Shange's ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for...
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ManifestosIn 1925, Huidobro published this collection of manifestos to consolidate his position in the avant-garde in the face of the burgeoning new Surrealist movement and also as a reaction to attacks from one Spanish critic in particular, a member of the Ultraist movement, who...
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A step by step French study guide for beginners - Learn French with short stories, phrases while you sleep, numbers & alphabet in the car, morning medAre you learning French but disappointed at how your progress is going? Are you struggling to find vocab when speaking the language? Are you sick of learning from boring old textbooks? Learning a language can be difficult and it's often tricky to know which...
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Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century AgricultureA detailed study of seventeenth century farming practices and their relevance for today We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even...
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Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies *** In Fellini's Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic film theory,...
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Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives MarketThe sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and...
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