Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture IndustryThe stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the framing story of Scheherazade telling these stories to her homicidal...
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The Cambridge Companion to David Foster WallaceBest known for his masterpiece Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace's desire to blend formal innovation and self-reflexivity with the communicative and restorative function of literature resulted in works that appeal...
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Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne HathawayWhat has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife examines representations of Hathaway, from the earliest depictions and details in the eighteenth century,...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Science FictionThe Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The...
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The Cambridge Introduction to SatireIn satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter....
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The Graphic Novel: An IntroductionThis book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyze graphic novels since their rise to...
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The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse LiteratureOriginally published in 1943, this book was written using a variety of evidence from archaeology and literature concerning Norse funeral customs to reconstruct their conception of future life, the soul of man, the cult of the dead, and the journey to the land of...
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A History of Western American LiteratureThe American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing...
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Nnedi Okorafor: Magic, Myth, Morality and the FutureThis work is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor's critically acclaimed fiction. Written for an audience that includes serious fans as well as scholars, it is an introduction to Okorafor's work and major influences. The scope of the text is ambitious, featuring...
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Autumn in VeniceThe illuminating story of writer and muse--which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity--Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingway's final years. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife...
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How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too MuchWhile debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation--her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks on...
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Shakespeare and Senecan TragedyAuthor: Curtis PerryPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/03/2022Pages: 308Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65dISBN: 9781108791618
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Shakespeare's Accents: Voicing Identity in PerformanceAuthor: Sonia MassaiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/18/2022Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53dISBN: 9781108454612This title is not returnable
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Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and BeyondThe veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939-2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what...
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Eighty Years of Arkham House: A History and BibliographyArkham House, based in Sauk City, Wisconsin, is the most famous small press in the field of weird fiction. Since 1939, it has been a pioneering publisher of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber,...
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Moby-Dick as Philosophy: Plato - Melville - NietzscheMoby-Dick as Philosophy is at base a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Herman Melville's masterwork, Moby-Dick. The commentary form of the book subserves a higher end, the presentation of an ideal of the type philosopher. Superimposing portraits of Plato, Melville, and Nietzsche--the thinkers themselves, their ideas...
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A woman is a woman is a woman is a woman"Chrys Tobey's a woman is a woman is a woman is a woman is a book in which Gertrude Stein's roses and Freud's cigars collide. These witty, poignant poems--eco-feminist in their approach, abundant in their gestures and forms--engage our cultural moment while re-imagining the...
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Infinity to DineInfinity to Dine is a collection of essays. Each was drafted in response to an anonymous question, over the course of six years. Dying, addiction, reading, NASA, racism, love, despair and other subjects are woven together by one of the kindest and most erudite...
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Consider David Foster WallaceFrom Tristram Shandy to Fredric Jameson, Consider David Foster Wallace blazes a trail into the new territory of David Foster Wallace studies. Greg Carlisle, author of the landmark Wallace study Elegant Complexity, provides an introduction that sets the scene and speculates on the future...
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Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Dual-Language Book)This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books on Russian Novels in Russian and English...
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