Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great GatsbyAn "astute, challenging, and far-reaching" look (Kirkus Reviews, starred) at how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive "I found great pleasure in . . . Under the Red White and Blue . ....
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Longing and Other StoriesJun'ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut...
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Using Corpora for Language Learning and TeachingHow can you use corpora in your classroom? With the increasing use of corpora in classrooms, the need to understand how to use corpora in language teaching is essential for today's teachers. Using ample concrete examples, this book offers a step-by-step hands-on introduction to...
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Born under Saturn: The Letters of Samuel Loveman and Clark Ashton SmithIt was perhaps inevitable that Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) and Samuel Loveman (1887-1976) would become close friends and correspondents. Both were devoted to the art and craft of poetry; both were fascinated by the obscurer corners of literature; and both shared numerous colleagues, among...
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Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero ComicsExplores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and...
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The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and an Interpretation of BuddhismThe Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature and, importantly, modern...
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The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative GenreThis monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragment's performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period,...
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Reykjavík RequiemThis is Ger ur Kristn 's third collection from Arc and the third of the trilogy which already comprises the highly-acclaimed Bloodhoof and Dr pa. In all three poetic sequences, the poet employs the archaic form of the saga to conjure up razor-sharp dark...
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On PoetryTwo long Sartre essays that explore the N gritude poetry movement and the work of French writer Francis Ponge. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work...
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The Crime of Jean GenetNow in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement. Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the...
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Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora BabbThanks in part to the Ken Burns documentary The Dust Bowl, Sanora Babb is perhaps best known today for her novel Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), which might have been published in 1939 had her publisher not thought the market too small for two...
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The Republic by PlatoPlato, (born 428/427 BCE, Athens, Greece-died 348/347, Athens), ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates (c. 470-399 BCE), teacher of Aristotle (384-322 BCE), and founder of the Academy, best known as the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence.Author: Benjamin Jowett, PlatoPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 03/09/2021Pages:...
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Mountain Witches: YamaubaMountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba--female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and WritingThis lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's...
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The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian RealismThe Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the...
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Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan EnglandA new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers. What if going to a play in Elizabethan England was more like attending a football match than a Broadway show--or playing in one? In Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion,...
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Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to MiltonInspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with...
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The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of TruthNominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly Work The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse tells the remarkable story of how a self-described "preacher's kid" from Birmingham, Alabama, became the so-called "Godfather of Gay Comics." This study showcases a remarkable fifty-year career...
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The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth CenturyThe Birth of the Author argues that the images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whether on the Bible or on classical texts, made claims to authority, even inspiration, that at times were even more forceful than those made by the texts themselves. Paradoxically, it...
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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and LegacyThe remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was...
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