Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Changed Forever, Volume II: American Indian Boarding-School LiteratureAfter a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, Changed Forever, Volume II examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools. Considering a wide range of tribal writers, some of them well known--like...
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Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic CaribbeanAs a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exchanges between their writers, artists, and thinkers. Centering Haiti in...
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Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn KallayanapongFocusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926-2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts Buddhist understandings of time to create a modern Asian...
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The Old BridgeNë këtë libër, përveç studimeve të thelluara në çështje teorike të veprave letrare nga letërsia shqipe, lexuesi gjen edhe artikuj formues dhe informues të vlefshëm për autorë, vepra, figura e personazhe të botës shqiptare dhe të diasporës."The Old Bridge-Ura e vjetër" nga autorja Arjeta...
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 2: The Village and Other Playsvolume 2These volumes feature works from across Lai's career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume Two contains: Millennium Teahouse Sand on a Distant Star Like Shadows The Village Writing in WaterAuthor: Stan LaiPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 02/24/2022Pages: 496Binding Type:...
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 1: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land and Other Playsvolume 1These volumes feature works from across Lai's career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume One contains: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land Look Who's Crosstalking Tonight The Island and the Other Shore I Me She Him Ménage à 13Author:...
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Queenzenglish.Mp3: Poetry Philosophy PerformativityPoetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Jewish Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Editor Kyoo Lee describes QE3 as an anthology focusing on the expressive diversity of English in transition. Fifty+...
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International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young AdultsWhat does 'queer' have to do with children and young people and, in particular, with literature for them? How are sexualities and gender identities depicted in writing and illustration for younger readers in a variety of languages and cultures? How are queer families and...
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The Cambridge Companion to ProseThis Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording to style...
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A History of Canadian FictionA History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the...
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Line Endings in Renaissance PoetryThis book looks at how Renaissance poets ended their poetic lines. It considers a range of strategies and argues that line endings are crucial to our understanding of the poems. It begins with an introduction summarizing the work that has already been done in...
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I Can Read It All by Myself: The Beginner Books StoryIn the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children's classic, The Cat in...
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Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American CultureIn Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé's Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones. These key works restage Black women in relation to nature. Dunning argues that...
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Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic AnthropoceneThe concept of Anthropocene has been incorporated within a hegemonic narrative that represents 'Man' as the dominant geological force of our epoch, emphasizing the destruction and salvation power of industrial technologies. This Element develops a counter-hegemonic narrative based on the perspective of earthcare labour...
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The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these...
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Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of DecolonizationThe earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the "romanticising" of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, Reclaiming Romanticism rediscovers the importance...
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The Body in Arabic Love Poetry: The 'Udhri TraditionJokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids familiar clich s about the purity of love in 'Udhri poetry - broadly speaking, an Arabic counterpart to the western medieval concept of unconsummated courtly...
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Forms of Poetic AttentionA poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention. Identifying a crucial link between...
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The Body FantasticThe body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of...
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John Miles Foley's World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral TheoryThis collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible,...
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