Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition"Intriguing." BBC History Magazine On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours,...
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Tween Hobo: Off the RailsFrom playwright and TV writer Alena Smith comes a hilarious and irreverent illustrated book based on the popular Twitter feed (@tweenhobo), featuring a young spunky girl who sets out in search of freedom, adventure, and her own personal obsession: Justin Bieber tickets. Get ready...
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PoemsOsip Mandelstam's is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891-1938) began as one of the more original poets of the Russian avant-garde before the First World War, but his extraordinary growth as a poet over the next quarter-century set him...
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Disformations: Affects, Media, LiteratureWhat happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural affect theory, media philosophy, and literary studies, Tomás Jirsa...
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The Sting of Death" and Other Stories: Volume 12Until a recent "boom," Shimao Toshio, writer of short fiction, critic, and essayist, was not widely known, even in Japan. He has never won the Akutagawa or the Naoki Prize, and none of his works had previously appeared in English translation. He is less...
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Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and IntersectionsBringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine,...
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Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925Jada Ach's scholarship in Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 seeks to reevaluate the Progressive Era's environmental legacy. Taking an ecocritical approach to turn-of-the-century literature set in the American West, Ach interrogates texts by asking what kinds...
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Hannah Lynch's Irish Girl Rebels: 'A Girl Revolutionist' and 'Marjory Maurice'Hannah Lynch (Dublin 1859 - Paris 1904), restless wanderer, cosmopolitan, cultural observer and commentator, was the author of feminist fiction, travel writing and journalism. Her short story for girls, 'A Girl Revolutionist' (1899) and serialised novella, 'Marjory Maurice' (1884-85), were based on her own...
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A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly BeingIn A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Cond , Ren Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these authors' women characters enact practices of...
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Playwriting: A Backstage GuideThis book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the...
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Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the WestThis is the first major attempt to examine the life and work of Jack Kerouac from the Right, to assess the damage that the Kerouac myth has done in Western culture, and to rescue the real Kerouac from the distortions and misrepresentations that characterize...
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Study Guide to Tender Is the Night and This Side of Paradise by F. Scott FitzgeraldA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, renowned American fiction author. Titles in this study guide include The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and Tender is the Night. As an author of...
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Study Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel ProustA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which scholars have written about more than any other work of the twentieth-century. As a novel of the early 1900s, Remembrance of Things Past contained evocative...
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Study Guide to Paradise Lost and Other Works by John MiltonA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Milton, who decided at a young age that God had called him to be a poet. Titles in this study guide include Paradise Lost, The Sonnets, and Minor...
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The Ground on Which I Stand: 25th Anniversary Edition"What we do now becomes history by which our grandchildren will judge us." August Wilson's words, delivered in a speech at Theatre Communications Group's conference in June 1996, remain as vital and relevant today as they did 25 years ago. Fierce and passionate, The...
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Standing in the Need of PrayerBorrowing the title of a traditional African American hymn, Standing in the Need of Prayer poetically describes the vulnerability of black men and the ongoing injustice they encounter in America. Noted poet, Nikki Giovanni speaks to participants of the Million Man March, Tupac's mother,...
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Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579): An Analyzed Facsimile EditionSpenser's extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance. This volume reassesses it as a material text in relation to book history, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile of the 1579 Calender available...
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Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear StyleNotework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the...
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Radical Hospitality: From Thought to ActionRadical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how radical hospitality happens by opening oneself in narrative exchange to someone or something other than ourselves--by...
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The Puritan Revolution: A Documentary HistoryOriginally published in 1968, the documents collected in this volume (all re-set for ease of reading), trace the history of the Puritan Revolution from its roots in the early seventeenth century to the Restoration. They show how the causes and the course of the...
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