Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Space of the Transnational: Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian WritingThis book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah-building strategies in interfaith dialogues, exchanges, and encounters...
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Finding WordsThe poetry collectionÔ ΩFinding Words explores the subtle beauty and stark challenges of family the complexities of adult friendships the struggle to center a life on what is meaningful and nourishing and the holiness to be found in ordinary moments.Author: Merle FeldPublisher: Behrman House...
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"Music Makers" and World Creators: The Forms and Functions of Embedded Poems in British Fantasy NarrativesMany works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph analyses...
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Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western Anti-Monarchism, the Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political StagecraftThis book is a landmark study of Shakespeare's politics as revealed in his later History Plays. It offers the first ever survey of anti-monarchism in Western literature, history and philosophy, tracked from Hesiod and Homer through to contemporaries of Shakespeare such as George Buchanan...
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Character and Dystopia: The Last MenThis is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the last man figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me...
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Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical PoliticsThis is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works,...
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Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma LiteratureThis book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India. Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature initiates a conversation between contemporary trauma literatures...
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Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century FictionIn dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world beyond the human scale, however, faces a fundamental difficulty: if, as researchers in both cognitive science...
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Modernist Literature and European IdentityModernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in...
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Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, AutobiographyWhy do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, Narrative, argues that narrative is...
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Playfulness in Shakespearean AdaptationsFour hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories...
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Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children's LiteratureRulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children's Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children's literature scholars who each look at...
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Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary China: Volume 2Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country's academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory...
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Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017Beginning with Somerset Maugham's innovative, sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock's gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film, this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second...
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Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of TroyThis book uses Ezra Pound's The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism's ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer's Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes,...
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The Room Between UsShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022. A PBS Recommendation Summer 2022. In her debut collection, Denise Saul explores family and identity as she tells the story of a mother's illness and subsequent aphasia, and a daughter's ongoing role as carer. At the heart...
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Story MatricesThe culture we live in shapes us. We also shape the culture we live in. Stories we tell play critical roles in this shaping.The heart of cultural transmission is how stories and the way we shape knowledge come together and make a novel work....
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Fairy Faith In Celtic CountriesFairy Faith In Celtic Countries is a classic in-depth examination of the the Celtic belief in fairies. Evans-Wentz's Oxford work includes an extensive survey of the fairy traditions from multiple perspectives, including folk-lore, history, anthropology and psychology. At the center of the work is...
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler HarrisFor as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and...
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Photo-Attractions: An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German CameraIn Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white...
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