Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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¿Quiénes Somos?: 55 Libros de la Literatura Española del Siglo XXSi la literatura es una de las herramientas que la sociedad utiliza para construir su identidad, un espejo en el que mirarse y reconocerse, esta propuesta nace de un intento de saber cuál sería la respuesta de la literatura a la pregunta de quiénes...
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The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval EnglandWinner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book....
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Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to DiscoveryBy bringing science into poetry, we open the possibility of discovering new forms and philosophies of poetry, new perspectives on our relationship to the Earth and our place in the universe, and even new scientific insights. In POETRY AND SCIENCE: WRITING OUR WAY TO...
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The Cat Has Nine LivesRestores the first German feminist film, long neglected, to its rightful status as a classic forebear of more recent cinefeminism, demonstrating that the film is as relevant today as it was upon its 1968 release. Acclaimed as postwar Germany's first feminist film, Ula Stöckl's...
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Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as both persistent metaphor and material reality. The exercise of power on an institutional and personal level created conditions in which those least empowered, particularly women, perceived themselves to be captive subjects. This "domestic captivity" was inextricably...
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Empirismus Und Ästhetik: Zur Deutschsprachigen Rezeption Von Hume, Hutcheson, Home Und Burke Im 18. JahrhundertEmpirismus und Ästhetik werden in den Schriften von Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke und Henry Home zu einer empiristischen Ästhetik verbunden. Sie argumentiert induktiv, psycho- oder physiologisch, evolutionär und demokratisch und lässt sich als frühe Form der empirischen Ästhetik verstehen. Ihr Transfer nach...
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Lessing digitalDie Lessing-Forschung steht seit längerer Zeit vor der Herausforderung, dass sie zwar ein Zentrum der germanistischen Aufklärungsforschung bildet, gleichzeitig aber über keine Textbasis verfügt, die modernen wissenschaftlichen Ansprüchen genügt. Als grundlegend revisionsbedürftig gilt die einzige historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke und Briefe Lessings, die sogenannte...
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Recovering DorothyThe first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth's later life and work and the impact of her disability - allowing her to step out from her brother's shadow and back into her own life story.Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the...
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Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South AfricaWinner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipThe author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood...
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Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time MechanicsThis volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways. Such recent projects invert or "queer" the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of...
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Language at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of CultureIs poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with challenges to poetics?Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the...
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The Lost Republic: Cicero's de Oratore and de Re PublicaCicero's dialogues De oratore (On the Orator) and De re publica (On the Commonwealth), composed between 55 and 51 BCE, examine two topics central to Roman public life: the role of the orator in society and the importance of honorable statesmanship for the preservation...
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Conversations with George SaundersBesides being one of America's most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the...
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God Made Word: An Archaeology of Mystic Discourse in Early Modern SpainThe Golden Age of Spanish mysticism has traditionally been read in terms of individual authors or theological traditions. God Made Word, however, considers early modern Spanish mysticism as a question of language and as a discourse that circulated in concrete social, institutional, and geographic...
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The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World LiteratureIn The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing innew...
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International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland's Darien colony, the 1707 Acts of Union, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, and the emergence of the new British Empire as a global...
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Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836-1861A history of local resistance and contributions to early Mexican nationhood. Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836-1861 is a history of Mexico's early, turbulent years as a sovereign state. From local ethnic and religious divisions to statewide financial troubles, the early republic nearly...
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Global Perspectives on Early Medieval EnglandInterrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural sphere. Early medieval England as seen through the lens of comparative and interconnected histories is the subject of this volume. Drawn from a...
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Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony: Prolegomena to an Interpretation of the Word StimmungRenowned philologist Leo Spitzer's multitudinous contributions to the fields of etymology and stylistics in many of the Romance languages are widely acknowledged and highly valued. Less well known, but equally engaging, is his extensive work in what he referred to as "historical semantics"-a study...
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Seduction of the InnocentAuthor: Fredric WerthamPublisher: Main Road BooksPublished: 03/19/1999Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.30dISBN: 9781596830004This title is not returnable
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