Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Last Samurai RereadConsidered by some to be the greatest novel of the twenty-first century, Helen DeWitt's brilliant The Last Samurai tells the story of Sibylla, an Oxford-educated single mother raising a possible child prodigy, Ludo. Disappointed when he meets his biological father, the boy decides that...
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Pindar's 'Olympian One': A CommentaryDrawing on an extensive knowledge of the critical history of Olympian One, Professor Gerber here presents a thorough analysis of the language thought, myth, structure, and poetic technique of Pindar's most famous ode. He deals with virtually every word in the poem, elucidating disputed...
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Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides...
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A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is celebrated as a novelist, made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, it is less known that she also published hundreds of poems over a period of half a century. Although this output included a...
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America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen KingIlluminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King's horror stories Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion is not the only place seekers turn....
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Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture- "Lucidly written and arduously researched, this is an exceptional work of cultural history." - Morris Dickstein, author of Dancing in the Dark "Complex, original, and important.... A timely and fascinating study." - Riv-Ellen Prell, author of Fighting to Become AmericansAuthor: Josh LambertPublisher: New...
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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureHonorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the...
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Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist CritiqueEnlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black...
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The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman EcologiesWinner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural StudiesThe Exquisite Corpse ofAsian Americaaddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or socialconstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors,...
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Essential Essays (Two-Volume Set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and DiasporaVolumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall's Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and...
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Demosthenes, Speeches 23-26This is the fifteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations...
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Homophones and Homographs: An American Dictionary, 4th Ed.This expanded fourth edition defines and cross-references 9,040 homophones and 2,133 homographs (up from 7,870 and 1,554 in the 3rd ed.). As the most comprehensive compilation of American homophones (words that sound alike) and homographs (look-alikes), this latest edition serves well where even the...
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Opening the X-Files: A Critical History of the Original SeriesMore than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination. Over nine seasons and two feature films, agents Mulder and Scully pursued monsters, aliens, mutants and shadowy conspirators across the American landscape. Running for more than 200 episodes,...
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Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love: Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930sA new reading of the sexual politics of 1930s leftist prose genres It is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were involved with leftist politics. Why, then, has there been no extended examination of this striking juncture of...
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Writing the Field Recording: Sound, Word, EnvironmentIntervenes in contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and field recording A field recording is any audio recording made outside of the studio. Such recordings have lately become important to contemporary musicians, sound artists and environmentalists. However, less attention has been given to...
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Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, FormThis study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing In this unique study Emma Sutton discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical...
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Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's the Blue Spill: A Manuscript Critical EditionWritten during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an unfinished detective novel written by Ezra Pound - the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century - and his long-time companion Olga Rudge. Published for the first time in this...
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The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh CompanionProvides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural - both in the many modes...
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Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and LiberationWritten by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont,...
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A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and MedicineA Body of Work includes poems by writers from the dawn of Enlightenment to the 21st Century and explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body. The book is divided into eight thematic sections, each of which includes a chronological range of poetry...
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