Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor: The New Oxford Shakespeare'Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English.' The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely after female characters and his only comedy set in England. These features underscore some of its most immediately appealing...
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The Life, Personality and Writings of Al-JunaydThis volume contains an edition and translation of the extant epistles of Abū l-Qāsim b. Muḥammad al-Junayd. Al-Junayd was an influential holy man and spiritual thinker who lived in Baghdad in the ninth century. His writings are marked with many of the features of...
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The Blue Castle: The Original ManuscriptPublished for the first time ever, the first draft of The Blue Castle exactly as L. M. Montgomery originally wrote it, with critical context from a leading Montgomery scholar. Available for the first time ever, the original draft of Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue...
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Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English"Robert Scholes has written an enviable book on the uses and abuses of literary theory in the teaching of literature. One of [his] most forceful points...is that 'literary theory' is not something a teacher may either 'use' or not use, for teaching itself is...
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Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle's >CategoriesSergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle's logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in the late 5th century in Alexandria with the famous Ammonius Hermeiou, whose lectures formed the basis for Sergius' main...
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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending. August...
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Practicing Food StudiesAn introduction to the burgeoning field of food studiesPopular and intellectual interest in food is on the rise. The breadth of concerns surrounding food ranges from animal welfare and climate change's impact on food production to debates on the healthfulness of carbohydrates and fats,...
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Post-Colonial Studies: The Key ConceptsThis hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty...
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Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and PlathParallel Lives covers the century from the birth of Sigmund Freud in 1856 to the death of Sylvia Plath in 1963. Written by the esteemed biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers, the book includes European, American, and Russian authors and artists, film directors and...
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Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.' Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman's body be measured against a man's life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Measure explores these questions through a series of substitutions:...
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Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a psychologically...
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Let Them Rot: Antigone's ParallaxA provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.Author: Alenka ZupančičPublisher: Fordham University PressPublished: 01/17/2023Pages: 96Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38dISBN: 9781531501037About the AuthorAlenka...
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Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers During Spanish-American ModernismoLas Raras proposes that the Modernistas' advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few (and perhaps no) women were accepted as active participants in Modernismo. Author Sarah Moody studies how particular writers contributed to the idea of...
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Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers During Spanish-American ModernismoLas Raras proposes that the Modernistas' advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few (and perhaps no) women were accepted as active participants in Modernismo. Author Sarah Moody studies how particular writers contributed to the idea of...
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Land of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California PeriodicalAlthough denied the right to vote, late nineteenth-century women writers engaged in debates over land settlement and expansion through literary texts in regional periodicals. In "Land of Sunshine" Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical, Sigrid Anderson uncovers the political fictions of...
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Henry IV Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare'What is honour? A word. What is in that word 'honour'? What is that 'honour'? Air.' A history play that combines a coming-of-age narrative with a tale of power, rebellion, friendship, and betrayal, Henry IV, Part I has been a perennial favourite from Shakespeare's...
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Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern ReadersAn entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths "This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."--Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series "Move over, Edith Hamilton! Sarah Iles Johnston has hit the...
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Fuzzy Traumas: Animals and Errors in Contemporary Japanese LiteratureIn Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Blurring the binary between human and nonhuman, Grillo draws on Japanese science fiction, horror, guide-dog stories, and a notorious essay on...
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Fuzzy Traumas: Animals and Errors in Contemporary Japanese LiteratureIn Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Blurring the binary between human and nonhuman, Grillo draws on Japanese science fiction, horror, guide-dog stories, and a notorious essay on...
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Encounter on the Seine: Essays"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant." -- Maya Angelou This collectible edition celebrates...
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