Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Conversations with Diane Di PrimaDiane di Prima (1934-2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. Di Prima and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) edited The Floating Bear (1962-69), one of...
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Race and Romance: Coloring the PastThis study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. Race and Romance: Coloring the Past explores the literary and cultural genealogy of colorism, white passing, and white presenting in the romance genre. The scope of the study ranges from Heliodorus' Aithiopika...
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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American SettlementCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties--"a stunned memory preserved in...
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Why Writing MattersDrawing lessons from writers of all ages and writing across genres, a distinguished teacher and writer reveals the enduring importance of writing for our time In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central...
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Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of PanopolisTales of Dionysus is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the Dionysiaca is a formidable work. It is by far the longest poem surviving...
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Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin AmericaThis book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and political activists facing state repression have seen themselves reflected in Holocaust histories and have used Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities...
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Pilot ImpostorA startling, shape-shifting book of prose and images that draws on an unexpected pair of inspirations--the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the history of air disasters--to investigate con men, identity politics, failures of leadership, the privilege of ineptitude, the slave trade, and the nature...
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Irish Wit, Wisdom and Humor: The Complete Collection of Irish Jokes, One-Liners & Witty SayingsThe greatest collection of Irish wit, wisdom and humor ever published. The best of humorous quotes, witty observations, and funny one-liners from those hailing from the Emerald Isle. Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Irish Wit, Wisdom & Humor collects over 1000 witticisms, musings, deep...
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Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental JourneyTolkien's enchanted worldview as literary form and as psychological struggle Focusing on the themes of enchantment and loss in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, this unique study incorporates elements of developmental psychology to explore both Tolkien's life and art, deepening our understanding...
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The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical ReaderWith the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and...
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Selected PoemsA timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets--now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei One of the most influential poets in Chinese...
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Certain and Impossible EventsLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Selected by Cheryl Strayed for the Kore Press Institute Memoir Award. CERTAIN AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENTS begins in April 1994, with the suicide of a fourteen-year-old boy in a small New England town. The boy left behind no trail of...
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Create Your Own Midlife Crisis: The Best Way to Make the Worst DecisionsCreate Your Own Midlife Crisis is a fun and humorous choose-your-own-path book on making risqu and bold choices in the prime of midlife, giving you the chance to try countless roads not yet taken. What's the worst that could happen? Are you on the...
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Study Guide to The Odyssey by HomerA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Homer's The Odyssey, possibly the most famous epic poems in history. As an epic poem of ancient Greece, it is the second oldest surviving work in Western literature. Moreover, this work has...
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Study Guide to Washington Square by Henry JamesA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James' Washington Square, a simple tragicomedy that is based on a true story. As a novel of the nineteenth-century, illustrates family conflict between a daughter and her unemotional father. Moreover, Washington...
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Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-DickAlthough Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best...
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Hebrew Myths: The Book of GenesisA scholarly approach to sixty-one stories from the book of Genesis, following in the lucid format of Graves' canonical The Greek Myths. With a new introduction by author of Bibliotheca, Adam Lewis Greene. An exhaustive study of sixty-one stories from the Old Testament and...
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Zorro's Shadow: How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero"SADDLE UP Andes takes us on an exhilarating, dust-kicking ride through the actual origins and history of the first hemispheric Latinx superhero: Zorro." --Frederick Luis Aldama, editor of Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Zorro's Shadow explores the masked character's Latinx origins and his...
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Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the UniversityCan the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities--the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation--are at odds with the very publics they are intended to...
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The Life of Saint Eufrosine: In Old French Verse, with English TranslationAs a young woman from a wealthy family, Eufrosine was expected to marry a nobleman. Instead, she wanted to serve God. So she cut her hair, dressed as a man, and traveled to a monastery, becoming a monk named Emerald.Adapted from a Latin source,...
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