Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary HistoryIn December 1840, Charlotte Brontë wrote in a letter to Hartley Coleridge that she wished 'with all [her] heart' that she 'had been born in time to contribute to the Lady's magazine'. Nearly two centuries later, the cultural and literary importance of a monthly...
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An A-Z of Jane AustenJane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar...
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Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy"As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin "A masterpiece of literary biography." - David PeaceThe first critical biography of a titan of American crime fiction. Love Me Fierce In Danger is the story of James Ellroy, one of the...
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Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal StoriesAn innovative memoir connecting ideas of grief, memory, and animals to illustrate the importance of storytelling. When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way...
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The Little Book of HP LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft had a short life, and he died of cancer in 1936 at the age of 46. But in that relatively short time he had a significant, varied and outstanding output, and although he was not a well-known writer during the time...
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Adventures in Polar Reading: The Book Cultures of High LatitudesBorrowing from his naval experience and his expertise as a historian, David Stam performed extensive archival and secondary research for this study of the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International Polar Year 1881-83 in northernmost Canada....
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Drunken SilenusThe Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of...
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The Aesthetic Border: Colombian Literature in the Face of GlobalizationThis groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature--from Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquez--reflects one of the world's most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia's fall and rise on the world stage, the period...
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Headlong HallAuthor: Thomas Love PeacockPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 300Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.43w x 1.26dISBN: 9781107030732About the AuthorJoukovsky, Nicholas: - Nicholas A. Joukovsky is an Emeritus Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He has previously edited The Letters of Thomas Love...
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The Language of the In-Between: Travestis, Post-Hegemony, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and PeruOften, the process of modern state formation is founded on the marginalization of certain groups, and Latin America is no exception. In The Language of the In-Between, Erika Almenara contends that literary production replicates this same process. Looking at marginalized communities in Chile and...
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Writing Into the Future: New American Poetries from the Dial to the DigitalA career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry Writing into the Future: New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital collects Alan Golding's essays on the futures (past and present) of poetry and poetics. Throughout the 13 essays gathered...
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Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, and John SteinbeckIn Combating Injustice, Jon Falsarella Dawson approaches American literary naturalism as a means of social criticism, exploring the powerful economic arguments and commentaries on labor struggles presented in novels by Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck. Making use of extensive archival research, Dawson...
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The IliadDue to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may, in fact, be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral...
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A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made onDung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British...
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On Seamus HeaneyA vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national...
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Digital Communion: Marshall McLuhan's Spiritual Vision for a Virtual AgeMarshall McLuhan was the greatest prophet of the digital age. In the 1960s, McLuhan, a Canadian literary theorist reared on Elizabethan satire and the labyrinthine novels of James Joyce, turned his attention toward the budding and befuddling electronic age. Like most prophets, McLuhan became...
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Tremendous TriflesTremendous Trifles is comprised of 39 chapters, each functioning as their own essay or story. With whimsical, light-hearted prose, vivid figurative language, and unparalleled insight, Chesterton covers a variety of philosophical principles of everyday life. Chesterton often used ordinary events and objects to explain...
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Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-VictimhoodReverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what it's like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although...
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Poem That Never EndsLiterary Nonfiction. Sparked by the only two letters--out of over a hundred-that López Medin's mother saved from her own mother in Paraguay, POEM THAT NEVER ENDS weaves together poems and family photos to explore the fragmentation of time, memory, and mother-child relationships. Fragments, family...
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Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean NarrativesIn this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions...
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