Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The ABC of It: Why Children's Books MatterOriginal artwork and materials explore children's literature and its impact in society and culture over time A favorite childhood book can leave a lasting impression, but as adults we tend to shelve such memories. For fourteen months beginning in June 2013, more than half...
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Tate the Tattletale TurkeyLori Kaiser just keeps on doing it Tate the Tattletale Turkey is about a turkey with a problem. He loves to tattletale. He soon finds out that tattling only isolates him and causes more problems for him. Feeling left out from a picnic with...
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Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text EditionA major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar...
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Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and LiteratureYan Lianke is a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays whose provocative and nuanced writing explores the reality of everyday life in contemporary China. In Sound and Silence, Yan compares his literary project to a blind man carrying a flashlight whose role...
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Sing by the Burying Ground: EssaysMeditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows In her fourth essay collection, award-winning author Marianne Boruch explores the possibilities of hope even in darkness. Through poetry, the silence of Trappist monks, the pandemic moment, the Wright brothers' quirky stab at flight, treasured...
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Shakespeare and Game of ThronesIt is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by Shakespeare, and how...
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Shakespeare and Baseball: Reflections of a Shakespeare Professor and Detroit Tigers FanShakespeare and baseball are monuments of high and popular culture: Shakespeare is the most widely read and staged playwright in the world, and baseball is America's game. Professor Samuel Crowl, a prize-winning teacher and international scholar of Shakespeare on film, explores his life as...
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Serbia: A Modern HistoryThis is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the Serbian state's revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth century, under the rebel leaders Karadorde Petrovic and Milos Obrenovic; its turbulent history of wars,...
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Sailing Without Ahab: Ecopoetic TravelsJourney through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville's epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We're not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod's American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the...
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Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of PoetryFrom the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems. We treasure our greatest poetry, Brad Leithauser reminds us in...
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Rewriting the Orient: Asian Works in the Making of World LiteratureIn this ambitious volume, Yunfei Bai delves into the creative adaptations of classical Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan literary texts by four renowned nineteenth- and early twentieth-century authors in France and Argentina: Theophile Gautier, Stephane Mallarme, Victor Segalen, and Jorge Luis Borges. Without any knowledge...
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Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in NarrativeA book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.Author: Peter BrooksPublisher: Harvard University...
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Power, Beats, and Rhymes: Reclaiming Our Cultural VoicePower. Who has it? Who's chasing it? And who's trying to keep it from you? That's what "Power, Beats, and Rhymes" is all about. Evante Daniels takes you on a raw, unfiltered journey into the heart of hip-hop, where every beat and rhyme exposes...
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Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied GeographyPlacing Disability presents an international collection of personal essays that address the experience of disability in particular geographical locations. Each chapter engages the question of what it means to be disabled in a specific place, exploring issues of movement, work and play, community and...
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Patience & Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go about the Quixotic Task of Preservin"Compulsory for anyone seriously interested in books or curious about the manic nature of collecting." --New York Times Book ReviewIn his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the...
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Open PapersOpen Papers is the primary statement on his art by Odysseas Elytis, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature, and a sweeping exploration of the mind and mythic imagination of one of the most original, visionary and compelling poets of this century.Author: Odysseas...
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On the Commerce of Thinking: Of Books and BookstoresJean-Luc Nancy's On the Commerce of Thinking concerns the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. His reflection is born out of his relation to the bookstore, in the first place his neighborhood...
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Nonbinary Bird of ParadiseNonbinary Bird of Paradise shakes its tail feathers, reveling in a body that cannot be contained in gender binaries. Its opening sequence re-imagines the Judaeo-Christian Eve as a queer person who, instead of eating of the proverbial forbidden fruit, conjures a femme lover: "God...
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Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz KafkaThis groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka's legacy--to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024--explores Kafka's life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way. In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all...
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MemoirsA complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell's lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was...
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