Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Strange Career of Racial LiberalismHow Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of...
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Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American FictionNovels are often said to help us understand how others think--especially when those others are profoundly different from us. When interpreting a character's behavior, readers are believed to make use of "Theory of Mind," the general human capacity to attribute mental states to other...
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Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to RiseWe describe people who are "consumed" or "devoured" by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed...
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North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend CasebookMining a mountain of folklore publications, North American Monsters unearths decades of notable monster research. Nineteen folkloristic case studies from the last half-century examine legendary monsters in their native habitats, focusing on ostensibly living creatures bound to specific geographic locales. A diverse cast of...
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Joseph Conrad and EthicsJoseph Conrad's ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet its study has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is one of very few books fully devoted to ethics in Conrad's fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis...
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1st Grade Sight Words Word Search Book for Kids: High Frequency Words Book for First Grade Early Reading - First Grade Language Arts WorkbookA fun way to practice sight words / high-frequency words!This book will support your child in learning 1st grade Dolch Sight Words. Sight words don't follow the standard rules of phonics any and all help to memorize these words will give your child the...
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Through the Looking-GlassThe rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day. Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was first published in December 1871 (dated 1872). Although Carroll intended Looking-Glass to be a follow-up piece to the immediately successful...
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Inferno"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third." - T. S. Eliot"Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature." - Ian Thompson."I love my Dante as much as the Bible. He is my spiritual food,...
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Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century AdolescenceTransforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls' book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender binaries and suggest that girls must accommodate and support a patriarchal framework to be happy. On the...
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Conversations with Leanne HoweConversations with LeAnne Howe is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond our national borders to bring Native American characters and themes to the global stage. Best known for...
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Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and ActivismIn the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; national park employees, environmentalists, and scientists have been ordered to stop communicating publicly. Advocates for gun control are silenced even...
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Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist TurnWhy Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear--and our compassion Herman Melville's Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. Ahab Unbound leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent figure, transformed by...
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Doing CriticismNot only an accessible hands-on guide to writing criticism across the literary arts, the dramatic arts, and the narrative screen arts, but also a book that makes a case for how and why criticism matters today Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts is...
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Yiddish Plays for Reading and PerformanceYiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of them well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction to the full range...
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Down and Out in Paris and london"Poverty is what I am writing about". In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, immersed himself in the slums of Paris and London, and reinvented himself as George Orwell, one of the most revered prose stylists...
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Codes Of Alchemy, A Magic Symbol Reference BookConsidered the precursor to chemistry, the field of alchemy stretches back to ancient history, and as it evolved, became inevitably entangled with witchcraft and magic. To keep their work secret and protect it from theft, alchemists wrote in fascinating and sometimes intricate symbols representing...
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Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-Hop Theater and PerformanceSampling and Remixing Blackness is a timely and accessible book that examines the social ramifications of cultural borrowing and personal adaptation of Hip-hop culture by non-Black and non-African American Black artists in theater and performance. In a cultural moment where Hip-hop theater hits such...
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Grotesque Weather and Good PeopleA debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple vernacular, Lim Solah's lyric I...
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Liberal and Illiberal Arts: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to AmericaPublisher: Paul Dry BooksPublished: 03/15/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9781589881600
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Half the House, 20th Anniversary EditionLiterary Nonfiction. Memoir. The hardcover publication (1995) of this spare, poignant memoir (Time) resulted in the arrest of a child molester and the headline: Author's Writing on Abuse Brings New Victims Forward. Our 20th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by Louise DeSalvo--author of...
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