Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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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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Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of ColorCritics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in environmental concerns that address elements of the natural world and relate nature to the transatlantic slave trade, plantation...
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Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, on Being a ChristianAll serious writers know that each word they write reveals something significant about their beliefs, something about their reason for creating, something about the one for whom they write. After all, writing lays bare the soul. Yet the work of a Christian artist is...
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Conversations with Angela DavisWhen Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that garnered national and international attention, she became one of the most recognizable and iconic figures in the...
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The Golden GirlsThe Golden Girls made its prime-time debut in 1985 on NBC, and the critically acclaimed show has been a constant television companion through cable reruns and streaming media services ever since. Most people know that The Golden Girls is a sitcom about four feisty,...
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10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't HelpYou've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, these "influential" books have led to war,...
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Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic StripsWinner, 2022 Charles Hatfield Award from the Comics Studies Society In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied and developing...
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Celtic Mythology: Dive Into The Depths Of Ancient Celtic Folklore, The Myths, Legends & Tales of The Gods, Goddesses, Warriors, MonstersDagda swept his fingers across the strings of the harp, and a beautiful melody started to play. It was the music of grief that had the Fomorians stop and bow their heads as they sobbed. Even the soldiers sobbed, but they drew their mantles...
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Study Guide to Siddhartha by Hermann HesseA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, became influential during the 1960s when cultural movements were seeking inspiration from the East. As a novel of the 1950s, Siddhartha incorporates contrasting ideologies from Eastern religions to Western...
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Study Guide to The Prince and the Pauper by Mark TwainA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, the author's first attempt at historical fiction. As a novel of the nineteenth-century, the story of The Prince and the Pauper continues to live on...
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Queer Tidalectics: Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity in Contemporary Black Diasporic LiteratureIn Queer Tidalectics, Emilio Amideo investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics. Water recurs as a figurative and material site to express the Black queer experience...
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Reading Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing: Glossary and CommentaryA compelling and authoritative reading of Hemingway's final collection of short stories Written in 1933 and one of Hemingway's lesser-known books, Winner Take Nothing was his third and final collection of short stories. These stories are about loners and losers and misfits and ne'er-do-wells....
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Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare PublishingDescribed by the TLS as 'a formidable bibliographical achievement ... destined to become a key reference work for Shakespeareans', Shakespeare in Print is now issued in a revised and expanded edition offering a wealth of new material, including a chapter which maps the history...
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The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century FranceBetween 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form--artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between--were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history...
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KarukkuIn 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptable. So Bama Faustina published her milestone work Karukku privately in 1992-a passionate and important mix of history, sociology, and the strength to remember....
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