Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a PigFrom P. J. O'Rourke, best-selling author and expert bachelor, comes a hilarious look at domestic life. Or, as P. J. puts it, This is a book about cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping for people who don't know how to do any of those things and...
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Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom TrilogyA critical study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy which analyses Lewis's methods and meanings, concentrating on this trilogy but also including relevant secondary work. Lewis's literary scholarship and display of Christian values are incorporated into this discussion.Author: David C. DowningPublisher: University of Massachusetts PressPublished:...
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Camp AustenA Paris Review Staff Pick and one of The Millions' Most Anticipated Reads of MarchA raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancing The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating...
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The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century BritainThe first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and...
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LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens: Providing a Window for AllThere is a rich and varied body of literature for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, asexual/allied and intersexed young people, which can function as a mirror for LGBTQAI+ individuals and as a window for others. This resource for librarians who work with children and...
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Closet Devotions - PBReligion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of "sacred eroticism," the literary or artistic expression of devotional feelings in erotic terms that has repeatedly occurred over...
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The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki MurakamiIn an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure...
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Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö Ni' Visual Code and Epistemological RecoverySince the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called wampum to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties....
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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. PeretzTwo early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh s alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of characters including Isaac Abraham as tailor...
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Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of MovementA woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will; for a room without that right becomes a prison cell. The privilege of self-directed movement, the power...
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The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic CultureMichael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the most inventive and provocative critic of Arabic literature writing in the Middle East today, Kilito opens our perception with the same breadth of vision, seeking to define...
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Fionn Mac Cumhail: Celtic Myth in English LiteratureThe Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle...
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A House with Seven Windows: Short StoriesA House with Seven Windows by Kadya Molodowsky is the famed Yiddish poet's only collection of short stories. Written in simple prose, these stories are subtle portraits--tragic-comic, bittersweet, always generous spirited--of ordinary people: Jews in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and Jews struggling to...
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Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised EditionIn late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, Junkie, had just been...
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Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography MeetNarrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has...
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Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and FrameThis anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely routes from beginning to end." It includes the most widely cited and discussed essays on narrative beginnings, temporality, plot and emplotment,...
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Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black AestheticExploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative...
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Melville's Other Lives: Bodies on Trial in the Piazza TalesMelville's Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales-Herman Melville's only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime-and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville's stories. Christopher Sten...
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York MagazineThe magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments...
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Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III"The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea." --Henry VI Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of the three-part classic history that revolves around the epic, dynastic Wars of the Roses....
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