Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza: The Critical EditionEdited by Ricardo F. Vivancos-Pérez and Norma Cantú. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences growing up near the U.S./Mexico border, BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of borders as psychic, social, and cultural terrains that we inhabit and that inhabit us all. Drawing heavily on archival...
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Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st CenturyA work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple...
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Women on the Yiddish StageThe integration of women into public Jewish performance (Yiddish-language theater by 1877 and Hebrew-language theater by about 1918) was a revolution in modern Jewish culture. While a great deal of seasoned Yiddish-speaking male talent preexisted theater in the form of cantors, choristers, and tavern...
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Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New ConceptIncredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural connotations. This book traces the complex and overlooked way in which anglophone culture "got rhythm," concentrating on the pivotal role that poetry played in...
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Thou Art That: A Skeleton Key Study GuideThis Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor lets you read Campbell alongside a Campbell expert, and discover deeper meanings of religious narrative and symbols. In this helpful guide, you'll find chapter summaries, notable quotes, reading suggestions, essay...
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The Yearning FeedThe poems in Manuel Paul López's The Yearning Feed, winner of the 2013 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, are embedded in the San Diego/Imperial Valley regions, communities located along the U.S.-Mexico border. López, an Imperial Valley native, considers La Frontera, or the border, as...
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The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de NavarreThe Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre's status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated...
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The Rape of PalestineReprint of 1938 edition. The Rape of Palestine is a scathing indictment of the British administration in Palestine. It is well documented and makes full use of quotations from the writings of non-Jewish persons who served under that administration and themselves complained of the...
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The Origin of German Tragic DramaThe Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called...
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The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to LoveWhat if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying.Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy...
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The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott FitzgeraldAuthor: Michael NowlinPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/09/2023Pages: 300Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781108813907This title is not returnable
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The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster KDiscover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan. Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore:...
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The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, FuturesBuilding on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how...
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Super Intelligent, Emotional Me!Young children learn and develop through their interactions with and the examples set by their primary caregivers. And often the best way to share with a child is through the use of storytelling. Super Intelligent, Emotional Me provides parents with nine stories they can...
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Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing GirlhoodSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comic studies, children's comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about...
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Sense and Singularity: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Interruption of PhilosophyPhilosophical thinking is interrupted by the finitude of what cannot be named, on the one hand, and that within which it is subsumed as one of multiple modes of sense-making, on the other. Sense and Singularity elaborates Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophical project as an inquiry...
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Secret PoeticsThe first English-language translation of Oiticica's "secret" poetry, featuring facsimile renderings of the handwritten poems and accompanying notes by the artistHélio Oiticica (1937-80) is widely considered one of Brazil's most significant artists, and his influence is felt across a range of disciplines including painting,...
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Renaissance Papers 2022Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins with a "who is it" mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and...
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Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. An insightful study of...
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Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and DesiresA passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and gender. Twenty-five years ago, Mark D. Jordan published his landmark book on the invention and early history of the category "sodomy," one that helped to decriminalize certain sexual acts in...
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