Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Arkansas TestamentDerek Walcott's eighth collection of poems, The Arkansas Testament, is divided into two parts--"Here," verse evoking the poet's native Caribbean, and "Elsewhere." It opens with six poems in quatrains whose memorable, compact lines further Walcott's continuous effort to crystallize images of the Caribbean landscape...
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Beastly Modernisms: The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and CultureThe intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit...
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Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, CrisisThe history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. Transscalar Critique argues that contemporary Black literature navigates this crisis by taking a transscalar approach, understanding crisis as working on multiple scales...
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My Dark Room: Spaces of the Inner Self in Eighteenth-Century EnglandExamines spaces of inner life in eighteenth-century England to shed new light on interiority in literature and visual and material culture. In what kinds of spaces do we become most aware of the thoughts in our own heads? In My Dark Room, Julie Park...
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Time and Timelessness in Victorian PoetryTime and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry explores the question of poetry's relation to time and argues that this relation is historically contingent - as the concept of time changes, so too do the shaping forms and definitions of poetry. Victorian literature provides a rich...
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A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the EastIn this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and...
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German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond TestimonyShows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Klüger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature. How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? How did their...
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Resistance and Its Discontents in South Asian Women's FictionResistance and its discontents in South Asian women's fiction examines the literary representation of a fascinating range of resistances enacted in response to various forms of oppression, and addresses the expectations, contradictions, anxieties and even inaction that resistance can generate, particularly for women.Author: Maryam...
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The Life and Lies of Charles DickensA radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due...
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Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael OndaatjeMichael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction such as The English Patient, winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, and In...
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The Complete Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Travels, Non-Fiction, Plays and PoemsDive into the captivating world of Robert Louis Stevenson with this comprehensive collection. "The Complete Robert Louis Stevenson" brings together all of the author's beloved novels, enchanting short stories, thrilling travels, thought-provoking non-fiction, mesmerizing plays, and evocative poems. Immerse yourself in Stevenson's masterful storytelling...
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ShinerIn this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking...
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Jumping Off ShadowsAn important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume, Paul Durcan, Eileain Ni Chuilleanain and Michael Davitt. Irish language poetry, long considered the...
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Healing Narratives: Women Writers Curing Cultural Dis-easeIn Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair-she traces the narrative and structural similarities of a main...
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Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana WritersThis innovative collection pairs portraits with critical biographies of twelve key Chicana writers, offering an engaging look at their work, contributions to the field, and major achievements. Artist Raquel Valle-Sentíes's portraits bring visual dimension, while essays delve deeply into the authors' lives for details...
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Best of Lsu FictionBest of LSU Fiction is a long-overdue collection of the great fiction writers who have been associated with Louisiana State University. Beginning with three-time Pulitzer Prize--winner Robert Penn Warren, this anthology records the journey of LSU's prestigious literary tradition.The twenty writers collected in this...
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The Hobbit EncyclopediaDelve into Middle-earth, decipher the Dwarves' alphabet and more, with this indispensable and comprehensive guide to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. This wide-ranging encyclopedia covers all the characters, places, and objects included in the seminal book that first introduced the world of Middle-earth, highlighting the...
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Italian Literature: A Very Short IntroductionIn this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history. The authors illuminate such topics as regional identities, political disunity, and the...
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Reading Backwards Lib/EReading Backwards opens with the autobiographical My Life in the Theater, a memoir of the younger Crowley's earliest ambitions, and closes with the moving and memorable Practicing the Arts of Peace. In between, the author offers us more than thirty carefully crafted essays, each...
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Human Brain Coloring Book: The Human Brain Coloring Book. Human Brain Model Anatomy, Human Brain Diagram, Human Brain Art, Human Brain and HumanThe Human Brain Coloring Book provides a means of learning about the structure and function of the human brain through a process of coloring-by-directions. It was developed by internationally recognized neuroscientists and teachers.Coloring the human brain and its nerves is the most effective way...
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