Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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God Picks Up The PiecesThis book is a literary English translation of the Biblical book Ecclesiastes as a chorus of different voices (like the book of Job) contesting the meaning of things. A careful introduction delineates the various speakers--Qohelet, editor, apprentice rabbis, the Woman Wisdom (of Proverbs) voice--along...
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Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott ColemanThough Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in The Crisis and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. Reflecting and illuminating the movement's major themes, her often award-winning stories, delicate and understated, offer subtle...
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The Apocalypse of ElijahAuthor: Albert PietersmaPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 01/01/1981Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.10w x 0.32dISBN: 9780891303732This title is not returnable
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Tolbert of Texas: The Man and His WorkAuthor: Frank TolbertPublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublished: 01/01/1986Pages: 356Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.88w x 0.98dISBN: 9780875650685
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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual PortraitHalf a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure whose work...
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AerialistMary Buchinger (Bodwell) is the author of both Aerialist (finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award/ Utah State University Press; semi-finalist for the OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize and the Perugia Press Prize) and Roomful of Sparrows (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared...
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Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher EducationAcademic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues...
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Anti-Racist ShakespeareAnti-Racist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. Our study outlines the necessary theoretical foundations for educators to develop a critical understanding of the longue durée of racial formation so that they can implement anti-racist pedagogical strategies and...
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George Herbert and Early Modern Musical CultureDescribed by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This is the first extended critical study...
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From the Nile to the Tigris: African Individuals and Groups in Texts from the Neo-Assyrian EmpireEgypt and Mesopotamia, two cradles of civilization, repeatedly came into contact with each other in antiquity. Interaction between Africa and Mesopotamia was particularly close and frequent in the period when the Neo-Assyrian Empire controlled Egypt (dominated by rulers of Libyan descent) and confronted the...
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How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love Volume 98The poetry of Yosano Akiko covers all the many and varied aspects of the experience of love--from early romantic encounters between the lover and beloved to the intimate pleasures of mutual infatuation and then true love. The journey outlined in Akiko's verse also grapples...
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Invented Traditions in North and South KoreaAlmost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger's The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions--cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin--is still relevant, important, and highly...
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Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's Early NovelsIn this study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural stereotypes in the early novels of Kazuo Ishiguro. "World literature" has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years: Aamir Mufti called it...
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The Victorian Novel in ContextThis book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts...
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Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as FascistThe novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists--Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats--who were his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis's originality, however, can only be fully grasped when it is understood that, unlike those writers, he was essentially...
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Faust: A Tragedy, Part IGoethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other leading canonical works of European literature such as Dante's Inferno and Shakespeare's Hamlet. This is the first...
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Autobiographical ComicsA complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Autobiographical Comics helps readers explore the increasingly popular genre of graphic life writing. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as: - The history and rise of autobiographical...
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The Vortex That Unites Us: Versions of Totality in Russian LiteratureThe Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Considering a diversity of texts that have in common chiefly their prominence in the Russian literary canon, Jacob Emery...
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Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE RAVEN, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA... Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar...
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Folk Horror: New Global PathwaysThe first collection of scholarly essays exploring the history and resurgence of folk horror. While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was 1960-70s Britain, the genre has both a rich literary prehistory and a vibrant contemporary presence. This book rethinks the assumptions that have...
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