Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Ka Mo'olelo O Hi'iakaikapoliopeleThis volume presents The Epic Tale of Hi'iakaikapoliopele in its original Hawaiian. The story, as told by Ho'oulumāhiehie, is articulated with 375 chants. The author's captivating narration showcases his profound cultural knowledge and engaging style, highlighting Hi'iaka's role as a healer, source of inspiration,...
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Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent SheeanVincent Sheean, a groundbreaking American foreign correspondent and author, is known for reporting from Europe, North Africa, and Asia, writing news reports, articles, and books. A few books and articles have described Vincent Sheean's life, and briefly discussed his major nonfiction books. However, no...
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Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'ConnorIn Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted...
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StatelessIn Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods-post WW I...
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A BiographyOriginal, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain's most popular, provocative and versatile writers.Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi's life is intimately bound up with the history of immigration and social change in...
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California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western IdealCalifornia Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American women writers publishing between 1870 and 1965 to argue that both white women and women of color regionalized dominant national literary trends to negotiate the contradictions between an American liberal individualism and American...
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Jin Ping Mei - A Wild Horse in Chinese Literature: Essays on Texts, Illustrations and Translations of a Late Sixteenth-Century MasterpieceAuthor: Vibeke BørdahlPublisher: Nordic Institute of Asian StudiesPublished: 11/30/2022Pages: 470Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.10dISBN: 9788776943189About the AuthorVibeke Børdahl (Editor) Dr Vibeke Børdahl, a senior researcher at NIAS, has been described as one of the most accomplished scholars in the study...
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Time Regained: World Literature and CinemaAwarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields of world literature and world cinema have developed on parallel but largely separate tracks, with little recognition of their underlying...
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Good Morning Poems: A Start to the Day from Famous English-Language PoetsCanadian literary legend George Bowering lays bare his process as reader and lover of poetry in this curated collection of poems to be read in the morning. In a series of deeply astute and conversational essays, two-time Governor General's Award winner and inaugural Parlimentary...
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Amor Fati: Eternal Procession in Emerson and NietzscheThis book examines the meaning of love, the problem with science, the power of women, and the enigma of eternal return in Friedrich Nietzsche's reception of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Caroline Kelley's Amor Fati .... is compelling to read. It examines the...
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald published America's favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the next (and last) fifteen years of his life, ending as a mostly unemployed Hollywood screenwriter. Taking...
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Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our FaithHumans are story-shaped creatures. We make sense of our world, pattern our lives, and reflect on what is ultimately significant through language and the words that compose our stories. But how does this relate to the narrative of the Bible and the story that...
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ShabtisFacsimile edition of the 1972 reissue of Flinders Petrie's 1914 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian Shuabtis, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.Shuabtis, funeral statuettes made of stone or timber, were frequently encountered in early tomb and...
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The Light MachineThe Light Machine, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and...
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The Illiterate DigestThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies: The Limits of InferenceIn Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies, Carol Shloss moves from biographical, thematic, and theological approaches and instead focuses her criticism on the successes and failures of O'Connor as a rhetorician. This valuable study of O'Connor's style uses reader-response theory to dissect the author's use of...
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Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and TranslatedDeclamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. Stock Characters Speaking may be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive...
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End of the Road"My name is Brian Keene. I'm a writer by trade and a road warrior by heart. Neither of these things are wise career or life choices. The tolls add up.Over the last twenty years, things have changed. Book tours have changed, publishing has changed,...
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Reconsidering Flannery O'ConnorContributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William Murray, Carol Shloss, Alison Staudinger, and Rachel Watson The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded...
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The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth CenturyThis highly original book reconsiders canonical long eighteenth-century narratives through the conjoined lenses of queer studies and the environmental humanities. Moving from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to Gothic novels including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jeremy Chow investigates the role that...
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