Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the WorldAuthor: Liang QichaoPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780241568781About the AuthorLiang Qichao (1873-1929) was a reformist intellectual who, facing brutal repression, fled to Japan, where he lived for fourteen years. His long exile, travels, and writing--of fiction,...
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The Tale of Genji Through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in JapanThis groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading...
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The Puritan Literary TraditionWhat is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging...
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The Psalms in English 1530-1633Translations of the Psalms were a major feature of early modern English literature. Yet this vast body of translation work has never before been presented as such, or in such depth. This collection brings together over a century of English biblical translation, by a...
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The Lithic Imagination from More to MiltonThe Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broadermineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems, a role that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. The scale of the human...
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The Greek Words in Persius' Literary ProgrammeThis book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius' programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literary criticism: they allow him to express his objection to the Graecizing poetic compositions of his day more convincingly, while facilitating intertextual...
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The Glass Door: An Adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik IbsenThe Glass Door is an adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. In this version (in three acts), the play has been shortened, the set simplified and updated, and the dialogue revised to some extent. The intent is to make it easier for modern...
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The Emerging Contours of the Medium: Literature and MedialityThe Emerging Contours of the Medium explores a crucial aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality' of literature, a medium that remains today on the margins of the theoretical discussion of media. The book was written by a collective of authors based...
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the ArtsThe eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms that rapidly expanded, and the relations between which became more complex. This has typically been described as a period that ushered in the novel form: the malleability of the concept of the...
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese FolkloreSignificantly expanded and updated--a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith WhartonBringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture,...
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春风夏雨（Spring Breeze and Summer Rain, Bilingual Edition）范媛是一个年轻貌美且十分善良的女孩，她的善举影响着身边的人，其言其行传递着爱心与温暖。春风化雨，润物无声。 大学毕业后，和闺蜜的哥哥结婚生子，过着让人羡慕的幸福生活。然而，天有不测风云。在她双胞胎儿女三岁生日的那一天，突如其来的致命打击，犹如晴天霹雳。她倒下了，她的世界崩塌了。 接下来，她会从生命中不可承受之痛解脱出来吗？她会从意外的、毁灭性的打击中重新找回自己吗？Tiffany is a young, beautiful, and very kindhearted girl. Her kind deeds affect the people around her, and her words and benevolent deeds convey warmth and love. The warm spring winds and the summer rain is moist enough to nourish all things....
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Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest WriterA fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays. Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him? Using the latest techniques in textual analysis Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers a...
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Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and LandCalling on the image of the Midwest's vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions...
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Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual TransgressionDemonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic periodAuthor: Kathryn ReadyPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 208Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50dISBN: 9781399507622About the AuthorKathryn Ready is Professor of English at the...
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River of BooksA memoir of reading and working with books by the renowned Booklist editor. With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course of her early reading years in a book-by-book chronicle of the...
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Rhoda BroughtonRhoda Broughton (1840-1920), whose career spanned over fifty years, was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian era. She burst into literary prominence-and notoriety-in 1867, with the publication in volume form of her first two novels, Not Wisely, but Too Well and...
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Reader's House Magazine: Mimi BarbourEDITOR'S LETTERWelcome to the 44th issue of Reader's House magazine, a testament to our ongoing commitment to showcasing the finest voices in literature today. We are delighted to feature bestselling, award-winning, and critically acclaimed indie authors who continue to enrich our literary landscape.This issue,...
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Queering SF Comics: ReadingsAuthor: Ritch CalvinPublisher: Aqueduct PressPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.60w x 0.66dISBN: 9781619762640
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Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of UncarePsychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also...
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