Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Jaan Kaplinski: Selected PoemsEstonia's Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament in 1992-95 and his essays on cultural transition and the challenges of globalisation are...
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Eavan Boland: Inside HistoryThrough critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History takes a fresh look at Boland'sinfluence as a poet and critic for the twenty-first century. The essays, poems, and interviews gathered here provide a new frame for critically engaging with Boland's work, one that crosses...
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A Shakespearean BotanicalWhen Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he highlights the belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make...
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Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional DwellingsMany beloved novels have place at their heart--and often even in their title. Novel Houses visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction, exploring how Uncle Tom's Cabin came to start the American Civil War, why Bleak House is used...
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The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex ComfortThe Duty to Stand Aside tells the story of one of the most intriguing yet little-known literary-political feuds--and friendships--in 20th-century English literature. It examines the arguments that divided George Orwell, future author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Alex Comfort, poet, biologist, anarchist-pacifist,...
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The Collected Essays of Virginia WoolfA collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay, The Death Of The Moth Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car, Three Pictures, Old Mrs. Grey, Street Haunting: A...
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The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature: An Anthology of CriticismProminent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as echtrai (adventures) and immrama (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of Celtic legend. These tales have long held a fascination for both scholars and general readers, but there is no...
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Ideology: An IntroductionIdeology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debate,...
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Medievalism in a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of ThronesGame of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how "authentic" is the world it presents? This volume offers different angles to the question. One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and...
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A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This...
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The Complete Story of the Grail: Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval and Its ContinuationsThe mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far...
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Ignaz Moscheles and the Changing World of Musical EuropeThe first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), pianist, conductor and composer. This book, the first full-length study devoted to Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), explores how the son of middle-class Jewish parents in Prague became one of the most important musicians of his era,...
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The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's Estoire de la Guerre SainteTranslation of eye-witness account of Third Crusade, with emphasis on Richard the Lionheart. The Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, an early example of vernacular chronicle, by the Norman poet Ambroise, presents an eye-witness account of the Third Crusade (1188-92) in a highly-polished rhetorical style....
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Myths & Legends of the British IslesTales from the dawn of Christianity to the age of the Plantagenets reveal a mythology in its time as potent as that of the classical world. The British Isles have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology...
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Bookshops: A Reader's HistoryBookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilized detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carrion brings page-turning excitement to the...
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SurvivalWhen first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent,...
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PeripatetNo trends. No fun. No praise. No blurbs. No trends. No fun. No praise. No blurbs. No trends. No fun. No praise. No blurbs. No trends. No fun. No praise. No blurbs. No trends. No fun. No praise. No blurbs. No trends. No fun....
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The SwitchPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. The Switch contains three books: 1. an apologia--written as a relay between two fictional characters--for friendship and desire.2. the result of a residency: Obedience Residency Manual3. a long poem by an angry god. Poetry is never lost in a politics of...
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Scotland's Forgotten Treasure: the Visionary Romances of George MacDonaldNovelist, writer of fantastic literature, poet, lecturer, preacher, George MacDonaldwas a great Victorian ranked in his time alongside such writers as Dickens, Thackeray, William Morris, Charles Kingsley, and Thomas Carlyle. Though almost forgotten in the more secular age that followed his death, MacDonald'sfantastic work...
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The Souls of Black Folk (African American Classic): (RGV Classic)Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is...
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