Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Winona; Or, the Foster-Sisters"The Broadview edition of Winona opens a large and revealing window onto Isabella Valancy Crawford's times and writerly concerns." -- D.M.R. Bentley, University of Western Ontario Author: Isabella Valancy CrawfordPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 10/16/2006Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781551117096About the Author Len Early is Associate...
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Native American Mythology in Modern American Literature: Analysis of the Novels "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday and "Ceremony" by Leslie MarmIn this book the author dwells on the role of Native American mythology and storytelling in "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday and "Ceremony" by L.M. Silko. The first part of the book has an overview of Native American mythology and history,...
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Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William ShakespeareIn 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad...
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A Flauta Magica de Mozart: Traducao e ensaioNeste volume, apresenta-se uma tradu o portuguesa do facsimile da edi o original de 1791 da Flauta M gica de Mozart e uma reflex o, ancorada nas ra zes simb licas da tradi o esot rica e na literatura do final do s culo...
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Shakespeare Beyond Doubt?: Exposing an Industry in DenialThe Book the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Doesn't Want You to Read: Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Never has the case against the Stratford man been made so clear and compelling. Unsettled by the growing success of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and its online Declaration of Reasonable...
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El Conde de MontecristoEl conde de Montecristo (Le comte de Monte-Cristo) es una novela de aventuras cl sica de Alexandre Dumas padre y Auguste Maquet. Este ltimo no figur en los t tulos de la obra ya que Alexandre Dumas pag una elevada suma de dinero para...
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Telling the Stories Right: Wendell Berry's Imagination of Port WilliamWendell Berry thinks of himself as a storyteller. It's somewhat ironic then that he is better known as an essayist, a poet, and an advocate for small farmers. The essays in this collection consider the many facets of Berry's life and work, but they...
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Why Read Four Quartets?Why Read Four Quartets? is offered to encourage readers unfamiliar with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece to ""take up, read, and inwardly digest"" these beautiful and sacred poems. Commentary is offered to hopefully make the poems more accessible to a general reader. Most critics and...
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PhasesThe poems in Phases are as interested in the creeping penumbral edge of language as they are in the shadowy fact of faith. Playful experiments with form swing to the conceptual ring's apegee, while a colloquy across history and place center the proverbial orbit....
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Alphabet YearThese poems started with a bag of children's beach toys--primary-colored alphabet sand-molds--and a quiet afternoon. They ended up needing a spreadsheet to keep track of the first words. ""Love"" is the ""L"" word for all the disorderly abecedarians because it creates a thread with...
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Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid: By John Fletcher and Philip MassingerJohn Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovative and provocative play that explores the struggle of two transgender siblings, Lucio and Clara, who have been brought up as members of their opposite genders. After twenty years...
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The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the UnexpectedWHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILLThe Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured...
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The Soul of Man Under SocialismIn The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true...
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Lyrical Ballads 1798Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was...
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The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender PerspectiveReading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one...
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Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne ClemensSamuel Clemens (1835-1910) repeatedly traversed the ocean during his globetrotting life. A keen observer, the man who recast himself as Mark Twain was fascinated by seafaring. This book compiles selections ranging from his first voyage in 1866--San Francisco to Hawaii--to his circumnavigation of the...
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Angels, Barbarians, and NincompoopsSimilarly, it's hard not to love this book, which employs a diverse cast of characters ranging from C.S. Lewis and Emily Dickinson to Lily Munster and the Great Pumpkin to reveal the historical, hilarious, and even holy origins of the words we use, even...
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Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American FictionInscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including Russell Leong's Camouflage, Lydia...
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Plain Text: The Poetics of ComputationThis book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers-from electronic books to smart phones-play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen takes up today's strange...
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Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's FamilyHistorical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story...
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