Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Prepositions +An indispensable collection of an avant-garde poet's literary essays.Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, published first in 1967 and then in an expanded edition in 1981, was a definitive set of critical statements by Louis Zukofsky, one of the most important poets of the 20th...
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of in Cold BloodRalph F. Voss was a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by "four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives," an unimaginable horror in a...
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Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the CaribbeanDuring the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana's new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean...
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Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His NationIn Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish's...
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The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American WomenDrawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: prose, poetry, one play and a large section of fiction.Author: Helen BaroliniPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.05h x...
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A Reader's Guide to James JoyceFirst published in 1959, William York Tindall's Reader's Guide is still considered to be the best introduction to the complex writings of James Joyce. From Dubliners to Finnegans Wake, Tindall's knowledge is as comprehensive as it is authoritative.Author: William TindallPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 03/01/1995Pages:...
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Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature2013 Winner of the Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, erin Khuê Ninh explores this apparent paradox, locating in the origins...
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Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican DiasporaSince the invasion and colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898, all Puerto Ricans are both American citizens and colonial subjects by birth according to international law. Over a third of this population currently lives in the continental U.S. forming one of the nation's most...
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Why We Read Fiction: Theory of the Mind and the NovelAuthor: Lisa ZunshinePublisher: Ohio State University PressPublished: 03/22/2006Pages: 198Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.59dISBN: 9780814251515Review Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2006 pg. 643This title is only available via back order
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Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous TimesThe calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black...
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Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948William Marston was an unusual man--a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder Woman, the comic that he used to express two of his...
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Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial PeopleWhy do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated,...
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The New Anthology of American Poetry: Modernisms: 1900-1950volume 2Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2 includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American poets writing in the period between 1900 and 1950. The most recognized poets of the era, such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra...
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Black Victorians/Black VictorianaBlack Victorians/Black Victoriana is a welcome attempt to correct the historical record. Although scholarship has given us a clear view of nineteenth-century imperialism, colonialism, and later immigration from the colonies, there has for far too long been a gap in our understanding of the...
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Allen Tate: The Modern Mind and the Discovery of Enduring LoveThis study reconsiders and reassesses the work of Allen Tate as a poet whose themes and expression place him among the most studied and canonical Modernists of the last century. Allen Tate (1899-1979), a former Poet Laureate of the US, although generally regarded during...
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Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: A Reader's CompanionRobert Penn Warren is one of the best-known and most consequential Kentucky writers of the twentieth century and the only American writer to have won three Pulitzers in two different genres. All the King's Men, generally considered one of the finest novels ever written...
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Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She ReadChoice Outstanding Academic Title In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf's modernist "golden age." During these interwar...
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Reading the Modernist BildungsromanThe Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to...
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African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison"Makes a valuable contribution to the ever-widening field of Morrison studies by exploring the intricacies of Morrison's African references, giving critics the ability to make more informed readings of the novels."--Canadian Review of American Studies "A study of African cosmology and epistemology in Morrison's...
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The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing"Writing is spooky," according to Norman Mailer. "There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words." In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with...
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