Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Sorrows of an Exile: TristiaIn AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded...
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Tunnel of MirrorsRachel Isaacson, spirited, otherworldly and haunted, is born into a rigidly Old World family in New York's Lower East Side. Hungry for independence, Rachel enters a marriage of convenience with violent consequences. Across the Atlantic, storyteller, fiddler and cliff climber Ciaran McMurrough is raised...
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Literature and Film from East Europe's Forgotten Second World: Essays of InvitationCzechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces of literature and cinema from this largely forgotten "Second World," as well as by the...
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Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American FictionUnfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction presents Islamophobia as a manifestation of racism in literary texts to understand American perspective of Islam and Muslims. By deconstructing selected literary works of Lorrain Adams, John Updike and Don Delillo within Fredrickson's notion of racism as scavenger...
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British Romanticism and PeaceThis is the first book to bring perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. Particularly significant is that field's attention not only to the work of anti-war protest, but more purposefully to considerations of...
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Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human IdentityThis book presents Czeslaw Milosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive "biologization" of...
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021 Barbara Pym became beloved as one of...
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Plutarch: Volume 47Author: Geert RoskamPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/11/2021Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.10h x 8.30w x 0.40dISBN: 9781009108225About the AuthorRoskam, Geert: - Geert Roskam is professor of Greek Studies at the University of Leuven. He is the author of many articles and edited volumes on...
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Gogol's Crime and Punishment: An Essay in the Interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead SoulsThis monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel's meaning by meticulously...
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Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of FlightThis volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries...
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Looking at PersiansAeschylus' Persiansis unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persiansexamines how Aeschylus responded...
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Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life StoriesThe first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularity of children's biographies and how they engage with the biggest issues of our time: environmental change, health crises, education, and children's personal and political development....
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Semiotics of the Christian Imagination: Signs of the Fall and RedemptionThe semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the...
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The Poet and Existence: Text Contents and the Interaction of Reality, Myths and Symbols in Hatif Janabi's PoetryPublisher: Jagiellonian University PressPublished: 02/28/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788323350088
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Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the MassesThe legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs:...
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All Fools: George ChapmanOf all the poets Francis Meres names in his famous Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), just two rate a mention as being both 'our best for tragedy' and 'the best poets for comedy' William Shakespeare and George Chapman. All Fools, written in 1599, is...
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Alfred, Lord TennysonTennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'...
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Late Modernism and the Poetics of PlaceThis monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modernism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modernism tend to regard it as an inter-war or mid-century...
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Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture: Junctures of Time, Space, Self and PoliticsAcross four parts of exploratory, creative and speculative essays, this book provides provocative frameworks and readings of canonical and non-canonical literature. The essays cover off-the-map places, warped historical chronologies, excessive selves, unlikely meetings and systemic incommensurability. Collectively they define original methods, categories and terrains...
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Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010This book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.Author: Rebecca KosickPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 05/17/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.21h...
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