Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the WestThis is the first major attempt to examine the life and work of Jack Kerouac from the Right, to assess the damage that the Kerouac myth has done in Western culture, and to rescue the real Kerouac from the distortions and misrepresentations that characterize...
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Study Guide to Tender Is the Night and This Side of Paradise by F. Scott FitzgeraldA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, renowned American fiction author. Titles in this study guide include The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and Tender is the Night. As an author of...
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Study Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel ProustA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which scholars have written about more than any other work of the twentieth-century. As a novel of the early 1900s, Remembrance of Things Past contained evocative...
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Study Guide to Paradise Lost and Other Works by John MiltonA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Milton, who decided at a young age that God had called him to be a poet. Titles in this study guide include Paradise Lost, The Sonnets, and Minor...
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The Ground on Which I Stand: 25th Anniversary Edition"What we do now becomes history by which our grandchildren will judge us." August Wilson's words, delivered in a speech at Theatre Communications Group's conference in June 1996, remain as vital and relevant today as they did 25 years ago. Fierce and passionate, The...
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Standing in the Need of PrayerBorrowing the title of a traditional African American hymn, Standing in the Need of Prayer poetically describes the vulnerability of black men and the ongoing injustice they encounter in America. Noted poet, Nikki Giovanni speaks to participants of the Million Man March, Tupac's mother,...
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Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579): An Analyzed Facsimile EditionSpenser's extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance. This volume reassesses it as a material text in relation to book history, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile of the 1579 Calender available...
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Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear StyleNotework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself. Simon Reader pursues this argument in original readings of unpublished writing by prominent Victorians, offering an expansive approach to literary formalism for the twenty-first century. Neither drafts nor diaries, the...
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Radical Hospitality: From Thought to ActionRadical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how radical hospitality happens by opening oneself in narrative exchange to someone or something other than ourselves--by...
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The Puritan Revolution: A Documentary HistoryOriginally published in 1968, the documents collected in this volume (all re-set for ease of reading), trace the history of the Puritan Revolution from its roots in the early seventeenth century to the Restoration. They show how the causes and the course of the...
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Coolidge & Cherkovski: In ConversationPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. Introduction by Patrick James Dunagan. A transcribed conversation between two prolific American poets. Swapping personal stories and anecdotes, Coolidge and Cherkovski offer insight into a wide range of topics including: the New York School, the San Francisco poetry scene of the...
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis BeaumontThis play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood interrupt and finally replace a fatuous love comedy with their...
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From Bayou to Abyss: Examining John Constantine, HellblazerBritish occultist John Constantine elevated Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, and it wasn't long before John had his own spinoff comic titled John Constantine: Hellblazer. This anthology, edited by Rich Handley and Lou Tambone (of Sequart's Somewhere Beyond the Heavens: Exploring Battlestar Galactica), examines the...
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China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690-1770This book explores how a modern English literary identity was forged by its notions of other traditions and histories, in particular those of China. The theorizing and writing of English literary modernity took place in the midst of the famous quarrel between the Ancients...
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Korean Tea Classics by Hanjae Yi Mok and the Venerable Cho-UiMost of the books about tea published across the world in recent years make no mention of the tea produced in Korea. Likewise, people who study the literary texts inspired by tea in earlier centuries usually only know of the works written in China...
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In CodePoetry. IN CODE was born out of Maryann Corbett's years of work for the Minnesota Legislature, with a nonpartisan office that mandated that she maintain a public silence about politics. In poems that go from elegiac to fiery to funny, she examines behind-the-scenes legislative...
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Literature, Music, Theatre?; The Performative Aspect of Rammstein's Musical ActivityThe aim of my work was to show the performative nature of the stage performances of the musical group Rammstein. Due to their amazing nature, the group's shows can be treated as artistic performances. In my dissertation, I will determine whether there is an...
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Learning the Secrets of English Verse: The Keys to the Treasure ChestThis textbook teaches the writing of poetry by examining all the major verse forms and repeating stanza forms in English. It provides students with the tools to compose successful lines of poetry and focuses on meter (including free verse), rhythm, rhyme, and the many...
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The Life of Olaudah EquianoA remarkable account of early slavery and later freedom, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written By Himself, is the 1789 autobiography of former slave Olaudah Equiano. This memoir is a slave narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey all-in-one. His...
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America's First Black Poet; Jupiter Hammon of Long IslandColleges, schools, libraries and military bases in the US and abroad have been searching for ways to celebrate notable persons of color and to provide positive programs to promote racial harmony in our communities. "America's First Black Poet; Jupiter Hammon of Long Island," published...
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