Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Yasodhara and the BuddhaBy combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman: Yasodhara, the Buddha's wife. Although often marginalized, Yasodhara's narrative here comes...
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Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of MormonIn this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion...
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Understanding BrechtA collection of essays of political philosophy by the renowned mid 20th-century critical theorist and literary critic The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in...
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The WildernessA deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşeg?l Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to...
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The Trans and Non-Binary Hero's Journey: Quests for Empowerment in Science Fiction and FantasyA brave heroine whose quest involves living her true gender. A genderqueer knight who battles the transphobic court to save their prince. Often fearing discovery, the trans hero embarks on adventure, aided by an accepting mentor and other allies, and challenged by transphobic villains...
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The SublimeRelated to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:...
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The Spirit of AristophanesThe Spirit of Aristophanes is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of ancient literature and culture from fifth-century drama to the Roman novel. The essays use an array of approaches that will appeal to scholars and students interested in classical studies, gender and sexuality,...
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The Korean War Novel: Rewriting History from the Civil War to the Post-Cold WarThe Korean War Novel examines the ways that novels written by Korean and Asian American writers have represented the Korean War. By studying the ideological contours of works by Richard E. Kim, Ahn Junghyo, Susan Choi, Ha Jin, Choi In-hun and Hwang Sok-yong, it...
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The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, TypeMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, more widely known as the First Folio, contains thirty-six of the thirty-eight plays attributed in whole or in part to Shakespeare. Published in 1623, it has been the object of continued scholarly focus, while three subsequent folio...
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me: A MemoirSusanna Kaysen, who wrote about her teenage depression in the bestseller Girl, Interrupted, now takes on another taboo: her vagina-which suddenly and inexplicably starts to hurt. And neither Kaysen's cheery gynecologist, nor her internist, nor a laconic "vulvologist" has the cure. An alternative health...
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The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature"In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in...
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The Brothers Grimm: A BiographyThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) published a...
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The Bengal Rose PrincessA tiny girl child with the soul of a Bengal tigress emerges from a rose garden after failing to locate her parents. The emperor names her Princess Rose. The story encompasses love, loss, friendship, and rebirth.Author: Lloyd E. BatemanPublisher: Kinectic Digital PublishersPublished: 06/21/2024Pages: 40Binding...
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2: 1955-1963Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath was...
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Strange Fruit"I go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies." Alvin and Errol can't picture much of a future for themselves....
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Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel ComicsHow superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories. It's no secret that superhero comics and their related media perpetuate a model of a straight, white, male hero at the expense of representing women and other minorities, but other narratives...
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Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England: Mary Sidney Herbert's 'Antonius' and Thomas Kyd's 'Cornelia'This volume gathers together, for the first time, Mary Sidney Herbert's Antonius (1592) and Thomas Kyd's Cornelia (1594), two significant and inter-related responses to Robert Garnier's Roman plays, Marc Antoine (1578) and Corn lie (1572). As a unique diptych the translated plays offer invaluable...
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Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to CoetzeeA critical examination of the "agricultural trap" in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled, itinerant life of hunting and gathering appeared, to many, self-evident. Only recently has the field of anthropology challenged...
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Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to CoetzeeA critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled, itinerant life of hunting and gathering appeared, to many, self-evident. Only recently has the field of anthropology challenged...
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Modern Genre Theory: An Introduction for Biblical StudiesHow a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text.The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware approach to genre. Different conceptions of narrative, poetry, gospel, epistle, wisdom, and apocalyptic texts...
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