Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
-
Sowing SeedsHow and why did Minnesota, distant from both dream coasts, become a literary mecca? Why not Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St Louis, or Cleveland? What made the Twin Cities fertile ground for the birth and growth of the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota Center for...
- $56.91 AUD
- $56.91 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Selected Poems of Anthony HechtAlongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series. Hecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World War II, participated in...
- $57.97 AUD
- $57.97 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Science Fiction and the Historical Novel: Days of Future PastsIf you woke to realize that you could rewrite your yesterday without knowing the kind of tomorrow it would grant you, would you do it? Are the authors of our destiny working with an outline or spit-balling confusing plotlines? Since the past changes possible...
- $647.14 AUD
- $647.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Russian Futurism: A History"Forty years after its original publication, Vladimir Markov's Russian Futurism: A History remains the classic in its field. Its learned account of Russian avant-garde poetics with respect to various forms and genres-poems, plays, artist's books, manifestos-is still the first I turn to when I...
- $96.63 AUD
- $96.63 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Recombinant TheoryRecombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Working with printed pages and scissors, Joel Katelnikoff applies literal cut-up techniques to the complete works of ten contemporary poet-theorists: Annharte, Charles Bernstein,...
- $147.51 AUD
- $147.51 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their ChallengesThe opening of classified documents from the Soviet era has been dubbed the "archival revolution" due to its unprecedented scale, drama, and impact. With a storyteller's sensibility, Cristina Vatulescu identifies and takes on the main challenges of reading in these archives. This transnational study...
- $131.14 AUD
- $131.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and MelvilleAnalyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows how their styles are not merely ornamental but fundamental to building their own temporalities. By capturing the temporal dimensions in Wordsworth's The Prelude, Richardson's Clarissa, Flaubert's "Un Coeur Simple,"...
- $431.43 AUD
- $431.43 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Paratexts: Thresholds of InterpretationParatexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that mediate between book, author and reader: titles, forewords and publishers' jacket copy form part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, G rard...
- $103.51 AUD
- $103.51 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through SynesthesiaTreatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes' descriptions of colors seen in connection with music, for example, are thought to differ fundamentally from common expressions that rely on transpositions...
- $131.14 AUD
- $131.14 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through SynesthesiaTreatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes' descriptions of colors seen in connection with music, for example, are thought to differ fundamentally from common expressions that rely on transpositions...
- $450.86 AUD
- $450.86 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic LiteratureIn late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers exploring Britain's...
- $102.26 AUD
- $102.26 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital FictionWinner of the 2023 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature Digital fiction has long been perceived as an experimental niche of electronic literature. Yet born-digital narratives thrive in mainstream culture, as communities of practice create and share digital fiction, filling in...
- $172.34 AUD
- $172.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
MoebiusJean Giraud (1938-2012) started drawing comics in the late 1950s for a variety of French comics magazines. Under his real name, he found success in 1963 with the western series Blueberry, written by Jean-Michel Charlier and published in Pilote magazine. In the 1970s, he...
- $51.77 AUD
- $51.77 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640During the 1630s, more than 14,000 people sailed from Britain bound for New England, constituting what has come to be known as the Great Migration. This book offers the most extensive study of these emigrants ever undertaken. Focusing on 2,000 individuals who moved from...
- $159.40 AUD
- $159.40 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave BarryNow in paperback from the Pulitzer Prize winner, the hilarious New York Times-bestselling exploration of what generations can teach one another--or not. During the course of his life, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom, and he is eager to pass it on. Among...
- $66.26 AUD
- $66.26 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary MarketLife Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market begins from the premise that nineteenth-century life writing circulated in a market, in material and discursive forms determined substantially by the desires of publishers, readers, editors, printers, booksellers and the many other craftsmen and tradesmen who collaborated...
- $512.31 AUD
- $512.31 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Le Yiddish, l'Inconscient, Les LanguesSi le yiddish est en train de dispara?tre, vers o? se dirige cette disparition demandait avec angoisse le po?te yiddish Avrom Sutzkever. La question d'une disparition potentielle du yiddish est d?clin?e dans des oeuvres litt?raires, des t?moignages, et des enqu?tes psychanalytiques en une multitude...
- $504.77 AUD
- $504.77 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
John Dryden Selected PoemsA new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. In his lifetime, John Dryden gained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order,...
- $66.26 AUD
- $66.26 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Indiscipline: Reading Collaboratively Written Native American AutobiographyIn the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role for the first time with...
- $135.69 AUD
- $135.69 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Indiscipline: Reading Collaboratively Written Native American AutobiographyIn the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role for the first time with...
- $427.11 AUD
- $427.11 AUD
- Unit price
- per
