Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian BargainA devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond ... From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain--the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power--has exerted a...
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Critical Forms: Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750-2020Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures,...
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Christina Stead's the Man Who Loved Children: BookmarkedCelebrated by writers including Jonathan Franzen, who said that "[t]his crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century," The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. The harrowing portrait of a...
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A Silent Language: The Nobel LectureThe essential lecture delivered by the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Literature, published for the first time in a collectible edition."If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening," says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language,...
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An Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Why We Can't WaitMartin Luther King's policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the treatment of...
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A History of the Harlem RenaissanceThe Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and...
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Visitors to Verona: Lovers, Gentlemen and AdventurersEven before the advent of mass tourism, Verona was a popular destination for travellers, including those undertaking the popular 'Grand Tour' across Europe. In this book, Caroline Webb compares the experiences of travellers from the era of Shakespeare to the years following the incorporation...
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The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music RevolutionHow a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music. In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel...
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The Oxford Concise Companion to English LiteratureBased on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised alphabetical entries give unrivaled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. The...
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The Literary Life of YājñavalkyaSteven E. Lindquist is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Director of Asian Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the editor of Religion and Identity in South Asia: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle.Author: Steven E....
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The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YoutubeInfluencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation. Influencers are...
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The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our SpeciesFacing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for...
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The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical Approach to the Journey to the West in KoreaThe Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling challenges many established truths about popular literary classics by presenting an analysis of sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West, a set which includes novels and poems, as well as films, comics, paintings, and dance performances...
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The Deep MurmurThe author of over 150 books in various genres, the French writer Renaud Camus is perhaps best known as the man who coined the "Great Replacement," his phrase to describe the sweeping demographic changes now transforming Europe and its diasporas throughout the world. In...
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The Darkest Lullaby: A Dark Nanny AnthologyThe Darkest Lullaby is an anthology full of suspense and horror. You'll not want to miss this heart-pounding collection if you loved Survive the Night by Riley Seger, works by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, or American Horror Story.Six authors come together to...
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The Best of Friedrich NietzscheThis collection contains the most famous novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ: A...
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Teaching a Stone to TalkHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.Author: Annie DillardPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 06/13/2016Pages: 178Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.45dISBN: 9780062650528
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Self EmpunishmentSelf Empunishment contains 34 conversations with self-reliant, self-employed, and otherwise self-motivated musicians, technicians, and artists. The interviews, conducted by Brian Walsby, are revealing discussions about what has led these artists to where they are now, what choices have guided their journey, why they do...
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Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and PrayersThe first English translation of Petrarch's Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the "Father of Humanism."Throughout Petrarch's work, there is an undercurrent of tension between the secular and the sacred. In this captivating new translation of the Psalms...
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Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis SingerAuthor: Isaac Bashevis SingerPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 05/14/2024Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.10w x 0.90dISBN: 9780691259239About the AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of many novels, short story collections, memoirs, and children's books, including Gimpel the Fool and Other...
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