Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Dear Intern: Workplace Blunders, Mishaps, and Major Disasters from Professionals Who Have Seen (and Done) It AllEveryone makes mistakes--especially in their first job. Cringe and commiserate with the everyday missteps and epic workplace screwups in this collection of self-confessed blunders from disaster-prone-yet-good-intentioned interns finding their footing. All professionals know that detours and mishaps are an essential rite of passage en...
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Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a ChordThe first craft guide to the lyric essay form, this book combines hybrid craft essays that embody the key elements discussed, with more traditional craft essays that review relevant lyric theory, craft and history. An orientation to a form that is critical and creative,...
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Classical Hollywood, American Modernism: A Literary History of the Studio SystemClassical Hollywood, American Modernism charts the entwined trajectories of the Hollywood studio system and literary modernism in the United States. By examining the various ways Hollywood's industry practices inflected the imaginations of authors, filmmakers, and studios, Jordan Brower offers a new understanding of twentieth-century...
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Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film StudiesWatching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. They made brief appearances (think of Mafia boss Marlon Brando gently stroking a cat in a scene from The Godfather);...
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Christianity and Comics: Stories We Tell about Heaven and HellThe Bible has inspired Western art and literature for centuries, so it is no surprise that Christian iconography, characters, and stories have also appeared in many comic books. Yet the sheer stylistic range of these comics is stunning. They include books from Christian publishers,...
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Catholic Prayers for Seniors: A collection of 100 original Short Prayers in Large Print, Easy to Read. A book of Catholic Prayers perfect for SeniorHave you ever imagined how difficult it is to want to practice your faith and not be able to? Whether because your vision is no longer the best, or because your head no longer helps you read huge texts, as you get older, your...
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Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldBusiness News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, 'business news', within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scholars from a range of disciplines, which span...
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Behind the Looking-Glass: Reflections on the Myth of Lewis Carroll"Behind the Looking-Glass" offers a fresh perspective in the ongoing, contemporary deconstruction of the Carroll Myth. Through rigorous examination of numerous myths that have been hitherto unquestioned, Ackerman skilfully positions Lewis Carroll in the theological and philosophical contexts of his time. She uncovers a...
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Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: Four EssaysThe aim of this volume is to give the general reader an introduction to the richest works of the great masters of Persian literature so that they can become better acquainted with this symbolic, mystical and sometimes-- to the uninitiated-- obscure literary world. Four...
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Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and LiteratureAuthor: Charles Bauldelaire, Charles P. BaudelairePublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 10/01/1992Pages: 460Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.81h x 5.90w x 0.90dISBN: 9780140446067
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A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary ShelleyIn 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary...
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ArtfulAli Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne's College,...
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A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to ArendtWhy melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewal Melancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melancholia...
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A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry"Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved,...
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An Inspector Calls: Essay Writing Guide for GCSE (9-1)So you now know the play - but how do you structure your essay? This clean & simple new guide from Accolade Press will walk you through how to plan and structure essay responses to questions on J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls. By...
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American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print CulturesThe study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation--New England is a good example--D. Berton Emerson argues the same...
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Almond Blossoms and BeyondThe first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the...
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Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The English Language of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide - Volume 2: Checklists and AppendicesAlice in a World of Wonderlands: The English-Language Editions of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide is a two-volume set; this is Volume 2 (Checklists and Appendices). Volume 1 (Essays and Illustrations) is available separately. This is a companion to the 2015 three-volume Alice...
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Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The English Language of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide - Volume 1: Essays and IllustrationsAlice in a World of Wonderlands: The English-Language Editions of the Four Alice Books Published Worldwide is a two-volume set; this is Volume 1 (Essays and Illustrations). Volume 2 (Checklists and Appendices) is available separately. This is a companion to the 2015 three-volume Alice...
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A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan's Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850 and A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920. The present work focuses on the years in which bourgeois...
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