Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican LiteratureScience Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers "fuse" science and literature...
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Reinventar a los clásicos. Las aventuras de René Zavaleta Mercado en los marxismos latinoamericanosIntensa y militante, la obra del boliviano Ren Zavaleta Mercado (1937-1984) se dirimi en la conversaci n y la confrontaci n con los cl sicos del marxismo, los pensadores que le fueron contempor neos y la realidad que le toc vivir. Preocupado por las...
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ReckoningThe work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues-political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making-now in paperback. The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a...
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Poetry: A Writer's Guide and AnthologyFully revamped and expanded, this second edition offers a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. Mapping out 38 foundational elements of poetry including image, line, point of view, metaphor, movement, and music, authors Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko use...
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Poetics of Cognition: Thinking Through Experimental PoemsPoetics of Cognition investigates the material effects of experimental poetics using new evidence emerging from cognitive science. It asks: How do experimental poems "think" and how do we think through them? Examining experimental modes such as the New Sentence, proceduralism, projective verse, sound poetry,...
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Literature After FeminismRecent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature after Feminism is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures,...
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Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the NahdaIn Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors from the period, including Hassan...
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Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the NahdaIn Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors from the period, including Hassan...
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John Billington, the Plymouth MartyrJohn Billington The Plymouth Martyr is a biography of John Billington, one of the Pilgrims who sailed from England to the New World on the Mayflower. The book provides a detailed look at Billington's life and his impact on the early colonies in America,...
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HoraceIn what questions are scholars of Horace currently interested? What opportunities does this core Roman author offer twenty-first-century critics? This book discusses recent work on Horace by genre, moving from the early Satires through to the late Epistles. It also suggests new scholarly approaches...
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Gifted-ish: Women and Nonbinary Writers on Intelligence, Identity and EducationMuch is made of the test scores, earning power, and innovative contributions of highly intelligent kids, but we rarely ask what it's actually like to be ""gifted."" In a culture obsessed with exceptionalism, sorting by intelligence has become an educational norm, leading thousands of...
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Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His ContemporariesThis book investigates generic change in early modern theatre across multiple genres, unlike much other scholarship, attempting to understand change and innovation in terms of competition within the dramatic field. It draws on the work of Bakhtin and Bourdieu as well as theatre history,...
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Five Centuries of English Verse: (Volume II)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks...
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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and MeAn award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves In Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself....
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Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus' ArgonauticaBy the time the Roman poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in the first century CE, the tale of Jason and his famous ship the Argo had been retold so often it was a byword for poetic banality. Why, then, did Valerius construct his epic Argonautica?...
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DecemberIn the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year.In stories drawn from...
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Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical EditionJoyce's early texts, which informed his later masterpieces, available for the first time in a comprehensive critical edition This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Among Joyce's earliest literary compositions, although published posthumously, the epiphanies...
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Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical EditionJoyce's early texts, which informed his later masterpieces, available for the first time in a comprehensive critical edition This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Among Joyce's earliest literary compositions, although published posthumously, the epiphanies...
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Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary HistoryIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784-1815), and this overseas danger...
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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 Times From the...
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