Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Etiquette of Early Northern VerseIn The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet's workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets.This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a...
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Dante's Other Works: Assessments and InterpretationsProminent Dante scholars from the United States, Italy, and the United Kingdom contribute original essays to the first critical companion in English to Dante's "other works."Rather than speak of Dante's "minor works," according to a tradition of Dante scholarship going back at least to...
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Omar Khayyam PoemsThe poems attributed to Omar Khayyam have a universal and timeless philosophical theme: life is a meaningful journey even if brief and uncertain. They inspire an unconstrained free-thinking mindset and a wise realization that guides thinking persons: it is impossible to see the absolute...
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The Us Graphic NovelThis book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art...
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Modernism, Empire, World LiteratureAuthor: Joe ClearyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/17/2021Pages: 326Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.80w x 0.90dISBN: 9781108492355Review Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2022About the AuthorCleary, Joe: - Joe Cleary is Professor of English at Yale University. His earlier books include Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and...
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Lorca After LifeA reflection on Federico García Lorca's life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world "A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca's execution and his unknown resting place, there is not...
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The Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian guide to six Shakespeare playsThis book is a Christian introduction to Shakespeare for high school students and includes analysis, questions, and reviw for six of Shakespeare's most meaningful (and enjoyable) plays."Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, 'a great observer, ' able to see and depict patterns of...
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High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo JournalismHigh White Notes is a critical examination of the writing of Hunter S. Thompson. It is arranged biographically in order to connect life events with literary development. It places the author in his proper literary context by examining those writers whose work he admired...
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Essential DickinsonFrom the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche....Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human...
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The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other EssaysIn his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process. In contrast to a book, a thing we have come to think of as final and achieved, a play...
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Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern EnglandRace, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between...
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal BookPerceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers...
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English Literature for Boys and GirlsFrom the hand of H. E. Marshall, one of the greatest authors of juvenile history comes this introduction to English literature. From early Gaelic tales and Beowulf though to Spenser, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Thackeray, Marshall introduces us to the times and personalities that have...
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The Year in San FernandoAuthor: Michael AnthonyPublisher: Hodder EducationPublished: 07/09/2021Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9781398340466
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Anthony Trollope: A CompanionAnthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be...
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It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia Volume 1The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political...
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Communion of Radicals: The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century AmericaPopular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first literary history of theologically conservative writers who embraced political radicalism, as their...
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Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New WorldWomen, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús...
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Connected History: Essays and ArgumentsA collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history -...
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A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthyA Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor...
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