Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, HawA perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings.Author: William F. RussellPublisher: HarmonyPublished: 01/28/1992Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.16h...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionIn 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture...
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The Book Lover's Journal: My Personal Reading RecordCalling all book lovers! Here is the reading journal youve always wanted. At last, a place to record the books youve read. Months and years from now, this journal will help you instantly recall long-forgotten details of your reading experience. This is also the...
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Working Lives in Ancient RomeThis book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions...
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Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the TheaterLook out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. "Riveting . . . a double-barreled salvo that hits two bull's-eyes." --The New York Times Book ReviewThis dazzling study of the three operas that Giuseppe Verdi adapted from...
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Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural PoetryA multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary...
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Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American ArtEndlessly pursued but ever elusive, Moby-Dick roams freely throughout the American imagination. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville's masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array of book illustrations, prints, comics, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and even architectural designs. Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Unpainted...
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Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary ClassicsTrolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies, by looking at literature from ancient Greece to the 1980s. Trolling is the most controversial genre of writing to have risen to prominence in the 21st...
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The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic FantasyThe Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and philosophy. Although Fantasy Fiction is generally defined by its impossibility, Fantasy Fiction not an illogical form. It is, in fact,...
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These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA PhotobooksThe story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its economic challenges. In time, the project...
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The Life of William Collins, PoetEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.The Life of William Collins, Poet presents a much-needed biographical study of William Collins based on archival research. Collins's work has long been considered central to understanding the development of English...
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The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943: Last Train from JerusalemActor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s and Second World War. Haggard was born in Guatemala City in 1911, the son of a British colonial officer - who was...
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The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern TheologyThree Essays on C. S. Lewis and RomanticismMany readers have heard C. S. Lewis's logical arguments for the Christian faith. Yet throughout his wide-ranging study and writing, Lewis often began with experience, intuition, and religious feeling rather than dogmatic assertions. The most profound questions...
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The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989-2022The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom--formally, thematically, and spiritually Since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian poetry has exuded a powerful awareness of freedom, both aesthetic and political. No longer confined to the cultural...
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The Cardboard House by Martín Adán: A new translation by José Garay Boszeta"He is so eclectic and heretical, that he reconciles us all in a theosophically cosmic and monistic synthesis" - Jos Carlos Mari tegui.Originally published in Per in 1928 to great acclaim, The Cardboard House was clearly destined to become a classic. Written during Mart...
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The Cambridge History of Queer American LiteratureAuthor: Benjamin KahanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/08/2024Pages: 924Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.30w x 2.10dISBN: 9781108843454
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The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American LiteratureAfrican American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping...
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Teaching "Beowulf": Practical ApproachesBeowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon's barrow for...
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Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-RightReveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and--by extension--the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with...
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Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish FictionSpecters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural expresses the fears of complex societies beset by dizzying change and perceived decline. Throughout the nineteenth century, amid governmental upheavals and imperial losses,...
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