Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and CultureDressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism, and contemplation. Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that...
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Legacies of the Stone Guest: The Don Juan Legend in Russian LiteratureThe story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely inspirational, spin on the tale. Published in...
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Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exemplifying a lack of originality and sensibility in the period's scientific literature-the very qualities that such literature had...
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Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial LouisianaIn 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there...
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A gaia ciência - literatura e música popular no BrasilCadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. The critic José Miguel Wisnik has become a reference for the insertion of the analysis of popular...
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The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi MoviesGeek-culture expert Ryan Britt takes us behind the pages and scenes of the science-fiction phenomenon Dune, charting the series' life from cult sci-fi novels to some of the most visionary movies of all time. Using original, deep-access reporting, extensive research, and insightful commentary, The...
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Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in WhitefaceWHAT IF JAY GATSBY IS A BLACK MAN PASSING AS A WHITE ONE? "Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface" expounds upon the thesis that Jay Gatsby, the much beloved hero of "The Great Gatsby", is a man of mixed black and white parentage...
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On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the UsIn America, censorship surges in periods of demographic and political change. Its primary purpose is to silence challenges to an established elite or norm. Today, censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities, the better...
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Rumors of Revolution: Song, Sentiment, and Sedition in Colonial LouisianaIn 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a century later, there...
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Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black FleshThis book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed. Author:...
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What Barfield Thought: An Introduction to the Work of Owen BarfieldAs interest in Owen Barfield grows, we aim to meet the need for a scholarly introduction to his thought. Our primary purpose is to present an overview, analysis, and synthesis of Barfield's most salient ideas in a manner that will be of interest to...
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Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American CanonContemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly dramatic for writers of color. Even as...
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War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in LebanonWar Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces...
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Hero Gets Girl!: The Life & Art of Kurt SchaffenbergerRead the story of the preeminent Lois Lane artist and important early Captain Marvel artist who brought a touch of humor and whimsy to super-hero comics! This profusely illustrated biography covers Kurt's life from his entry into comics in the 1940s to his passing...
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The Spiritual Couplets of RumiJalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi Mevlana/Mawlana ("our master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 - 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan. Rumi's...
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Noah's ArkiveA timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah from a children's bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of...
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Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us about Digital Writing and RhetoricWinner of the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Sites of Translation illustrates the intricate rhetorical work that multilingual communicators engage in as they translate information for their communities. Blending ethnographic and empirical methods from multiple disciplines, Laura Gonzales provides methodological examples of...
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Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of JustinianA unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of Justinian Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and...
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Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All MeansFrom the host of NPR affiliate's Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture.Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it's...
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Italian Gothic: An Edinburgh CompanionThis companion constitutes the first, systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic. Through an interdisciplinary, trans-medial approach that encompasses prose fiction, poetry, journalism, film, music, and comics, it explores the varied and complex metamorphoses of the Gothic in Italy from the late eighteenth century to...
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