Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
-
Reading Joyce's UlyssesReissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' includes a new preface taking account of scholarly and critical development since its original publication. It shows how the now important issues of post-colonialism, feminism, Irish Studies and urban culture are addressed within...
- ¥13,307 JPY
- ¥13,307 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Making of Shakespeare's First FolioA revised and updated edition of Shakespeare's First Folio that explains the significance of the iconic publication. The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio offers the first comprehensive biography of the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. In November 1623, the book arrived in the...
- ¥10,510 JPY
- ¥10,510 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Una Habitación Propia / A Room of One's OwnEl ensayo sobre la condición de la mujer que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura y del feminismo. «Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor. --Milena Busquets Considerado uno de los textos fundadores del feminismo moderno, Una habitación propia (1929)...
- ¥3,957 JPY
- ¥3,957 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
NonbinaryThis autotheoretical Element, written in the tense space between feminist and trans theory, argues that movement between 'woman' and 'nonbinary' is possible, affectively and politically. In fact, a nonbinary structure of feeling has been central in the history of feminist thought, such as in...
- ¥7,280 JPY
- ¥7,280 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Foreign Connection: Writings on Poetry, Art and TranslationThe word 'foreign' has gathered hostile associations but its Latin root - foris: a door - is close to the spirit of these writings which explore openings and connections across and within artforms, eras, cultures and languages. McKendrick traces a series of dynamic, often...
- ¥38,536 JPY
- ¥38,536 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Crisis: The Theatre RespondsThis new book by Dr Carol Rocamora (New York University's Tisch School of the Arts) explores the courageous playwrights of the world who used the stage as a platform to address crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. From Bertolt Brecht to present day...
- ¥5,125 JPY
- ¥5,125 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Eastward Ho: Chapman, Jonson and MarstonScholarly and detailed annotations. Provides a thorough sense of the plays background and content. Full and comprehensive introduction.Author: R. W. Van FossenPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 03/11/1999Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.46w x 0.88dISBN: 9780719030925About the AuthorR. W. Van Fossen is Professor of...
- ¥8,115 JPY
- ¥8,115 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation2014 ACKER AWARD WINNER Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation. In this highly entertaining work, Bill...
- ¥10,744 JPY
- ¥10,744 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Vorkosigan CompanionFirst Time in Paperback for the Book That Thousands of Fans of Lois McMaster Bujold and Miles Vorkosigan Have Been Waiting For. Lois McMaster Bujold's best-selling Vorkosigan series is a publishing phenomenon, winning record-breaking sales, critical praise, four Hugo Awards and a Nebula award....
- ¥1,866 JPY
- ¥1,866 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Accustomed to Obedience?: Classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480-294 BceMany histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn't? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in...
- ¥29,194 JPY
- ¥29,194 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Comparing Roman Hellenisms in ItalyThe story of Roman Hellenism--defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power--begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think...
- ¥35,032 JPY
- ¥35,032 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe is part of the Timeless Classics series and comprises every known story penned by the legendary gothic American writer. Poe's name conjures up ideas of murderers and insane people, as well as premature funerals and enigmatic women...
- ¥5,360 JPY
- ¥5,360 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Shakespeare the Bodger: Ingenuity, Imitation and the Arts of the Winter's TaleDrawing inspiration from Robert Greene's deathbed attack on Shakespeare as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers," The Bodger (Elizabethan variant of "botcher," "mender," "patcher") argues that Shakespeare's dramas are compositions of "shreds and patches" pieced together by a mind of extraordinary synthetic acuity....
- ¥40,678 JPY
- ¥40,678 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Companion to Javier MaríasA detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías'...
- ¥13,662 JPY
- ¥13,662 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017From one of the world's greatest modern writers: collected here is some of Martin Amis's best nonfiction work from over two decades, ranging from politics and sports to celebrity, America, and literature. "Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph...
- ¥4,205 JPY
- ¥4,205 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Women's Literary Education, C. 1690-1850The essays in this volume reveal the complex, various, sometimes contradictory, and often significant ways in which female literary authors interrogated and advanced educational philosophy and practice during the long eighteenth century, reaching back to the last decade of the seventeenth century and forward...
- ¥46,223 JPY
- ¥46,223 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo CampbellMichigan Salvage is the first scholarly collection on celebrated writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, the author of two novels and three short story collections, including National Book Award finalist American Salvage (2009). Her writing captures a diverse and bustling rural America, brimming with complex characters...
- ¥15,549 JPY
- ¥15,549 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
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...
- ¥12,652 JPY
- ¥12,652 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Book about Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's UlyssesTo celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated...
- ¥7,004 JPY
- ¥7,004 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany: On fireAn examination of the largely forgotten anti-war writing from West Germany spurred by the Vietnam War. Though the Vietnam War did not directly involve West Germany, it was nonetheless a decisive catalyst for the era's wider protest movements in that country, and it gave...
- ¥17,517 JPY
- ¥17,517 JPY
- Unit price
- per