Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967Israel's cultural space is frequently studied as if it were synonymous with the Hebrew-Israeli one. But within the borders of Israel, a fascinating culture was (and continues to be) created in many languages other than Hebrew, reflecting its reality from angles that the makers...
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How to Be Disabled in a PandemicA chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by...
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Hattusili, the Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire: Partner and Rival of Ramesses the GreatThis gripping biography documents the life and reign of Hattusili, one of the most famous and well-documented Hittite rulers. Hattusili ruled over the ancient kingdom of Anatolia (modern Turkey) during the 2nd millennium BC and was a political rival and, at the same time,...
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Gothic Italy: Crime, Science, and Literature After Unification, 1861-1914The Gothic, proliferating across different literary, socio-cultural, and scientific spaces, permeated and influenced the project of Italian nation-building, casting a dark and pervasive shadow on Italian history. Gothic Italy explores the nuances, contradictions, and implications of the conflict between what the Gothic embodies in...
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Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing: A ReassessmentFood and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women's history and creativity. In...
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Fancies Versus FadsIn the essays collected in Fancies versus Fads, G. K. Chesterton positions himself as an assailant of "the nonsense of the world" a sworn enemy of fashionable doctrines and the excesses into which they lead their adherents. While sometimes dismissed as a fogeyish reactionary--an...
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El Infinito En Un Junco (Edici?n Limitada, Cantos Pintados) / Papyrus: The Inven Tion of Books (Limited Edition, Sprayed Edges)Mejor Libro del Siglo XXI seg?n los libreros de Espa?a El ensayo revelaci?n de nuestro tiempoM?s de 500.000 ejemplares vendidosPublicado en m?s de 40 pa?ses PREMIO NACIONAL DE ENSAYO - PREMIO EL OJO CR?TICO - PREMIO DE LA ASOCIACI?N DE LAS LIBRER?AS DE MADRID...
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Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of PlotWhy do some surprises delight--the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip's benefactor is not (and never was ) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our...
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Digital Papyrology III: The Digital Critical Edition of Greek Papyri: Issues, Projects, and PerspectivesIn the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology - intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrological research and a new way of representing our knowledge of the Greek papyri in digital environments - a focal current issue is the digital critical...
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British Romanticism and Prison ReformIn eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century--with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment--did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison,...
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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of AbsenceBlanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
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Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth CenturyHow early Black prison writing shaped Black intellectual movements In this book, Andrea Stone recovers critical, understudied writings from early archives to call into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century. In fact, nearly two centuries before...
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Black Prison Intellectuals: Writings from the Long Nineteenth CenturyRecovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black prison writing from 1795 to 1901.Author: Andrea StonePublisher: University Press of FloridaPublished: 01/14/2025Pages: 218Binding...
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Black Fire--This Time, Volume 2In this follow-up volume in the Black Fire--This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of...
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A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to RomanceA Passion for Passion is a love letter to romance fiction. It celebrates the joyful silliness of books that are written to follow the rules.Alice Fraser has a special place in her heart for the sweeping silliness of romance novels. The journey to reach...
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Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to KafkaAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grotesque. This short prose form challenges the norms of being human and being accepted as such by society in exaggerated and satirical ways. Between the Kaiser's and Hitler's...
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Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to KafkaAnimal, Vegetal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grotesque. This short prose form challenges the norms of being human and being accepted as such by society in exaggerated and satirical ways. Between the Kaiser's and Hitler's...
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Alternative Temporalities: The Emancipatory Power of NarrativeAlternative temporalities have often emerged as a reaction to the normativizing force of time, demonstrating that time can be used as an instrument of power and oppression, but also as a means to resist this very oppression. Alternative Temporalities draws on analyses of modern...
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War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War NorthWhat happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly at...
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Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate CrisisVulnerable Earth is a study of the literature of climate crisis. Shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, the living and the non-living share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability.Author: Pramod K. NayarPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 310Binding...
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