Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Categories. on Interpretation. Prior AnalyticsThe philosopher's toolkit. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former...
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Catching Chen Qing Ling; The Untamed and Adaptation, Production, and Reception in Transcultural ContextsThe 2019 Chinese drama Ch?n Q?ng L?ng (CQL; translated The Untamed) quickly became a massive phenomenon, drawing millions of viewers in China and beyond. Its resonant story, rich cast of characters, and striking production captured audience attention globally; its paratexts and fandoms helped keep...
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Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx PerformanceProposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-G?mez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex--namely, bottoming--function as allegorical paradigms,...
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Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx PerformanceProposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-G?mez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex--namely, bottoming--function as allegorical paradigms,...
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Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary ImaginationExamining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature.During the Victorian period, new approaches to the interpretation of sacred texts called...
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir"A must for the obsessive reader." Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot A "soul-baring, witty, and slyly provocative"* memoir about reading, writing, and depression (Whiting Foundation) "Bibliophobia: occasionally manifests as an acute, literal fear of books, though more frequently develops as a...
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Before I Let You Go: Life Lessons From An Industry GuruAuthor: Angelo EllerbeePublisher: Hov PublishingPublished: 08/14/2024Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52dISBN: 9781955107235
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Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne RobinsonPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today. In addition to literary elegance, her trilogy of novels (Gilead, Home, and Lila) and her collections of essays offer probing meditations on the Christian faith. Many of these...
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of WarThe player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity...
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An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals--among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid...
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Agricola. Germania. DialogusThe paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was...
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Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth CenturyIn Against Exclusion, Audrey Wu Clark dramatically reframes Asian American resistance via the lives of five early Chinese American public figures. In contrast to later activists who sought to defy stereotypes, Ah Toy, Mary Tape, Wong Chin Foo, Yan Phou Lee, and Yung Wing...
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A Companion to the IliadThose who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served--the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. For these readers, Malcolm M. Willcock...
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You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria RilkeFollowing Rilke's advice to "live the questions," this book invites us to draw upon his startling insights and often unconventional wisdom to see ourselves as ripening, unfolding, and always becoming."This is a book to savor, soaking up the rewards of stories, insights, and provocations...
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Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and SikhismIn academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual practices for lay devotees. To address this gap in knowledge, Harold Coward presents a thematic study of sacred sound as...
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Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant BodiesVictorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation...
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Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story of Black Slavery. with Original Illustrations (Aziloth Books)In 1841, a 33 year-old black carpenter named Simon Northup was living with his wife and children in upstate New York. A well-known fiddle player, he was asked by two white men to accompany them to Washington DC to perform at a show. He...
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The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their ImaginationsTo celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (16 October 1950), the editors of this volume have invited contributions that aim at critically reflecting upon the similarities and, no less importantly, the differences in the...
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The Queen's Wake: A Legendary TaleThe Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry. It focuses on the return of Mary, Queen of Scots to Scotland in 1561 to take personal rule of her kingdom after her years in France. In the poem poets and bards...
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The Dybbuk: A Play in Four ActsThe Dybbuk, regarded as the classic drama of the Yiddish stage, has long frightened yet fascinated audiences throughout the world. Based on Jewish folklore, its dark implications of mysterious, other-worldly forces at work in a quaint and simple village make for gripping, suspenseful theater....
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