Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden AgeThe Spanish Golden Age, a cultural narrative that has developed and over four centuries, remains a key element of how Spaniards articulate cultural identities, both within Spain and to the outside world. The Currency of Cultural Patrimony examines the development of this narrative by...
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The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke WhiteThis book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century--a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the...
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The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland"This first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence provides a rare insight into a major literary figure and his one-of-a-kind witness account of jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. Featuring several new attributions, the volume demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's...
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The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and FreedomIn The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women's taste as the engine of liberal...
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Sure Do Wish You'd Get Ye One Of These Here Taters: An Essay on Cormac McCarthy's SuttreeThis is an essay about Cormac McCarthy's Suttree. Originally written for a class taught by David Foster Wallace, this essay includes an index of all scenes and characters, making it a definitive Suttree reference.Author: William K. GillespiePublisher: Spineless BooksPublished: 09/12/2020Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize:...
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Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism BeginsAn account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and makes us...
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Shakespeare and the Making of TheatreA highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying theatricality of Shakespeare's plays and stimulate further performances.Author:...
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Semiotic Ideologies: Patterns of Meaning-Making in Language and SocietyThis book offers a comprehensive exploration of language and semiotic ideologies, focusing on how societies construct meaning through verbal and non-verbal communication. It distinguishes itself by adopting a novel approach that bridges linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology. The research dives into uncharted territory, shedding light...
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Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected PastThe old house burnt to ash. Acres sold to strangers. So many dead...Raised in a family of seven, in a small ramshackle farmhouse without plumbing, award-winning author Debra Di Blasi maps a candid and eloquent memoir of a Midwest childhood both land rich and...
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Sant?, intimit?, et identit? dans la bande dessin?e autobiographique de tradition franco-belgeSanté, intimité, et identité dans la bande dessinée autobiographique de tradition franco-belge examines the ways different autobiographical comic books explore the theme of health, and its influence on identity construction. How do artists represent abstract feelings of pain? How do illnesses influence our sense...
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Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British EmpireHow ordinary forms of writing--including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines--shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages...
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Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in LiteratureThe Bible and theology are contested spaces, battlegrounds where participants guard entrenched beliefs against perceived threats. But literature, observes novelist Salman Rushdie, opens the universe. It expands what we perceive and understand, and ultimately what we are. Writers make our world feel larger and...
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PearlPearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over,...
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Otherworldly Mothering: The Maternal Grammar of Black Women's Writing, 1970-1990Otherworldly Mothering argues that literary works by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara reimagine subjectivity in processual and relational terms through a rewriting of maternal praxis, a technique that unveils the historical continuities between antebellum and neoliberal America....
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Novios de Federico, LosAuthor: Pablo de DalmasesPublisher: AlmuzaraPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 324Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788419387912Language: Spanish
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Nobre Alcorao: PortugueseNobre Alcorao in Portuguese: Translation Nobre Alcorao]. O Alcor o a maior d diva de Deus humanidade e a sua sabedoria de uma esp cie nica, exposto, em termos breves, o prop sito do Livro consiste em ser o recepitor das revela es divinas,...
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Murder in the West End Volume II (hardback): The Plays of Agatha Christie and Her DisciplesDuring the first two decades of the twentieth century, only a few criminous plays premiered in London's West End. The Tragedy of Nan (1908), by John Masefield, is the story of Nan Hardwick, whose father was hung for stealing sheep and she moves in...
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Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.Author: Nicole C. DittmerPublisher: Rlpg/GalleysPublished: 04/08/2024Pages:...
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Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English TranslationDescription Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Dillinger, and Al Capone were all are criminals who robbed and killed, yet they were considered good outlaws, celebrated in sensational newspapers, newsreels, and dime novels of the day, and later in film and television, for their...
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Jane Austen and the Creation of Modern Fiction: Six Novels in "a Style Entirely New"Jane Austen's creative process has been largely unexamined. This book explores her development as a writer: what she adapted from tradition for her needs; what she learned novel to novel; how she used that learning in future works; and how her ultimate mastery of...
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