Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Narratives of Time and Gender in AntiquityThis volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres.Each chapter in this collection places gender at the center of its exploration of time, and the volume includes time in...
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Shakespeare's Other LanguageShakespeare's last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. These features have sometimes been interpreted as the carelessness of an of an aging dramatist weary of his craft, or justified as folklore motifs,...
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in VerseJames Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a revered African American civil rights leader, diplomat, lawyer, novelist, poet, and songwriter in the Harlem Renaissance. He also coauthored the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black national anthem. God's Trombones, one of Johnson's most...
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in LiteratureA thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the...
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OEdipe RoiThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The World According to Joan DidionA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions"A wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence, flawless language, and the impulse, which drove Didion's finest work, to understand the dreams of...
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Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American PragmatismMono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism argues that gender is best understood as a felt sense of the organization of the human body. Through Japanese aesthetics and American pragmatism, this book argues that re-understanding gender as an...
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Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and BeyondWallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond discovers a previously unacknowledged connection between the poet and the historian. Parkman in his historical narratives served as a source for a variety of poems by Stevens, including some of his more major efforts....
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Semiotic Agency: Science Beyond MechanismThis book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems. We combine mechanistic and non-mechanistic approaches in the analysis of the function and evolution...
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Not All Quiet Before the Storm: A Political Study of the WestNot All Quiet Before the Storm: A Political Study of the West offers a comprehensive political and philosophical critique concerning the increasing popularity of socialism among liberal intellectuals, leftist generations of the young, and even Christian democrats. The author presents a series of extensive...
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Awfully Hilarious: Stories We Never TellThese are the untold tales of our times.This hand-selected crew of emerging writers share brave, true stories that the world needs right now. If you've ever gotten drunk, peed your pants in public, or gone on a bad date, you'll find solace here. This...
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Adapting the Canon: Mediation, Visualization, InterpretationAdapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume explore key questions...
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SELECTED VERSE OF ÉMILE NELLIGAN Québec's great lyric poetNelligan's finest poemsÉmile Nelligan, Canada's first truly modern poet, burst upon the scene as a prodigy creating brilliant lyrical poetry in late 19th-century Montréal for three years before suffering, at age 19, a breakdown that left him in a mental asylum for the rest...
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Stille Kämpfer: RomanStille Kämpfer: Roman, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen...
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Nick Carter Stories No. 146, June 26, 1915: Paying the Price; or, Nick Carter's Perilous VentureNick Carter Stories No. 146, June 26, 1915: Paying the Price; or, Nick Carter's Perilous Venture, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation...
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Schriften 04: Phantasus 1Schriften 04: Phantasus 1, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für aktuelle und zukünftige...
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Studien und Plaudereien im Vaterland. Second SeriesStudien und Plaudereien im Vaterland. Second Series, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für...
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Die Äbtissin von CastroDie Äbtissin von Castro, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für aktuelle und zukünftige...
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Der kleine DämonDer kleine Dämon, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en Format für aktuelle und zukünftige Generationen...
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The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume IIThe Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume II, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary...
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