Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Paris Spleen: Little Poems in ProseA modernist classic translated for the twenty-first centuryBetween 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new--and in his own words "dangerous"--hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader...
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Chinese Literature: An IntroductionIn this brief yet thorough introduction to the key features and important names of Chinese literature, Ihor Pidhainy covers Chinese writings from oracle bones to the internet. Contextualizing the literature within political, historical and cultural frames, Prof. Pidhainy also provides a smorgasbord of examples...
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Great War Prostheses in American Literature and CultureDrawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America...
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Djinn CityIndelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in super dense, super chaotic Dhaka. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed to go...
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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black DanceIn her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings. Many learned of Ntozake Shange's ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for...
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ManifestosIn 1925, Huidobro published this collection of manifestos to consolidate his position in the avant-garde in the face of the burgeoning new Surrealist movement and also as a reaction to attacks from one Spanish critic in particular, a member of the Ultraist movement, who...
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A step by step French study guide for beginners - Learn French with short stories, phrases while you sleep, numbers & alphabet in the car, morning medAre you learning French but disappointed at how your progress is going? Are you struggling to find vocab when speaking the language? Are you sick of learning from boring old textbooks? Learning a language can be difficult and it's often tricky to know which...
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Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century AgricultureA detailed study of seventeenth century farming practices and their relevance for today We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even...
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Fellini's Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies *** In Fellini's Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera explores the co-existence and conflict of paganism and Christianity in the works of Federico Fellini. By combining source analysis, cultural history and jargon-free psychoanalytic film theory,...
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Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives MarketThe sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news, with collections from James Baldwin and Arthur Miller fetching record-breaking sums in recent years. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and...
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FatObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the stereotype, fat is...
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Archie's Rivals in Teen Comics, 1940s-1970s: An Illustrated HistoryThis is the first book to comprehensively examine the multitude of non-Archie teen humor comic books, including girls and boys such as Patsy Walker, Hedy Wolfe, Buzz Baxter and Wendy Parker from Marvel; Judy Foster, Buzzy, Binky and Scribbly from DC; Candy from Quality...
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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman RevisedOld rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam and Eve were. This is a lyrical telling of that legend and what happens to Lilith as she encounters...
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Jami'Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-1492) is a culminating figure in Perso-Islamic culture, whose reputation and influence have remained undiminished throughout the eastern Islamic world--the Ottoman empire and Central Asia, Iran, India, China, and the Malay world. Primarily celebrated as a poet, Jami was also an...
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Comics and StuffConsiders how comics display our everyday stuff--junk drawers, bookshelves, attics--as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable--you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed...
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The Century: PoemsWinner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in PoetryA Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020"A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence.In the tradition of witness poetry, The...
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Playing the Hero: Reading the Tain Bo CuailngeIn Playing the Hero, Ann Dooley examines the surviving manuscript versions of the greatest of the early Irish sagas, the Tain Bo Cuailnge (Cattle-Raid of Cooley), and creates a picture of the cultural conditions and literary mind-sets under which medieval scribes recreated the text....
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Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada RevolutionIn 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establishing the People's Revolutionary Government. The United States under President Reagan infamously invaded Grenada in 1983, staying until the New National Party won election,...
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After Poland: A Memoir Because of Primo LeviIn If This Is a Man, Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi wrote an ethical treatise on how to regain humanity after atrocity. His need to write developed at Auschwitz. Upon return to Italy in late 1945, he began to compose his first testimonial work....
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Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for ReadersOne of the South's most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines's unique literary style, depiction of the African American experience, and celebration of the rural South's oral tradition have brought him critical praise and numerous accolades, including a...
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