Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical MattersIn Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or...
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Imperium in ImperioA new critical edition of Sutton Griggs's turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics. Sutton E. Griggs's first novel, originally published in 1899, paints a searing picture of the violent enforcement of disfranchisement and Jim Crow racial segregation. Based...
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Marylin: A Novel of PassingOffers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow, with relevance to today's Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. Marylin, a novel by the Austrian writer Arthur Rundt about a mixed-race woman passing...
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James Agee in Context: New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical EssaysIt's difficult to overestimate the impact of the many new works by James Agee uncovered and published in the last twenty years. These previously unknown primary works have, in turn, encouraged a parallel explosion of critical evaluation and reevaluation by scholars, to which James...
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World War I in Irish Art and Literature: Lost Voices, 1915-1939Focusing on Ireland's literary and artistic response to World War I, this book explores works from a range of perspectives that intervened in Irish political and cultural discourse. Works such as Patrick MacGill's novel The Amateur Army (1915), John Lavery's Daylight Raid from my...
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A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles OlsonThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Blake's Human Form DivineThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Studies in Chinese Literary GenresThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Post-War Francophone DramaSamuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart...
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A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque NovelWritten by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired. The...
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the MindDickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode, those moments--from free indirect discourse to first-person narration--in which...
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Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery LiteratureAbolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature.Author: Pia WiegminkPublisher: BrillPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 348Binding Type: HardcoverISBN:...
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Openness in Medieval EuropeThis volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. Bringing together a range of disciplines and perspectives, it identifies and uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even...
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La traduzione latina del isocrateo di Guarino VeroneseQuesto lavoro ha per oggetto la versione latina del Nicocles isocrateo eseguita da Guarino Veronese e dedicata a Leonello d'Este. La sezione introduttiva consta di due parti: nella prima si contestualizza il Nicocles all'interno della produzione isocratea e se ne approfondisce la fortuna in...
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The Age of NightmareHistorian Jeremy Black is comprehensive, as ever, but in his treatment of the British Gothic novel his greatest service is the preservation of the detail--namely, the human impetus behind art that is often undervalued. Gothic novelists were purposeful, thoughtful, and engaged questions and feelings...
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The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century AmericaHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society The Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas...
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Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in ShakespeareThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century LiteratureThis collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editions--such as California's Works of John Dryden, the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, and the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson--this book...
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Resurrecting Jane de la Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle ÉpoqueThis engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudère (née Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France's Belle Époque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudère adapted her persona to shifting literary trends...
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Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: EssaysWritten by the preeminent Fitzgerald biographer and literary critic Scott Donaldson, this book presents a fresh, insightful exploration of the war between the sexes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional and autobiographical writings.The volume opens with a close reading of Tender Is the Night, in...
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