Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Vita NuovaDANTE ALIGHIERI: THE VITA NUOVA Translated by Dante Gabriel RossettiEdited by Cassidy Hughes Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova is his 'Book of Memory', the poetic account of his love for Beatrice Portinari. It is one of the great poetry books of love in world literature....
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Velleius PaterculusA Roman commander's comprehensive history of Rome.The histories of Velleius Paterculus chronicle the story of Rome and Roman culture from the fall of Troy to AD 30. Although his work's title, proem, and opening chapters are lost along with the narrative from Romulus to...
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The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and WritingCritically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives--in often unexpected ways. In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah's Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have...
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The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning in English DramaWhile British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings allow the audience to grasp threats to environments across the globe. In plays from 1682-1799, The Theatres of Eighteenth-Century Weather: Spectacle and Climatological Reckoning...
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The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End TimesIn The Return of the Contemporary, Nicol?s Campisi combines the fields of post-dictatorship studies and environmental humanities to analyze Latin American cultural production in the neoliberal age. Each chapter pairs two authors from different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean who create a...
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The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex: By John FordA scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting to audiences both when...
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The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North AtlanticReveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whiteness The Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction...
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The Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to IshiguroThe Novel and Neuroscience from Dostoevsky to Ishiguro explores how affective neuroscience illuminates the emotional and ethical impact of eight novels written between 1864 and 2018, indicating how Freud's provisional ideas in psychology are now being placed on an organic foundation. An emerging new...
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The Nineteenth-Century Novel and the Pre-Cinematic Imagination: Fragmentation, Animated Movement and the Modern EpistemeThis book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that novelists such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Honor? de Balzac and George Eliot show for several types of pre-cinematic...
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The Language of Trauma in the PsalmsOver the last few decades, the field of trauma studies has shed new light on biblical texts that deal with individual and collective catastrophe. In The Language of Trauma in the Psalms, Danilo Verde advances the conversation, moving beyond the emphasis on healing that...
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The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020Women's creative labour in publishing has often been overlooked. This book draws on dynamic new work in feminist book history and publishing studies to offer the first comparative collection exploring women's diverse, deeply embedded work in modern publishing. Highlighting the value of networks, collaboration,...
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The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language: Plays and CharactersThe Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics - methods of choice for today's historical linguist. This third volume focuses on keywords in Shakespeare's plays. Play keywords are derived by...
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Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical GreeceAuthor: Adrian KellyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 362Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.81dISBN: 9781108840118This title is not returnable
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Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and FreedomIn many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families and obscure the systematic working of racism. Tending to the Past: Selfhood and...
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Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero ComicsAlongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today's most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance. Supervillains are also central to superhero storytelling to the extent that the superhero genre cannot survive without supervillains....
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Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and PedagogyREFERENCE GUIDES TO RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION, edited by Charles Bazerman, Mary Jo Reiff, and Anis Bawarshi STYLE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY conducts an in-depth investigation into the long and complex evolution of style in the study of rhetoric and writing....
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So Much Secret Labor: James Wright and TranslationHow a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry....
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So Much Secret Labor: James Wright and TranslationHow a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry....
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Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, ReappraisalsThis long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the...
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