Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Epic of Cuba Libre: The Mambí, Mythopoetics, and LiberationBetween 1868 and 1898, three generations of Cubans fought to free Cuba from colonialist Spain. More than a century later, no other historical narrative is as beloved as the story of Cuba Libre and the citizen-soldier known as the mambí. In town festivals and...
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Handbook for Literary Analysis Book II: How to Evaluate Prose Fiction, Drama, and PoetryThe Handbook for Literary Analysis: How to Evaluate Prose Fiction, Drama, and Poetry reclaims the metaphor, rhetoric, and literary analysis. It has a high view of the reader, the critic, and the student. This Handbook explains and illustrates a wide range of significant literature....
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Start a Riot!: Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and PoetryWhile the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic...
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Faulkner and MoneyContributions by Ted Atkinson, Gloria J. Burgess, David A. Davis, Sarah E. Gardner, Richard Godden, Ryan Heryford, Robert Jackson, Gavin Jones, Mary A. Knighton, Peter Lurie, John T. Matthews, Myka Tucker-Abramson, Michael Wainwright, Jay Watson, and Michael Zeitlin The matter of money touches a...
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Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding WorldContributions by Christina M. Chica, Kathryn Coto, Sarah Park Dahlen, Preethi Gorecki, Tolonda Henderson, Marcia Hernandez, Jackie C. Horne, Susan E. Howard, Peter C. Kunze, Florence Maätita, Sridevi Rao, Kallie Schell, Jennifer Patrice Sims, Paul Spickard, Lily Anne Welty Tamai, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Jasmine...
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Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban LegendsIn the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when...
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Jeff Lemire: ConversationsIn a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario--his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths...
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Quixotic Memories: Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern SpainThe work of Miguel de Cervantes - one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe - is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes'...
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Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the BookBibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the...
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Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary CriticsNorman Holland was unquestionably the leading 20th-century American psychoanalytic literary critic. Long known as the Dean of American psychoanalytic literary critics, Holland produced an enormous body of scholarship that appeals to both neophytes in the field and advanced researchers, many of whom have been...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinIn "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" the life story of one of the most important figures in American history is recounted. Franklin was more than just a founding father of the country; he was also a prolific writer, tradesman, scientist, diplomat, and philosopher. His...
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The Tacky SouthAs a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen...
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Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic WorldA cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period's philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief...
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The Translator's VisibilityAt the intersection of translation studies and Latin American literary studies, The Translator's Visibility examines contemporary novels by a cohort of writers - including prominent figures such as Cristina Rivera Garza, César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Valeria Luiselli, and Luis Fernando Verissimo - who foreground...
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Many MahābhāratasMany Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in nearly...
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Aeneid. VirgilAuthor: C. Day Lewis, VirgilPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 450Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.16w x 1.18dISBN: 9780199537488
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The Art of George TuskaAuthor: Dewey CassellPublisher: Two Morrows PublishingPublished: 03/14/2005Pages: 125Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.52w x 0.28dISBN: 9781893905405This title is only available via back order
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Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's AnthologySista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women--and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming...
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Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of CareVital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book--by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish--explore the unconscious motions of corporeal...
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The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental DisorderThis study traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth century, hygiene encompassed the myriad attempts to create healthy spaces for life and work amid the pollution, disease, accidents, and noise of industrial...
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