Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Rilke AlphabetUlrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet will surprise and delight established fans of Rilke, intrigue newcomers, and convince all readers of the power of poetry to penetrate the mysteries and confusion of our world. The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his...
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Hart Crane's 'The Bridge': An Annotated EditionHart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics-- a charge that became conventional wisdom--this panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of the...
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This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global FormIn This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature coalesced into its current form in 1989, an event marked by the convergence of three major trends:...
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Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial OptionsDuring the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter...
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Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of ShakespeareShakesqueer puts the most exciting queer theorists in conversation with the complete works of William Shakespeare. Exploring what is odd, eccentric, and unexpected in the Bard's plays and poems, these theorists highlight not only the many ways that Shakespeare can be queered but also...
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Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies & Early American LiteratureThe encounter between European and native peoples in the Americas is often portrayed as a conflict between literate civilization and illiterate savagery. That perception ignores the many indigenous forms of writing that were not alphabet-based, such as Mayan pictoglyphs, Iroquois wampum, Ojibwe birch-bark scrolls,...
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Ralph Ellison: Emergence of GeniusAuthor, intellectual, and social critic, Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was a pivotal figure in American literature and history and arguably the father of African American modernism. Universally acclaimed for his first novel, Invisible Man, a masterpiece of modern fiction, Ellison was recognized with a stunning...
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Glottal Stop: 101 PoemsRich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time.Winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry (2001)Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field...
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The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch--AngoulemeA keystone text in literary theory and science fictionThe American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch--"Angouleme" was first published in 1978 to the intense interest of science fiction readers and the growing community of SF scholars. Recalling Nabokov's...
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A Nomad Poetics: EssaysPowerful essays on the state and aims of contemporary poetry."The days of anything static--form, content, state--are over," declares poet and translator Pierre Joris in A Nomad Poetics, his first collection of critical essays. Joris maps the success and limitations of contemporary avant-garde poetics, from...
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Prepositions +An indispensable collection of an avant-garde poet's literary essays.Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays, published first in 1967 and then in an expanded edition in 1981, was a definitive set of critical statements by Louis Zukofsky, one of the most important poets of the 20th...
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of in Cold BloodRalph F. Voss was a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by "four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives," an unimaginable horror in a...
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Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the CaribbeanDuring the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana's new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean...
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Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His NationIn Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish's...
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The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American WomenDrawing on rare sources and archival material, Helen Barolini has here collected 56 works by Italian American women writers. The volume features: prose, poetry, one play and a large section of fiction.Author: Helen BaroliniPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.05h x...
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A Reader's Guide to James JoyceFirst published in 1959, William York Tindall's Reader's Guide is still considered to be the best introduction to the complex writings of James Joyce. From Dubliners to Finnegans Wake, Tindall's knowledge is as comprehensive as it is authoritative.Author: William TindallPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 03/01/1995Pages:...
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Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature2013 Winner of the Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude, erin Khuê Ninh explores this apparent paradox, locating in the origins...
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Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican DiasporaSince the invasion and colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898, all Puerto Ricans are both American citizens and colonial subjects by birth according to international law. Over a third of this population currently lives in the continental U.S. forming one of the nation's most...
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Why We Read Fiction: Theory of the Mind and the NovelAuthor: Lisa ZunshinePublisher: Ohio State University PressPublished: 03/22/2006Pages: 198Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.59dISBN: 9780814251515Review Citation(s): Choice 12/01/2006 pg. 643This title is only available via back order
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Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous TimesThe calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black...
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