Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948William Marston was an unusual man--a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder Woman, the comic that he used to express two of his...
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Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial PeopleWhy do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated,...
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The New Anthology of American Poetry: Modernisms: 1900-1950volume 2Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2 includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American poets writing in the period between 1900 and 1950. The most recognized poets of the era, such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra...
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Black Victorians/Black VictorianaBlack Victorians/Black Victoriana is a welcome attempt to correct the historical record. Although scholarship has given us a clear view of nineteenth-century imperialism, colonialism, and later immigration from the colonies, there has for far too long been a gap in our understanding of the...
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Allen Tate: The Modern Mind and the Discovery of Enduring LoveThis study reconsiders and reassesses the work of Allen Tate as a poet whose themes and expression place him among the most studied and canonical Modernists of the last century. Allen Tate (1899-1979), a former Poet Laureate of the US, although generally regarded during...
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Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: A Reader's CompanionRobert Penn Warren is one of the best-known and most consequential Kentucky writers of the twentieth century and the only American writer to have won three Pulitzers in two different genres. All the King's Men, generally considered one of the finest novels ever written...
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Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She ReadChoice Outstanding Academic Title In this second volume of her acclaimed study of Virginia Woolf 's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry traces the English writer's life through the thirteen diaries she kept from 1918 to 1929--what is often considered Woolf's modernist "golden age." During these interwar...
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Reading the Modernist BildungsromanThe Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to...
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African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison"Makes a valuable contribution to the ever-widening field of Morrison studies by exploring the intricacies of Morrison's African references, giving critics the ability to make more informed readings of the novels."--Canadian Review of American Studies "A study of African cosmology and epistemology in Morrison's...
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The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing"Writing is spooky," according to Norman Mailer. "There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words." In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with...
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The Comedy of Errors"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me."--The Comedy of Errors Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this raucous story of mistaken identity and family--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including...
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The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind the Little PrinceIn the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exup ry left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. The Tale of...
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The Case of Peter Pan: Or the Impossibility of Children's FictionPeter Pan, Jacqueline Rose contends, forces us to question what it is we are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a preface, written for this edition, Rose considers some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's...
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Selected Prose 1909-1956In making this selection, writes William Cookson in his introduction to this paperback edition of early and out-of-print writings, my aim has been to show the unity of Ezra Pound's concern. The sixty-six pieces in Pound's Selected Prose 1909-1965 are arranged thematically, and while...
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E.M. Forster: Critical Guidebook"The modern novel in its most cogent and permanent form"--this has been the achievement of E. M. Forster; his masterpiece, A Passage to India, belongs with perhaps three or four other works in English at the pinnacle of literary craftsmanship in this century. Yet...
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Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World Through Children's BooksThis is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published...
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Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy LandMelville's long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville's advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos and almost 18,000 lines...
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Eugene Jolas: Critical Writings, 1924-1951Dividing his youth between the United States and the bilingual Alsace-Lorraine, Eugene Jolas (1894-1952) flourished in three languages. As an editor and poet, he came to know the major writers and artists of his time and enjoyed a pivotal position between the Anglo-American and...
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Richard Rolle: The English Works...a milestone in American religious publishing. New Catholic World Richard Rolle: The English Works translated, edited and introduced by Rosamund S. Allen preface by Valerie M. Lagorio If you wish to be on good terms with God, and have his grace direct your life,...
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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular LiteratureOriginally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture....
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