Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Hedda Gabler and Other PlaysA collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theater A Penguin Classic One of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the...
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Love's Labor's LostThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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The Miser and Other Plays: A New SelectionThis volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to...
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Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of TermsThe classic reference work--an invaluable sourcebook for poets and readersAuthor: Babette DeutschPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 04/21/2009Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.34w x 0.54dISBN: 9780064635486Review Citation(s): ALA Ref Srces for Small/Med Li 01/01/2000 pg. 266
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How Shakespeare Changed EverythingNearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever little book, Esquire columnist...
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The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls WilderA testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore's exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today's women how to best tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence, grace, vitality and aplomb. This collection of unforgettable characters--including Anne...
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Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a MockingbirdTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird, filmmaker Mary Murphy has interviewed prominent figures--including Oprah, Anna Quindlen, and Tom Brokaw--on how the book has impacted their lives. These interviews are compiled in Scout, Atticus, and Boo, the...
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The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic CaseFrom award-winning and internationally acclaimed author, Batya Gur, comes a hair-raising mystery in which Israeli investigator Michael Ohayon's detective skills are put to the ultimate test.When Dr. Eva Neidorf is found dead on the morning that she is to give a lecture to the...
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Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other CalamitiesFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium.Her novels are read and adored by millions...
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Dr Johnson and MR SavageA classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright...
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The Giggle-a-Day Joke BookA jokebook written by children in conjunction with Child of Achievement Awards with celebrity jokes from John Major, Gloria Hunniford, Jonny Searle, Matthew Kelly and others.A new collection of jokes, all submitted by children who have won Child of Achievement Awards. Awards are given...
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The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth CenturyFor many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first book in English on the subject,...
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Graffiti On My WallDr. Seema Sinha is an Associate Professor in English. At present, she is working as Head of the University Dept. of English, Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal University, Dhanbad. She is also the Dean of Humanities and a Member of the University Senate. She has...
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Formas Precarias En Las Literaturas Hispánicas del Siglo XXILas escrituras del presente son precarias porque así lo es el tiempo que las alumbra, complejo e inestable. Bajo la pretensión de radiografiar las principales tendencias de la literatura hispánica contemporánea, el presente volumen reúne trece trabajos que atienden específicamente a sus elementos formales....
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Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern LaborMedieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever--thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect with the medieval past, we understand very little about what these digital objects really...
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Boy Actors in Early Modern EnglandBoy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical...
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The Meaning of YiddishThis 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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Fiction and the Shape of Belief: A Study of Henry Fielding with Glances at Swift, Johnson and RichardsonThis 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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Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later LifeAuthor: Scott HerringPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 12/13/2022Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90dISBN: 9780231205443
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Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean CulturesPerforming the Kinaidos is the first book-length study to explore the figure of the kinaidos (Latin, cinaedus), a type of person noted in ancient literature for his effeminacy and untoward sexual behaviour. By exploring the presence of this unmanly man in a wide range...
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