Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Charles Dickens: But for You, Dear StrangerA personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about. Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is...
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Gods and Fighting Men; The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady GregoryThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The Flying Doctor (Le Médecin Volant)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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The CounterplotThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...
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A Poetic History of the Oceans: Literature and Maritime ModernityWhat is the ocean's role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, S ren Frank...
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Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary LifeRichmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton's less well-known fiction...
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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of GlobalizationWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, "semicircular" social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating,...
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Staging and Stage Décor: Early Modern Spanish TheaterThis is the first book on staging and stage décor to focus specifically on early modern Spanish theater, from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. The introduction provides an overview of Spanish theater design from the 16th century, with particular attention to the...
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The Cambridge History of Latina/O American LiteratureThis comprehensive history of US Latina/o literature from the colonial period through the present elucidates the complex roots of Latina/o writing within the Americas.Author: John Morán GonzálezPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/21/2022Pages: 856Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.70dISBN: 9781316634172This title is not...
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Spenser's World of Glass: A Reading of the Faerie QueeneThis 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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Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, BiopoliticsThe "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace--and their seductive appeal--emerged not only from their social marginality, but also...
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My Reading Log with Book ReviewThis logbook is a great organisational tool for readers. It helps with future purchases, especially online, and helps to avoid you buying a book only to discover pages in that you've read it before. Save time, frustration, and money by noting the books you...
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Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban ArchipelagoHowcontemporary Cuban writers build transnational communities In Writing Islands, ElenaLahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyze works ofcontemporary Cuban writers on the island alongside those in exile. Offering anew lens to explore the multiplicity of Cuban space and identity, she arguesthat these writers...
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AlarmObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to...
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The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual FormsMusic videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of reference, from...
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D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and NatureThis is the first ecocritical book on the works of D. H. Lawrence and also the first to consider the links between nature and gender in the poetry and the novels. In his search for a balanced relationship between male and female characters, what...
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The Existentialist Vision of Haruki MurakamiHaruki Murakami has often been accused of being a feckless, merely popular writer, but in this study Michael Ackland demonstrates that this is not the case, arguing that Murakami has not only assimilated the existentialist heritage but innovatively changed and revitalized it, thereby placing...
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Working it Out: Growing Spiritually with the Poetry of George HerbertWorking it Out: Growing Spiritually with the Poetry of George Herbert is a delightful introduction to fifty of the most beautiful works of this gifted poet. Although Working it Out is written primarily as a devotional, it models a thoughtful method for reading and...
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The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary ArtsBefore her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking across contemporary art media,...
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Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third WorldBefore the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet How might we understand an earthquake as a complaint, or erosion as a form of protest--in short, the Earth as an angry planet? Many novels from the end of the millennium did just...
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