Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Dostoievski En Las Mazmorras del EspírituEl genio de Dostoievski se revela en la creación de una serie de personajes, por momentos irreales y desmesurados, pero casi siempre contradictorios en su miserable grandeza, que reflejan los conflictos sociales del momento junto con la afanosa búsqueda de un mundo interior. El...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of PosthumanismAs our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges - from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things - the 'posthuman' has become an increasingly central...
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Studying the NovelConsistently praised for its readability and scholarship, Studying the Novel is the ideal undergraduate companion to the study of the novel and shorter fiction. Revised throughout to reflect the profound impact of e-reading and digital resources on the writing, reading, and analysis of fiction,...
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Pindar and Greek ReligionPindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that they are in fact engaged in theological work. Focusing on a set of mythical figures whose identities blur the boundaries between...
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Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other WritersNovelist Donald Newlove (1928-2021) contemplates how alcoholism has affected the lives and work of other writers, as well as himself.". . . a passionate blend: part autobiography, part confessional, part sketches of famous alcoholic writers and part sermon on the dangers of 'Drunkspeare' ....
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Trollope: A BiographyAnthony Trollope was a giant of Victorian letters whose works are still read avidly today. Now, in what is surely the definitive biography, the world's leading expert on Trollope provides an amusing, insightful, and authoritative portrait of this remarkable figure. N. John Hall writes...
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Monstrous Liminality: Or, The Uncanny Strangers of Secularized ModernityThis book examines the transformation of the figure of the stranger in the literature of the modern age in terms of liminality. As a 'spectral monster' that has a paradoxical and liminal relationship to both the sacred and the secular, the figure of the...
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Neruda: De 1904 a 1936Mas que una mirada literaria sobre la obra de Pablo Neruda, este libro del critico e investigador Jaime Concha analiza la produccion del Premio Nobel en funcion de sus relaciones con el proceso historico de la sociedad chilena.En esta nueva vision, que continua y...
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The Devil Says Maybe I Like It: Essays on Poetry and LifeWendy Bourgeois is a poet, a teacher, and a staff writer at Propeller, where "Reading Lines," her popular column on poetry and life, has run for the past several years. This collection reveals that in addition to the humor, intelligence, and insight Bourgeois offers...
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The New Oxford Book of English ProseThis book--unique in its international scope--gathers together those rare jewels of the English language that take plain prose to artistic heights. Beginning with Sir Thomas Malory and ending with Kazuo Ishiguro, this anthology chronologically traces the evolution of prose. It shows how itgained confidence...
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Sorrows of an Exile: TristiaIn AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded...
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Tunnel of MirrorsRachel Isaacson, spirited, otherworldly and haunted, is born into a rigidly Old World family in New York's Lower East Side. Hungry for independence, Rachel enters a marriage of convenience with violent consequences. Across the Atlantic, storyteller, fiddler and cliff climber Ciaran McMurrough is raised...
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Literature and Film from East Europe's Forgotten Second World: Essays of InvitationCzechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map. East Europe of the socialist period may seem like a historical oddity, apparently so different from everything before and after. Yet the masterpieces of literature and cinema from this largely forgotten "Second World," as well as by the...
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Unfolding Islamophobic Racism in American FictionUnfolding Islamophobic Racism in American Fiction presents Islamophobia as a manifestation of racism in literary texts to understand American perspective of Islam and Muslims. By deconstructing selected literary works of Lorrain Adams, John Updike and Don Delillo within Fredrickson's notion of racism as scavenger...
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British Romanticism and PeaceThis is the first book to bring perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. Particularly significant is that field's attention not only to the work of anti-war protest, but more purposefully to considerations of...
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Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human IdentityThis book presents Czeslaw Milosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive "biologization" of...
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021 Barbara Pym became beloved as one of...
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Plutarch: Volume 47Author: Geert RoskamPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/11/2021Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.10h x 8.30w x 0.40dISBN: 9781009108225About the AuthorRoskam, Geert: - Geert Roskam is professor of Greek Studies at the University of Leuven. He is the author of many articles and edited volumes on...
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Gogol's Crime and Punishment: An Essay in the Interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead SoulsThis monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel's meaning by meticulously...
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Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of FlightThis volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries...
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