Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator"This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin's essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and...
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The Sea Dreamer: A Definitive Biography of Joseph ConradOf Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: 'There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist whoever wrote a novel.'Originally published...
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Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us NothingLong awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman's Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity--a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and...
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Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek TragedyThis volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as...
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Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France: Representation, Reimagination, RecoveryContemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to reconstruct these lost treasures. Surviving accounts of the material culture of medieval Europe - including buildings, boats, reliquaries, wall paintings, textiles, ivory mirror cases, book bindings and much more - present a tantalising glimpse of...
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The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's WorldThe Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's World explores Shakespeare's complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable insights on a key aspect of Shakespeare's work that has been little...
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Conamara Chronicles: Tales from Iorras Aithneach"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist, revolutionary, and district justice Seán Mac Giollarnáth, whose 1941 book Annála Beaga ó Iorras...
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Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and TheaterHow do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities...
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Places of Childhood Fancy: Essays on Space and Speculation in Children's Book SeriesMany of us grew up exploring fascinating worlds--in books, films, and, most importantly, our imaginations--places filled with mythological characters and magical landscapes where we had stunning experiences punctuated by the harmless pleasures that any child's mind can conjure. These worlds sometimes end up in...
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ComedyOriginally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative, mainly in English, from Chaucer to Bernard Shaw. The theme is that comedy implies a philosophy of life that is fairly constant, despite the changes...
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¿Quiénes Somos?: 55 Libros de la Literatura Española del Siglo XXSi la literatura es una de las herramientas que la sociedad utiliza para construir su identidad, un espejo en el que mirarse y reconocerse, esta propuesta nace de un intento de saber cuál sería la respuesta de la literatura a la pregunta de quiénes...
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The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval EnglandWinner of the 2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History Winner of the 2022 SMFS Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies Award An overlooked aspect of the iconography of the Annunciation investigated - Mary's book....
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Poetry and Science: Writing Our Way to DiscoveryBy bringing science into poetry, we open the possibility of discovering new forms and philosophies of poetry, new perspectives on our relationship to the Earth and our place in the universe, and even new scientific insights. In POETRY AND SCIENCE: WRITING OUR WAY TO...
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The Cat Has Nine LivesRestores the first German feminist film, long neglected, to its rightful status as a classic forebear of more recent cinefeminism, demonstrating that the film is as relevant today as it was upon its 1968 release. Acclaimed as postwar Germany's first feminist film, Ula Stöckl's...
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Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as both persistent metaphor and material reality. The exercise of power on an institutional and personal level created conditions in which those least empowered, particularly women, perceived themselves to be captive subjects. This "domestic captivity" was inextricably...
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Empirismus Und Ästhetik: Zur Deutschsprachigen Rezeption Von Hume, Hutcheson, Home Und Burke Im 18. JahrhundertEmpirismus und Ästhetik werden in den Schriften von Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke und Henry Home zu einer empiristischen Ästhetik verbunden. Sie argumentiert induktiv, psycho- oder physiologisch, evolutionär und demokratisch und lässt sich als frühe Form der empirischen Ästhetik verstehen. Ihr Transfer nach...
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Lessing digitalDie Lessing-Forschung steht seit längerer Zeit vor der Herausforderung, dass sie zwar ein Zentrum der germanistischen Aufklärungsforschung bildet, gleichzeitig aber über keine Textbasis verfügt, die modernen wissenschaftlichen Ansprüchen genügt. Als grundlegend revisionsbedürftig gilt die einzige historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke und Briefe Lessings, die sogenannte...
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Recovering DorothyThe first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth's later life and work and the impact of her disability - allowing her to step out from her brother's shadow and back into her own life story.Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the...
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Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South AfricaWinner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipThe author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood...
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Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time MechanicsThis volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways. Such recent projects invert or "queer" the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of...
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