Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Language at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of CultureIs poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with challenges to poetics?Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the...
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The Lost Republic: Cicero's de Oratore and de Re PublicaCicero's dialogues De oratore (On the Orator) and De re publica (On the Commonwealth), composed between 55 and 51 BCE, examine two topics central to Roman public life: the role of the orator in society and the importance of honorable statesmanship for the preservation...
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Conversations with George SaundersBesides being one of America's most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the...
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God Made Word: An Archaeology of Mystic Discourse in Early Modern SpainThe Golden Age of Spanish mysticism has traditionally been read in terms of individual authors or theological traditions. God Made Word, however, considers early modern Spanish mysticism as a question of language and as a discourse that circulated in concrete social, institutional, and geographic...
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The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World LiteratureIn The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing innew...
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International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland's Darien colony, the 1707 Acts of Union, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, and the emergence of the new British Empire as a global...
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Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836-1861A history of local resistance and contributions to early Mexican nationhood. Reform, Rebellion and Party in Mexico, 1836-1861 is a history of Mexico's early, turbulent years as a sovereign state. From local ethnic and religious divisions to statewide financial troubles, the early republic nearly...
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Global Perspectives on Early Medieval EnglandInterrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural sphere. Early medieval England as seen through the lens of comparative and interconnected histories is the subject of this volume. Drawn from a...
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Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony: Prolegomena to an Interpretation of the Word StimmungRenowned philologist Leo Spitzer's multitudinous contributions to the fields of etymology and stylistics in many of the Romance languages are widely acknowledged and highly valued. Less well known, but equally engaging, is his extensive work in what he referred to as "historical semantics"-a study...
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Seduction of the InnocentAuthor: Fredric WerthamPublisher: Main Road BooksPublished: 03/19/1999Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.30dISBN: 9781596830004This title is not returnable
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Little Women at 150Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites As the golden age of children's literature dawned in America in the mid-1860s, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a...
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Chaka, An Historical RomanceThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Arthur Schnitzler in Great Britain: An Examination of Power and TranslationAn examination of Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler's reception in Great Britain. The "amoral voice" of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) was one of the major figures of European modernist literature. Throughout his lifetime and after his death, his writing enjoyed substantial domestic and international...
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The Great Beyond: Art in the Age of AnnihilationEssays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality--forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more While much about modernism remains up for debate, there can be no dispute about the connection between modernist...
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Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First CenturyFor more than eighty years, Faulkner criticism has attempted to "see all Yoknapatawpha," the fictional Mississippi county in which the author set all but four of his novels as well as more than fifty short stories. One of the most ambitious of these attempts...
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Hyde Park: By James ShirleyJames Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best Caroline city comedies, building upon the Elizabethan and Jacobean traditions to partake in new considerations of London space, power, and courtship. The play especially warrants sustained critical consideration in terms of its representations of...
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American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and RaceThe story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America's...
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Classical Samaritan PoetryThis book introduces the evocative but largely unknown tradition of Samaritan religious poetry from late antiquity to a new audience. These verses provide a unique window into the Samaritan religious world during a formative period.Prepared by Laura Suzanne Lieber, this anthology presents annotated English...
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The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular ImaginationThe dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth...
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The Godfather and Sicily: Power, Honor, Family, and EvilIn this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience. The book explores both the novel and the film sequence in terms...
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