Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature's SyncopeBreathing and its rhythms--liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous--have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production,...
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Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in FilmGeorge Toles's Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them, and alter our understanding of the cinematic real. Film art is a dialogue between the world created for a...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the EnvironmentThis Companion offers a capacious overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists,...
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The Notebooks of Gertrude SteinThe Notebooks of Gertrude Stein for The Making of Americans, 1903-1912, book is Professor Leon Katz's long anticipated full reconstruction, editing, annotation and "decoding" of Gertrude Stein's Notebooks covering her early years in Paris and her creation of her great modernist masterpiece, The Making...
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Your PuppetryThis 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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Metatheatre; a New View of Dramatic FormThis 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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Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor TransnationalismMennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged a reconsideration of the field's past and a reconceptualization of its future. This is exactly what Reading Mennonite Writing does.Drawing on the transnational turn...
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Democratic Swarms: Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the PeopleConsiders how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering how it has been overlooked as a political medium by modern theorists and critics. Moving beyond the popular...
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Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or SpitSLIM CONFESSIONS is an image-text about digital intimacy and visceral material. A work of autotheory, the book lays in parallel the history of slime as a vehicle for horror and entertainment with personal encounters with quotidian slime in the human and animal worlds. At...
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Fontanes MedienTheodor Fontane war, im durchaus modernen Sinne, ein Medienarbeiter: Als Presse-Agent in London lernte er die innovativste Presselandschaft seiner Zeit kennen; als Redakteur in Berlin leistete er journalistische Kärrnerarbeit; er schrieb Kritiken über das Theater, die bildende Kunst und die Literatur - und auch...
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A Naturalist's ManorTranslated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen. One of China's finest poets, now in English.Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies.Author: Yan AnPublisher: Chax PressPublished: 09/15/2021Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsISBN: 9781946104281About the AuthorAn, Yan: - Yan An is one of the most famous poets in...
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Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in TheoryUntying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory. In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established the...
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Kurzprosa und NachlasstexteSammy Gronemann (1875-1952) is one of the most outstanding Zionist authors and satirists to have written in German. This volume collects his short prose, mainly texts from his estate, part of which has been lost. It includes previously unpublished short stories, fragments of novels...
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Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and PracticesThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who...
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Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial PerspectivesBringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods - from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction...
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Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the PresentFinalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy...
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Construir Al Enemigo / Building the EnemyUNA MUESTRA DEL ECO MÁS BRILLANTE Y ATEMPORAL «Allí donde Eco disparaba su inteligencia se hacía la luz. --Domingo Ródenas, El Periódico de Catalunya «La obra de Umberto Eco en la que todo cabe. [...] Es posible la erudición divertida, seducir mediante la cita...
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Kritische Ausgabe Seiner Werke: Abteilung IAuthor: Friedrich SchlegelPublisher: Brill SchoninghPublished: 03/15/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 4.89lbsISBN: 9783506788160Language: GermanThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Philostorgios Kirchengeschichte: Band 1: Einleitung, Text Und Übersetzung / Band 2: KommentarDie Kirchengeschichte des Philostorgios entfaltet aus dem Blickwinkel der Eunomianer, einer in den dogmatischen Kämpfen des fünften Jahrhunderts unterlegenen Richtung, ein Panorama der Zeit von 305 bis 425, mit eingehenden Beschreibungen innerkirchlicher Intrigen, mit oft detaillierten Darstellungen ereignisgeschichtlicher Zusammenhänge, mit geographischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Exkursen.Die...
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Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's FictionAs downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late...
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