Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Abroad: An Expatriate's Diaries 1950-1959Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "Hers is the most authentic voice I've heard from the expat fifties. She brings to life a seminal decade in literary and sexual history, one that she and her fellow expats, coming home, passed on to the next generation of Americans...
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Cattle Country: Livestock in the Cultural ImaginationAs beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation's representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout...
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Absentees: On Variously Missing PersonsAn intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question:...
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A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us about Living Well Without PerfectionIn many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other philosophies feel abstract and disembodied, Buddhism offers meditation as a means to realize this...
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Reading the Cozy Mystery: Critical Essays on an Underappreciated SubgenreWith their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings together...
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Gothic Remixed: Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century CultureThe bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the...
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Self, DividedLiterary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. In 1995 John Medeiros and his identical twin brother participated in a gene therapy study in which the HIV-positive twin was infused with billions of genes from the HIV-negative twin. This memoir details, from a firsthand perspective, a time in...
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Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and AnalysisDigital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of unnatural narratology as a medium-specific and transmedial phenomenon. It applies and adapts key concepts of narrative theory and analysis to digital-born...
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Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman CapoteTruman Capote was hailed as one the most meticulous writers in American letters-a part of the Capote mystique is that his precise writing seemed to exist apart from his chaotic life. While the measure of Capote as a writer is best taken through his...
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Malaria Memoirs: My Life Journey as a Public Health Doctor in TanzaniaZul Premji's passion has been science and its use for the benefit of his fellow citizens. From a background of abject poverty in a village in Tanzania, he rose to become, progressively a laboratory technician, a medical doctor, and finally a malaria expert and...
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Study Guide to Giants in the Earth by Ole RolvaagA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ole Rolvaag's Giant in the Earth, a historical fiction novel originally published in Norwegian. As a novel of the twentieth-century, Giants in the Earth tells the story of Norwegian pioneers. Moreover, many...
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Study Guide to Billy Budd by Herman MelvilleA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Billy Budd, his final novel. As a book of the twentieth-century, Melville focused on society's limiting forces on people's individuality. Moreover, Billy Budd has two versions as it was completed...
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Study Guide to Oliver Twist by Charles DickensA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published first in installments between 1837 and 1839 in the literary magazine, Bentley's Miscellany. As a novel of the nineteenth-century, Oliver Twist exposes the unromantic truth of being...
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Flannery O'Connor: Writing a Theology of Disabled HumanityFlannery O'Connor is one of America's most unique Southern authors. Shortly after she began her writing career she was diagnosed with lupus. Despite her illness, O'Connor authored more than two dozen short stories and two novels. Her highly regionalized Southern Gothic stories often involve...
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and MoralBorn in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was bought by a wealthy Boston merchant named John Wheatley to serve as a servant to his family. They gave...
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Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town Volume 1From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the...
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Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue ChunqiuSpring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collection of political history, philosophy, and fictional accounts depicts the rise and fall...
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The Art of PerpetuationVivid explorations of cryogenics, lion baiting, iDollators, dodo birds, SpaceX, and more populate The Art of Perpetuation, a poignant new collection of lyric essays from Alison Powell that troubles the boundaries between human and animal, living and dead, man and woman, adult and child....
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Dostoevsky's Incarnational RealismIn this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky's final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that incarnational realism animates the vision of the novel, and the decisions and actions of its hero, Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov. The book takes a close look...
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Memories of the Way it WasStories of times gone by, methods of accomplishing regular chores in homes, lack of money with lots of hard work are the main focus of this book. Times we do not want to forget but hope to share them with our children and grandchildren...
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