Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Coolidge & Cherkovski: In ConversationPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. Introduction by Patrick James Dunagan. A transcribed conversation between two prolific American poets. Swapping personal stories and anecdotes, Coolidge and Cherkovski offer insight into a wide range of topics including: the New York School, the San Francisco poetry scene of the...
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The Knight of the Burning Pestle: Francis BeaumontThis play is a celebration of London life and theatre in which Francis Beaumont's comic genius is given free rein. A grocer, his wife and their two apprentices attending the theatre in holiday mood interrupt and finally replace a fatuous love comedy with their...
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From Bayou to Abyss: Examining John Constantine, HellblazerBritish occultist John Constantine elevated Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, and it wasn't long before John had his own spinoff comic titled John Constantine: Hellblazer. This anthology, edited by Rich Handley and Lou Tambone (of Sequart's Somewhere Beyond the Heavens: Exploring Battlestar Galactica), examines the...
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China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690-1770This book explores how a modern English literary identity was forged by its notions of other traditions and histories, in particular those of China. The theorizing and writing of English literary modernity took place in the midst of the famous quarrel between the Ancients...
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Korean Tea Classics by Hanjae Yi Mok and the Venerable Cho-UiMost of the books about tea published across the world in recent years make no mention of the tea produced in Korea. Likewise, people who study the literary texts inspired by tea in earlier centuries usually only know of the works written in China...
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In CodePoetry. IN CODE was born out of Maryann Corbett's years of work for the Minnesota Legislature, with a nonpartisan office that mandated that she maintain a public silence about politics. In poems that go from elegiac to fiery to funny, she examines behind-the-scenes legislative...
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Literature, Music, Theatre?; The Performative Aspect of Rammstein's Musical ActivityThe aim of my work was to show the performative nature of the stage performances of the musical group Rammstein. Due to their amazing nature, the group's shows can be treated as artistic performances. In my dissertation, I will determine whether there is an...
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Learning the Secrets of English Verse: The Keys to the Treasure ChestThis textbook teaches the writing of poetry by examining all the major verse forms and repeating stanza forms in English. It provides students with the tools to compose successful lines of poetry and focuses on meter (including free verse), rhythm, rhyme, and the many...
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The Life of Olaudah EquianoA remarkable account of early slavery and later freedom, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written By Himself, is the 1789 autobiography of former slave Olaudah Equiano. This memoir is a slave narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey all-in-one. His...
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America's First Black Poet; Jupiter Hammon of Long IslandColleges, schools, libraries and military bases in the US and abroad have been searching for ways to celebrate notable persons of color and to provide positive programs to promote racial harmony in our communities. "America's First Black Poet; Jupiter Hammon of Long Island," published...
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The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J.K. Rowling's NovelsWhen Harry Potter first boards the Hogwarts Express, he journeys to a world which Rowling says has alchemy as its internal logic. The Philosopher's Stone, known for its power to transform base metals into gold and to give immortality to its maker, is the...
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The Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English RenaissanceThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Little Book of Sherlock Holmes: Elementary Wit & WisdomThe greatest detective who never lived. Since his first appearance in 1887, Sherlock Holmes continues to entertain and fascinate us. With his deerstalker hat, pipe and magnifying glass, not to mention his incredible powers of observation and deduction, he has pitted his wits against...
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Xenophon and SpartaXenophon has for long, and understandably, enjoyed a privileged position as a reliable source on Sparta. Commander of a grand military expedition of Sparta's devising, and a dependent of Sparta's influential king Agesilaos, Xenophon knew Sparta from the inside, and - as himself an...
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Splendour in the Dark: C. S. Lewis's Dymer in His Life and WorkSeveral years before he converted to Christianity, C. S. Lewis published a narrative poem, Dymer, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton. Later, of course, Lewis became well known for his beloved imaginative stories, such as The Chronicles of Narnia and Till We Have Faces, as...
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Myth and Trauma: Higher Self, Ancient Wisdom, and their EnemiesExplore the ancient wisdom of the world's myths as it applies to one of the most common and most serious problems in the modern world: the separation from who we are.Unresolved psychological trauma can lead to anxiety, depression, addiction, self-sabotage, and even serious physical...
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Postprint: Books and Becoming ComputationalSince Gutenberg's time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she identifies as...
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Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, BanksyExaminations of Francis Ponge's texts on Jean Fautrier's "Hostage Paintings," Jack Whitten's Memorial Paintings, and Banksy's auction stunt Love is in the Bin.This book contains three case studies on very different artists, analyzing their work through their respective historical contexts: the writer Francis Ponge...
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The Haunt of Home: A Journey Through America's HeartlandWhat does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourish in...
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Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for LightThe instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile...
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