Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship, Second EditionThe much-anticipated second edition of The Book of Literary Terms features new examples and terms to enhance Turco's classic guide that students and scholars have relied on over the years as a definitive resource for the definitions of the major terms, forms, and styles...
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Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 Vols)Brill's Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.Author: Andreas MarkantonatosPublisher: BrillPublished: 09/03/2020Pages: 1228Binding...
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The WhipWinner of the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award. As the 19th Century dawns in London, politicians of all parties gather to abolish the slave trade once and for all. But the price of freedom turns out to be a multi-billion pound bailout for slave owners...
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Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and LoveScenes from Arabian life at the turn of the twentieth century Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the imposition of austere norms by the Wahhabi authorities in the early twentieth century: tales of robbery and hot pursuit;...
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The Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval PastAmy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for "medieval times" behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy, Kaufman and...
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Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid IdentityOne of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works are matched by those that surround the debate over his national identity....
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Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in EnglishAn ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of philosophy in English is a splendid accomplishment sufficient unto itself. Highly intelligent, always even-handed, quietly but consistently witty, Witcraft is an excellent guide...
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An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of SeeingWays of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how...
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Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to FictionsOrietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of...
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The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to MiltonJust as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and political writing. Two foundational figures in the history of the Renaissance Bible, Desiderius Erasmus and William Tyndale,...
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Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical AnthologyFilm Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic...
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Poetry in a Global AgeIdeas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of...
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Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist NovelThe modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description--what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool." As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during the twentieth century. Dora Zhang argues that...
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A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational FuturesA Queer History of Adolescence reveals categories of age--and adolescence, specifically--as an undeniable and essential mechanism in the production of difference itself. Drawing from a dynamic and varied archive, including British and American newspapers, medical papers and pamphlets, and adolescent and children's literature circulating...
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Stephen King and American HistoryThis book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out, how one understands one's...
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Los Libros, Eso Es Bueno Para Los Bebés"Los libros son buenos para los beb s? Pero si son demasiado peque os y no lo comprenden." Lejos de este supuesto, Marie Bonnaf afirma que nunca es demasiado pronto para acercar a los ni os a los libros. Y es que los beb...
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No Kids Allowed: Children's Literature for AdultsChildren's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literature--when it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common?...
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By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's CapitalFollowing her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital," Kim Roberts returns with a comprehensive anthology of poems by both well-known and overlooked poets working and living in the capital...
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Witches' SabbathLiterary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906-1945). To Sachs, the work was a statement of account, a moral memo. Or should I say immoral? He recounts...
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Fun Yener Zayt Shvel / On the Other Side of the Threshold: Artiklen funem Zhurnal Afn Shvel, 2005-2020/ Articles from the Magazine Afn Shvel, 2005-202This is a collection of articles by Sheva Zucker, well-known Yiddish scholar and editor of the Yiddish magazine Afn Shvel from 2005-2015. The majority of the articles were written during those years and published in the magazine. The essays in this book are arranged...
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