Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist BritainTwo fifths of Britain's leading people were educated privately: that's five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than the remaining 2894 state schools...
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Temerity & Gall"[Metcalf's] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable."--Washington PostIn Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.In...
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The Pitfalls of Piety for Married WomenThe Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related "precious scrolls" (baojuan) from the Ming dynasty, The Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze and The Precious Scroll of the...
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The Architecture of David LynchFrom the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture. Richard Martin's compelling study is the first sustained critical assessment of the role architecture and design...
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Shakespeare's ResourcesGeoffrey Bullough's The Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare (1957-75) established a vocabulary and a method for linking Shakespeare's plays with a series of texts on which they were thought to be based. Shakespeare's Resources revisits and interrogates the methodology that has prevailed since...
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Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary HeritageWhat are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts--and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading--are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and zeros? What are the opportunities and obligations for book history, textual criticism, and bibliography when literary...
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The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew LiteratureThe Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature argues that the institution of the yeshiva and its ideals of Jewish textual study played a seminal role in the resurgence of Hebrew literature in modern times. Departing from the conventional interpretation of the origins...
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Swan SongThe final chapter in a body of cut-and-paste work that is difficult to categorize but has sometimes been referred to as graphic poetry.Culled from decades of hunting and gathering in the underground, Ahlers has filled many binders to overflowing. Swan Song revisits the black...
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Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in DialogueOpening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion...
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Dialogues and EssaysIn ancient Rome, Seneca the Younger rose to power as a politician and statesman during the middle of his life. Seneca was noted in his time for his oratorical skill in the Roman Senate, a skill which drew the ire of Emperor Caligula, who...
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Changed Forever, Volume II: American Indian Boarding-School LiteratureAfter a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, Changed Forever, Volume II examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools. Considering a wide range of tribal writers, some of them well known--like...
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Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic CaribbeanAs a Francophone nation, Haiti is seldom studied in conjunction with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbors. Racialized Visions challenges the notion that linguistic difference has kept the populations of these countries apart, instead highlighting ongoing exchanges between their writers, artists, and thinkers. Centering Haiti in...
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Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn KallayanapongFocusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926-2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts Buddhist understandings of time to create a modern Asian...
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The Old BridgeNë këtë libër, përveç studimeve të thelluara në çështje teorike të veprave letrare nga letërsia shqipe, lexuesi gjen edhe artikuj formues dhe informues të vlefshëm për autorë, vepra, figura e personazhe të botës shqiptare dhe të diasporës."The Old Bridge-Ura e vjetër" nga autorja Arjeta...
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 2: The Village and Other Playsvolume 2These volumes feature works from across Lai's career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume Two contains: Millennium Teahouse Sand on a Distant Star Like Shadows The Village Writing in WaterAuthor: Stan LaiPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 02/24/2022Pages: 496Binding Type:...
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 1: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land and Other Playsvolume 1These volumes feature works from across Lai's career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume One contains: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land Look Who's Crosstalking Tonight The Island and the Other Shore I Me She Him Ménage à 13Author:...
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Queenzenglish.Mp3: Poetry Philosophy PerformativityPoetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Jewish Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Editor Kyoo Lee describes QE3 as an anthology focusing on the expressive diversity of English in transition. Fifty+...
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International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young AdultsWhat does 'queer' have to do with children and young people and, in particular, with literature for them? How are sexualities and gender identities depicted in writing and illustration for younger readers in a variety of languages and cultures? How are queer families and...
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The Cambridge Companion to ProseThis Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording to style...
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A History of Canadian FictionA History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the...
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