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Literary Criticism

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  • Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History by Falola, Toyin
    Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History
    An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework. Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. In particular, he...
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  • Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History by Falola, Toyin
    Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History
    An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. In particular, he focuses...
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  • Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill by Floyd, Jessica M.
    Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill
    During his correspondence with erotic folklore collector Gershon Legman, famed chantey singer and collector Stan Hugill (1906-1992) shared unexpurgated versions of the songs in his repertoire. These bawdy songs were meant to be a part of Legman's larger project concerning erotic folksong. Upon Legman's...
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  • Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Beaton, Kate
    Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour
    Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands and Hark! A Vagrant, explores connections between class, literature, and art from Cape Breton Island. In this thought-provoking book, Beaton addresses the often overlooked impact...
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  • Boccaccio Defends Literature by Schildgen, Brenda Deen
    Boccaccio Defends Literature
    In Boccaccio Defends Literature, Brenda Deen Schildgen contends that Giovanni Boccaccio's significant contribution to literary history remains underappreciated. The book asserts that Boccaccio refuted the detractors that condemned poetry as immoral, irrational, and even demonic, highlighting instead its aesthetic and cathartic ability to restore...
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  • Black & White Racial Identity: A Figment of Imagination Arising from a Superiority Complex by Kadenge, Admire T.
    Black & White Racial Identity: A Figment of Imagination Arising from a Superiority Complex
    Why call me Black, when it means Nigger and 'like the Devil'? Black is not a race, but a camouflaged, sugar-coated curse that is just encoded as the word 'evil ' in 'Devil' . We need to break, reject and obliterate it.Author: Admire T....
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  • Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World Volume 16 by Nyong'o, Tavia
    Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World Volume 16
    Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope. Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and promise for the future. Black Apocalypse is an...
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  • A Room of One's Own by Woolf, Virginia
    A Room of One's Own
    2025 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and...
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  • Aristophanes: Cavalry by Tordoff, Robert
    Aristophanes: Cavalry
    Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes' most explosive political satire, this volume is an essential guide to the context, themes and later reception of Cavalry. The ancient comedy is a fascinating insight into demagoguery and political rhetoric in classical Athens....
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  • Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union by Nicolosi, Riccardo
    Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet Union
    The book proposes a critical historical reconstruction of early Soviet adventure-craze and its lasting popularity in socialist realism. It also offers innovative theoretical propositions for a philological analysis of adventure fiction that arises from this unique historical constellation.Author: Riccardo NicolosiPublisher: Academic Studies PressPublished: 12/31/2024Pages:...
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  • Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel by Rosmarin, L?onard
    Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel
    Delve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the depths of despair to the celebration of life, Wiesel's fifteen novels offer a poignant reflection on the human condition, with his personal experiences as a Holocaust...
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  • Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism by Eagleton, Terry
    Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
    From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.Author: Terry EagletonPublisher: VersoPublished: 11/26/2024Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 7.83h x 5.14w x 0.54dISBN: 9781804296165About the AuthorTerry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of...
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  • Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics by Rudrum, David
    Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics
    Trolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies, by looking at literature from ancient Greece to the 1980s. Trolling is the most controversial genre of writing to have risen to prominence in the 21st...
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  • Trix: The Other Kipling by Fisher, Barbara
    Trix: The Other Kipling
    This volume represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. Rarely portrayed with sympathy or accuracy in biographies of her famous brother Rudyard, Trix was a talented writer and a memorable character in her own right whose fascinating life...
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  • Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction by Roberts, Jennifer T.
    Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its...
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  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Shakespeare, William
    The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    THE NEWLY REVISED SIGNET CLASSIC SHAKESPEARE SERIES Mostly set in Milan, this comedy is the story of two newly-arrived Veronese friends, Valentine and Proteus. Both vie for the Duke's daughter's hand, with lots of laughter ensuing.Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Signet BookPublished: 05/01/2007Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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  • The Prosimetrum of the ?slendingas?gur: Aesthetic and Narrative Effects by ?Orgeirsd?ttir, Brynja
    The Prosimetrum of the ?slendingas?gur: Aesthetic and Narrative Effects
    Verse quotation is intrinsic to the literary style of the medieval Icelandic corpus of ?slendingas?gur (sagas of Icelanders), one of the most important vernacular literary genres of the European Middle Ages. The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that the combination of prose and...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Hanlon, Christopher
    The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, the digital humanities, the new religious studies, hemispheric American Studies,...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Hutson, Lorna
    The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700
    This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past...
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  • Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms in Puritan New England by Hardy, Lucas
    Theologies of Pain: Literary Bodies and Afflicted Forms in Puritan New England
    With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and poetry. Investigating a broad transatlantic archive of religious...
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Literary criticism books are essential resources for anyone interested in analyzing and understanding literature on a deeper level. These books offer insights into various literary theories, critique methods, and analytical approaches that help readers and scholars interpret and evaluate literary works.

Literary criticism books delve into the analysis of literature, exploring how different aspects such as themes, characters, and narratives contribute to a text's meaning and impact. They provide valuable frameworks and perspectives that enhance the reader's ability to engage critically with literary texts.

Criticism literature includes works that assess and interpret the value and significance of various literary genres, styles, and authors. Books such as "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom and "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster are highly regarded for their comprehensive exploration of literary traditions and techniques.

Literary criticism theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding literature. These theories include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonialism, among others. Books like "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács offer foundational knowledge in these critical perspectives, providing readers with tools to analyze texts through various lenses.

For those seeking the best books to read on literary criticism, it’s helpful to explore both classic and contemporary texts. Works like "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" by Lois Tyson and "The Elements of Literary Style" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley offer practical advice and theoretical insights for readers and students.

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Q. What are literary criticism books used for?

A. Literary criticism books are used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. They offer various theoretical frameworks and methods to understand and critique literary works, helping readers and scholars explore themes, characters, and narrative techniques in depth.

Q. Can you recommend some foundational books on literary criticism theory?

A. Yes, some foundational books on literary criticism theory include "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton, which provides an overview of various critical approaches, and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács, which explores the evolution and form of the novel.

Q. What is criticism literature, and why is it important?

A. Criticism literature refers to works that analyze and assess the value and significance of literary texts. It is important because it helps readers and scholars gain a deeper understanding of literature, its context, and its impact, enhancing appreciation and critical engagement with texts.

Q. Where can I find the best literary criticism books?

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Q. How do I choose the right literary criticism book for my needs?

A. To choose the right literary criticism book, consider your interests and the type of literature you are studying. Look for books that cover the specific theories or approaches you want to explore. Reviews, recommendations, and best-seller lists can also guide you in selecting books that are well-regarded and relevant to your needs.

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