Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and ArtDesire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva's essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Probing beyond the claims of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and others, Kristeva...
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Deep ReadingThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural...
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Confessions, Volume I: Books 1-8The classic account of crisis and conversion. Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While studying to become a...
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Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth CenturyMany people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced...
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Clement of Alexandria: Exhortation to the Greeks. the Rich Man's Salvation. to the Newly BaptizedA scholarly evangelist. Clement of Alexandria, famous Father of the Church, is known chiefly from his own works. He was born, perhaps at Athens, about AD 150, son of non-Christian parents; he converted to Christianity probably in early manhood. He became a presbyter in...
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Categories. on Interpretation. Prior AnalyticsThe philosopher's toolkit. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former...
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Catching Chen Qing Ling; The Untamed and Adaptation, Production, and Reception in Transcultural ContextsThe 2019 Chinese drama Ch?n Q?ng L?ng (CQL; translated The Untamed) quickly became a massive phenomenon, drawing millions of viewers in China and beyond. Its resonant story, rich cast of characters, and striking production captured audience attention globally; its paratexts and fandoms helped keep...
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Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx PerformanceProposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-G?mez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex--namely, bottoming--function as allegorical paradigms,...
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Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx PerformanceProposes a queer way to be in the world and with others Invoking queer aesthetics, ethics, and politics, Bottoms Up explores a sexual way to be with others while living with loss. Xiomara Cervantes-G?mez demonstrates how aesthetic representations of sex--namely, bottoming--function as allegorical paradigms,...
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Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary ImaginationExamining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature.During the Victorian period, new approaches to the interpretation of sacred texts called...
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir"A must for the obsessive reader." Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The Idiot A "soul-baring, witty, and slyly provocative"* memoir about reading, writing, and depression (Whiting Foundation) "Bibliophobia: occasionally manifests as an acute, literal fear of books, though more frequently develops as a...
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Before I Let You Go: Life Lessons From An Industry GuruAuthor: Angelo EllerbeePublisher: Hov PublishingPublished: 08/14/2024Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52dISBN: 9781955107235
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Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne RobinsonPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today. In addition to literary elegance, her trilogy of novels (Gilead, Home, and Lila) and her collections of essays offer probing meditations on the Christian faith. Many of these...
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of WarThe player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity...
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An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals--among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid...
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Agricola. Germania. DialogusThe paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was...
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Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth CenturyIn Against Exclusion, Audrey Wu Clark dramatically reframes Asian American resistance via the lives of five early Chinese American public figures. In contrast to later activists who sought to defy stereotypes, Ah Toy, Mary Tape, Wong Chin Foo, Yan Phou Lee, and Yung Wing...
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A Companion to the IliadThose who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served--the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. For these readers, Malcolm M. Willcock...
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You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria RilkeFollowing Rilke's advice to "live the questions," this book invites us to draw upon his startling insights and often unconventional wisdom to see ourselves as ripening, unfolding, and always becoming."This is a book to savor, soaking up the rewards of stories, insights, and provocations...
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Word, Chant, and Song: Spiritual Transformation in Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and SikhismIn academic religious studies and musicology, little attention has been given to chanted word, hymns, and songs, yet these are often the key spiritual practices for lay devotees. To address this gap in knowledge, Harold Coward presents a thematic study of sacred sound as...
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