Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Hölderlin's Hymn the IsterMartin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in...
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early GreeksNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.What is the nature of things?What is justice? How can I be myself?How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was...
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Horace Odes and EpodesMonumental verse. The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes boasts a faithful...
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Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of HomerInvocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard. Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity...
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History of the Peloponnesian War, Volume I: Books 1-2Classic political realism. Thucydides of Athens was born about 471 BC. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired leadership of Pericles. In 430, the second year of the Peloponnesian War, he caught and survived the horrible plague that he described...
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Haunted States: An American Gothic GuidebookA fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors - from witch trials to slavery and genocide - continue to haunt the national consciousness. Haunted States is a unique guidebook that explores the...
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Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold WarGeopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which Shakespeare is cited as an...
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Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni MorrisonPositions Toni Morrison's novels within the timely framework of geocriticism and spatial studiesCovers a wide range of Morrison's oeuvre, including Love, A Mercy, and JazzHighlights not only the significance of Morrison's novels within literary studies but also her intellectual, political, and cultural influenceAuthor: Herman...
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Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the AmericasGeographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary and canonical borders to investigate the interrelationships of African-descended Latinx...
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From Rus' to R?mur: Norse History, Culture, and Literature East and WestFrom Rus' to R?mur, volume 65 in the Islandica series and simultaneously an issue in the occasional journal New Norse Studies, offers six contributions that range across Europe from East to West and across three categories: "Historical Studies," "Literary Studies," and "New Editions." The...
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Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and PotentialityHow does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science fiction does not claim to predict what will actually happen in times...
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Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible: A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the GospelG. K. Chesterton famously claimed that America is "a nation with the soul of a church." He was wrong. In Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible, Ralph Wood argues that our churches have the soul of a nation because they have come to...
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Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory CultureHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies The Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the "Unite the Right" rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist and antisemitic slurs in Charlottesville, and the...
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Ezra Jack Keats at Play in the World of Children's BooksA past recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, W. Nikola-Lisa explores the centrality of play in the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. The eclectic collection of essays in...
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Ezra Jack Keats at Play in the World of Children's BooksA past recipient of an Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship at the University of Southern Mississippi's de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, W. Nikola-Lisa explores the centrality of play in the work of acclaimed author/illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. The eclectic collection of essays in...
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Ennead VI.6-9Plato's most influential disciple and proponent. Plotinus (AD 204/5-270), possibly of Roman descent, but certainly a Greek in education and environment, was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. Practically nothing is known of his early life, but at the age of 28 he...
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Embodied Performance: Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh TheaterIn this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--a leading scholar of noh theater--provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan's most celebrated art forms. Although noh has often been associated with the elite, Embodied Performance explores its links to a wider popular culture,...
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 1A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that...
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII: Later Ionian and Athenian Thinkers, Part 2A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that...
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Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VIII: Sophists, Part 1A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that...
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