Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Balzac on the Barricades: The Literary Origins of an Economic RevolutionThe role of nineteenth-century French literature in a distinctively modern political movement When Parisian workers took to the streets in February 1848, they adopted the rallying cry of droit au travail (the right to work). That protesters increasingly framed employment as a political right...
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Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx CulturesIn Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santer?a, and Brazilian Candombl?, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In...
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A New No-Man's-Land: Writing and Art at Guant?namo, CubaGuant?namo sits at the center of two of the most vexing issues of US policy of the past century: relations with Cuba and the Global War on Terror. It is a contested, extralegal space. In A New No-Man's-Land, Esther Whitfield explores a multilingual archive...
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Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716)Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London will entertain and inform all who are interested in literature, history, and the city of London. This unique book invites the reader to walk along the dirty, crowded, and fascinating streets of eighteenth-century London in an unusual way....
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark TimesFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them--and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of...
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Unveiling the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of WhitenessIn The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois brilliantly details the African American experience. Yet the renowned sociologist was also an astute chronicler of white people, particularly their racism. As Unveiling the Color Line demonstrates, Du Bois's trenchant analysis of whiteness...
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The Warrior Song of King GesarThe Gesar epic encompasses a vast range of ancient Central Asian cultural and spiritual traditions. At its center, Gesar, King of Ling battles tirelessly in a world riven by greed, confusion, fear, and religious ambition to open pathways to an enlightened society. The Warrior...
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The Tragedy of the RepublicIn this discerning essay, first delivered as a lecture at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a key figure in European political philosophy interrogates several of our current crises through a reading of Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Julius Caesar.Today we choose-or believe we choose-our leaders...
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The Medieval PigExamines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eating under an oak tree, or out in a field. They might be in the street, with...
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The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and EmotionsThough the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) were later recognized by reparations and truth commissions, the difficult emotions suffered by the victims and their families were often pushed into the background or out of the national conversation entirely. In response,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish CultureThis book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts analyze the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of major regions including Castile, Catalonia,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jack KerouacJack Kerouac is among the most important and influential writers to emerge from mid-twentieth century America. Founder of the Beat Generation literary movement, Kerouac's most famous novel, On the Road, was known as the bible of this generation, and inspired untold people to question...
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Ten Days in a Mad-HouseAuthor: Nellie BlyPublisher: Sanage Publishing House LlpPublished: 12/31/2023Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35dISBN: 9788119623822This title is not returnable
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Teaching Research Processes: The Faculty Role in the Development of Skilled Student ResearchersToday's students struggle with the research processes required to problem-solve and enlist their findings into cogent academic writing. They lack skill in formulating problem statements, identifying the most relevant databases, using those databases effectively, and evaluating found information. More profoundly, they do not understand...
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Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from CaliforniaContaining the work of 31 poets from 29 tribes, Red Indian Road West is the first poetry anthology encompassing the entire range of Native American experience in California. With more than 720,000 Native Americans, California has by far the largest Native American population of...
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Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical StateIn nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modernism. Turning to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I....
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Prime Green: Remembering the SixtiesFrom the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Building on personal vignettes from Robert...
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Poetry Studio: Prompts for PoetsThe purpose of this book is to welcome you to your own poetry studio. Like an art studio, recording studio, dance studio, yoga studio, or basketball court, Poetry Studio invites you into a creative space where you can make a new poem even when...
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NhƯ Áng Mây BayH a Thượng Th ch Huyền Quang đ m tả H a Thượng n Hậu l nh n c ch l tưởng, "nh n c ch m khi dấn th n v o chợ đời trược c nhưng t m tư kh ng hề...
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Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across the World of LiteratureA beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years From Homer's Odyssey, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes's Don Quixote to Melville's Moby-Dick, Kerouac's On the Road, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, some...
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