Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Havana: A Cultural HistoryFrom its humble birth as a few thatched huts along the shoreline, Havana has emerged from five hundred years of turbulent history as the most fascinating city in the Caribbean. Spain's "Pearl of the Antilles" was in turn plundered by pirates, invaded by foreign...
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Handbook of Japanese DialectsThis volume is the first comprehensive English handbook on Japanese dialects. The study of Japanese dialects has a rich tradition, contributing to fields like geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and phonology. While influenced by Western linguistics, Japanese dialectology has also made significant original contributions through extensive fieldwork...
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Greek Myths for a Post-Truth WorldYiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities. It shows how Greek myths continue to stir our emotions and shape our...
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Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making ConnectionsRupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry....
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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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Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating PsychoanalysisSigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their...
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French Revolutionary LivesHistorians have long used biography and life narratives as a means of understanding the French Revolution, as classic studies on major figures such as Robespierre and Napoleon attest. At the current moment, however, many of the most creative such studies are focusing on relatively...
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Festival of Heresies: Volume 1There's a reason Emi Shimamoto can't find a job. For as long as she can remember, she's been unable to tell the living from the dead. Resigned to yet another failure, she attends an interview with Moriya Foods, only to find herself strangely attracted...
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Fair or Foul: The Lady Macbeth Guide to AmbitionFair or Foul considers different aspects of ambition and its place in our lives. It asks: what does success mean? When is enough enough? And is Lady Macbeth right to suggest that only those with the 'illness' of ambition achieve the highest goals?Stefan Stern...
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Facundo: Or, Civilization and BarbarismOstensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for...
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Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part IIn the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist. Carlyle has long...
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Encounters with InscriptionsWhen Kristin Czarnecki lost both her parents within nine months, she sought solace in books, but not just any books.In Encounters with Inscriptions, Czarnecki writes about the books inscribed and given to her by her parents over the years-an array of novels, short stories,...
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El Problema del DolorPor qu? debemos sufrir? ""Si Dios es bueno y todopoderoso, por qu? permite que suscriaturas sufran?"" Y qu? del sufrimiento de los animales, quienes ni se merecen el dolor ni pueden mejorarse por medio de ?l? C. S. Lewis, el m?s importante pensador cristiano...
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Educated Imagination"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop...
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Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of MemoryArguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon's fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-winning author of fifteen books claims to have lost his mother tongue when his family fled to the United States after his tenth birthday....
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Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of MemoryArguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon's fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-winning author of fifteen books claims to have lost his mother tongue when his family fled to the United States after his tenth birthday....
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Documentary Theatre and PerformanceWhat distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? In this short, authoritative book,...
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C. S. Lewis on Literature: An Introduction to His Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary TheoryC. S. Lewis began his teaching career one hundred years ago at University College, Oxford in 1924, moving to Magdalen College in 1925. In the following 38 years, Lewis published eight books of literary criticism, literary history, and theory - plus dozens of literary...
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Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the PresentConcentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad's Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change in contemporary fiction. Konrad advocates for the expansion and redefinition of the cli-fi genre and argues that...
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Barroco and Other WritingsSevero Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained...
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