Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of SubcreationMark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or...
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Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Investigations in American CultureThis collection of eight wide-ranging essays on aspects of American culture, first published in 1988, has been out of print for many years. It explores guns, cars, racism, politics and paranoia in startling ways, unparallelled before or since. It is even more relevant today....
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Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror FictionIn Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of human monsters that frequently appear in Black American horror fiction-the monsters of White rage, respectability, not-ness, and serial killing. Arguing that such monsters represent specific ideologies of...
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A Caribbean Poetics of SpiritA Caribbean Poetics of Spirit offers a rare and penetrativeexploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinouspresences. The study incorporates representations of African-Caribbean and Indigenousmythologies, syncretic spirituality, and magico-religious practices. From textsby ten writers, Hannah Regis extracts thematic and poetic references toCaribbean spectrality,...
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Salvage: Readings from the WreckOne of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 "Award-winning novelist Brand, Toronto's former poet laureate, melds autobiography and literary criticism to offer a shrewd, intimate reading of the 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century novels that shaped her sense of self...[a] penetrating cultural criticism." --Kirkus...
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Out of This World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and ThoughtEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.The 20th century is one of "great derangement." The idea that History has any meaning or direction has been challenged by two world wars, totalitarianism, and genocides, and now by pandemics,...
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Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of SolidarityBlood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints, by chronicling the aftermath of Stalin's 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars in four different literary traditions. Author: Rory FinninPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished:...
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How Sondheim Can Change Your LifeDiscover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods. Stephen Sondheim died on November 26, 2021, but for countless fans around the world,...
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Bold, Badass, and Bookish: Women Writers Who Made HistoryBOOK BUDDIES: FEARLESS WOMEN WRITERS is an homage to feminist icons in the literary world. Quotes, bios, fun facts, and illustrations of bold, visionary female writers fill each page. An Audre Lorde quote--"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the...
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Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the BestsellerReading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernist, psychoanalytic and popular writing from the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her novels alongside writing by Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, James...
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Hello, Stranger: Stories of Connection in a Divided World: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected WorldWe navigate our interactions with strangers according to a host of unwritten rules, rituals and (sometimes awkward) attempts at politeness. But what if the people we meet were not a problem, but a gift?When philosopher and traveller Will Buckingham's partner died, he sought solace...
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Female Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean WorldEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Female agency in the ancient world has long been implicitly, and on a few occasions explicitly, examined in classical scholarship, but few of these studies begin with a unified theoretical framework...
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100 Books That Changed the WorldA thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott...
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La Metamorfosis del Sabueso / The Hound's Metamorphosis«Mi trabajo consiste en tragar la realidad, digerirla, para luego reinventarla de acuerdo a las leyes de la fabulación literaria . La metamorfosis del sabueso. Ensayos personales y otros textos es una gran muestra de la calidad de Horacio Castellanos Moya como ensayista y...
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Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British PastIn Experimental Histories, Hannah Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation--inserting material from one text into another--which is often categorized as being a problematic, inauthentic phenomenon akin to forgery and pseudepigraphy. Instead, Weaver promotes interpolation as the signature form of medieval British historiography and...
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Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with...
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The Church According to Paul: Rediscovering the Community Conformed to Christ2015 Book of the Year Award, Academy of Parish ClergyAmid conflicting ideas about what the church should be and do in a post-Christian climate, the missing voice is that of Paul. The New Testament's most prolific church planter, Paul faced diverse challenges as he...
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The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print CultureLiterary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land...
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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the WorldA rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world. As Dorian Lynskey writes, "People...
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Tales from ShakespeareDive into the enchanting world of Shakespeare's timeless tales, retold with clarity and charm by Charles and Mary Lamb.From star-crossed lovers to mischievous fairies, this collection captures the essence of Shakespeare's genius, making his works accessible and delightful for readers of all ages. A...
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