Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Civil Disobedience2023 Reprint of the 1903 Edition. Thoreau's famous essay was published originally with the title On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, now often referred to as Civil Disobedience. He wrote it as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but...
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British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820-45The emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century sparked a period of creative innovation in the popular press. This collection focuses on the early decades of the nineteenth century as a key period of innovation in the...
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Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and FaulknerUsing comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges's residual presence in his Spanish-language translations of works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner.Argentine writer and critic Jorge Luis Borges did not see translation as an inferior form...
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A Traveller's Companion to MadridA vivid portrait of Madrid--ideal for the cultured tourist or armchair traveler. Hugh Thomas, best known for his authoritative analysis of the Spanish Civil War, has chosen from diaries, letters, memoirs and novels ranging across five centuries of Madrid's history. The anthology brilliantly evokes...
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Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth CenturyDaniel Orrellsexamines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part...
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Anita Desai's India: The Religious Plague, Holocaust, Decadence and RemembranceThis research intricately examines the reverberations of the Partition of India in 1947, with a focused exploration into the marginalisation endured by the Muslim community in its aftermath. Through a meticulous historical analysis, the study elucidates the socio-political and cultural forces at play during...
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A estética do frioCadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. The aesthetics of cold, created by musician and writer Vitor Ramil, proposes an alternative view of Brazil...
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world Greatest Short Stories: short storiesworld greatest short stories. greatest literature. Best writer of the year. This book is the best seller of 2012. Funny stories, horror stories, educational stories, children stories and suspense stories. Come read the book of the year.Author: Jerry AyersPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 01/18/2013Pages:...
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Women in Martial: A Semiotic ReadingWomen in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close...
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Universalism(e) & ...: ConversationsThis book confronts the history and legitimacy of Western Universalism. In the form of conversations, it documents thinking-in-process about how new forms of universality after hegemonic universalism can be thought and practised. Bringing into play their practices and theories, the interlocutors of Universalism(e) &...
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Today's interpretation of Sadriddin Aini's activitiesAuthor: Userbayeva FeruzaPublisher: Taemeer PublicationsPublished: 09/09/2024Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10dISBN: 9789358724561
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Threshold Phenomena: Derrida and the Question of HospitalityThreshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida's thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida's rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Kant's Perpetual Peace, Levinas's...
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Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the WorldAuthor: Liang QichaoPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780241568781About the AuthorLiang Qichao (1873-1929) was a reformist intellectual who, facing brutal repression, fled to Japan, where he lived for fourteen years. His long exile, travels, and writing--of fiction,...
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The Tale of Genji Through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in JapanThis groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading...
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The Puritan Literary TraditionWhat is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging...
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The Psalms in English 1530-1633Translations of the Psalms were a major feature of early modern English literature. Yet this vast body of translation work has never before been presented as such, or in such depth. This collection brings together over a century of English biblical translation, by a...
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The Lithic Imagination from More to MiltonThe Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broadermineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's religious and cultural systems, a role that, in turn, informs the period's poetic and visual imagination. The scale of the human...
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The Greek Words in Persius' Literary ProgrammeThis book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius' programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literary criticism: they allow him to express his objection to the Graecizing poetic compositions of his day more convincingly, while facilitating intertextual...
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The Glass Door: An Adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik IbsenThe Glass Door is an adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. In this version (in three acts), the play has been shortened, the set simplified and updated, and the dialogue revised to some extent. The intent is to make it easier for modern...
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The Emerging Contours of the Medium: Literature and MedialityThe Emerging Contours of the Medium explores a crucial aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality' of literature, a medium that remains today on the margins of the theoretical discussion of media. The book was written by a collective of authors based...
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