Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose and Poetry27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry is the latest in Eno's popular series of local anthologies. The book showcases the literary life of one of North Carolina's most popular cities by featuring the works of more than two dozen...
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That's Not How You Wash a Squirrel: A collection of new essays and emailsThat's Not How You Wash a Squirrel is the fourth release by New York Times bestselling author David Thorne and features over two hundred pages of brand new, never before seen essays and emails including: Ride of the Valkyries, Squirrel, Deer Camp, Tomotes, Gypsies,...
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Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean WomenAnxiety of Words focuses on the work of three contemporary Korean women poets whose fierce poetic voices display a critical consciousness of women's lives under patriarchy, capitalism, and neocolonialism. Each poet is represented, in bilingual format, by approximately twenty poems and a biographical introduction....
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Nihilist Girl: An MLA TranslationFirst published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause. Her privileged world is radically...
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The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth: Images of Christ's Threefold Office in the Lord of the RingsHow can we grasp the significance of what Jesus Christ did for us? Might literature help us as we seek to understand the Christian faith? J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings has generated much discussion about the relationship between Christianity and literature. It...
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Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic StripFor ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life. In...
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Rhetorics of FantasyExamining fantasy literatureTranscending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their...
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A Year from Monday: New Lectures and WritingsIncludes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lecture."Author: John CagePublisher: Wesleyan University PressPublished: 05/01/1967Pages: 179Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.20h x 7.01w x 0.56dISBN: 9780819560025About the AuthorComposer, author, and philosopher, JOHN...
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A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Foreword by David C GreethamThis small but powerful book initiated a major shift in literary theory and method when it was first published in 1983. Starting from a critical inquiry into certain specialized issues in the practice of editing, McGann gradually unfolds an argument for a general revaluation...
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The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential ArtWinner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Winner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Winner of the 2016 PEN...
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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-ThinkingIn the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white--or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and...
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Secularism and HermeneuticsIn the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible. However, this assumption concealed a problem--there was no coherent "we" who read the Bible in the...
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A Walking Tour In Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the TroubadoursRummaging through his papers in 1958, Ezra Pound came across a cache of notebooks dating back to the summer of 1912, when as a young man he had walked the troubadour landscape of southern France. Pound had been fascinated with the poetry of medieval...
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Arthur Rimbaud: A BiographyRimbaud--a mythic name--his life as extraordinary as his work was influential in redirecting the course, first of French, and then of world poetry. He is, indeed, the very symbol of what we now call "modern" literature; nearly a hundred years before the arrival of...
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Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome"A comprehensive anthology, carefully researched, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome has the considerable merit of making available in English translation authors who have never been translated at all, or whose work can be found only by professional scholars."-Mary Lefkowitz, coeditor of Women's...
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Elements of FictionIn his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this com-plementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction...
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Mark Twain: A LifeRon Powers's tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain's voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest...
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Conned Again, Watson: Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and ProbabilityIn Conned Again, Watson!, Colin Bruce re-creates the atmosphere of the original Sherlock Holmes stories to shed light on an enduring truth: Our reliance on common sense-and ignorance of mathematics-often gets us into trouble. In these cautionary tales of greedy gamblers, reckless businessmen, and...
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The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between...
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Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the PacificWho gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Hua Hsu tells the story of how they...
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