Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's JourneyIn the tradition of Annie Dillard and Natalie Goldberg, this resource for writers and non-writers alike shows the act of writing to be a dynamic means of knowing, healing, and creating the body, mind, and spirit.Author: Deena MetzgerPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 11/20/1992Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize:...
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading"Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature--to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." --Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of...
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Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do"If this book isn't a minor classic--and one uses the term 'minor' only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major--well, one doesn't know what book is. Let's compromise and just call it a classic." --Will Cuppy, New...
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Outlaw History: The Portable L.A. RollinsBest known as an underground satirist (Lucifer's Lexicon) and as an irreverent critic of bien-pensant libertarianism (The Myth of Natural Rights), L.A. Rollins [1948 - 2015] was also an unruly exponent of historical revisionism who courted reprisal for his skeptical interrogations of canonical World...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance""Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is""Invaluable""Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind." Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and...
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After the World Has FallenHumans are made to tell stories. Without them, we wouldn't be who we are. These tales of challenge and triumph, which are as old as the origin of language itself, transcend and break the boundaries of time and space. Weaving together five timeless stories...
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Semantics of the World: Selected PoemsA poet of both the body and spirit, the work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre often explores the nature of existence at the turn of the twenty-first century--humankind's relationship to itself and the universe, the meaning or purpose, if any, of human existence, and the...
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Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading RaceRace may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. This far-reaching study...
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In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American DemocracyWith In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison's evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy,...
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Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, TraumatophiliaRadical alternatives to consent and trauma Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation...
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The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their AdaptationsSince his first novel in 1992, Michael Connelly has become one of America's most popular and critically acclaimed crime writers. He is best known as the author of a long-running series featuring LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, a compelling figure in contemporary crime fiction....
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Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English PoetryThis volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's work by Dryden,...
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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first work to consider all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only in aesthetic terms but in its cultural and political context.Author: Benedikt HjartarsonPublisher: BrillPublished: 05/25/2022Pages:...
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Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of HorrorsHow many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000? The answer is one: Little Shop of Horrors. Roger Corman's monster movie opened in 1960, played the midnight circuit, and then disappeared from view. Two...
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One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and PracticeGiven that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was...
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Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox ChurchLev Tolstoi was not only one of the world's most famous writers, he was also a deeply concerned thinker and hugely influential critic of the Church whose impact was felt long after his death. For an entire generation, Tolstoi set the agenda for ethical...
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The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for NarrativeSentiment analysis has gained widespread adoption in many fields, but not--until now--in literary studies. Scholars have lacked a robust methodology that adapts the tool to the skills and questions central to literary scholars. Also lacking has been quantitative data to help the scholar choose...
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Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of ConsciousnessAltered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book...
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Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts'íib as Recorded KnowledgeUnwriting Maya Literature provides an important decolonial framework for reading Maya texts that builds on the work of Maya authors and intellectuals such as Q'anjob'al Gaspar Pedro González and Kaqchikel Irma Otzoy. Paul M. Worley and Rita M. Palacios privilege the Maya category ts'íib...
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Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Avant-Garde and Modernism: The Impact of World War IAn examination of the cultural and artistic consequences of post-WWI nationalism in Europe. World War I was a seismic event in Europe whose most concrete ramifications were the sweeping changes made to maps of the continent after 1918. A number of new, independent states...
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