Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern EnglandRace, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between...
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal BookPerceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers...
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English Literature for Boys and GirlsFrom the hand of H. E. Marshall, one of the greatest authors of juvenile history comes this introduction to English literature. From early Gaelic tales and Beowulf though to Spenser, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Thackeray, Marshall introduces us to the times and personalities that have...
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The Year in San FernandoAuthor: Michael AnthonyPublisher: Hodder EducationPublished: 07/09/2021Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9781398340466
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Anthony Trollope: A CompanionAnthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be...
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It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia Volume 1The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political...
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Communion of Radicals: The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century AmericaPopular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first literary history of theologically conservative writers who embraced political radicalism, as their...
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Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New WorldWomen, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas, including Mexico and Cartagena de Indias. Edited by María Jesús...
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Connected History: Essays and ArgumentsA collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history -...
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A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthyA Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor...
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Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian OceanAgainst the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics from India to Arabia. At the center is the influential Sufi scholar Shaykh &703;Ali Muttaqi and his little-known network of disciples....
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The Common Reader: First Series2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. The Common Reader, a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, was published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. This edition reprints the first series, first published in 1925. Most of the essays...
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The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and FormIn The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry, Scott Mehl analyzes the complex response of Meiji-era Japanese poets and readers to the challenge introduced by European verse and the resulting crisis in Japanese poetry. Amidst fierce competition for literary prestige on the national...
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The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception: The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to HeliodorusThe concept of mimesis has dominated reflection on the nature and role, in Greek literature, of representation. Jonas Grethlein, in his ambitious new book, takes this reflection a step further. He argues that, beyond mimesis, there was an important but unacknowledged strand of reflection...
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Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and TheoryThis unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century Black writers and thinkers, including the growing interest in German...
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The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American FictionReading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase '21st-century American literature, ' but no critical consensus exists regarding when the period began, which works typify it, how to conceptualize its aesthetic priorities, and where its geographical boundaries lie. Considerable criticism has been published...
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See What I See: EssaysWhat does it mean today to experience a work of art? Where can we turn in search of the genuine, the sincere, the truly accomplished? And even if we were to find them, would we know how to acknowledge their value? The essays in...
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In Search of the Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from the Proceedings of Estar(ser), 2001-2021The real history of the covey of attention-artists who call themselves The Birds. A great deal of uncertainty--and even some genuine confusion--surrounds the origin, evolution, and activities of the so-called Avis Tertia or Order of the Third Bird. Sensational accounts of this attentional cult...
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Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the AlleyAn award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz's novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight since it was first published in Egypt in 1959. It has been at times...
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How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus? In this unique introduction, Philip Womack leads his beloved lurcher...
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