Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Children'S Beginner Readers Books Three Simple Stories For Children In Kindergarten Or First Grade: Pudgy Wants To Sleep And Pudgy Looks For Her FrienThe early reading skills your child will learn at this age are an important foundation for starting school. The focus at this age is on sharing stories, songs, and rhymes together and building talking and listening skills. Luckily, there are lots of fun and...
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New Realities: The Comics of Dash ShawDash Shaw is one of the most restless cartoonists of recent decades, constantly evolving in how he approaches the comics page. In the years since his breakthrough graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button, he has continued to create acclaimed, idiosyncratic comics, varying his uses of...
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Television's Outlander: A Companion, Seasons 1-5Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish Highlanders, the intrigue-ridden...
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Thomas Hardy: A Companion to the NovelsThomas Hardy enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a novelist before devoting his talents to writing poetry for the remainder of his life. This book focuses on Hardy's remarkable achievements as a novelist. Although Victorian readers considered some of his works controversial, his...
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Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval EnglandTo seek sanctuary from persecution by entering a sacred space is an act of desperation, but also a symbolic endeavor: fugitives invoke divine presence to reach a precarious safe haven that imbues their lives with religious, social, or political significance. In medieval England, sanctuary...
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Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror CinemaItalian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for "yellow"-- reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels--these genre movies were principally produced between 1960 and the late 1970s. These cinematic hybrids of crime, horror, and detection are characterized by...
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Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Heraclitus to PlotinusA. A. Long presents fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy. The discussion ranges over seven centuries of innovative thought, starting with Heraclitus' injunction to listen to the cosmic logos, and concluding with Plotinus' criticism of those who...
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Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American PoetryFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews, illustrated prose, and visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry Over the last twenty-five years, Terrance Hayes has become one of our most exciting and innovative poets. He...
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The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain / El teatro de España del siglo XXI: Identities, Anxieties, and Social Immediacies / Identidades, ansiedadesIdentifying, naming, and belonging lend a sense of rational order, a feeling of rootedness within specific societies and eras, yet that order may collapse and threaten to undermine the predictability that ensures stability. As Spain enters only its fifth decade as a fully democratic...
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A Chapter Guide for the Long Sun & the Short SunA chapter-by-chapter guide to seven volumes, the four-volume Book of the Long Sun and the three-volume Book of the Short Sun, two series by Gene Wolfe. Each chapter has a brief synopsis followed by commentary on such topics as Technology, Unusual Terms and Phrases,...
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Librarians With SpinesThe editors behind the Librarian with Spines series have releasedthe third volume in this popular series. Volume III of LWS is anotheranthology-this time, 5 essays on radical librarianship and aSpanglish interview with Oregon Library Superstar Star Khan-thatengages with critical topics and themes that explore...
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Fairy Tales 101: An Accessible Introduction to Fairy TalesWhat exactly are fairy tales and how did they get their name?Have you ever wondered what fairy tales were like before Walt Disney got his hands on them?And who the heck are these Grimm brothers? Fairy Tales 101 is your one-stop shop for these...
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Asian American LiteratureThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for...
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A Narnian Vision of the AtonementHow can we have redemption or atonement (at-one-ment) with God? Ancient Christians proposed a ransom theory, according to which God pays the ransom for us through heroic self-sacrifice so we can be liberated from the power of the demonic, sin, and death. This theory...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Young Man who Sells his Soul for Eternal Youth and BeautyDorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord...
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Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and CultureThis substantial volume of essays is published in honour of Edward J. Hughes.Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and...
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Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante's Divine ComedySince the earliest days of its circulation, Dante's Divine Comedy has drawn readers into conversation with it, but what is it that makes the poem so particularly involving? And why might videogames help us understand this better? Drawing on new theories in cognitive neuroscience...
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Dante and Petrarch in the Garden of LanguageIn Dante's Paradiso, the first garden dweller, Adam, speaks of the language he 'used and shaped' (Par. XXVI, 114) and affirms the rather unstable, yet malleable, character of the vernacular tongue, which is tied both to natural variation and to pleasure. Examining the ways...
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Kulturen Im Dialog VI - Culture in Dialogo VI - Cultures in Dialogue VI: Sechstes Jungakademikerinnen-Forum in Suedtirol - Sesto Forum Per NeolaureatiJungakademikerInnen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee den interdisziplinären sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fördern ans Werk gemacht und setzen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit internationalen Fragen beziehungsweise regionalen Themen auseinander. Neolaureati di diverse facoltà con l'idea di promuovere il dialogo interdisciplinare come...
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I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the OtherUlrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence...
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