Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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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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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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