Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Teach Living PoetsTeach Living Poets opens up the flourishing world of contemporary poetry to secondary teachers.It is designed to give advice on reading contemporary poetry, discovering new poets, and inviting living poets into the classroom, as well as sharing sample lessons, writing prompts, and ways to...
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Swimming PoolObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools...
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Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES ** "An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking." -- Nigella Lawson "One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious." -- Olivia Laing...
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Poets on Poets: The Epistolary and Poetic Communication of Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, and RilkeThis book provides a thorough examination of how both Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak perceived Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic persona and oeuvre in similar ways, and how, in their perception of Rilke's role as that of the paradigmatic poet, they had drawn on the...
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Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and ImageThe Hyakunin Isshu, or One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, is a sequence of one hundred Japanese poems in the tanka form, selected by the famous poet and scholar Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) and arranged, in part, to represent the history of Japanese poetry...
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Memoirs of an Edomite King Born in America!: Struggles, Tribulations, & AccomplishmentsAfter throwing brick after brick at the penitentiary, and after multiple incarcerations (bids), Jeffrey vowed to stop selling drugs and searched for God! Upon his release and ready for a fresh start, he enrolled in a community college. During his first few months home,...
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Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century Us Comic StripLost Literacies is the first full-length study of US comic strips from the period prior to the rise of Sunday newspaper comics. Where current histories assume that nineteenth-century US comics consisted solely of single-panel political cartoons or simple "proto-comics," Lost Literacies introduces readers to...
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London: An Illustrated Literary CompanionAn exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city. London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of London over recent centuries, through diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts from...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume 4, Issue 2Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. In this edition of Liberties: Carissa Veliz -- The Technology of Bullshit; Adam Kirsch -- LiteratureGPT; Ryan Ruby -- Reading and Time;...
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Letters to a Spiritual SeekerThe writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature, Thoreau sought to "lead a fresh, simple life with God." In 1848 a seeker named Harrison...
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Les secrets de la princesse de CadignanLes Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan est une nouvelle d'Honor de Balzac, parue dans le journal la Presse en 1839 sous le titre Une Princesse parisienne, puis publi e en volume dans le tome XI de l' dition Furne de La Com die...
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Langston Hughes in the Classroom: Do Nothin' Till You Hear from MeCarmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography. Though high school English teachers often include a few poems by Langston Hughes in their curriculum,...
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Korean Mythology: Folklore and Legends from the Korean PeninsulaMyths, legends, and folklore are more than incredible and magical stories and tales. They have a profound purpose in the human world. They explain how human beings perceived and tried to understand how our world operated. Myths give us insight into the working of...
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Journal of Vampire Studies: Vol. 3 (2023)Journal of Vampire Studies is the official journal of the Vampire Studies Association, a not-for-profit founded to stimulate, disseminate and publish vampire scholarship. In this issue, Paul Murray travels through Dracula's Transylvania, Lloyd Graham discusses the parallels between patriarchal blood rituals and vampires, and...
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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and TransnationalismIn 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man 'without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a 'cosmopolitan' vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings...
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James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, NovelistBiographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island, and received eighty letters from him. Meyers's knowledge of Salter's life provides many new insights about the personal, literary, and...
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Impresiones de Un Surumato En Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana: A Bilingual Edition of the Original 1908 Picaresque NovellaImpresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana represents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish and in English, painstakingly translated and annotated by Phillip B. Gonzales.Manuel Sariñana came to the New Mexico...
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Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without GodMarcos Antonio Norris implements Giorgio Agamben's notion of 'secularized theism' to resolve a critical disagreement among Hemingway scholars who have portrayed the writer as either a Roman Catholic or a secular existentialist. He argues that Hemingway is, properly speaking, neither a secularist nor a...
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Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in CrisisIn Growing Up Graphic, Alison Halsall considers graphic texts for young readers to interrogate how they help children develop new ideas about social justice and become potential agents of change. With a focus on comics that depict difficult experiences affecting young people, Halsall explores...
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Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of KusazōshiPart of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi ("grass books"). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan is the first English-language publication of its kind. It...
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