Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after PostmodernismMetamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent social,...
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The Antinomies of RealismThe Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, P rez Gald s, and George...
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Stray Birds"Stray Birds," by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, contains ideas on nature, man, and his environment as may be entertained by a man sitting by a window where the stray birds of summer sing and fly away. These very short poems are often just an...
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G K Chesterton's Christian Writings (Unabridged): Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas and the Man Who Was TThis Omnibus edition of g K Chesterton's writings includes the following complete and unabridged classic books: The Everlasting Man. What makes the human uniquely human? This is the question that G.K. Chesterton starts with in this exploration of human history. Chesterton responds to H.G....
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Readying Rilla: L.M. Montgomery's Reworking of Rilla of InglesideL.M. Montgomery began writing Rilla of Ingleside shortly after the end of World War I. Her story of the war was not about soldiers fighting and dying on Flanders Fields, but about Canadians struggling to "keep the home fires burning." It is a novel...
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The Videofag BookLonglisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Awards In October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub...
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FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair DetectivesHow much do you really know about the FBI? Do you know who the FBI is? Do you know what the FBI does? This manual debunks FBI myths and misconceptions for those who read, watch, and write crime dramas about the FBI or have...
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North and SouthAuthor: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781731701657This title is not returnable
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Against Nature (A Rebours)Author: Joris -. Karl HuysmansPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781731702050This title is not returnable
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In the American Grain2017 Reprint of 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is "a fundamental book, essential...
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Hafiz: The Mystic PoetsDiscover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your OwnHafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur'an itself. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people...
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Christmas in Minnesota: A Celebration in Memories, Stories, and Recipes of Seasons PastLike the warmth of a cabin fireplace and the twinkle of lights along the edge of a frozen lake, Christmas in Minnesota evokes memories of holidays long ago. Beloved Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz recalls the boyhood Christmas when he learned how to sketch...
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New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Honour of Helen DamicoNew Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Early Medieval English culture and in Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas. Honouring the eminent scholar Helen...
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The Eloquent Peasant, 2nd editionFour thousand years ago, Egyptian society struggled with the downfall of the Old Kingdom, which brought an end to material success and introduced anarchy and chaos. Out of this period of crisis came such literature as A Dialogue between a Man and His Ba,...
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I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana PhilosophyFirst published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North...
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The Long-Legged HouseFirst published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays...
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New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the CityNew York Elegies attempts to demonstrate how descriptions and evocations of New York City are connected to various stylistic modes and topical questions urgent to Ukrainian poetry throughout its development. The collection thus gives readers the opportunity to view New York through various poetic...
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Superhero ReaderWith contributions from Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott Bukatman, John G. Cawelti, Peter Coogan, Jules Feiffer, Charles Hatfield, Henry Jenkins, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Gerard Jones, Geoff Klock, Karin Kukkonen, Andy Medhurst, Adilifu Nama, Walter Ong, Lorrie Palmer, Richard Reynolds, Trina...
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Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue (Fourth Revised Edition)H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This fourth revised edition provides comprehensive information on 1085 books owned by Lovecraft.These books focus chiefly on four...
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Sex and the Cthulhu MythosH. P. Lovecraft was one of the most asexual beings in history-at least by his own admission. Whether we accept this view of his own sexual instincts or not, there is no denying that sexuality-normal and aberrant-underlies a number of significant tales in the...
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