Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Monsters: A Fan's DilemmaA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love...
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Literature, Art and Slavery: Ekphrastic VisionsSince around 2000, there has been a noticeable upsurge in critical work on the visual archive of Atlantic slavery, resulting in a host of important studies. While most of these contributions are weighted towards images created during the era of slavery itself, some critics...
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La Traducción del Mundo: Las Conferencias Weidenfeld 2022 / Interpreting the WOR LD: The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022Cuatro textos magistrales sobre el poder de la ficción para comprender el mundo que habitamos - «Uno de los escritores más grandes del mundo . -Andrea Bajani, La Repubblica «Un escritor superdotado [...]. Uno de los escritores mayores del mundo hispánico . -Thierry Clermont,...
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Jameel Shaidai ki Elmi wo Adabi Khidmaat: (Research and Criticism)Dr. Mohammed Shafiuddin Zafar's book "Jameel Shaidai ki Elmi wo Adabi Khidmaat" contains research papers about the services and contributions that poet, writer, journalist, and critic Jameel Shaidai made to Urdu language and literature.نظام آباد (تلنگانہ) سے تعلق رکھنے والے قلمکار و استاد ڈاکٹر...
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Horace: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that...
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Game of Thrones Versus History: Written in BloodSince it first aired in 2011, Game of Thrones galloped up the ratings to become the most watched show in HBO's history. It is no secret that creator George R.R. Martin was inspired by late 15th century Europe when writing A Song of Ice...
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Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and FilmThe author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Améry, to make sense of the catastrophe and to point to a way forward for both victims and...
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Finger Exercises for PoetsFrom "a poet of immense insight and masterful craft" (Kwame Dawes), Finger Exercises for Poets is an engaging invitation to practice poetry alongside one of its masters. With wide-ranging examples from classic and contemporary poets, Dorianne Laux demystifies the magic of language that makes...
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Fear, SomeStealing tropes from militancy to minstrelsy, Fear, some broadcasts from the slippery moments when personal, national, racial and aesthetic anxieties overlap. These poems seek to pressurize content ("At the Pink Teacup"), language ("Atomic Buckdance") and form (the Blaxploitation epic-remix, "(dig) Bloom is Boom, Sucka!")...
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Eight Dogs, or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's BladeKyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been adapted many times into film, television, fiction, and comics.His Master's Blade,...
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Dublin TalesDublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of histories with a vibrant contemporary edge, and which welcomes millions of...
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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition: Essays in Honor of Ronald B. HerzmanDante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public humanities. This volume of essays...
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Conversations with Orhan PamukIn over thirty interviews conducted between 1982 and 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense literary and political engagement. Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) is a foremost practitioner of the global novel today. His books have been translated into over...
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Classical Literary CriticismThis anthology brings together core classical texts for understanding literature. The selections from Plato illustrate the poetic philosopher's surprising exclusion of poets from his ideal republic. In his response, Poetics, Aristotle draws on the works of the great Greek playwrights to defend the value...
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Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black ModernityIn the early twentieth century, the Saturday Evening Post was perhaps the most popular and influential magazine in the United States, establishing literary reputations and shaping American culture. In the popular imagination, it is best remembered for Norman Rockwell's covers, which nostalgically depicted a...
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Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover's Introduction to Film StudiesWatching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. They made brief appearances (think of Mafia boss Marlon Brando gently stroking a cat in a scene from The Godfather);...
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Childe Harold of DysnaA masterpiece from one of Yiddish literature's true virtuosi, Moyshe Kulbak's Childe Harold of Dysna appears here for the first time in a complete English translation. At once an exuberant celebration of Yiddish language and a searing indictment of capitalist excess, Kulbak's long poem...
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Charles Olson at the HarborCharles Olson was quite possibly the greatest, and without question the most influential, of the "New American Poets" published by Grove Press in the mid-twentieth century. Synthesizing the experimental avant-garde of Black Mountain College with the uncompromising existentialism of the Beat generation, the new...
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Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World OrdersBorder Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian speakers living in Latvia. Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, Latvia's Russian speakers have balanced between Russia and Europe as...
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A Tragedy of Errors: Bar Qamtza and the Fall of JerusalemThe story of Bar Qamtza is one of the most famous stories in all rabbinic literature. In this tragic tale, a private feud at a Jerusalem banquet triggers a series of events which eventually culminates in the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem....
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