Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of JusticeA probing analysis of Black women's attempts to pursue justice for sexual-violence victims within often hostile social and legal systems In Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice, Maya Hislop examines the lack of place that Black women...
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Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative RemixIn Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS, Nghana tamu Lewis chronicles the work of five black women creators to demonstrate how hip hop feminism operates as a vital tool for interpreting and building knowledge about the lived experiences of...
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Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative RemixIn Black Women's Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS, Nghana tamu Lewis chronicles the work of five black women creators to demonstrate how hip hop feminism operates as a vital tool for interpreting and building knowledge about the lived experiences of...
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A Year with EmersonArranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known...
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A Room of One's Own"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf is a seminal work of feminism and literary criticism that explores the complex relationship between gender inequality and the ability of women writers to create and thrive. Drawing from lectures she delivered at women's colleges at...
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A Poetics of the Image: Paul Celan and Andr? du BouchetWhat is an image? Literary imagery is often understood as figurative speech. But images can also be visual in artworks. They can be abstract, too, if mankind is understood as an image of God. Similarly, Plato often speaks of ideas and forms in visual...
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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie ProulxAn unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous--Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison,...
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African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives MatterThis Element explores twenty-first century Black Gothic literature and film as it responds to American anti-Blackness and as they illustrate a mode of Black Gothic fiction termed Black Lives Matter (BLM) Gothic. The various texts express frustration, rage, and sorrow over the failures of...
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African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives MatterThis Element explores twenty-first century Black Gothic literature and film as it responds to American anti-Blackness and as they illustrate a mode of Black Gothic fiction termed Black Lives Matter (BLM) Gothic. The various texts express frustration, rage, and sorrow over the failures of...
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About SufferingAuthor: Christos HadjiyiannisPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/13/2025Pages: 75Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17dISBN: 9781009418874
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Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman WorldAuthor: Giacomo FedeliPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/27/2024Pages: 398Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781009464529This title is not returnable
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Women and Magic in Medieval Romance: Genre, Intertextuality and PowerExplores the conventions and contradictions inherent in archetypes of magical femininity - from loathly ladies to monstrous mothers - in a range of popular late medieval English romances. The female characters in Middle English romances with particular power and agency are often portrayed as...
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Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary CultureAuthor: Asha HornsbyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 358Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781009503525
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Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern WorldA darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant family--notorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous properties--rose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century. Beginning with bittersweet...
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Victorian Nightshades: How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern WorldA darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernity Victorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant family--notorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous properties--rose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century. Beginning with bittersweet...
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Vernacular Edens: Tropes of Translation in Medieval European FictionsLate-medieval European vernacular literature defined itself as the redeployment of classical and post-classical antecedents in new cultural coordinates. Many authors of narrative and poetic fiction between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries resisted the idea that moving a text from one language to another produces...
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Vergil: The Poet's LifeA biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid "Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy 'ancient' into our contemporary . . . persuasively re-imagined [as] a sympathetic, three-dimensional figure. . ....
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Ugly Productions: An Aesthetics of Greek DramaAmidst a culture otherwise obsessed with beauty, the Greek theater provided a unique space for Athenians to play with ugliness--to try these anti-ideals on for size. Such imaginative play was considered dangerous by some, such as Plato, who feared its corrupting influence; others, including...
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Trauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels: Connected by Invisible FibersTrauma and Spirituality in Ethnic American Women's Novels examines a genre of ethnic American women's literature, which the author calls spiritual trauma narratives, that testify to traumas caused by epistemological violence, wreaked by ongoing colonialism, systematic racism, and marginalization grounded in a binary, hierarchical,...
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TransgenreAuthor: Aaron HammesPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17dISBN: 9781009502214
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