Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy: Essays by Nancy Bunting, Seamus Hamill-Keays, and Toby WiddicombeIt has been just over fifty years since the death of J.R.R. Tolkien. This collection of essays by Nancy Bunting, Seamus Hamill-Keays, and Toby Widdicombe celebrates his achievement by looking at two aspects of the legacy of the founder of modern fantasy. First, Tolkien's...
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Bibliotherapy: Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of LifeA beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life's throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a. 'your inclusive AF feminist book club' Through turbulent times, stories keep us afloat. Books, particularly, console and guide us, feed our...
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A Short History of Paper in Imperial ChinaPaper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of recent scholarship and original insights into the origins of papermaking and its subsequent history in imperial China, including a wide...
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Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern FranceWomen Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change. As the female intellectual became a...
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William Morris: Selected WritingsThis newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his life, ordered chronologically, with an introduction highlighting his pressing and prescient writing on matters of the natural and built environment, human and non-human relations, internationalism,...
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Wildwood HealerSecrets, lies, and danger hide deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas during the Depression of 1930. Sicily Rossi is a healer in the truest sense but wonders how one heals dark hatred. She knows the healing power of plants and taps into...
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Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy SpeakAs the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of science fiction and fantasy become correspondingly both more bizarre and more relevant. Voices of Vision offers a rare look into the inner workings of this realm and into...
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Trix: The Other KiplingThis volume represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. Rarely portrayed with sympathy or accuracy in biographies of her famous brother Rudyard, Trix was a talented writer and a memorable character in her own right whose fascinating life...
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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an OtherFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States...
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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. Reprinted with both Tolkien's own annotations and new notes from the authors, this book analyses...
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Thresholds: A 'Complete' Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de Violence, and Why They MatterRecent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem's epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence) are far more extensive than was previously thought. Accused of plagiarism, Ouologuem quit the Parisian literary world and returned to a definitive silence in Mali....
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Thresholds: A 'Complete' Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de Violence, and Why They MatterRecent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem's epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence) are far more extensive than was previously thought. Accused of plagiarism, Ouologuem quit the Parisian literary world and returned to a definitive silence in Mali....
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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and IrelandThe Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying language notes which explore the interrelationships between language and literature at each stage. With a span from AD 600 to the present day,...
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The Psalms in English 1530-1633Translations of the Psalms were a major feature of early modern English literature. Yet this vast body of translation work has never before been presented as such, or in such depth. This collection brings together over a century of English biblical translation, by a...
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The Poems of John DeweyA literary discovery of considerable magnitude, these 98 previously unpublished poems by John Dewey, written principally in the 1910-18 period, illuminate an emotive aspect in his intellectual life often not manifest in the prose works.Rumors of the existence of the poems have circulated among...
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The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis BorgesMost known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on the international scene. However,...
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The Necessity of PoeticsThe Necessity of Poetics marks the moves Robert Sheppard has made as a poet-critic around the notion of poetics in general, and the poetics of linguistically innovative poetry in particular, and his own poetics as an outcome of those. It traces those moves, but...
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The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval ManuscriptsA fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers, religious figures, and scholars sought to harness supernatural power. They tried...
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The Importance Of Being EarnestThe Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde that was first performed in 1895. The play is a satire of Victorian society and its values, particularly the importance placed on social status, wealth, and marriage. The plot revolves around two friends,...
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The Handmaid's Tale Psychology: Seeing Off RedHow do people stay true to themselves in times of crisis? Where does anyone find the strength to stand up in the face of oppression? When will the worst side of human nature wither before the best?Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale has...
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