Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Shakespeare through Islamic WorldsShakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare's corpus. While many of Shakespeare's plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people.Author:...
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Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyIn Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the early years of the field search for unifying origins of literature as a discipline and object of study. Uhlig turns to...
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Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American LiteraturePublication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. Because nineteenth-century Black Americans knew that publication could empower them, and because they faced...
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Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of MotionSince the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on class, race, gender, nations, and mobility. But, beyond depicting migration, is it possible for migrant literature to be a force of movement itself?...
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund FreudA collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers With original contributions by André Aciman - Sarah Boxer - Jennifer Finney Boylan - Susie Boyt - Gerald Early - Esther Freud - Rivka...
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No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the WorldSilver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards. A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's greatest poets. No, Love Is Not Dead is a timely affirmation...
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Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic CultureIn Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur-Rahman means the political terror and social abjection that constitute the ongoing peril of black lives. Whereas earlier black writers and...
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Literary LondonDiscover one of the best cities in the world through the lens of some of the most iconic writers who have ever lived.Literary Londonfollows in the footsteps of those literary legends to prove that - as another famous local writer put it - he...
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Larbi Batma, Nass El-Ghiwane and Postcolonial Music in MoroccoEstablished in 1971, Nass el-Ghiwane is a legendary musical group that transformed the Moroccan music scene in the last decades of the 20th century. The charismatic founding member Larbi Batma (1948-1997) through his lyrics brought to light Moroccan folklore and obscure poetry. His autobiography...
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Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of GlobalizationThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or...
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Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien's LegendariumThe theory of Northern Courage was J.R.R. Tolkien's designation for the heroic ethos found in 'Germanic' or Northern heroic lays and epics. Tolkien admired the nobility of the old heroes, such as Beowulf, but wrestled with the inherent cruelty of the Welands, Ingelds, and...
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Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death: Or Language Haunted by SexJulia Kristeva has been both attracted and repelled by Dostoyevsky since her youth. In this extraordinary book, by turns poetic and intensely personal, she brings her unique critical sensibility to bear on the tormented and visionary Russian author. Kristeva ranges widely across Dostoyevsky's novels...
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Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural ProductionNearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship examines how Vietnamese American cultural productions register lived experiences of racism in...
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Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020Dangerous Innocence investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the "southern outsider" in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americans' enduring...
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Cultivating Vocation in Literary StudiesThe concept of 'vocation' has garnered significant attention as a means of speaking about purposeful living and the multiple responsibilities of civic life, which converge with the broader goals of liberal education. This volume addresses the important role that literary studies can and should...
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Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First CenturyA groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century. Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection...
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Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of LettersAuthor: Baidik BhattacharyaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/08/2024Pages: 302Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781009422642
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Building Christian Character Through the Hobbit: Bible-Study and Companion BookBuilding Christian Character through The Hobbit is a companion book with a built-in Bible-study based upon Bilbo's adventures. Not only does it explore the many ways that Christian virtues are modeled in The Hobbit, but it also examines the terrific parallels between Bilbo's journey...
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Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition)Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of a hero's fight against monsters and sets it against a complex background of political intrigue and tribal warfare. Situated in sixth-century Scandinavia, the...
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Babylonian Creation MythsFor much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2...
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