Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Literature in Late Monolingualism: Literacies for the LinguaceneMonolingualism is bad; literature is good - right?For many of us monolingualism is associated with closed-mindedness, political nationalism, and a general hostility to diverse knowledges and experiences of the world. In contrast, literature continues to stand allegedly unbeholden, as a symbolic beacon for expansive...
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Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative CrossingsLatinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections, and original and republished short comics. The works in this collection discuss the construction...
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Kincaid's Discovery: The Hidden Mysteries of the Grand CanyonKincaid's Discovery: The Hidden Mysteries of the Grand CanyonUncover the Secrets Beneath America's Majestic WonderDive into the enigmatic journey of G.E. Kincaid, a daring explorer whose groundbreaking expeditions into the Grand Canyon have sparked intrigue and debate among historians and archaeologists alike. In "Kincaid's...
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Growing Hope: Narratives of Food JusticeGrowing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and stories...
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Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary MartyrsGendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs takes readers on a journey through the lives and legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs, revealing how their sacrifices have been remembered, commemorated, and manipulated throughout history. This innovative book blends...
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Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic SourcesGalen's On Demonstration (written c. 160 C.E.) was a tour de force of scientific methodology, loosely based on Aristotle's (and Theophrastus') Posterior Analytics and suited to the needs of a philosophically minded doctor. In its fifteen volumes, Galen outlined the theory of demonstration and...
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Elephants by Night: African PoemsHow was Abraham Sutzkever, the most famous Yiddish poet to survive the ghettos of Europe, inspired by an invitation to speak in South Africa? How did he transform his travels into a celebration of the creative impulse at a moment when Yiddish literature was...
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Earn Your Milk"Earn Your Milk" contains all the uncollected prose works of Tom Raworth, gathering together "Letters from Yaddo", "The Vein" and "Letter to Martin Stannard" with his uncategorizable prose-work "A Serial Biography", an extraordinary assembly memoir and reportage. This invaluable collection now makes widely available...
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Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian EpicIn early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos. In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can comparison...
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CouplehoodIn the tradition of the #1 best-seller SeinLanguage, Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by Paul Reiser, television's sharpest, funniest observer of love, marriage and other mysteries of life. A veteran comic performer, Reiser is best-known as the co-creator and star of the...
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Contemporary Body HorrorAuthor: Xavier Aldana ReyesPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 96Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781009565165
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Confronting / Defining the Self: Formation and Dissolution of the 'i' from La Fayette to GrassEarly 20th-century literary critics Joseph Collins, Hermann Hesse, and Percy Lubbock concluded that the pages of a book present a succession of moments that the reader visualizes and reinterprets. They feared that few would actually commit themselves to memory, and that most were likely...
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Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, DelightA unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object. In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve illustrations of the so-called "Pearl-Manuscript," the only...
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Beauty and the Gods: A History from Homer to PlatoHow ideas and experiences of beauty informed human relationships with the divine in ancient Greece Beginning with the earliest Greek literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, beauty was seen as having a special connection with the divine. The gods of ancient Greece were...
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An Introduction to Criticism: Literature - Film - CultureAn accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent developments in criticism such as evolutionary theory,...
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Ancient NecropoliticsThis is the first collection of essays approaching aspects of Greek antiquity and its reception through 'necropolitics'. It discovers traces of necropolitics in the unburied and maltreated corpses of the Homeric epics; it follows the manifestations of necropower in Greek tragedy, historiography, and biography;...
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Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United StatesAgainst! is the first book-length study of Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant and second-generation writing in the United States. In it, Asha Jeffers evaluates the relationship between Blackness and immigranthood in the US as depicted through the recurring theme of rebellious Black immigrant daughters. Considering...
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Against!: Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United StatesAgainst! is the first book-length study of Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant and second-generation writing in the United States. In it, Asha Jeffers evaluates the relationship between Blackness and immigranthood in the US as depicted through the recurring theme of rebellious Black immigrant daughters. Considering...
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Writing Themselves Into the Movement: Child Authors of the Black Arts EraBetween 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year period, at least thirty anthologies of poetry and prose by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American children came out of adult-led workshops, classrooms, and...
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Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They SpunLong before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales--these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together...
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