Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Exacting Clam No. 10The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Liza Achilles, Corina Bardoff, Eric Bies, Christopher Boucher, Marvin Cohen, Michael Collins, Patrick Daniel, Corey Anderson Dansereau, Jordan Deveraux, Gregory Feeley, David Fitzgerald, Jack Foley, Jake Goldsmith, Andrew P. Heath, Charles Holdefer, Paul Kavanagh,...
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Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry NotebookThe poem is perhaps the highest verbal form of communication. It illuminates and it conceals. It is as precise and as vague as a mirror."--David MeltzerTwo-Way Mirror is a classic book of poetics. Written in short remarks, autobiographical anecdotes, and inspirational quotations drawn from...
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The Saint-Domingue Plantation; Or, the Insurrection: A Drama in Five ActsBased on events that began in Saint-Domingue on August 21, 1791, The Saint-Domingue Plantation; or, The Insurrection vividly dramatizes the genesis and outbreak of a slave revolt. When a representative of the French Assembl e nationale, Monsieur de Tendale, arrives at the Valombre family...
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The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius VictorThis book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor in the middle of the fourth century A.D. Though little regarded today, Victor was the most famous historian of his day, read by Jerome and Ammianus, honoured with a...
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Wang Kuo-Wei: An Intellectual BiographyIn this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang's intimate, thirty-year personal and...
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The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer's LifePraise for Nancy Willard"Willard's invention and lyricism, the splash of her wit, the glancing slyness of her dialogue, all have the fresh breath of a first-rate writer."---New York Times Book Review"Willard's gift for seamlessly mixing the magical and the mundane puts her in the...
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Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx CulturesIn Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In...
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MenciusKnown throughout East Asia as Mengzi, or "Master Meng," Mencius (391-308 B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Zhou dynasty, an instrumental figure in the spread of the Confucian tradition, and a brilliant illuminator of its ideas. Mencius was active during the Warring...
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International Who's Who in Poetry 2023The twenty-second edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In...
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The Poems of Shelley: Volume One: 1804-1817Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of...
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The Poems of John Dryden: Volume One: 1649-1681These first two volumes in a four-volume edition of Dryden's poems are the result of a complete reappraisal of the canon, text and context of his work. The text has been prepared from a fresh examination of the early printed editions, and takes account...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest DestinyAs Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle...
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading...
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The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching FrontierThe cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest DestinyAs Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? R. J. Boutelle...
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The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary InterculturalismDespite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts...
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Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish TermsDictionary of Jewish Usage: A Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms is a unique and much needed guide to the way many Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic words and meanings are used by English speakers. Sol Steinmetz draws upon his years of dictionary editorial...
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Studying English LiteratureStudying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to...
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Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the AnthropoceneWhile Thomas Pynchon is usually described as an American author who primarily writes about American reality, Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene argues that his major novels, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, can profitably be read as a global...
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Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer ReadingThe publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of...
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