Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern EnglandDramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating how an apparently secluded theatrical culture...
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Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic CrimeWhy does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well...
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These Spindrift PagesTheodore Dalrymple finds deep satisfaction in books, and in this work he captures the thoughts occasioned by his recent reading. Inspired by a great and varied group of writers and touching on subjects of eternal interest, Dalrymple's observations here are carefully considered and beautifully...
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Memory & Landscapes: The Works of Four Early Twentieth-Century Barbadian WritersMemory and Landscapes examines the impact of the literary and journalistic contributions of W. S. Arthur, Hilton Vaughan, Karl Sealy, and A. N. Forde, key contributors to the shaping of Barbadian and West Indian writing. Where the early works of Jamaican writers such as...
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Second Five Books of the Top Ten SeriesThis collection of the second five Top Ten Books is for published authors who will learn a great deal more about getting their books in front of readers and decision-makers. This collection goes into more detail about interviews, and marketing and has a bonus...
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Between Wisdom and TorahPrevious scholars have largely approached Wisdom and Torah in the Second Temple Period through a type of reception history, whereby the two concepts have been understood as signifiers of independent, earlier "biblical" streams of tradition that later came together in the Hellenistic and Roman...
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The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations En La Frontera, Volume 1This volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives. For several decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theatermakers have been repurposing Shakespeare's plays to reflect the histories and lived realities of the US-Mexico Borderlands and to create space to tell...
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The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo EmersonThis is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era's most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and...
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Things to Do Now That You're RetiredNew edition into the 'Things to do... series', packed with inspiring and original ideas and fun-filled tips and thought-provoking quotations to encourage the reader to live life to the full. A great impulse purchase! Retirement is not the end of your working years but...
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The CypriaThe Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot...
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After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar FranceHow did French musicians and critics interpret jazz--that quintessentially American music--in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often...
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On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus"With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future."--Hussein Fancy, Yale University How the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba...
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Testimonia. OriginesAncient Rome's original archconservative. M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of life; his integrity of character and austere...
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Orations. Other FragmentsAncient Rome's original archconservative. M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of life; his integrity of character and austere...
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Twelve Angry MenTV Script for the Emmy-award-winning courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men, concerning the jury of a homicide trial. It explores the deliberations of a jury of a homicide trial, in which a dozen "men with ties and a coat" decide the fate of a teenager...
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The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency EnglandBridgerton fans and Jane Austen neophytes will be bewitched, body and soul, by this fun, informative guide to the nuances of life in Regency England Every young lady dreams of a life spent exchanging witty asides with a dashing Mr. Darcy, but how should...
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Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City CultureWhile analyzing Damon Runyon's high spirited work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, and of the changing function of the media, Schwarz argues that in his columns and stories Runyon was an indispensable figure in creating our public images of New York City...
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A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein...
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Book Buddies: Don't Talk to Me While I'm Reading!A Perfect Gift for Book Lovers Book Buddies: Don't Talk to Me While I'm Reading is a beautifully illustrated celebration of all things bookworm--from the sweet to the snarky, including puns, inspirational quotes, trivia, and other delights. A playful illustration of an owl in...
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Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern LiteratureReconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist period between the late-nineteenth century and World War 2, the cultural interrelationships between painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Picasso, and writers such as James, Conrad, Eliot and...
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