Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Mysterious Island: The Secret Of The Island (1875)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Cervantes the PoetCervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publication of Don Quijote, Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer demonstrates the cultural, literary, and theoretical significance of...
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The Seed Of YggdrasillThe most comprehensive guide to Norse literature, historical folk lore and more. Kvilhaug peels back the layers of the Eddas, Poems and Sagas to reveal hidden truths within Maria's background in research and archaeology is visible throughout with full illustrations, timelines and beautiful translations...
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Illustrated Ramayana for ChildrenThis is an authentic retelling of Valmiki's great epic Ramayana that chronicles Lord Rama's heroism, and Sita's grit and devotion. Flying chariots, magical weapons and a raging battlefield are brought to life in this timeless retelling by Shubha Vilas that will take young readers...
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The Cambridge Companion to World LiteratureThe Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First FolioShakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial...
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Lessons Learned From My Friendship With Octavia ButlerImagine The Universe Lining Up And Creating A Miraculous Way For Contact To Be Made With One Of The Greatest And Most Reclusive Writers On The Planet. Imagine The Gems Discovered When That Writer Decided To Open The Door To Her Life And Allow...
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They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640 Volume 15The Japan accidentally discovered by the Europeans in 1543 was a country torn by internecene wars waged by independent barons who recognised no effective central government and were free to appropriate as many neighbouring fiefs as force of arms and treachery would permit. The...
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The Plural of Happiness, Volume 28Herman de Coninck, Belgium's leading poet for many decades, appears in English in a single volume for the first time. Witty, tender, trenchant, wise, de Coninck's poems range from playful, terse love lyrics to darkly ironic, somberly truthful observations about human experience. Bosselaar and...
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Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature AnthologyA major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars. Both entertaining and informative, Classical...
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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel KotikOriginally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author's experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life...
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Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary PerspectivesThe Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore nor...
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Evergreen Ash: Ecology and Catastrophe in Old Norse Myth and LiteratureNorse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will no longer support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts...
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Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural WorkWhat are two hands worth?In linking forms of cultural expression to labor, occupational injuries, and deaths, Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work centers what is usually decentered--the complex culture of working-class people. Janet Zandy begins by examining the literal loss of lives to...
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The Visual and Verbal Sketch in British RomanticismWith their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Whether publicly displayed or serving as the basis of a written genre, these rough drawings played a central role in the cultural ferment of...
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Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek FolktalesTotkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time-in Creel and English--the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe. In 1915, Earnest Gouge was encouraged by ethnographer John Reed...
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Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic NarrativesAn exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and psychological spaces that women inhabit. Victoria Aarons argues that Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied with...
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Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and IdentityTolkien and Wales is the first book to offer a detailed examination of the influence of Wales on Tolkien's fiction and scholarly work, including some relatively neglected texts.Author: Carl PhelpsteadPublisher: University of Wales PressPublished: 07/11/2011Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60dISBN:...
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Cool Characters: Irony and American FictionCharting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, Cool Characters examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political life from World War II to the present, showing how irony migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the...
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Why Read the Classics?A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.Author: Italo CalvinoPublisher: Mariner Books ClassicsPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9780544146372About the AuthorITALO CALVINO's superb storytelling gifts earned him...
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