Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading QueerlyAn Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly is the first introduction to queer theory written especially for students of literature. Tracking the emergence of queer theory out of gay and lesbian studies, this book pays unique attention to how queer scholars have read...
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Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental CrisesInterrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and...
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Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous CulturesIn Mayalogue, Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric approaches that have marginalized Native knowledge and worldviews in the past. He proposes instead a methodology for studying culture as a unified whole, a radical departure...
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The Bohemian Republic: Transnational Literary Networks in the Nineteenth CenturyIn the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia's cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating its creative expressions...
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The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the StateFeminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe. However, feminist critical analysis has not yet examined how the assumption that religion is natural, timeless, universal and omnipresent supports sexist and race-based oppression. This book proposes...
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The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the HumanitiesThe Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and cross-interpret aspects of...
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Myth AnalyzedComparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities. This ambitious collection of essays uses the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines - psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, philosophy, religious studies,...
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Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel GenerationThinking While Black brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as...
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The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the American UniversityThe surprising story of the relationship between experimental poetry and literary studies.In The Academic Avant-Garde, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews makes a provocative case for the radical poetic possibilities of the work of literary scholarship and lays out a foundational theory of literary production in the...
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Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of NaturalizationAn ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal allegiance and integrate new subjects...
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The Burden of Traumascapes: Discourses of Remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and BeyondDemonstrating the range of linguistic and semiotic practices which are deployed in the construction of war memory, The Burden of Traumascapes investigates the discourses of remembering that are enculturated in the everyday lives of the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Maida Kosatica explores how the memory...
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Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across DifferencesCritical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue between influential feminist writers on how to say no to the conditions of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation imposed by patriarchal and systemically racist capitalist societies. The book provides today's...
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The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to DanteSicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks...
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Vanitas als WiederholungDie Wiederholung des in Antike und Barock verankerten Vanitas-Motivs in der Kultur der Gegenwart mag anachronistisch anmuten. Dabei passt sie nicht nur zu einer Reihe anderer, aktueller Praxen, Vanitas thematisiert selbst bereits Wiederholung als das, was dann erst seit dem 19. Jahrhundert kontrovers diskutiert...
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Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of DisplacementThe nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to the idea of a homogeneous German culture with a strong normative function. As a consequence, histories of...
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The Routledge Companion to World LiteratureThis fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies. Separated...
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The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz: Essays on the Evolution of a Writer, 1973-1987Born into poverty with an abusive home life, Dean Koontz found a respite in books. As he began a writing career in the late 1960s, Koontz began injecting the dark experiences of his own life into his literature, and autobiography became a central thematic...
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Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean TragedyMost critics agree that Euripidean tragedy addresses a wealth of political questions, and that it successfully incorporates and engages with a variety of ancient Greek poetic traditions. Nevertheless, these topics and questions have generally been treated separately. In this book, Jonah Radding contends that...
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Blemished Kings: Suitors in the Odyssey, Blame Poetics, and Irish SatireEach of the suitors in the Odyssey is eager to become the king of Ithaca by marrying Penelope and disqualifying Telemachus from his rightful royal inheritance. Their words are contentious, censorious, and intent on marking Odysseus' son as unfit for kingship. However, in keeping...
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La Imagen DescartadaC. S. Lewis's The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and the renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later ages as 'the medieval synthesis itself, the...
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