Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural PoeticsThrough readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural...
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The GardenerThe Gardener is a tremendous poetry collection of Bengali poetry by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume contains the following passage: "Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written...
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Transforming Family: Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone LiteratureOne of the lasting legacies of colonialism is the assumption that families should conform to a kinship arrangement built on normative, nuclear, individuality-based models. An alternate understanding of familial aspiration is one cultivated across national borders and cultures and beyond the constraints of diasporas....
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Companion to Victor PelevinCompanion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and students, including how best to teach...
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A Monster for Many: Talking with H. P. LovecraftIn the 1990s, Robert H. Waugh-now Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz-emerged as one of the most profound and learned commentators on H. P. Lovecraft. He has brought to the study of the Providence writer a...
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Authorship's Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author"A book about writers and thinkers who were taught that the author is dead how their work consequently negotiates what it means to be an author"--Author: Philip SayersPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781501372186About the AuthorPhilip Sayers...
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Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the OrdinaryMarilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary posits that Robinson's widely celebrated novels and essays are best understood as emerging from a foundational theology that has 'the Ordinary' as its source. Reading Robinson's published work, and drawing on an original interview with Robinson, Andrew Cunning...
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The History of French Literature on FilmFrench novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary directed by...
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Early Modern Visions of Space: France and BeyondHow writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations. The volume's...
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What Is a Jewish Classicist?: Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary PoliticsIn recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage...
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Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French TextualityThe essays grouped together here reflect a career-long preoccupation with aspects of modern French culture. These range from the canonical (no French or indeed European film-maker is more universally admired than Renoir; few screen actresses have aroused such strong feelings as Arletty), by way...
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The Modernist Anthropocene: Nonhuman Life and Planetary Change in James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna BarnesThe Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book...
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Novel Sensations: Modernist Fiction and the Problem of QualiaA radical intervention into critical debates over the status of sensation within modernist literature Offers novel and insightful readings of key modernist authors within their philosophical contexts Critiques a range of 'neuroaesthetic' approaches to literary criticism Proposes new ways of thinking about the relationship...
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The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain: A Study in Literary FormFriendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary works Donald Gilbert-Santamaría shows how the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship operates as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He traces the...
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Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary LondonExplores radical designs for the home in the nineteenth-century metropolis and the texts that shaped them Uncovers a series of innovative housing designs that emerged in response to London's rapid growth and expansion throughout the nineteenth century Brings together the writing of prominent authors...
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The Little Art Colony and Us Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, TaosExplores the little art communities and their aesthetic products in the early twentieth century Historicizes and theorizes the role and function of the little art community as a geo-social formation Comparative, place-based study of three semiperipheral (non-metropolitan) sites New readings of major authors Jeffers,...
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Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and FableWhat is a ham-and-egger? What are Anglo-Saxon attitudes? Who or what is liable to jump the shark? Who first tried to nail jelly to the wall? The answers to these and many more questions are in this fascinating book. Here in one volume you...
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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean DiasporaCaribbean Philosophical Association Nicolás Cristóbal GuillénBatista Outstanding Book Award Caribbean Studies Association Barbara T.Christian Literary Award, Honorable Mention In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors--Edwidge Danticat, JamaicaKincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Dany Laferriére, and more--whose workshave been well received...
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Fabiola; Or, The Church of the CatacombsThe book "" Fabiola; Or, The Church of the Catacombs, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...
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A BookThe book "" A Book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book...
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