Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Thomas Hoccleve: New ApproachesThis volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right. The Middle English poet...
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Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with NarrativeThrough narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative examines strategies of self-preservation of young people exposed to violence and persecution at different ages...
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Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular CultureThrough a critical discussion of an array of written and visual texts that feature a writer as a main character, Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture argues for a more nuanced conception of the role of writers in...
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Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans SeriesBetween 1932 and 1958, thousands of children read volumes in the book series Childhood of Famous Americans. With colorful cover art and compelling--and often highly fictionalized--narrative storylines, these biographies celebrated the national virtues and achievements of famous women like Betsy Ross, Louisa May Alcott,...
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An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic MysticismAn Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to...
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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical NovelBrokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American "romancers" and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain's diffused, tenuous, and often...
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Uncanny Rest: For AntiphilosophyIn Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the "shelter-in-place" period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and...
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Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval ChinaLore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220-589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted through...
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Literature and SkepticismLiterature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature--in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the essay document the relationship between literature and skepticism in different but complementary and, at the...
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Between Camp and CursiBetween Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería--a form of "bad taste" that expresses a sense of social marginalization--is used to represent key social...
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The Space of the Transnational: Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian WritingThis book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah-building strategies in interfaith dialogues, exchanges, and encounters...
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Finding WordsThe poetry collectionÔ ΩFinding Words explores the subtle beauty and stark challenges of family the complexities of adult friendships the struggle to center a life on what is meaningful and nourishing and the holiness to be found in ordinary moments.Author: Merle FeldPublisher: Behrman House...
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"Music Makers" and World Creators: The Forms and Functions of Embedded Poems in British Fantasy NarrativesMany works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph analyses...
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Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western Anti-Monarchism, the Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political StagecraftThis book is a landmark study of Shakespeare's politics as revealed in his later History Plays. It offers the first ever survey of anti-monarchism in Western literature, history and philosophy, tracked from Hesiod and Homer through to contemporaries of Shakespeare such as George Buchanan...
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Character and Dystopia: The Last MenThis is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the last man figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me...
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Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical PoliticsThis is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works,...
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Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma LiteratureThis book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India. Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature initiates a conversation between contemporary trauma literatures...
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Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century FictionIn dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world beyond the human scale, however, faces a fundamental difficulty: if, as researchers in both cognitive science...
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Modernist Literature and European IdentityModernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in...
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Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, AutobiographyWhy do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, Narrative, argues that narrative is...
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