Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Importance of Being PoirotWritten by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during the Great World Wars. His incomparable treatment of literary craft developing alongside...
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Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic InsistencesAs an acclaimed poet, editor, critic, translator, and educator, Charles Bernstein, in his decades-long commitment to poetry and poetics, criticism, and literary scholarship, reflects a profound understanding of the importance of language to every level of culture-making. Throughout his life, Bernstein has facilitated a...
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Dissensuous Modernism: Women Writers, the Senses, and TechnologyPlacing women writers at the center of the sensory and technological experimentation that characterized the modernist movement, Dissensuous Modernism shows how women of the era challenged gendered narratives that limited their power and agency and waged dissent through their radical sensuouswriting.Allyson DeMaagd critiques an...
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India's Power EliteIndia's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized...
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1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the ModernIn 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of the war, searching for new creative and political...
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Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's PoetryIn the first monograph on W. S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and infinity that ensouls the poet's entire oeuvre. His analysis foregrounds what Merwin calls "the other side of despair," the...
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The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's ReadersWas the experience of poetry--or a cultural practice we now call poetry--continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by...
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Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World CinemaFrederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson's remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts--such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche--and his historical schema...
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Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black LifeHONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATIONA view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of age Although more than fifty years apart, the murders of...
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The Philip Roth We Don't Know: Sex, Race, and AutobiographyThroughout, Berlinerblau confronts the critics of Roth --as well as his defenders, many of whom were uncritical friends of the famous author--arguing that the man taught us all to doubt pastorals, whether in life or in our intellectual discourse.Author: Jacques BerlinerblauPublisher: University of Virginia...
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Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great GatsbyAn "astute, challenging, and far-reaching" look (Kirkus Reviews, starred) at how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive "I found great pleasure in . . . Under the Red White and Blue . ....
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Longing and Other StoriesJun'ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The Key, Tanizaki made his literary debut...
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Using Corpora for Language Learning and TeachingHow can you use corpora in your classroom? With the increasing use of corpora in classrooms, the need to understand how to use corpora in language teaching is essential for today's teachers. Using ample concrete examples, this book offers a step-by-step hands-on introduction to...
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Born under Saturn: The Letters of Samuel Loveman and Clark Ashton SmithIt was perhaps inevitable that Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) and Samuel Loveman (1887-1976) would become close friends and correspondents. Both were devoted to the art and craft of poetry; both were fascinated by the obscurer corners of literature; and both shared numerous colleagues, among...
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Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero ComicsExplores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and...
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The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and an Interpretation of BuddhismThe Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature and, importantly, modern...
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The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative GenreThis monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragment's performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period,...
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Reykjavík RequiemThis is Ger ur Kristn 's third collection from Arc and the third of the trilogy which already comprises the highly-acclaimed Bloodhoof and Dr pa. In all three poetic sequences, the poet employs the archaic form of the saga to conjure up razor-sharp dark...
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On PoetryTwo long Sartre essays that explore the N gritude poetry movement and the work of French writer Francis Ponge. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work...
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The Crime of Jean GenetNow in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement. Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the...
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