Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Study Guide to Giants in the Earth by Ole RolvaagA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ole Rolvaag's Giant in the Earth, a historical fiction novel originally published in Norwegian. As a novel of the twentieth-century, Giants in the Earth tells the story of Norwegian pioneers. Moreover, many...
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Study Guide to Billy Budd by Herman MelvilleA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville's Billy Budd, his final novel. As a book of the twentieth-century, Melville focused on society's limiting forces on people's individuality. Moreover, Billy Budd has two versions as it was completed...
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Study Guide to Oliver Twist by Charles DickensA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, published first in installments between 1837 and 1839 in the literary magazine, Bentley's Miscellany. As a novel of the nineteenth-century, Oliver Twist exposes the unromantic truth of being...
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Flannery O'Connor: Writing a Theology of Disabled HumanityFlannery O'Connor is one of America's most unique Southern authors. Shortly after she began her writing career she was diagnosed with lupus. Despite her illness, O'Connor authored more than two dozen short stories and two novels. Her highly regionalized Southern Gothic stories often involve...
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and MoralBorn in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was bought by a wealthy Boston merchant named John Wheatley to serve as a servant to his family. They gave...
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Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town Volume 1From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the...
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Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue ChunqiuSpring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collection of political history, philosophy, and fictional accounts depicts the rise and fall...
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The Art of PerpetuationVivid explorations of cryogenics, lion baiting, iDollators, dodo birds, SpaceX, and more populate The Art of Perpetuation, a poignant new collection of lyric essays from Alison Powell that troubles the boundaries between human and animal, living and dead, man and woman, adult and child....
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Dostoevsky's Incarnational RealismIn this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky's final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that incarnational realism animates the vision of the novel, and the decisions and actions of its hero, Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov. The book takes a close look...
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Memories of the Way it WasStories of times gone by, methods of accomplishing regular chores in homes, lack of money with lots of hard work are the main focus of this book. Times we do not want to forget but hope to share them with our children and grandchildren...
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The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition"Intriguing." BBC History Magazine On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and members of his family had, within a matter of hours,...
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Tween Hobo: Off the RailsFrom playwright and TV writer Alena Smith comes a hilarious and irreverent illustrated book based on the popular Twitter feed (@tweenhobo), featuring a young spunky girl who sets out in search of freedom, adventure, and her own personal obsession: Justin Bieber tickets. Get ready...
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PoemsOsip Mandelstam's is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891-1938) began as one of the more original poets of the Russian avant-garde before the First World War, but his extraordinary growth as a poet over the next quarter-century set him...
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Disformations: Affects, Media, LiteratureWhat happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an interdisciplinary dialogue between cultural affect theory, media philosophy, and literary studies, Tomás Jirsa...
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The Sting of Death" and Other Stories: Volume 12Until a recent "boom," Shimao Toshio, writer of short fiction, critic, and essayist, was not widely known, even in Japan. He has never won the Akutagawa or the Naoki Prize, and none of his works had previously appeared in English translation. He is less...
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Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and IntersectionsBringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine,...
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Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925Jada Ach's scholarship in Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 seeks to reevaluate the Progressive Era's environmental legacy. Taking an ecocritical approach to turn-of-the-century literature set in the American West, Ach interrogates texts by asking what kinds...
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Hannah Lynch's Irish Girl Rebels: 'A Girl Revolutionist' and 'Marjory Maurice'Hannah Lynch (Dublin 1859 - Paris 1904), restless wanderer, cosmopolitan, cultural observer and commentator, was the author of feminist fiction, travel writing and journalism. Her short story for girls, 'A Girl Revolutionist' (1899) and serialised novella, 'Marjory Maurice' (1884-85), were based on her own...
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A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly BeingIn A Regarded Self Kaiama L. Glover champions unruly female protagonists who adamantly refuse the constraints of coercive communities. Reading novels by Marie Chauvet, Maryse Cond , Ren Depestre, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid, Glover shows how these authors' women characters enact practices of...
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Playwriting: A Backstage GuideThis book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the...
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