Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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American Lit 101: From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an Essential Guide to American Writers and WFrom poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of...
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A Lover of God: The Ecstatic Sufi NūrīOne of the so-called ecstatic (or intoxicated) Sufis of Baghdad, Abū Ḥusayn al-Nūrī (d. 907/8) was famous for his quasi-blasphemous utterances and shocking public behavior. He was often enraptured by a passionate love of God that led him to eccentric acts that scandalized both...
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Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative FictionIn this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays. Features an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa.Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending...
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Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined LivesWomen and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. This book argues...
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Wole Soyinka: Tragic ClassicismThis book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), and his oeuvre has become seminal to postcolonial...
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We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your RelationshipNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The stars of the social media show The Ellises and hosts of the Webby Award-winning podcast Dead Ass with K&D share the core pillars of their relationship as millennial lovers and parents that have allowed them to thrive. "Staying...
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Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global LiteraturesAs climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in...
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Trauma Plot: A LifeFrom a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival "Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights...
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Thomas Kyd: A Dramatist RestoredA groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Kyd (1558-1594) was a highly regarded dramatist and the author of The Spanish Tragedy, the first revenge tragedy and the most influential Elizabethan play....
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The Suicidal State: Race Suicide, Biopower, and the Sexuality of PopulationAuthor: Madoka KishiPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 264Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.46w x 1.09dISBN: 9780197690079
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The Philocalia of Origen: A New Translation with AnnotationsOrigen was one of the great thinkers of the third-century Church and the most influential of the Greek Church Fathers. He created significant interpretations of Scripture throughout his life. The Philocalia of Origen is a collection of texts excerpted from Origen's numerous works. It...
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The Musiclover's Handbook: A Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical TermsThis handy reference work provides phonetic pronunciations and brief definitions of hundreds of musical terms. Including a wide range of genres and styles, from classical to popular music, this book is an essential resource for music lovers of all stripes.This work has been selected...
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The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than...
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The Great Awakening: President Donald Trump, the Greatest President of All Times!This book is based on the Authors opinion, claims, strong claims, facts, evidence, research, knowledge, experience, and gathered information. I would recommend to my readers that you research all of the information in my book. A lot of the information in my book will...
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The Future of the Past: Why Classical Studies Still Matter. Athenian Dialogues IVThis collective volume contains 27 original studies that address in a critical way the position of classical studies in the twenty-first century and its challenges, as captured in the oxymoron of the theme title 'the future of the past'. The relevance of classical antiquity...
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The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of FreedomAn ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life. In a series of stories and essays, James B. Haile, III, traces...
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The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with DocumentsPresenting a distinct combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces you to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context.Author: Russ McDonaldPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 02/01/2001Pages:...
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Supplement to SAA I-XXII: Letters, Treaties, Literary Texts, Legal and Administrative Documents, Astronomical Reports, Oracle Queries, and RituaThe State Archives of Assyria series was conceived in 1985 to make all texts from the royal archives of Nineveh available to both scholarly and lay audiences in the form of critical text editions. After thirty-seven years and twenty-two published volumes, the series has...
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Statius: Achilleid: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and CommentaryStatius' Achilleid is the most extensive treatment of the myth of Achilles hiding disguised as a girl on the island of Scyros. In the Achilleid, the hero, who had been trained to be an outstanding warrior by the centaur Chiron, complies with a scheme...
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State of Shock: The Kibbutz in Israel from Avant-Garde to Fetish, 1948-1955Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz's conceptual grounding State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior Libman offers original theoretical and historiographical insights into the imagery and the...
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