Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Festival of Heresies: Volume 1There's a reason Emi Shimamoto can't find a job. For as long as she can remember, she's been unable to tell the living from the dead. Resigned to yet another failure, she attends an interview with Moriya Foods, only to find herself strangely attracted...
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Fair or Foul: The Lady Macbeth Guide to AmbitionFair or Foul considers different aspects of ambition and its place in our lives. It asks: what does success mean? When is enough enough? And is Lady Macbeth right to suggest that only those with the 'illness' of ambition achieve the highest goals?Stefan Stern...
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Facundo: Or, Civilization and BarbarismOstensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for...
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Essays on German Literature and Culture, Part IIn the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist. Carlyle has long...
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Encounters with InscriptionsWhen Kristin Czarnecki lost both her parents within nine months, she sought solace in books, but not just any books.In Encounters with Inscriptions, Czarnecki writes about the books inscribed and given to her by her parents over the years-an array of novels, short stories,...
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El Problema del DolorPor qu? debemos sufrir? ""Si Dios es bueno y todopoderoso, por qu? permite que suscriaturas sufran?"" Y qu? del sufrimiento de los animales, quienes ni se merecen el dolor ni pueden mejorarse por medio de ?l? C. S. Lewis, el m?s importante pensador cristiano...
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Educated Imagination"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop...
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Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of MemoryArguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon's fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-winning author of fifteen books claims to have lost his mother tongue when his family fled to the United States after his tenth birthday....
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Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of MemoryArguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon's fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-winning author of fifteen books claims to have lost his mother tongue when his family fled to the United States after his tenth birthday....
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Documentary Theatre and PerformanceWhat distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years, and to what effect? What is its relationship to truth and reality, and defining moments of civic unrest and political change? In this short, authoritative book,...
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C. S. Lewis on Literature: An Introduction to His Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary TheoryC. S. Lewis began his teaching career one hundred years ago at University College, Oxford in 1924, moving to Magdalen College in 1925. In the following 38 years, Lewis published eight books of literary criticism, literary history, and theory - plus dozens of literary...
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Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the PresentConcentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad's Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change in contemporary fiction. Konrad advocates for the expansion and redefinition of the cli-fi genre and argues that...
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Barroco and Other WritingsSevero Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained...
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Barroco and Other WritingsSevero Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque. While most of Sarduy's literary work is available in English, his theoretical writings have largely remained...
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A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary CanvasAuthor: Peter GrybauskasPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 260Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.80w x 0.50dISBN: 9781606354902
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Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and RhetoricThis book gestures toward a future in which, through a more nuanced and productive discourse, we can better support Jewish educators and students and engage Jewish members of the discipline as better accomplices in antiracism.Author: Alice S. Horning, Mara Lee GraysonPublisher: Peter Lang PublishingPublished:...
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Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film AdaptationsMarvel, like other media "universes," is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow...
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All Y'All: Queering Southernness in Us Fiction, 1980-2020The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or "queer." The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan speak to this connection between queerness...
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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really MatterBefore Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma--and everything changed.In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of Austen's...
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Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of HopeThe industrialization of print technologies in early nineteenth-century America transformed print culture in ways that parallel the transformation wrought by the digital revolution. Understanding how a previous era was shaped by the assumptions print technology engendered may enable us to recognize more clearly how...
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