Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in LiteratureA thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is...
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Ayatollah Khomeini's Mystical Poetry and Its Reception in Iran and the DiasporaThere are many publications dealing with the political career of Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989), who transformed the political landscape of Iran and the Middle East after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Most of the research conducted in the West is on Khomeini's political strategies, while...
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Compelling Stories for English Language Learners: Creativity, Interculturality and Critical LiteracyThis book is a comprehensive and thorough introduction to children's and young adult literature in English language education. Reading is promoted as central to language education in order to experience perspectives from around the world, and the book demonstrates the many opportunities for teaching...
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Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her MasterworksKathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical art--resulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile...
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After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: Colleen LyePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/17/2022Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61dISBN: 9781108702249About the AuthorLye, Colleen: - Colleen Lye is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of America's Asia (Princeton UP, 2005) and the co-editor...
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Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American ModernismA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this...
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Reading Homer's IliadWe still read Homer's epic the Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer's own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning...
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Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British NovelIn this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device--the surrogate family--as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women's changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly...
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Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan CommunityGentry Rhetoric examines the full range of influences on the Elizabethan and Jacobean genteel classes' practice of English rhetoric in daily life. Daniel Ellis surveys how the gentry of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Norfolk wrote to and negotiated with each other by employing...
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The Stuff of Science Fiction: Hardware, Settings, CharactersWhile students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this...
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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and AlbumsEvery literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace...
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Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi RomanceThe mystical romance Madhumalati tells the story of a prince, Manohar, and his love for the beautiful princess Madhumalati. When they are separated they have to endure suffering, adventure, and transformation before they can be reunited and experience true happiness. A delightful love story,...
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Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and BeyondEach week, seven writers--all retired from professional careers--spend two hours together. The purpose of their gathering is to discuss what they wrote the previous week. For a number of years prior to 2020, the group met in their homes over coffee. The pandemic changed...
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The Plastic TurnThe Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this...
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Poetry: A Survivor's GuidePoetry: A Survivor's Guide has earned high praise from students, teachers, and readers from around the globe for its playful sincerity and idiosyncratic humor and for its approach to a subject both loved and feared. Updated and expanded, including six new sections, the second...
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Wind Farm - Landscape with Stories and TowersWIND FARM swirls with urgency, the poet dazzling us in prose that moves swiftly across time and place, a story that will not let the reader go quietly, peacefully, as the wind farmer meditates on a host of transgressions and graces, looking back across...
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The DriverThe book "" The Driver, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book...
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The Complete Poems of Thomas WyattThe complete poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt, as well as biographical material.Author: Thomas WyattPublisher: Benediction ClassicsPublished: 11/23/2021Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55dISBN: 9781789433029This title is not returnable
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Quotations of Chairman Mao, 1964-2014: A Short Bibliographical StudyA copublication of the Grolier Club and Battledore, this bibliographical study, published in 2014, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Mao's Little Red Book, accompanied an eponymous exhibition at the Grolier Club. An informative introduction is followed by chapters on important aspects...
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Conamara Chronicles: Tales from Iorras Aithneach"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist, revolutionary, and district justice Seán Mac Giollarnáth, whose 1941 book Annála Beaga ó Iorras...
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