Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Religion in the Handmaid's Tale: A Brief GuideMargaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale captivates readers with its disturbingly prescient vision of the future and haunting insights into the world as we know it. Religion--especially elements of the Christian faith--pervades every inch of the world as Atwood imagines it. Gilead's leaders use perverse...
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A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the PacificA Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States' transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between U.S. police actions in Asia and a rising police state at home. Writers...
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Shopping MallObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Mat thew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this...
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Samuel BeckettIn the first biography of Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair chronicles Beckett's tumultuous relationship with his family, the psychosomatic illnesses that often kept him from writing, and the autobiographical strains of his work. In a remarkable literary biography, Dierdre Bair sheds light on Nobel Prizewinning...
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Hamlet - Large Print Edition: A PlayA Play by William Shakespeare in 16 point type.Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 01/26/2014Pages: 298Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.67dISBN: 9781495334870Audience: Ages 9-12This title is not returnable
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The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern ItalyAnti-courtly discourse furnished a platform for discussing some of the most pressing questions of early modern Italian society. The court was the space that witnessed a new form of negotiation of identity and prestige, the definition of masculinity and of gender-specific roles, the birth...
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Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black LifeWinner, 2019 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Honorable Mention, 2021 Errol Hill Award, given by the American Society for Theatre Research Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness...
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War SongsPoems of love and battle by Arabia's legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary warrior and poet. The black outcast son of an Arab...
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Tales of Èṣù: Yorùbá Divine Messenger And Trickster Orishaṣ is without a doubt, the most fascinating, astute and unpredictable of all Yor b Orishas. Central to Yor b Orisha religion, ṣ is known as a divine messenger who is a mediator between man, the Orishas and the Supreme God Ol d mar...
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The Visceral Logics of DecolonizationIn The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral. Khanna focuses on the work of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA)--a Marxist...
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None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic LifeIt passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"-a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed...
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The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities "After Man"In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "illiberal humanism" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing...
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Twenty-First-Century Popular FictionProvides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century This groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features twenty new essays on key authors associated with a wide range of genres and sub-genres,...
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Much ADO about Nothing: Revised Edition: Revised EditionMuch Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire McEachern's new introduction brings...
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Katniss the Cattail: An Unauthorized Guide to Names and Symbols in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger GamesWho was Cinna? What do the hawthorn and primrose symbolize? Or President Snow's roses and Peeta's bread? What about Katniss's last name? Bringing details from myths, herbal guides, military histories, and the classics, English professor and award-winning pop culture author Valerie Estelle Frankel sheds...
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Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend...
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Victorian Metafiction"Metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, something largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of...
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Critical Essays on William FaulknerCritical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W. Hamblin. Ranging from 1980 to 2020, the twenty-one essays present a variety of approaches to Faulkner's work. While acknowledging Faulkner as the quintessential southern writer--particularly in his treatment of race--the...
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Reading Confederate MonumentsContributions by Danielle Christmas, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Garrett Bridger Gilmore, Spencer R. Herrera, Cassandra Jackson, Stacie McCormick, Maria Seger, Randi Lynn Tanglen, Brook Thomas, Michael C. Weisenburg, and Lisa Woolfork Reading Confederate Monuments addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general...
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Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain SightContributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard Eudora Welty's ingenious play with readers' expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a...
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