Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Troilus and Cressida: Third SeriesA revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a problem play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan...
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The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary CanonIn this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential...
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Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus - solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins...
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The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval FragmentThe discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.Beginning with an...
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Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of MourningDeeply versed in recent theoretical discussions of the lyric form in general and the elegy in particular, Adele Bardazzi also brings to bear queer thinking on temporarily and philosophical treatments of mourning to shift the understanding of Montale's verse, contesting the division between an...
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Yeats and Revisionism: A Half Century of the Dancer and the DanceThe books collects Daniel T. O'Hara's half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim...
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Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, ArchivesThe most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde's remarkable career, the Oscar Wilde and His Circle archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world's largest collection of materials relating to the life and...
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Belinda's PetitionAuthor: Raymond A. WinbushPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 76Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18dISBN: 9781441514431This title is not returnable
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Borges, Between History and EternityThat Borges is one of the key figures in 20th-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role...
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Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesIn such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for...
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English Lit 101: From Jane Austen to George Orwell and the Enlightenment to Realism, an Essential Guide to Britain's Greatest Writers aA guide to the greats in British literature From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens' Tiny Tim to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare's Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too often, textbooks reduce...
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GuiltyGuilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the form of a diary, recording the earliest days of World War Two and the Nazi occupation of France, but this...
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The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of RaceHow did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era?Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies AssociationWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well...
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The Theory and Craft of Digital PreservationMany people believe that what is on the Internet will be around forever. At the same time, warnings of an impending "digital dark age"--where records of the recent past become completely lost or inaccessible--appear with regular frequency in the popular press. It's as if...
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Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian RenaissanceBilingual, annotated edition of more than 200 poems by Italian Renaissance women, many of which have never before been published in English.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceLyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is the first modern anthology of verse by Italian women of this...
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Miss JulieWritten in a fortnight and often regarded as Strindberg's masterpiece, Miss Julie is shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, and was fiercely attacked on publication for immorality.Sweden, 1894. Midsummer night's celebrations are in full swing but the Count's daughter, the beautiful and imperious Miss...
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Georgette HeyerThe groundbreaking biography of one of the world's best-loved and bestselling authorsWho was the real Georgette Heyer?Georgette Heyer famously said, I am to be found in my work.Who was this amazing writer who was so secretive about her personal life that she never gave...
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Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the 'National Bard'This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship. Contributors have been selected...
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Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the TranspacificEmpire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work...
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James Baldwin Review: Volume 8James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship...
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