Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Little Sammy Sneeze: The Complete Color Sunday Comics 1904-1905Before his remarkable Litttle Nemo in Slumberland, McCay created two strips starring young children. Today, Winsor McCay (1867-1934) is universally acknowledged as the first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring...
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The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in DanteOne of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen...his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth...
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Foucault BlanchotIn these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other's work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth....
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The Golovlyov Family: ShchedrinSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of...
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The Mathnawí of Jaláluʾddín Rúmí: Volume 6, English TextMawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. Nicholson's critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278 and preserved in the Mevlana Museum at Konya....
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Open Twenty-Four Hours: PoemsAuthor: Suzanne LummisPublisher: Lynx House PressPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.09w x 0.34dISBN: 9780899241388About the AuthorSuzanne Lummis' poetry can be found in the anthologies California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present, New California Writers 2012, Poems of the American...
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Miss JulieIn Strindberg's classic, Miss Julie, the daughter of a powerful count, enters into a dangerously flirtatious relationship with a footman on her father's estate. The critics have described Richard Nelson's adaptation as "tight, sharp, idiomatic." "He Strindberg] is bold, this Swede. Never have I...
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Vietnam Anthology: American War LiteratureThis anthology of war literature includes some of the personal narratives, short stories, novel excerpts, drama, and poetry to come out of the Vietnam War. Study questions at the end of each section, plus a time line, glossary, and bibliography make this an indispensable...
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Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction: Book 2, Lessons 1-15The third volume in a three-volume complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels.Includes an extensive Indonesian-English glossary (over 2,600 words) and a complete answer key. Additionally, every exercise in the series is included on a DVD, available separately. For more...
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Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong AmericansOf an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups...
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The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a PigFrom P. J. O'Rourke, best-selling author and expert bachelor, comes a hilarious look at domestic life. Or, as P. J. puts it, This is a book about cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping for people who don't know how to do any of those things and...
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Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom TrilogyA critical study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy which analyses Lewis's methods and meanings, concentrating on this trilogy but also including relevant secondary work. Lewis's literary scholarship and display of Christian values are incorporated into this discussion.Author: David C. DowningPublisher: University of Massachusetts PressPublished:...
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Camp AustenA Paris Review Staff Pick and one of The Millions' Most Anticipated Reads of MarchA raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancing The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating...
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The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century BritainThe first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and...
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LGBTQAI+ Books for Children and Teens: Providing a Window for AllThere is a rich and varied body of literature for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, asexual/allied and intersexed young people, which can function as a mirror for LGBTQAI+ individuals and as a window for others. This resource for librarians who work with children and...
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Closet Devotions - PBReligion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of "sacred eroticism," the literary or artistic expression of devotional feelings in erotic terms that has repeatedly occurred over...
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The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki MurakamiIn an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure...
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Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö Ni' Visual Code and Epistemological RecoverySince the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called wampum to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties....
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Classic Yiddish Stories of S. Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. PeretzTwo early works by S.Y. Abramovitsh introduce the reader to Abramovitsh s alter ego Mendele the Book Peddler. Mendele narrates both The Little Man and Fishke the Lame. In different voices, he also presents a diverse cast of characters including Isaac Abraham as tailor...
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Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of MovementA woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will; for a room without that right becomes a prison cell. The privilege of self-directed movement, the power...
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