Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Ungarn und Rum?nienIn kulturwissenschaftlichem Verst?ndnis ist Literatur Teil der Schriftkultur, die Monumentalwerke ebenso wie pragmatische Texte umfasst und die in verschiedenen literarischen R?umen unterschiedlich ausgepr?gt ist. Literaturlexika wurden bisher diesem Literaturverst?ndnis selten gerecht. Das vorliegende Lexikon erfasst die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters in dieser neuen Perspektive....
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Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese PoetryA primer for those with no previous knowledge of Chinese, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine ways of understanding a single poem. "Seeing Off a Friend," by the great Tang poet Li Bai (701-762) has long been...
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Tim Sale: Black and White - Revised and ExpandedTim Sale discusses his life and work in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume. This new, revised, and expanded edition of the original sold-out and out-of-print Tim Sale: Black and White previously published by Active Images features never-before-seen art from the illustrator of NBC's...
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Time Come: Selected Prose'Key to understanding Black British history' - The Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith One of the great poets of modern times, and a deeply respected political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of...
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Thomas Nashe and Literary PerformanceThomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped by regional travel, 'non-literary', non-elite works, and oral culture. The essays in this collection address Nashe's use of the past, his engagement with the...
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The Writer as MigrantNovelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world. Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as Migrant sets Ha Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation across...
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The Truth About Palestine: The Warmest Space was My MotherIn this collection of memoir-like essays, author Nariman Ayesh shares her personal journey in reconciling her identity through an exploration of literature, poetry, and family history.As a teenager, author Nariman Ayesh struggled to claim her identity. Her parents had been born in the nation...
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The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance LibrariesA uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance...
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The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by...
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Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan: Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple DisastersThis seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters--the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.Author: Saeko KimuraPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/BloomsburyPublished: 04/08/2024Pages: 228Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...
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The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman EmpireThe seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing--the pamphlet, a cheap, short, and mobile text that provided readers with simplified legal...
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The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar GeographiesThe mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped - and are currently transforming - the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and poeticise various elements of Arctic geography, and in doing so negotiate...
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The Angel and the Amazing Life of Maggie Love"When I took this assignment, I knew Maggie had killed 20 people. I knew that and little else. Yes, I am an Angel, although we prefer to be called Inspectors simply because that's what we do. We inspect a recently deceased person's soul. As...
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Sylvia Plath: A Very Short IntroductionSylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of work that changed the direction of modern poetry, and buttressed...
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Soul and FormGyörgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of...
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Relics, Dreams, Voyages: World BaroqueThis book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period.Author: Peter DavidsonPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/30/2024Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9781526169341About the AuthorPeter Davidson is Senior Research Fellow in...
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Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and WalesChallenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the late Middle Ages. Brought...
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Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic WestA history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which...
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Reading the Odyssey: A Guide to Homer's NarrativeA fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey--and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our lives Reading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer's masterpiece like no other. It combines a cultural and intellectual...
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Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming AgeThe first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data...
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