Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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LiteraturgeschichteIn den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die heftige Auseinandersetzung um die Literaturgeschichte offenbar nur geringfügig dazu beigetragen, dass ihr in den Debatten der Philologien noch ein gehobener Stellenwert eingeräumt wurde. Die Literaturgeschichte galt als tot. Immer aber war sie präsent in einer Fülle literaturgeschichtlicher Einführungsbände,...
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Leo Tolstoy and the Bahá'í FaithTolstoy first heard of the Bah ' teachings in 1894 at a time when the movement was hardly known. This book traces the developments and fluctuations in Tolstoy's attitude as more information was made available to him. It is based on the author's correspondence...
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Learn Ancient GreekBased on the same principles as Learn Latin, Peter Jones's bestselling book of the hugely popular Daily Telegraph series, this book teaches you enough Greek in 20 chapters to be able to read some real ancient Greek - one of the world's greatest languages,...
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In Search of the Lost World: The Modernist Quest for the Thing, Matter, and BodyFrom a historical perspective, the book studies how modernist artists, as the first generation who began to rethink intensively the legacy of German Idealism, sought to recreate the self so as to recreate their relationships with the material world. Theoretically, the book converses with...
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How to Deal with Idiots: (And Stop Being One Yourself)Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge? Here, philosopher Maxime...
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Forgiveness: An Alternative AccountA deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world In this sensitive and probing book, Matthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too often served as a salve to the conscience...
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Colors of the MindRecognizing that the field of formal philosophy is only one demonstration of the uses of thought, Fletcher looks for the ways other languages (and their framing forms) serve the purpose of certain thinking activities. In the end he gives us literature--not the content of...
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A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing DynastiesPlaywriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed by the lengthy...
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An Analysis of Hanna Batatu's The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of IraqHow do you solve a problem like understanding Iraq? For Hanna Batatu, the solution to this conundrum lay in generating alternative possibilities that effectively side-stepped the conventional wisdom of the time. Historians had long held that Iraq - like other artificial creations of ex-colonial...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Greatest StoriesEnchanted by the magical world of fairies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comic tale about the entwined destinies of four lovers amid the spirit of nature. Shakespeare's writing inspires young minds to contemplate concepts represented by the comic interplay of wise characters, emotional...
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A Language of One's Own: Literary Arabic, the Palestinians and IsraelFollowing the establishment of Israel in 1948, literary Arabic became one of the main representative of Palestinian national identity within Israel, and therefore a contested public site. Various state agencies and Palestinian groups were active in this public site, calling for certain ways of...
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Afterlives of Endor: Witchcraft, Theatricality, and Uncertainty from the Malleus Maleficarum to ShakespeareAfterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions...
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100 Selected Poems100 Selected Poems by W. B. Yeats is a collectable hardbound edition that features some of the poet's most beloved works. Explore the themes of love, nature, and Irish mythology through the lyrical and evocative language of one of the greatest poets of the...
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The Girl on the SofaA girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl,...
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Dead DogsA young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by...
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The Dirty South: Exploring a Fantasized Region, 1970-2020The Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize soil, garbage, trash, grit, litter, mud, swamp water, slime, and pollution. Beginning with iconic works...
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Return to Dar Al-BashaReturn to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. After being taken from his mother and raised in his...
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What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, a Period of Time, Volume TwoWith What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī, this exceptional title was first introduced in serialized form in his family's pioneering newspaper Miṣbāḥ...
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The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature--Volume OneWide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and distinguished career, this Amazigh scholar from the...
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Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian RevolutionThe Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery,...
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