Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial ChinaThe Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China is a translation of three collections of...
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Sheridan RoadOn a gray, November morning Detective Charley O'Brien discovers the mutilated body of Chicago's mob boss in the estate of affluent attorney, Jonathan Chamberlain, and his beautiful heiress wife, Meridith. The secrets of the rich and infamous who live along the shores of Lake...
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JourneysAuthor Karl Hicken has entitled each of his hauntingly evocative poems a 'Journey' followed by a number. By so doing, he takes the reader along a paint by number tour through life, capturing bittersweet moments of experience in vivid snapshots of memory. The sum...
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Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, LiteratureRome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporary detention centre for two days. They were eventually deported to...
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Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800"Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800" is a significant poetry collection co-written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This book, first published in 1798 and extended in 1800, revolutionized the literary landscape of its day and established the groundwork for the Romantic movement. Wordsworth...
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Dante's BloodDante's works contain too much and too little blood. On the one hand, one might wonder why there is any blood in the Comedy; why are the souls - which lack flesh and blood - bleeding at all? On the other hand, we must...
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GhostIt seems like the quieter you become the more you hear "In the silence spirit speaks to you". Spine chilling events of real paranormal cases.Author: Denise BurroughsPublisher: AuthorhousePublished: 10/13/2023Pages: 200Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9798823014465
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The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and PoliticsSurveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel. It also shows how those political phenomena were shaped in turn by long-form prose fiction. The book is made up of...
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The Courtship of Miles StandishUnique Element About the Author / Historical Context A BELOVED AMERICAN NARRATIVE POEM by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems, by AMERICAN author HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) contains the well-known narrative story-poem about the early days of Plymouth Colony, the...
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Reading DanteA towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to...
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She May Be Lying Down But She May Be Very HappyEverything was going right in the delivery room until, suddenly, it wasn't. The baby's brain was damaged; the new mother, unprepared for the life she and her family would now be living.In dense, lyrical prose, Jody Gelb pays tribute to her daughter's short life....
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Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber CampaignDuring the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the international publication...
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Writing Imperial History: Tacitus from Agricola to AnnalesThe late first- and early second-century Roman senator and historian Cornelius Tacitus, whom Edward Gibbon described as "the first of the historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts," shaped the development of the modern understanding of history as a...
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Writing Early ChinaArchaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these...
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We Are Absolutely Not Okay: Fourteen Stories by Teenagers Who Are Picking Up the PiecesImagine being asked to pull a gun on a stranger. Or having a gun shoved in your face by the man you call stepdad. Envision feeling so depressed you cut yourself repeatedly or down a bottle of pills to make the pain go away....
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ToneTone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know...
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The White Rose: Reading, Writing, ResistanceThe White Rose (Die Wei e Rose) stretched far beyond Munich, but at its heart were six individuals: students Hans Scholl (1918-1943), and Sophie Scholl (1912-1943), who were brother and sister, Christoph Probst (1919-1943), Alexander Schmorell (1917-1943), and Willi Graf (1918-1943), and Professor Kurt...
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The White RibbonExplores Haneke's historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing. White ribbons and black pedagogy - Michael Haneke's award-winning film The White Ribbon (2009) is a multilayered reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child rearing. In this tense black-and-white whodunit,...
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The Medieval French Ovide Moralisé: An English Translation [3 Volume Set]First English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages. The anonymous Ovide moralisé (Moralized Ovid), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid's Metamorphoses, with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience. Working...
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The Letters of Gustave Flaubert"If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert's correspondence," Francis Steegmuller writes in the introduction to this selection of Flaubert's letters, "it is that the function of great art is not to provide 'answers.'" The Letters of Gustave...
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