Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Origins of the Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies That Inspired Robert Jordan"Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal." --The New York Times on The Wheel of Time(R) seriesExplore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including: - A brand-new, redrawn world map by Ellisa Mitchell using change requests discovered in Robert...
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Notes on the Poet: A Little Book of CriticismAuthor: John PochPublisher: Measure Press Inc.Published: 09/04/2023Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.35dISBN: 9781939574367
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Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin AmericaIn this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto...
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Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-De-Siècle FranceIn 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical...
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Learn Spanish For Beginners - Learn 80% Of The Language With These 2000 Words!Embark on an exciting linguistic journey and immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Spanish with Learn Spanish For Beginners. Designed to rapidly accelerate your language learning, this comprehensive guide introduces a revolutionary approach that allows you to grasp a staggering 80% of Spanish...
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How Novels WorkDrawing on his weekly Guardian column, "Elements of Fiction," John Mullan offers an engaging look at the novel, focusing mostly on works of the last ten years as he illuminates the rich resources of novelistic technique. Mullan sheds light on some of the true...
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Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary PoliticsHasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other in the nineteenth century. Hannan Hever uses postcolonial theories and theories of nationality to analyze how Jews...
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From Empire to Anthropocene: The Novel in Posthistorical TimesHow contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening.In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with our understanding of time. Bringing together an unusual constellation of...
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Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, the Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the White DevilFrancis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique...
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Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and BeckettExamines the lives and careers of four distinguished Irish authors and analyzes the connections among them.Author: Richard EllmannPublisher: George BrazillerPublished: 09/17/1988Pages: 122Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.16h x 5.94w x 0.43dISBN: 9780807612088Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/22/1988About the AuthorEllmann, Richard: - Richard Ellmann was Goldsmiths' Professor...
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Esau and JacobEsau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of...
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's LondonThe intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians...
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Death of YazdgerdThe book is based on the murder of Yazdgerd III, the last emperor of Sasanian Persia, who while being hard pressed by the Arabs on his western flank, fled to Marv where he was slain in a mill, in which he had been taking...
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Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation, and performance. They called it "borderblur." Borderblur...
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Beyond BlaxploitationBeyond Blaxploitation, the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation film, sustains the momentum that blaxploitation scholarship has recently gained, giving the films an even more prominent place in cinema history. This volume is made up of eleven essays employing historical and theoretical...
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An Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SurviveAmerican scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died. Why,...
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Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and FilmOften considered an exotic garment of "traditional Japan," the kimono is in fact a vibrant part of Japanese modernity, playing an integral role in literature and film throughout the twentieth century. Reading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film is the first extended...
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BeowulfThe story of one man's triumph over a legendary monster, Beowulf marks the beginning of Anglo-Saxon literature as we know it today. Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest....
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Black Panther: A Cultural ExplorationTake an engrossing deep dive into the cultural influences of Black Panther, from the development of the Marvel Comics character in the 1960s to his current worldwide renown. Black Panther was created in 1966 by the legendary Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the...
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The Illustrated Call of the Wild: Original First EditionThe most well-known book by Jack London is The Call of the Wild. Huge Saint Bernard Buck is followed as he is taken from his cushy existence in California and sent to the Klondike Gold Rush in this film. His kidnappers offer him for...
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