Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel LecturePublished for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by the 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux. «J'écrirai por venger ma race It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words...
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The Botanic Garden: The Loves of the PlantsThis scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part...
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Genet's Genres of PoliticsIn this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet's writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels to the struggle for emancipation of the Palestinians in the posthumously published Un Captif amoureux. She argues that his texts have always...
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Kahlil Gibran: Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran (Deluxe Hardbound Edition): Lebanese-American Poet Inspirational Writings Wisdom Literature Poetry ColAnd think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." From social issues to human concerns; from the tragedy and power of love to the longings of the soul; from good and evil to...
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Siegfried the Wrestler: The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage NovelContinually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist...
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The New Milton CriticismThe New Milton Criticism seeks to emphasize ambivalence and discontinuity in Milton's work and interrogate the assumptions and certainties in previous Milton scholarship. Contributors to the volume move Milton's open-ended poetics to the center of Milton studies by showing how analyzing irresolvable questions -...
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Deep Ends: A Ballardian Anthology 2018Deep Ends: A Ballardian Anthology features 15 contributions from artists influenced by or inspired by J.G. Ballard. This large format, full color book features five short stories by established writers Paul Di Filippo, Lawrence Russell, James Reich, Maxim Jakubowski, and Paul Green; paintings by...
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"Dark Pictures" and Other Stories: Volume 30Noma Hiroshi (1915-91) was a prominent postwar novelist who engaged deeply with French modernism and contributed to left-wing thought throughout his life. The short stories that Noma Hiroshi produced in the years of confusion and self-questioning after World War II struck a deep chord...
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Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian FormDuring a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice--drawing persistent attention to what they called "fictitious capital." In a shift that naturalized this artifice,...
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Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural ExpressionsAn exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since the Industrial Revolution. However, certain fantastical elements in African literary expressions...
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The Bird-WhileA Bird-while. In a natural chronometer, a Bird-while may be admitted as one of the metres, since the space most of the wild birds will allow you to make your observations on them when they alight near you in the woods, is a pretty...
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Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories with Original EngravingsPassion. Peril. Imposture. Shipwreck. Alchemy. Transformation. This is the stuff of Mary Shelley's richly Romantic stories. Set against varying backdrops of medieval chivalry, the wars and revolutions of her age, and grandiose scenes of nature, her tales mark a high point in the Gothic...
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Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime FictionSome of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all. Hailing from a region with a cultural history of mistrust in the criminal justice system, Irish crime writers resist many of the stereotypical devices of the...
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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and LiteratureA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jos Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art."...
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Marxism and Literary CriticismMarxist literary criticism is becoming increasingly important in Europe as a whole, and interest in the subject is rapidly growing in this country. In this book, Dr. Eagleton analyses the major issues that the subject presents, discussing the writing of Marx and Engels themselves...
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Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David ThoreauAuthor: Andrew BlaunerPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 03/07/2023Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsISBN: 9780691247953About the AuthorAndrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of seven previous anthologies, including Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on...
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The Poem That Changed AmericaA tribute to Ginsberg's signature work, which stirred a generation of angel-headed hipsters to cultural rebellion. In 1956, City Lights, a small San Francisco bookstore, published Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems with its trademark black-and-white cover. The original edition cost seventy-five cents, but...
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New Readings on Women in Old English LiteratureThe publication of this volume of essays is a milestone in Old English studies. It is the first collection to examine this literature from a feminist perspective. Although the contributors represent a plurality of approaches and positions, they share a common objective: to reassess...
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From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino IdentityNeither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores...
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Emerson's EssaysAuthor: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 07/24/1981Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 7.62h x 5.32w x 1.11dISBN: 9780060909062About the AuthorEmerson, Ralph Waldo: - Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1803. A self-proclaimed Naturalist, Emerson founded a distinctly American philosophy emphasizing optimism, individuality,...
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