Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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South to South: Writing South Asia in the American SouthThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the immigrants have left behind, while the others spotlight the immigrants' struggles...
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Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 1)Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 1), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped,...
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Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka Volume 29Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939) had a predilection for the richly figurative and supernatural that seemed not only irrelevant to the concerns of modern life but an affront to the social and psychological realism that became the common currency of both literature and theater in modern...
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The Doctors' Dinner PartyA witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men,...
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Madness, Language, LiteratureNewly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit in his later, more well-known writings. Collected here, these previously unpublished texts...
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Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and LiteratureWhat stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working between comparative literature,...
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Anne Spencer Between WorldsAnne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer's expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to...
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Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War EraTamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing "over there," tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication...
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Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic CrimeWhy does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well...
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short StoryThis Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as...
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Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary ResearchRead an interview with Norbert Bachleitner. In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy 'take stock' of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative...
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Lily and Mittens: A Tale of Adventure, Kindness, and LoyaltyDo you have trouble putting your kids to bed, and are you looking for a fun way to do it? Inside this story, your child will meet various friends in fun and different adventures! The earliest years of life are the best opportunity to...
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J. F. Gonzalez's Shadows in the AtticAn Unfinished History of HorrorCome and dig beneath the cobwebs, under the dust and through the forgotten boxes with horror historian J. F. Gonzalez.Collecting non-fiction works from J.F. Gonzalez, Shadows in the Attic takes the reader from Ancient times to the mid-40's weaving a...
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Shakespeare's First Folio Ultimate: The most accurate transcription of the First Folio ever published, formatted as a typographic emulation of the oriThe First Folio, published in 1623 by Shakespeare's colleagues, was the first complete and faithful publication of plays by the Bard. As the pages were printed, they were checked for errors, and if any were found, they were corrected. But the pages with errors...
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Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social RebellionIn the South, one notion of "being ugly" implies inappropriate or coarse behavior that transgresses social norms of courtesy. While popular stereotypes of the region often highlight southern belles as the epitome of feminine power, women writers from the South frequently stray from this...
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Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom: Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential ArtSequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a...
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The Road to Wigan PierIt is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are. The Road to Wigan Pier is George Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England. It is...
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Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual AnthologyMapuche poetry has flourished in recent decades and is now one of the most compelling neighbourhoods of contemporary Latin American literature. Incredibly, however, much of it remains untranslated into English. Not only does this anthology correct the situation, it goes far beyond the scale...
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Like a Captive Bird: Gender and Virtue in PlutarchThe full extent of Plutarch's moral educational program remains largely understudied, at least in those aspects pertaining to women and the gendered other. As a result, scholarship on his views on women have differed significantly in their conclusions, with some scholars suggesting that he...
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The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and ModernityThis book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens. Author: Alexia HannisPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 11/18/2022Pages: 158Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9781442649071
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