Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century StateThe formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and...
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Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literariaCartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff's poems as cultural maps that reveal both a...
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Studies in Medievalism XXXII: Medievalism in PlayThough manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not always received the respect and attention they deserve. This volume seeks to correct those deficiencies. Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning...
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The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to MiltonBringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the many theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental...
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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's PeanutsBlockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts. More specifically, it examines a fundamental feature of the...
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The World of Bond and Maigret"I invent the most hopeless sounding plots; very often they are based on something I've read in a newspaper. And people say, 'Oh, this is all nonsense'--and then the Russians come along in Germany and shoot people with potassium cyanide pistols." Between them, Ian...
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Critical Confessions NowThis book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but...
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Poetry is the PortalPoetry served as my secret confidant.In early innocent days, I assembled words like LEGO(R) blocks when my heart felt more than I could speak. On a rare occasion, I presented my poem to a crush, a grade-school girl unsure how to respond. I felt...
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The Wound That Will Never Heal: An Allegorical Interpretation of Richard Wagner's the Ring of the NibelungPaul Heise's The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner's epic music drama The Ring of the Nibelung. The product of 50 years of scholarship, Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatized the conflict between love...
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Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric PracticeScholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being "poetic," yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice, independent game designer Jordan Magnuson explores the convergences between game making and lyric poetry and...
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Not Under FortyFor Willa Cather, the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts. The whole legacy of Western civilization stood on the far side of World War I, and in the spiritually impoverished present she looked back to that. To that she directed readers of...
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Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthyThe values of literary naturalism at play in one of America's most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more best sellers,...
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 7 Volume SetThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It provides a clear sense of the shape, scale, and variety of the entire Jonsonian canon, including plays,...
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Anonymus Cantabrigiensis: Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos AristotelisThis is an edition of an extensive Latin commentary on Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations composed about 1205 by an anonymous Parisian master who was a philosophically perceptive close reader of the Aristotelian text. The only extant manuscript of his work is now in Cambridge. This...
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Queering the South on ScreenWithin the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of...
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Devoción / DevotionPatti Smith vuelve a las librer as con un libro en el que ofrece una perspectiva inusualmente po tica y m stica del misterio de la creaci n literaria. Estamos en la habitaci n de un hotel de Par s; Patti Smith acaba de...
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Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial MomentThis book is a manifesto-like consideration of the potentialities of radical political thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico. Framed within the context of the present economic crisis, of austerity measures, PROMESA and mass migration, this book engages recent literary, artistic and activist work...
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Claudien, Oeuvres. Tome I: Le Rapt de ProserpineGrec d'Alexandrie venu a Rome, Claudien est a juste titre considere comme le dernier grand poete paien de la Rome antique: de 395 a 404, il a chante la Rome theodosienne: }qu'il croyait eternelle. Les poemes politiques et de circonstance, temoignages capitaux pour l'histoire...
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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and ArtIn this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the...
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Happy Landings: Emilie Loring's Life, Writing, and WisdomRom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring's romance novels. With a career spanning 40 years, Emilie Baker Loring saw millions of her books sold...
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