Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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121 Seven-Word PoemsThis project began as a writing experiment for Jef Harris Poems' Facebook page in October 2015. Jef Harris sought to create micro poems, with as few words as possible, that substantiated realities in his life circumstances. Seven words were the lowest applicable number chosen...
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Democracy UKThe reader is asked to consider our democracy as it is today and whether increasing our level of representation in Parliament using a system of total voting will unite society and improve our governance. Having made the consideration the reader is then plunged into...
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Milton to OuidaFirst published in 1970. This collection of essays covers the work of Milton, Dryden, Sir John Vanburgh, Defoe, Mandeville, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Byron, Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Smith Surtees, Thackeray and Maria Louise (de la) Ramee better known as Ouida.Author: Bonamy DobréePublisher:...
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The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval RomanceThis new Companion provides a broad and perceptive overview of the most important vernacular literary genre of the Middle Ages. Freshly commissioned, original chapters from seventeen leading scholars introduce students and general readers to the form's poetics, narrative voice and manuscript contexts, as well...
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Okagami, the Great Mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times Volume 4Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Ōkagami, a historical tale that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading...
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The American West and Its Interpreters: Essays on Literary History and HistoriographyDistinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography--including insightful evaluations...
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Virginia Woolf and the Great WarVirginia Woolf was a civilian, a noncombatant during the Great War. Unlike the war poet Wilfred Owen, she had not seen "God through mud." Yet, although she was remembered by her husband as "the least political animal . . . since Aristotle invented the...
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Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana LiteratureIn Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of being and freedom prior to existentialism's rise to prominence in postwar European thought. Emphasizing diasporic connections among...
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Royalties: The Queen and Victorian WritersQueens, by definition, embody a historical contradiction between femininity and power. Queen Victoria, whose strength and longevity defined an age, possessed immense cultural as well as political power, even becoming a writer herself.This cultural sovereignty, argues Gail Turley Houston, in the hands of a...
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Creative Alliances, 62: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's PoetryTribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations continually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physical health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre to transcend...
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Conan Meets the Academy: Multidisciplinary Essays on the Enduring BarbarianRobert E. Howard penned a series of fantasy stories in 1932 featuring Conan, a hulking warrior from "Cimmeria" who roamed the mythical Hyborian Age landscape engaging in heroic adventures. More than the quirky manifestation of Depression-era magazines, Conan the Barbarian has endured as a...
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Late Romanticism and the End of PoliticsIn the late Romantic age, demands for political change converged with thinking about the end of the world. This book examines writings by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and their circle that imagined the end, from poems by Byron that pictured fallen empires, sinking islands,...
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The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient IsraelThe figure of the giant has haunted the literatures of the ancient Mediterranean world, from the Greek Gigantomachy and other Aegean epic literatures to the biblical contexts of the ancient Near East. In The Last of the Rephaim, Brian Doak argues that the giants...
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The Language of CanaanThis is a study of New England figurative language from 1600 to 1850, from the English and Continental origins of Puritanism to the symbolic writings of Thoreau. It enriches our understanding of Puritan thought and expression and traces the influence of Puritanism on later...
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How to Read the Egyptian Book of the DeadThe ancient Egyptians created a world of supernatural forces so vivid, powerful, and inescapable that controlling their destiny within it was their constant preoccupation. In life, supernatural forces manifested themselves through misfortune and illness, and after death were faced for eternity in the Otherworld,...
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From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling: Co-Starring Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Bill Clinton, the Supremes, and Barack ObamaFrom "I Like Ike" to razor-wire and National Guard troops ringing the U.S. Capitol, from Carl Perkins's "Blue Suede Shoes" to Brotha Lynch Hung's "Meat Cleaver," the United States has changed. Seven decades of material abundance and unprecedented technological advances have entwined with pronounced...
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The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai GogolThrough careful textual readings of Gogol's most famous works, Karlinsky argues that Gogol's homosexual orientation-which Gogol himself could not accept or forgive in himself-may provide the missing key to the riddle of Gogol's personality. "A brilliant new biography that will long be prized for...
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Algorithmic Culture Before the InternetToday, algorithms exercise outsize influence on cultural decision-making, shaping and even reshaping the concept of culture. How were automated, computational processes empowered to perform this work? What forces prompted the emergence of algorithmic culture? Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how...
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Literature in 30 Seconds or Less!: 100 Classics Cut Down for the Pace of the Modern WorldBuild your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works.Bursting with illuminating synopses of humanity's great works, you no longer have to lower your gaze when the conversation turns to...
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Modernist IntimaciesModernist Intimacies traces modern intimacy back to the first decades of the twentieth century, showing that modernism played a crucial role in its emergence. Intimacy can no longer be seen as an exclusively private, familiar sphere of life independent of socio-political realities, and the...
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