Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Emily Brontë: Selected WritingsEmily Brontë is one of the few modern writers in English whose distinction as a novelist is matched by her distinction as a poet. She lived and died more or less completely out of the public eye and only towards the end of the...
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Eliot NowOver a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot's poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collection presents unabashedly fresh approaches to Eliot, while simultaneously guiding readers through the new materials that are available for the first time outside...
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Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished RevolutionIn the 1970s and '80s, Linton Kwesi Johnson was fighting neo-fascism and promoting socialism, and putting pen to paper to refute W. H. Auden's claim that "poetry makes nothing happen." Dread Poetry and Freedom explores Johnson's work through the radical political and poetic traditions...
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Dante's Divine Comedy: A BiographyThe life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the...
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Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa MariaThe hundreds of illuminated miniatures found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria, sponsored by King Alfonso X (1252--84), reveal many vistas of daily life in thirteenth century Spain.No other source provides such an encyclopedic view of all classes of medieval European society, from kings...
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Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of PoetryLiterary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and...
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Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of the SensesThe sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory sense-making by tracing the appearance of odors in modern German and French poetry. Jonas Rosenbr?ck argues that smell's...
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Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias in Sociological PerspectiveWhat makes some communes work, while others fail? Why is it so difficult to put utopian ideals into practice? In this exciting study of the success or failure of nineteenth-century American Utopias and twentieth-century communes, Rosabeth Moss Kanter combines the results of her first-hand...
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Civil Disobedience2023 Reprint of the 1903 Edition. Thoreau's famous essay was published originally with the title On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, now often referred to as Civil Disobedience. He wrote it as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but...
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British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820-45The emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century sparked a period of creative innovation in the popular press. This collection focuses on the early decades of the nineteenth century as a key period of innovation in the...
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Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and FaulknerUsing comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges's residual presence in his Spanish-language translations of works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner.Argentine writer and critic Jorge Luis Borges did not see translation as an inferior form...
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A Traveller's Companion to MadridA vivid portrait of Madrid--ideal for the cultured tourist or armchair traveler. Hugh Thomas, best known for his authoritative analysis of the Spanish Civil War, has chosen from diaries, letters, memoirs and novels ranging across five centuries of Madrid's history. The anthology brilliantly evokes...
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Antiquity in Print: Visualizing Greece in the Eighteenth CenturyDaniel Orrellsexamines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part...
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Anita Desai's India: The Religious Plague, Holocaust, Decadence and RemembranceThis research intricately examines the reverberations of the Partition of India in 1947, with a focused exploration into the marginalisation endured by the Muslim community in its aftermath. Through a meticulous historical analysis, the study elucidates the socio-political and cultural forces at play during...
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A estética do frioCadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. The aesthetics of cold, created by musician and writer Vitor Ramil, proposes an alternative view of Brazil...
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world Greatest Short Stories: short storiesworld greatest short stories. greatest literature. Best writer of the year. This book is the best seller of 2012. Funny stories, horror stories, educational stories, children stories and suspense stories. Come read the book of the year.Author: Jerry AyersPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 01/18/2013Pages:...
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Women in Martial: A Semiotic ReadingWomen in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close...
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Universalism(e) & ...: ConversationsThis book confronts the history and legitimacy of Western Universalism. In the form of conversations, it documents thinking-in-process about how new forms of universality after hegemonic universalism can be thought and practised. Bringing into play their practices and theories, the interlocutors of Universalism(e) &...
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Today's interpretation of Sadriddin Aini's activitiesAuthor: Userbayeva FeruzaPublisher: Taemeer PublicationsPublished: 09/09/2024Pages: 48Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10dISBN: 9789358724561
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Threshold Phenomena: Derrida and the Question of HospitalityThreshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida's thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida's rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Kant's Perpetual Peace, Levinas's...
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