Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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On Merleau-PontyA moving tribute to phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the wake of his early death. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking...
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Avrom Sutzkever - Still My Word Sings: Poems. Yiddish and EnglishDie Reihe Jiddistik Edition und Forschung wird von Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka und Simon Neuberg herausgegeben. In der Reihe erscheinen wissenschaftliche Studien - Sammelbände und Monografien - zu Jiddistik sowie philologische Editionen und Studienausgaben jiddischer Literatur aus allen Epochen. Die Bände werfen ein Schlaglicht...
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Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit ManlinessIn Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes...
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Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary FictionVulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life. Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length...
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Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer TheoryA pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall. The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals,...
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Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval MediterraneanThe story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters. In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learning--classical Arabic and medieval Latin--as they crossed the Mediterranean....
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Give a Little Bit: When Are You Coming Back?An inspiring story how life can change with a gentle touch. Family is so important with changes in life.This is my first book. I live in a small town and grew up twelve miles from here. Have always wanted to write but never took...
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Song of MyselfZephyr House is please to publish this beautiful edition of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" for its inaugural volume of one poem. One poem and its sister series, one prose re-edition classic literature, poetry, and plays in historically accurate and easy to read formats....
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Epilogues: Afterwords on the PlanetLiterary Nonfiction. Hurd's brilliant book about climate change is also a book about storytelling, about paying attention to little, most invisible things that manage to survive without heroics, or the help of heroes. There are many books about climate change, but none like hers...
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How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest WritersA thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world's most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen King NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SPECTATOR - "Richard Cohen's book acted as a tonic to me. It didn't make me more...
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Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare: 'Rich in Will'Beginning with how the signifier 'will' operates in Shakespearean contexts, this book, unlike other studies, deals fully with how Shakespeare's plays treat the issue of rape and sexual coercion, and how far the plays reflect early modern views on the role of sex and...
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Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters NowNew ideas for teaching contemporary social justice through Shakespeare and Renaissance literature Describes innovative and portable teaching methods informed by recent scholarship in early modern literature, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy Offers strategies for effective teaching and advocacy amidst the growing cultural and economic...
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Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le...
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From Life to Survival: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of DeconstructionContemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century European philosophy, as new materialisms and ontologies seek to leave behind the thinking of language central to poststructuralism as it has been traditionally understood. At the same time, biopolitical...
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Extinction and the Human: Four American EncountersThe Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand years ago; the other began during the time of European settler-colonization and continues...
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Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-DeceptionAn infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the desert, the cycle of Omnicide is closed with a philosophy of...
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Twenty Years of Hippocampus Press: 2000-2020Over the past two decades, Hippocampus Press has emerged as the leading publisher of works relating to H. P. Lovecraft. It has, in fact, published the entirety of Lovecraft's work in definitive editions-fiction, poetry, essays, and letters. In addition, it has published numerous volumes...
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Black Cultural MythologyWinner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language AssociationBlack Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production...
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Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as LiteratureCan literature reveal reality? Is philosophical truth a literary artifice? How does the way we think affect what we can know? Buddhism has been grappling with these questions for centuries, and this book attempts to answer them by exploring the relationship between literature and...
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Kept from All ContagionKept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century. Connecting groups of authors rarely studied in tandem by highlighting their shared interest in changing interpersonal relationships in the wake of germ theory, this book takes a...
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