Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Conversations with Lenard D. MooreKnown internationally for his Japanese-style poetry, Lenard D. Moore (b. 1958) has published eight poetry collections over the course of his career. Moore has distinguished himself especially in such forms as jazz poetry, haiku, tanka, renga, sequence, and haibun, expressing moments of aesthetic delight...
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Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen NightsNo writer in America has a better feel for the country's rythms, richness, and rewards than bestselling author and syndicated columnist Bob Greene. With the color and depth of a novel, this treasury of best-loved columns captures America's small triumphs and all-too-human tragedies as...
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Chasing the LightAuthor: Jesse BlackadderPublisher: Harper Collins Publishers Australia Pty LtdPublished: 02/01/2013Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.96dISBN: 9780732296049This title is not returnable
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Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to WritersSome of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather. For others, the idea of place becomes more distinct and particular: the sound of someone humming while washing dishes, the musical cadence of a mountain accent, the smell...
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All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification25th Annniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one...
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Alien vs. PredatorThe debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice. Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been a lot of excited talk about the fresh and inventive...
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A Hundred and Seventy Chinese PoemsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris: Edited with Introduction and CommentaryThe Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the Remedia Amoris behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a reversal of the Ars Amatoria's teaching that brings the world of Ovidian elegy to a banal end, or as an over-determined supplement to the...
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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov: And Other ExcursionsAuthor: Martin AmisPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 05/02/1995Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.41h x 5.60w x 0.70dISBN: 9780679757931Review Citation(s): New York Times 09/24/1995 pg. 40Publishers Weekly 04/24/1995About the AuthorMARTIN AMIS is the author of 15 novels--among them Zone of Interest, London Fields, Time's Arrow,...
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Unexplained Presence***Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON***In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-sc?nes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual narratives. Moving from cultural analysis to cinematic (re)creation, Bryant's prose traverses like a tracking shot...
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Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and The Zombie ComplexTracking the zombie from Hollywood back to its origins in the voodoo folklore of Haiti.There are zombies among us From the rotting hordes of TV's The Walking Dead to the blockbuster nightmares of World War Z and 28 Days Later, our popular culture is...
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The Queen-like Closet: Or, Rich CabinetThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female DetectiveA revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated...
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Critical IntroductionThis Critical Introduction explores the main themes, characters and symbols of "The Great Gatsby"; the quest for a new life, the preoccupation with one's place in society, the desire for riches and the greatest dream of all human beings. In doing so it offers...
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The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a ScienceUnraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecology The Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving together the histories of different disciplines, John MacNeill Miller shows how pioneering thinkers drew...
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The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-MenWinner -- 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in Best Academic/Scholarly Work, announced at San Diego Comic-Con International (2024) A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author's subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. By the time Chris Claremont's...
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The Cambridge History of Cuban LiteratureExtending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the seventeenth-century to the twenty-first century. This landmark book highlights the intricacies of linguistic...
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The Black Death and Other EssaysAngus Trumble, curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, director of the National Portrait Gallery, author, historian, blogger, genealogist, collector of obscure facts, boulevardier, friend, brother, uncle (and occasional agony aunt), and workaholic, who left hundreds of thousands of...
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Symposium of PlatoA superb example of the bookmaker's and translator's art, this new edition of Plato's Symposium exhibits aesthetic, literary, and intellectual excellences rarely found together in a single volume.Tom Griffith's translation of this foundation work of Western culture is unsurpassed for the balance it achieves...
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Sifilografía: A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic WorldSyphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas' colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period's literature across numerous fields. Reflecting Spaniards' political prejudices of the period, it was alternately labeled "mal franc s" or "el mal de las...
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