Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Looking at PersiansAeschylus' Persiansis unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persiansexamines how Aeschylus responded...
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Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life StoriesThe first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularity of children's biographies and how they engage with the biggest issues of our time: environmental change, health crises, education, and children's personal and political development....
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Semiotics of the Christian Imagination: Signs of the Fall and RedemptionThe semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the...
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The Poet and Existence: Text Contents and the Interaction of Reality, Myths and Symbols in Hatif Janabi's PoetryPublisher: Jagiellonian University PressPublished: 02/28/2023Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788323350088
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Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the MassesThe legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs:...
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All Fools: George ChapmanOf all the poets Francis Meres names in his famous Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), just two rate a mention as being both 'our best for tragedy' and 'the best poets for comedy' William Shakespeare and George Chapman. All Fools, written in 1599, is...
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Alfred, Lord TennysonTennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die' 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all'...
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Late Modernism and the Poetics of PlaceThis monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modernism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modernism tend to regard it as an inter-war or mid-century...
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Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Culture: Junctures of Time, Space, Self and PoliticsAcross four parts of exploratory, creative and speculative essays, this book provides provocative frameworks and readings of canonical and non-canonical literature. The essays cover off-the-map places, warped historical chronologies, excessive selves, unlikely meetings and systemic incommensurability. Collectively they define original methods, categories and terrains...
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Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010This book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.Author: Rebecca KosickPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 05/17/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.21h...
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Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic ExperienceArgues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content Appeals to those interested in philosophy and literature, especially the philosophy of literature Brings together thinkers from the analytic and continental traditions in aesthetics Contains an updated and...
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Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazineMaps a coherent subfield of Romantic periodical studies through studying the trailblazing Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine An introduction by two established scholars that articulates a case for the more sustained, systematic study of Romantic periodicals and justifies the volume's focus by retracing Blackwood's emergence as...
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Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle EastAt the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an "other" that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the...
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Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian LiteratureWater is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary critical attention. This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water...
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Paris SpleenFirst published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire was inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's "Gaspard de la Nuit-Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot" or "Gaspard of the Night-Fantasies in the Manner...
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James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After FilmInvestigates how the cinematic tendency of Joyce's writing developed from media predating film First comprehensive consideration of Joyce in the context of pre-filmic 'cinematicity'. Research and analysis based on recent 'media archaeology'. Examines the shaping of Joyce's fiction by late-Victorian visual culture and science....
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Short Form American Poetry: The Modernist TraditionA ground-breaking analysis of the short form lineage in twentieth-century American poetry - Proposes a new genealogy of 20th century and contemporary American verse - Contains in-depth discussion of key American poets and movements - Will appeal to graduates and scholars in both the...
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Women's Writing of the Early Modern Period 1588-1688: An AnthologyThis multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period.Author: Stephanie Hodgson-WrightPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 07/15/2002Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.03dISBN: 9780748610976
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Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol. 4, issue 2Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. Another double issue! Cover art...
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Understanding Barthes, Understanding ModernismUnderstanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to Barthes's death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree...
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