Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction: From Girl to WomanInvestigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo Gonz?lez analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.Through the identification of mythic themes ('mythemes') and patterns within these novels, Gonz?lez...
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The Literary Gift in Early AmericaSome of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of literary objects in circulation across the diverse societies, economies, and cultures of the...
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative NonfictionAn account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre "When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing career, the choices he made . . . he puts...
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The Documented Child: Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children's LiteratureImmigrationis at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States' perception of itself. In The Documented Child, scholar Maya Socolovsky demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has shifted over the first two decades of the...
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The Documented Child: Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children's LiteratureImmigrationis at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States' perception of itself. In The Documented Child, scholar Maya Socolovsky demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has shifted over the first two decades of the...
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The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First CenturyFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismShortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyA history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on...
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The Call of the TribeThe intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe."...
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The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama - Second EditionAuthor: Diana SolomonPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 12/15/2024Pages: 944Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.91lbsSize: 9.37h x 7.72w x 1.18dISBN: 9781554815746About the AuthorDiana Solomon is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. David Weston is an Adjunct Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.This title is not...
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The Bhagavad Gita: A Norton Critical EditionThe Bhagavad Gita, the "Song of the Lord," is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great battle over succession to the throne. This new verse...
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The Art of UncertaintyAuthor: Daniel WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/07/2024Pages: 346Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781009436113Review Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2024This title is not returnable
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The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First CenturyThe African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century comprises fourteen essays, each focussing on recent, widely known fiction by acclaimed African American authors. This volume showcases the originality, diversity, and vitality of contemporary African American literature, which has reached a bewildering yet exhilarating...
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Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His BooksA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what...
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Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of StoriesIn "provocative and entertaining essays [that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators" (Library Journal), one of the country's foremost education writers looks at the stories we tell our children. Available now in a revised edition, including a new essay on the importance...
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Shaping Visions in U.S.-American Magazines: Women Illustrators and the Visual Culture of Femininity, 1890-1920Between 1890 and 1920, white U.S. American women experienced unprecedented sociopolitical changes - a dynamic era vividly captured but also creatively and profoundly shaped by successful female illustrators within a burgeoning magazine market. This study highlights five groundbreaking, yet largely forgotten, artists - Rose...
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Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of KnowledgeMoving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety, and joy shape scientific persons, practices, and products.This book brings into dialogue close readings...
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SaxophoneObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture. It's the "devil's horn," it's the voice of jazz - an...
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Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas AuthorRobert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, including...
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Refusal of the ShadowIn 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, and published a single issue of a journal called L gitime d fense. Immediately banned by the authorities, it passed almost unnoticed at...
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Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny: Essays on Bajazet and MithridateIn Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who either wield tyrannic power or are subjected to tyranny. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts. The contributors to this volume examine Racine's stagecraft, his...
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Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying WorldWhat queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to live at the end of life, the end of a family line, the end of a species, or the end of the future itself? When...
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