Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Little Women at 150Contributions by Beverly Lyon Clark, Christine Doyle, Gregory Eiselein, John Matteson, Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Anne K. Phillips, Daniel Shealy, and Roberta Seelinger Trites As the golden age of children's literature dawned in America in the mid-1860s, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a...
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Chaka, An Historical RomanceThis 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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Arthur Schnitzler in Great Britain: An Examination of Power and TranslationAn examination of Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler's reception in Great Britain. The "amoral voice" of fin-de-siècle Vienna, Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) was one of the major figures of European modernist literature. Throughout his lifetime and after his death, his writing enjoyed substantial domestic and international...
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The Great Beyond: Art in the Age of AnnihilationEssays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality--forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more While much about modernism remains up for debate, there can be no dispute about the connection between modernist...
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Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First CenturyFor more than eighty years, Faulkner criticism has attempted to "see all Yoknapatawpha," the fictional Mississippi county in which the author set all but four of his novels as well as more than fifty short stories. One of the most ambitious of these attempts...
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Hyde Park: By James ShirleyJames Shirley's Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best Caroline city comedies, building upon the Elizabethan and Jacobean traditions to partake in new considerations of London space, power, and courtship. The play especially warrants sustained critical consideration in terms of its representations of...
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American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and RaceThe story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America's...
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Classical Samaritan PoetryThis book introduces the evocative but largely unknown tradition of Samaritan religious poetry from late antiquity to a new audience. These verses provide a unique window into the Samaritan religious world during a formative period.Prepared by Laura Suzanne Lieber, this anthology presents annotated English...
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The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular ImaginationThe dome of thought is the first study of phrenology based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of this important and controversial pseudoscience. With detailed reference to the reports printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth...
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The Godfather and Sicily: Power, Honor, Family, and EvilIn this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience. The book explores both the novel and the film sequence in terms...
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Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature's SyncopeBreathing and its rhythms--liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous--have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production,...
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Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in FilmGeorge Toles's Curtains of Light explores the ways in which various kinds of theatrical space in film engage with the film reality adjacent to them, and alter our understanding of the cinematic real. Film art is a dialogue between the world created for a...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the EnvironmentThis Companion offers a capacious overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Tracing environmental literatures from the gates of the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in California to the island of St. Croix, from the notebooks of eighteenth-century naturalists to the practices of contemporary activists,...
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The Notebooks of Gertrude SteinThe Notebooks of Gertrude Stein for The Making of Americans, 1903-1912, book is Professor Leon Katz's long anticipated full reconstruction, editing, annotation and "decoding" of Gertrude Stein's Notebooks covering her early years in Paris and her creation of her great modernist masterpiece, The Making...
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Your PuppetryThis 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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Metatheatre; a New View of Dramatic FormThis 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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Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor TransnationalismMennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged a reconsideration of the field's past and a reconceptualization of its future. This is exactly what Reading Mennonite Writing does.Drawing on the transnational turn...
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Democratic Swarms: Ancient Comedy and the Politics of the PeopleConsiders how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering how it has been overlooked as a political medium by modern theorists and critics. Moving beyond the popular...
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Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or SpitSLIM CONFESSIONS is an image-text about digital intimacy and visceral material. A work of autotheory, the book lays in parallel the history of slime as a vehicle for horror and entertainment with personal encounters with quotidian slime in the human and animal worlds. At...
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Fontanes MedienTheodor Fontane war, im durchaus modernen Sinne, ein Medienarbeiter: Als Presse-Agent in London lernte er die innovativste Presselandschaft seiner Zeit kennen; als Redakteur in Berlin leistete er journalistische Kärrnerarbeit; er schrieb Kritiken über das Theater, die bildende Kunst und die Literatur - und auch...
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