Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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I Can't SleepAn attempt to feel and investigate the quality of time, with references to Jonathan Crary, Paul B. Preciado, Charles Baudelaire, and Walter Benjamin. "This book could have been called The Contemporary Condition of Sleeping and Reading in the Heart of (and in Spite of)...
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The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and GracePart literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical history of the gift and tells the interconnected story of grace: where it comes from and what it is believed to accomplish. Covering...
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Explorons L'Etranger d'Albert Camus: Edition de l'enseignantThis instructor's companion guide to L'Etranger (The Stranger) provides an organized, step-by-step approach to making the classic French text readily accessible to students. Instructors can choose from a wide scope of activities at multiple levels of language and philosophical reflection to enhance their course...
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Stories by Meir BlinkinNow available for the first time to the English-speaking public, the captivating short stories of master storyteller Meir Blinkin are the charming prose equivalents of the film Hester Street. These delightful and touching stories also give an authentic account of the Jewish immigrant experience...
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Reading Eminem: A Critical, Lyrical AnalysisThis book critically analyses Eminem's studio album releases from his first commercial album release The Slim Shady LP in 1999, to 2020's Music To Be Murdered By, through the lens of storytelling, truth and rhetoric, narrative structure, rhyme scheme and type, perspective, and celebrity...
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Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical TransformationA dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory...
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Istwa Across the Water: Haitian History, Memory, and the Cultural Imagination​Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book PrizeGathering oral stories and visual art from Haiti and two of its "motherlands" in Africa, Istwa across the Water recovers the submerged histories of the island through methods drawn from its deep...
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The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read...
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The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of KnowledgeThe scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century. He explores...
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Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's ProverbsThis book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African...
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The Little Book of X-MenThey debuted in 1963, but weren't the instant sensations that the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man had been; twenty years later, they were the most exciting (or x-citing!) property in comics. Fans couldn't get enough of Wolverine! Storm! Cyclops! Beast! Nightcrawler! Jean Grey! Not to...
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Understanding Alice WalkerUnderstanding Alice Walker serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifaceted canon. Thadious M. Davis begins with Walker's biography and her formative experiences in the South...
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Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft"I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described." Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to the fact that fiction has...
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Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English CalendarAstrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological, astrological, and medical theories that undergirded calendars, traces...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Volume 1Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In plays, films, TV shows, and other media, one generation after another has reimagined...
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Trauma Theory As an Approach to Analyzing Literary Texts: An Updated and Expanded Edition, with ReadingsTrauma Theory As an Approach to Analyzing Literary Texts investigates the hypothesis that cultural trauma affects a society's literary production (really, its artistic production as a whole), resulting in a narrative voice we have come to call "postmodern" since midway through the twentieth century...
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Slave State: Rereading Orwell's 1984David Lowenthal transposes present society onto that in the novel, 1984, and illustrates "how the quest for a perfect society led instead to the worst--in the course of revolting against which the true ends of life are established." It is more than suspicion: the...
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God's Poems: The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian ImaginationPoetry is exciting, but elusive to most. This is troublesome for Christians because the Bible, John Poch reminds us, is largely composed of poetical verse. In God's Poems, Poch re-introduces sacred text as purposefully poetic, and explains what that means and invites the reader...
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Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and StudentsRooted in the day-to-day experience of teaching and written for those without specialist technical knowledge, this is a new edition of the go-to guide to using digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom. In response to the rapidly changing nature of the field,...
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Solar Eclipse 1914"Readers will be deeply grateful to thelate Peter Oram for giving new life to thework of a major Russian poet who hasnever been fully recognized in the English-speakingworld - even if his haunting wordshave been heard in Russian by the millionswho have seen his...
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