Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Joyce of Everyday LifePart of James Joyce's genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, "a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that...
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The Hungarian Revolt: October 23 - November 4, 1956An anthology of the 'seven days that shook the Kremlin", the 1956 revolution in Hungary.Author: Richard LettisPublisher: Simon PublicationsPublished: 12/01/1961Pages: 215Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.04w x 0.56dISBN: 9781931313797This title is not returnable
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The Historical NovelThe historical novel is an enduringly popular genre that raises crucial questions about key literary concepts, fact and fiction, identity, history, reading, and writing. In this comprehensive, focused guide, Jerome de Groot offers an accessible introduction to the genre and critical debates that surround...
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The Encyclopedia of Epic Myths and Legends: Extraordinary and Mesmerizing Stories That Will Boggle Your MindIn this unique exploration of world mythology, discover how ancient tales across cultures have influenced today's pop culture, from Beyonc? to Game of Thrones. Fun and engaging, The Encyclopedia of Epic Myths and Legends details the influences of classical stories on contemporary popular culture....
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The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to DatongThe Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute by one of China's most famous authors builds on...
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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Volume VI: Sketches and Scholarly Studies, Part II: Musical Settings and SketchesSketches and Scholarly Studies: Part II, Musical Settings and Sketches brings together two crucial aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's insatiable drive to create: drawing, predominantly (but not exclusively) from the early part of his life, when he had ambitions to be a painter; and...
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The Carrier Bag Theory of FictionIn The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha ChristieNominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study...
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Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018"Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition." --Tess Michaelson, Full StopAlice Notley, the author of more than 40 books of poetry, has delivered an expert array of discussions...
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Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922Shredding the Map investigates Russian place consciousness in the decade between the start of World War I and the end of the Russian civil war. Attachment to place is a vital aspect of human identity, and connection to homeland, whether imagined or real, can...
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Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on the Early Modern StageShakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures.Author: Ben HaworthPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...
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Sant?, intimit?, et identit? dans la bande dessin?e autobiographique de tradition franco-belgeSanté, intimité, et identité dans la bande dessinée autobiographique de tradition franco-belge examines the ways different autobiographical comic books explore the theme of health, and its influence on identity construction. How do artists represent abstract feelings of pain? How do illnesses influence our sense...
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Reinventing Babel in Medieval French: Translation and Untranslatability (C. 1120-C. 1250)How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of translation? For the past two centuries, theoretical debates about translation have responded to the idea that translation overcomes linguistic and cultural incommensurability, while never inscribing...
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RecollectionsIn this edited translation of famed writer Ivan Bunin's Recollections translator Thomas Gaiton Marullo provides an intimate look at leading political, social, cultural, and literary figures from late imperial Russia, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 to the...
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Rabbinic Literature: An Essential GuideRabbinic literature is a complex and interwoven body of texts whose importance is extensive: it is, of course, central to studying Judaism; its texts are valuable for broad religious study and are crucial for understanding the background of early Christianity; and the history of...
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Plutarch and Rhetoric: The Relationship of Rhetoric to Ethics, Politics and Education in the First and Second Centuries ADPlutarch was not only a skilled writer, but also lived during the Second Sophistic, a period of cultural renaissance. This book offers new insights into Plutarch's seemingly moderate attitude towards rhetoric. The hypothesis explored in this study introduces, for the first time, the broader...
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary ImaginationPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of...
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Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free CollegeIn Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period, during which...
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Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the PastNarrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past offers the first systematic analysis of narratives in early Chinese historical writings from 400 BCE to 100 CE, with a focus on the Shiji (Records of the Historian), a vast collection of historical accounts completed by...
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Narrative Across Media: The Languages of StorytellingNarratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media. Dividing the inquiry into five areas:...
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