Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Memoria del Fuego 2. Las Caras y Las MascarasAuthor: Eduardo H. GaleanoPublisher: Siglo XXI EdicionesPublished: 12/01/1999Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.62h x 5.60w x 0.95dISBN: 9789682312731Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Memoirs of a Minotaur: From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry"In his extraordinary book Memoirs of a Minotaur: From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry, Robin Magowan (grandson of the founder of Merrill Lynch and nephew of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, James Merrill) turns his uncompromising vision and...
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Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern IndiaA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in...
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Kenneth Burke's Rhetoric of Identification: Lessons in Reading, Writing, and Living"Tilly Warnock's KENNETH BURKE'S RHETORIC OF IDENTIFICATION: LESSONS IN READING, WRITING, AND LIVING is an exceptionally well-researched and thorough book that offers, especially for new scholars, the terms for understanding and tracing Burke's theory of identification. Warnock's book invites scholars to consider Burke's identification...
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JournalsR.F. Langley's 'Collected Poems' (Carcanet, 2000) was one of the poetic highlights of recent times, showing a sometimes sceptical public that a contemporary poet could still engage with the shades of Modernism and produce fascinating and original work. Throughout his life, the author has...
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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A BiographyA worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer's work No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epic poems...
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Goth Parenting: The Dark Joys of Raising Baby BatsFrom the cradle bars to pre-preteen goo goo mucks, Goth Parenting is an illustrated humor book with heart for families who do things a little differently. Your local mall goths and graveyard lurkers experience the same milestones of parenthood as anyone else. Goths just...
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Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal ObsessionPart literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, then 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in 1987 to ghostwrite a novel for a wealthy, eccentric donor ("Mrs. F,"...
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Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 2: Books IX - XIII, Appendices, Glossary, IndexVirgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513...
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Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIIIVirgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513...
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From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap ComicsBetween the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wrappers, and bound books. From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics...
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Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the GrotesqueThis assessment of a major southern writer's work offers a revisionist view of her characters, who in the past twenty-five years of critical attention too often and too easily have been labeled grotesque. O'Connor's stories and novels are usually considered mere dramatizations of her...
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Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and HurstonThis study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston. Here their memoirs are placed within a context of southern feminism and the more inclusive discourse of modern American...
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Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women Between Page and ScreenTracing the influence of Faulkner's screenwriting on his literary craft and depictions of women William Faulkner's time as a Hollywood screenwriter has often been dismissed as little more than an intriguing interlude in the career of one of America's greatest novelists. Consequently, it has...
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Faulkner's Hollywood Novels: Women Between Page and ScreenTracing the influence of Faulkner's screenwriting on his literary craft and depictions of women William Faulkner's time as a Hollywood screenwriter has often been dismissed as little more than an intriguing interlude in the career of one of America's greatest novelists. Consequently, it has...
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Fantastic Histories: Medieval Fairy Narratives and the Limits of WonderFantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as...
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ElectraBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...
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Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It AwayDark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away is a rich study of O'Connor's second novel by nine scholars in the fields of American literature, theology, and religious studies. Each essay is a penetrating look at the complexity of O'Connor's...
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Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic WitnessStereotypical images of African American Christian spirituality eclipse the profound diversity of Black preaching. As a result, contemplative preaching has become one of the most overlooked streams of gospel proclamation in Black Protestant contexts. Far from a new phenomenon, contemplative preaching consists of a...
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Balzac on the Barricades: The Literary Origins of an Economic RevolutionThe role of nineteenth-century French literature in a distinctively modern political movement When Parisian workers took to the streets in February 1848, they adopted the rallying cry of droit au travail (the right to work). That protesters increasingly framed employment as a political right...
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