Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Archdeacon Grantly Walks Again: Trollope's Clergy Then and NowAlongside twelve verbal snapshots of Anthony Trollope's Archdeacon Grantly and his fellow Barchester clergy, this book places twelve equally fictious modern counterparts. Human nature never changes. A fascinating and gripping read.Author: Michael HigginsPublisher: Sacristy PressPublished: 04/15/2024Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...
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A MidSummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream, ' where love, magic, and mischief intertwine under the moonlit forest canopy. Shakespeare's timeless comedy takes you on a whimsical journey as four young lovers find themselves entangled in a web of mischievous fairies, including the notorious Puck. Meanwhile, a...
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American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip RothOne of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth's 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic,...
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Adoption Memoirs: Inside StoriesAdoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only happy moments, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child, the racism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay and...
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A Companion to Saxo GrammaticusEver since the publication of Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum at the beginning of the thirteenth century, scholars and laymen have grappled with the complex and marvellous chronicle. As much specialized scholarship has been published in Danish, this companion breaks new ground by giving a...
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You Have a Kind Face: Reflections on a Firefighter's JourneyYou Have a Kind Face is a collection of true, firsthand accounts of what a career in firefighting can be like. Over the course of twenty-six years in the fire service, Joel has seen more than a few strange situations and difficult calls. From...
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Riverhead BooksPublished: 10/04/2005Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.86dISBN: 9781594481383Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 130About the AuthorHarold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at...
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Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian ConventionAlthough he was a man rooted in and engaged with nineteenth-century British culture, George MacDonald was no friend of Victorian convention. As this volume demonstrates, he was part of a tradition of counter-cultural writers, teachers, theologians, and reformers (including S. T. Coleridge, F. D....
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To Take Upon Us the Mystery of ThingsA collection of previously unpublished lectures by the late Martin Lings, Shakespearean scholar and Sufi master. The main plays are seen in the light of universal and perennial metaphysics, psychology and eschatology, with many insights into the mystical and alchemical symbolism. The spiritual reach...
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Tom Stoppard's ArcadiaTom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for...
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Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His FollowersHow a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture. Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of...
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The Voices of the Consul: The Rhetorics of Cicero's de Lege Agraria I and IIThe Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "On the Agrarian Law" I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to...
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary EditionThis remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and...
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The Private Life of William ShakespeareThe Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cowen Orlin offers close readings of key archival documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge, reconsidering clusters...
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of UsAn intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume's life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic--and controversial--young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber.Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for...
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The Box-Car ChildrenThe book "" The Box-Car Children "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This...
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The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in HistoryThis compilation of essential information on 100 superheroes from comic book issues, various print and online references, and scholarly analyses provides readers all of the relevant material on superheroes in one place. The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in History covers the history...
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Royalty in Twenty-First Century Children's and Young Adult Literature: Reshaping the Folktale and Disney TraditionDoughty examines twenty-first century children's and young adult literature featuring royal characters, exploring different ways that authors reshape traditional folktale and Disney royals to create new royals that transform the traditional roles. She explores royals in terms of gender, queerness, and race and ethnicity.Author:...
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Reading Walter de la MareA selection of Walter de la Mare's greatest poems presented alongside insightful, reader-friendly commentaries. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the best-loved English poets of the twentieth century, his verse admired by contemporaries including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden and...
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Ray Guy: The Final Columns, 2003-2013Ray Guy: The Final Columns, 2003-2013 is a collection of the columns Ray Guy wrote for The Northeast Avalon Times, a community newspaper based in Portugal Cove. Guy previously achieved fame and acclaim for his astute and humorous observations of Newfoundland politics and society...
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