Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Womb Work: Womb-Centered Health Narratives as Reparative PRAXIS in Black Women's FictionEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Black women writers and scholars have been engaged in the process of repairing and restoring history especially as it documents...
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What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today.Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader,...
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Virginia Woolf and the AnthropoceneThe first half of the twentieth century was a period of accelerated resource extraction, industrial intensification and tipping points in pollution levels, hastening the emergence of an epoch in which humans are the key drivers of planetary change. Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene situates...
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Virginia Woolf and CapitalismVirginia Woolf and Capitalism explores Woolf's engagement with and critiques of capitalism throughout her life, arguing for its central importance in our understanding of her as an author, activist and publisher. Galvanised by existing scholarship on the place of economics, class, gender and empire...
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Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit PhenomenaSpirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible, however, Reed Carlson argues that possession is also depicted in this earlier literature, though...
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Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American CultureHow nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious" Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it--most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem...
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The Worlds of George RR Martin: The Inspirations Behind Game of ThronesIn the many realms of modern fantasy there is only one true King, and his name is George Raymond Richard Martin. With A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin has created a world on a scale almost unrivalled by any other single writer. Approaching...
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The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of LiteratureA fascinating tour of literature through the medium of its most emblematic invention - the book. How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects...
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The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self"Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder."--Ada Lim?nIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith...
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The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger's Magical MaterialismThe Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger's entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity, poetry, and thinking--in short, the ineffectual--are critical for Heidegger as they offer the only path to...
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There Are Things We Live Among: Essays on the Object WorldLiterary Nonfiction. Conversational, humane, and forthright, Jennifer Moxley brings her remarkable strengths as a poet to bear on the essay tradition. At once literary and personal, THERE ARE THINGS WE LIVE AMONG follows the thread connecting texts and objects in her life, from her...
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The No-Pressure Book Journal: A No-Guilt, No-Shame, No-Stress Journal to Help You Read Better and Enjoy Books AgainHosts of the hit podcast Reading Glasses bring you the only reading journal you'll ever need, designed to help book lovers read, rant, and reflect with undeniable ease. No stress. No pressure. Brea and Mallory, passionate bibliophiles, and hosts of the Reading Glasses podcast...
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The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid IranThe Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran. Sometimes treated only as part of the larger Mongol Empire, the volume focuses on the Ilkhanate...
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The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of WritingOne of America's most honored and respected essayists, Sven Birkerts, returns with a riveting new collection. In The Mir? Worm and the Mysteries of Writing, Birkerts reflects on fundamental questions every writer grapples with at one time or another: "Ah, the old questions, the...
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The Literary Lacan: From Literature to Lituraterre and BeyondSome of the most well-known psychoanalysts and literary theorists explore Jacques Lacan's influence on literature. The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. The...
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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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