Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-DeliriumA fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilationWhat kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal...
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The Once and Future Queen: Guinevere in Arthurian LegendAuthor's Circle Non-Fiction Book of the Year Sarton Women's Book Prize Winner Guinevere's journey from literary sinner to feminist icon took over one thousand years...and it's not over yet. Literature tells us painfully little about Guinevere, mostly focusing on her sin and betrayal of...
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Star Myths of the World, Volume Three: Star Myths of the BibleThe most complete guide to the ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor, sometimes called Astro-theology, which forms the foundation for virtually all of the scriptures, myths, and sacred stories of humanity -- including the texts we call the Old Testament and New Testament of...
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Lexicon Urthus, Second EditionLexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires...
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Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic ParadigmThe final work by the author before his death in 1992, Chaosmosis is a radical and challenging work concerned with the reinvention and resingularization of subjectivity. It attempts to embody affective change, the short-circuiting of signification and the proliferation of sense necessary to engage...
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Romance Of The Road: Literature Of The American HighwayFor four decades, the American road narrative has been a significant and popular literary genre for expressing journeys of self discovery. These works have been used as springboards for authors to define our national identity, to explore opportunities to escape from the daily routine,...
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Screams from the BalconyScreams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.Author: Charles BukowskiPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 05/30/2002Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.93h x 5.93w x 0.98dISBN:...
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Pilgrim's Progress Study GuideThis study guide includes questions for review, discussion, and reflection on each of the eleven lessons. Also includes devotional comments and applications of the truths discovered in the book Pilgrim's Progress.Author: Maureen L. BradleyPublisher: P & R PublishingPublished: 06/01/1994Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.51h...
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The Gospel in Tolstoy: Selections from His Short Stories, Spiritual Writings & NovelsWe know of no better introduction to the spiritual vision of one of the greatest writers of all time. This anthology vividly reveals - as none of his novels, novellas, short stories, plays, or essays could on its own - the great Russian novelist's...
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Storyteller's Start-Up BookFinding, learning, performing, and using folktales. For those who want to begin storytelling but don't know where to start, The Storyteller's Start-Up Book offers everything one could ask for. Margaret Read MacDonald, an award-winning folklorist and children's librarian who is also a touring storyteller,...
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Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller: New PerspectivesAs American Indian writers frequently remind their readers, storytellers wield formidable power to affect the earth and its inhabitants. This power is the same medicine power that inheres in tribal expression such as chants, prayers, and ceremonial rituals. Leslie Marmon Silko, critics point out,...
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Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to Nineteenth CenturyThis books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century. The book contains a dazzling array of myths and legends, essays and biographies, love poems and Zen poems,...
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New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and PoliticsNew Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are...
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Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of HectorBy focusing on the story of Hector, James M. Redfield presents an imaginative perspective not only on the Iliad but also on the whole of Homeric culture. In an expansive discussion informed by a reinterpretation of Aristotle's Poetics and a reflection on the human...
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Black on EarthAmerican environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kimberly Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. Ruffin identifies a theory...
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Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry AnthologyGhost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many...
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A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot: A Poem-By-Poem AnalysisGeorge Williamson treats his subject with great precision. Documenting his analyses with ample quotes from the poems and essays, he elucidates the structure and meaning of Eliot's masterpieces. To make this guide more accessible, the poems are arranged in chronological order, as they appeared...
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Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation After 9/11After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox...
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Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World FictionEternalized Fragments explores the implications of treating literature as art--examining the evolving nature of aesthetic inquiry in literary studies, with an eye to how twentieth- and twenty-first-century world fiction challenges our understandings of form, pleasure, ethics, and other critical concepts traditionally associated with the...
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The Enchanted Boot: Italian Fairy Tales and Their TellersThis comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and...
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