Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. LewisA fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in...
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Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular CultureA radical reinterpretation of three controversial works that illuminate racism and national identity in the United StatesCitizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation;...
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Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to ModernityThroughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed - or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens...
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The Tao of S: America's Chinee & the Chinese Century in Literature and FilmA study of recent shifts in the depictions of Asian cultural stereotypes The Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei...
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Breathing AestheticsIn Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism,...
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Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern IrelandPoetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions. Focusing on poets' responses in their writing to...
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Hacking in the Humanities: Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction, and Navigating a Digital FutureWhat would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This book looks to speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital humanities to...
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Conversations with Jerome CharynThis volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well. As one of...
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In Common Things: Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic LiteratureThe hardness of stone, the pliancy of wood, the fluidity of palm oil, the crystalline nature of salt, and the vegetable qualities of moss - each describes a way of being in and understanding the world. These substances are both natural objects hailed in...
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Boccaccio's Florence: Politics and People in His Life and WorkBest known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of Florence and the extent of his involvement steered and inspired his work as...
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Medieval Devil: A ReaderFrom his first appearances in scripture preventing Balaam from disobeying God's will to his supposed role presiding over cannibalistic orgies in the middle of the fifteenth century, the devil has been a dynamic force underlying European society. The personification of shifting fears and anxieties...
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The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual AsiaA groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850--with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and...
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Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial IndiaHow English has become a language of the people in India--one that enables the state but also empowers protests against it Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of...
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The GardenerMost of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literal-the originals being sometimes...
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Josephine Tey: A LifeJosephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952). Born in Inverness, MacKintosh lived several lives: Best known as Golden Age Crime Fiction writer Tey, she was also successful novelist and playwright Gordon Daviot. During her exceptional career, she had plays on simultaneously in...
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La Medusa, El Mono Y La Marioneta: Teología Política Y Erótica En El PeronismoLa medusa, el mono y la marioneta estudia la genealogia discursiva del peronismo a traves de la lectura minuciosa de textos de Eva Peron, Borges, Cortazar, Walsh, Erminda Duarte, Pedro Ara, Copi y T.E. Martinez. Mediante la unificacion de tres componentes teoricos--lo politico, lo...
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Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni MorrisonNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe-author of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fiction-is considered the father of modern African literature. The equally revered Toni Morrison, author of masterworks such as Beloved, acknowledges African literature's and Achebe's influence on her own work....
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The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's at FaultThe New View from Cane River features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin's first novel, At Fault. While much critical work on the author prioritizes her famous, groundbreaking second book, The Awakening, its 1890 predecessor remains a fascinating text...
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What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa WolfArguably the most important--and influential--German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and...
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Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy"A collection of essays on Frankenstein written by distinguished and younger scholars of Romantic studies, utilizing ambitious critical theories in literary and cultural studies"--Author: Orrin N. C. WangPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 07/28/2022Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57dISBN: 9781501372209About the AuthorWang, Orrin...
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