Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish ModernismChallenging the assumptionthat modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity andheritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein's constant and varied writingabout Jewish topics throughout her career. Amy Feinstein argues that Judaismwas central to Stein's ideas about modernity, showing how Stein connects...
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Precarity in Contemporary Literature and CultureThe contemporary moment is characterized by precarity - an expanding and intensifying vulnerability conditioned by political and economic structures. Using literary and cultural texts to develop a nuanced and critical exploration of the concept of precarity that emphasizes its contemporary manifestations while also attending...
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In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's DidascaliconA discourse on Hugh of St. Victor's medieval text Didascalicon, and the 'bookish' life which we can enjoy if lucky.Author: Ivan IllichPublisher: Marion Boyars PublishersPublished: 09/15/2022Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50dISBN: 9780714531571
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Finding the World's FullnessForty years as a poet has kept Robert Cording looking at the details of everyday experience. That long labor has brought him face-to-face with the inescapable complexity of a world that is full of suffering and injustice. And grace.This journey has convinced him that,...
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Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria: Theory and Representation in the Age of ExtremesThe first English-language monograph on Hermann Broch's literary and theoretical work on mass hysteria. Austrian Jewish author Hermann Broch (1886-1951), a leading figure of European Modernism, spent decades attempting to understand the phenomenon of mass hysteria. With his work, he hoped to help protect...
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The Instagram Archipelago: Race, Gender, and the Lives of Dead FishSet on Idan Hayosh's peculiar Instagram page of women holding dead fish, The Instagram Archipelago is a conversation with contemporary culture's logics of gender and race. Working through recent thinking in Black studies and Hayosh's satirical images, Elliot C. Mason presents the aesthetics of...
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Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and CultureOtherwise Than the Binary approaches canonical texts and concepts in Ancient Greek philosophy and culture that have traditionally been understood as examples of binary thinking, particularly concerning sexual difference. In contrast to such patriarchal logic, the essays within this volume explore how many of...
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Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist NovelHow do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the institution was interrogated and rethought in literary and...
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Time and Identity in Ulysses and the OdysseyA comparative study of two classicliterary works, from a specialist in Joyce and Homer Time and Identity in"Ulysses" and the "Odyssey" offers a unique in-depth comparative study oftwo classic literary works, examiningessential themes such as change, the self, and humans' dependence on andisolation from...
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The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft: His Rise from Obscurity to World RenownDuring his lifetime, H. P. Lovecraft did not have a single book of his stories published. When he died in 1937, he probably envisioned the oblivion that would overtake his entire literary output. But in the decades that have followed, Lovecraft's fiction, essays, poetry,...
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New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st CenturyIn the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has long been so ignored and maligned that seemingly every scholarly work on it opens with...
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Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the GothicIn Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside - a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring, persisting within later Russian literary movements. Writing Fear explores Russian literature's engagement with the...
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Lectures on DostoevskyFrom the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His never-before-published Stanford lectures on...
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The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War VeteransThe Left-Armed Corps collects and annotates a unique and little-known body of Civil War literature: narrative sketches, accounts, and poetry by veterans who lost the use of their right arms due to wounds sustained during the conflict and who later competed in left-handed penmanship...
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Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic WorldA cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period's philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief...
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Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and FilmHow could American social solidarity have so collapsed that we cannot even cooperate in fighting a pandemic? One problem lies in how our values mutate and intersect in an era of runaway high-end inequality and evaporating upward mobility. Under such conditions, tensions rise between...
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The Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method Volume 41Indian literature is not a corpus of texts or literary concepts from India, argues Preetha Mani, but a provocation that seeks to resolve the relationship between language and literature, written in as well as against English. Examining canonical Hindi and Tamil short stories from...
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Ariane & Bluebeard: From Fairy Tale to Comic Book OperaMaurice Maeterlinck described his libretto Ariane et Barbe-bleue as "a sort of legendary opera, or fairy [opera], in three acts." In 1907, Paul Dukas finished setting Maeterlinck's libretto to music, and the opera's Paris premiere was lauded as a landmark in operatic history. Ariane...
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Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translationvolume 39This transcultural study of cultural production brings to light the ways Spanish literature imagined China by relying on English- and French-language sources. Carles Prado-Fonts examines how the simultaneous dependence on and obscuring of translation in these cross-cultural representations created the illusion of a homogeneous...
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Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher EducationA critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy. In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn's portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in...
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