Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from EuropeIn the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with...
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China's Stefan Zweig: The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural ReceptionDuring his lifetime Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was among the most widely read German-language writers in the world. Always controversial, he fell into critical disfavor as writers and critics in a devastated postwar Europe attacked the poor literary quality of his works and...
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California Gothic: The Dark Side of the DreamCalifornia has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state's rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.Author:...
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Brat Life: Growing Up Military in Fiction and NonfictionWith hundreds of thousands of current and former military brats in the United States, their lives as children of service members are surprisingly little documented. Reading about the experiences of fellow brats can help these children of warriors understand both themselves and the unique...
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A Woman of PropertyA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A new book from a poet whose work is "wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive" (Jorie Graham) Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the poems that comprise A Woman of Property draw formal and imaginative...
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Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive EraThroughout the Progressive Era, reform literature became a central feature of the American literary landscape. Works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," and Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives topped bestseller lists and jolted middle-class readers into action....
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Woden: A Historical CompanionAll-father, warlord, runemaster, kingmaker, healer-manifold aspects, numerous stories. This book brings together the written and physical evidence for the god called Woden or Óðinn (Odin) in his many guises spanning more than a thousand years. Drawing on the latest interpretations of literary evidence and...
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What Was African American Literature?African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature--and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American...
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Veiled Is Our SecretAuthor: Jonaid SharifPublisher: Jonaid SharifPublished: 02/02/2024Pages: 98Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27dISBN: 9798869167224Language: Persian
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Introduction to Harriett Beecher Stowe's Classic Antislavery NovelA highly regarded study of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's epic nineteenth-century novel which helped educate the American public about the evils of slavery. Written by a leading scholar, this introduction links Stowe's ideas with modern philosophical and political resistance movements, including Marxism,...
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The Translator's Invisibility: A History of TranslationSince publication over twenty years ago, The Translator's Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how...
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The Senses of Walden: An Expanded EditionStanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson.Author: Stanley CavellPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 03/15/1992Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.97h x...
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The Library of Humanity: The Most Influential Books of all TimeAre you ready to journey through the most extraordinary literary masterpieces ever written? This book provides a unique opportunity to travel through the history of literature. Condensed information to know everything worth knowing: summaries, authors, dates, quotes, and messages of the most significant works...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the AbsurdMichael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both similar and widely different ways. Setting the...
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The Age of ShakespeareIn The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age...
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Tales of a Wayside Inn"Tales of a Wayside Inn" published in 1863, is a book of poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), the famous American poet. In this book, Longfellow depicts a group of people gathered in the tavern at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as each...
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Shakespeare Survey 76: Digital and Virtual ShakespeareShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of...
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Secrets of the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code Sequel"If anyone can divine the contents of The Lost Symbol, it's Dan Burstein." --New York magazine With Secrets of the Lost Symbol, co-authors Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer delve into the real history, science, and hidden meanings behind Dan Brown's latest blockbuster novel,...
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Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of RaceScripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by...
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Scorched by the SunPoetry. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Goldberg. Moshe Dor's poems breathe, smell and taste like Israel. They express the pressures of living in a land constantly under siege, where hope and terror live side by side, where there...
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