Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Thinking Cinema with ProustHow can Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu prompt us to re-imagine the cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a 'merely' cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of Thinking Cinema with Proust is...
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Tennessee Williams 101Like an alchemist, Tennessee would dip his pen in reality and make fiction out of it. This journey through his life focuses on the influence of specific people and places on selected works.Author: Augustin J. CorreroPublisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyPublished: 02/22/2021Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...
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Study Guide to Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, a leading figure in transcendentalism. As a transcendentalist of the nineteenth-century, Thoreau's work reflected his belief in the correspondence between...
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Study Guide to Notes From the Underground by Fyodor DostoyevskyA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground, considered to be one of the very first existentialist novels. As a novel of nineteenth-century Russia, Notes From the Underground challenged and created new methods of...
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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and...
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Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover AmericaA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the New Deal Book AwardAn immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression--and employed some of the biggest names in American letters...
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Historical Dictionary of American Cinema, Second EditionOne of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of important films but also the evolution of the film industry...
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The Color of Books: 8 Bright Notebooks; 160 Reading RecommendationsRead the rainbow with The Color of Books, a stylized collection of eight blank notebooks that evoke the full spectrum of color, as represented by 160 different must-read books. Each brightly hued notebook cover in The Color of Books features a diverse and inclusive...
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The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is...
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of Science Fiction in 100 BooksFrom the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the punishing dystopian visions of 1984 and beyond, the evolution of science fiction from the 1890s to the 1960s is a fascinating journey to undertake. Setting out this span of years as what we can...
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Worldbuilding For Fantasy Fans And AuthorsMillions of fantasy worlds have been made, but does yours have what it takes to make millions?Drawing from authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, N. K. Jemisin, Orson Scott Card, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, and Steven Erikson, plus his years in...
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Study Guide to The Bell Jar and Other Works by Sylvia PlathA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sylvia Plath, who at an early age won prizes for her poetry. Titles in this study guide include The Bell Jar, Two Views of a Cadaver Room, Night Shift,...
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Study Guide to Brighton Rock and Other Works by Graham GreeneA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Graham Greene, winner of Britain's Order of Merit and the Shakespeare Prize. Titles in this study guide include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the...
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Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean FictionsThere is a tendency to think of Korean American literature-and Asian American literature writ large-as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan...
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Selected Letters: Volume 54Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), daughter of the Este dukes of Ferrara and wife of Marchese Francesco II Gonzaga of Mantua, co-regent of the Gonzaga state, art collector, musician, diplomat, dynastic mother, traveler, reader, gardener, fashion innovator, and consummate politician, was also, as this volume attests,...
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The Book of the Mutability of Fortune: Volume 52Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France's first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years' War, Christine's lone but...
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The Myths of Greece and Rome: IllustratedThis book is a detailed treatise on Greek and Roman mythology, dealing comprehensively with the Gods, demi-Gods and heroes of Greco-Roman legend. Highly Detailed and illustrated, this book constitutes a veritable encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman mythology, including descriptions of notable characters: Jupiter, Juno,...
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Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part"Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man's incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes's marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show...
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Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural AppropriationsTim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical,...
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Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction"Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory. . . . In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist...
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