Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Belinda's PetitionAuthor: Raymond A. WinbushPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 04/01/2009Pages: 76Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18dISBN: 9781441514431This title is not returnable
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Borges, Between History and EternityThat Borges is one of the key figures in 20th-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role...
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Ali Smith: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesIn such novels as Hotel World and the Whitbread Prize winning The Accidental, Ali Smith has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction. Covering her complete oeuvre, from the short stories to her most recent novel There but for...
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English Lit 101: From Jane Austen to George Orwell and the Enlightenment to Realism, an Essential Guide to Britain's Greatest Writers aA guide to the greats in British literature From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens' Tiny Tim to Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy and Shakespeare's Juliet, British authors have created some of the most compelling characters in all of literature. But too often, textbooks reduce...
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GuiltyGuilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the form of a diary, recording the earliest days of World War Two and the Nazi occupation of France, but this...
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The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of RaceHow did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era?Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies AssociationWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well...
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The Theory and Craft of Digital PreservationMany people believe that what is on the Internet will be around forever. At the same time, warnings of an impending "digital dark age"--where records of the recent past become completely lost or inaccessible--appear with regular frequency in the popular press. It's as if...
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Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian RenaissanceBilingual, annotated edition of more than 200 poems by Italian Renaissance women, many of which have never before been published in English.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceLyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance is the first modern anthology of verse by Italian women of this...
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Miss JulieWritten in a fortnight and often regarded as Strindberg's masterpiece, Miss Julie is shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, and was fiercely attacked on publication for immorality.Sweden, 1894. Midsummer night's celebrations are in full swing but the Count's daughter, the beautiful and imperious Miss...
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Georgette HeyerThe groundbreaking biography of one of the world's best-loved and bestselling authorsWho was the real Georgette Heyer?Georgette Heyer famously said, I am to be found in my work.Who was this amazing writer who was so secretive about her personal life that she never gave...
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Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the 'National Bard'This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship. Contributors have been selected...
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Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the TranspacificEmpire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work...
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James Baldwin Review: Volume 8James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship...
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Dead Reckonings No. 31 (Spring 2022)Table of Contents A Swordly and Sorcerous Chronicle ........... Darrell SchweitzerBrian Murphy, Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery. One Pure Writer's Will ........... Michael D. MillerFarah Rose Smith, Of One Pure Will. A Laudable Gem ........... Géza A. G. ReillyAlex Houstoun, Copyright Questions...
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Carson McCullers: A Centenary CollectionA collection of essays celebrating the centenary of Carson McCullers by an international collaboration of scholars and writers. The essays bring to light multiple themes across McCullers's works and seek to bring readers along on a journey through some of McCullers's most well-loved pieces...
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The Genres of Late Antique Christian PoetryClassicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Children's LiteratureThis collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children's literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children's poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature.Author: Clémentine...
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Early African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation AgeEarly African Caribbean Newspapers as Archipelagic Media in the Emancipation Age shows how two Black-edited periodical publications in the early decades of the nineteenth century worked towards emancipation through medium-specific interventions across material and immaterial lines. More concretely, this book proposes an archipelagic framework...
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Researching Protest Literacies: Literacy as Protest in the Favelas of Rio de JaneiroBy focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest.Researching Protest Literacies...
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Zola's PaintersAs the author of the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, Émile Zola enjoys a reputation as one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century: but his essays on painting, and in particular his early championing of Manet, mark him out also as one of the...
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