Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Interruptions in Early Modern English DramaTo interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost's appearance in Hamlet to Celia's frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that delineates the balance of power within a scene. This book analyses interruptions...
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The Puritan ExperienceOriginally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which they grew. As well as Bunyan,...
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Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A SelectionAuthor: Richard HunterPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/13/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.60w x 0.77dISBN: 9781108843980About the AuthorHunter, Richard: - RICHARD HUNTER is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively...
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Toni Morrison: A Literary LifeA reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison--fiction, non-fiction, and other--drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels...
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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and PerformanceThe Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans' unquestionable influence on Mexico's history and culture and the historical studies recently...
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Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political TrialsSpectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and political violence, offering a radical departure from accounts that consider political trials as instrumental in exercising or containing political violence. Legal scholar Başak Ertür argues instead that making sense...
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Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820)A detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholy First, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820) Considers...
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The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of His Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems and Other LiteratureNelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Although he continues to be remembered almost exclusively for his novels, this book aims to...
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King Lear 'After' Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British DramaAnalyses appropriations of King Lear in post-war British drama Provides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on the legacy of Shakespeare in post-war drama and culture. Features original case studies on...
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Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through...
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The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted SexualitiesAuthor: Patricia PulhamPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/25/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51dISBN: 9781399504591
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Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. TestimoniaCallimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world...
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Cloak: On the Textobject & its ConcealmentIn this self-titled inaugural release, we ve set out to explore the textobject and its relationship to ideations of concealment / surveillance / visibility.CLOAK is not intended to fully encompass these relationships, but instead to instigate new connections / new contexts. We have assembled...
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Shakespeare's the Comedy of Errors: A Psycho-Semiotic AnalysisArthur Asa Berger's Shakespeare's Comedy of Errorsuses semiotics along with a psychoanalytic approach to offer a granular analysis of one of Shakespeare's funniest and most interesting comedies. It is distinctive in that it offers a discussion of the basic techniques found in comic literature...
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The New Alphabet: DNA #1The first in a new series on evolving forms of communicationThis book tracks the relationship between binary code and Leibniz's Monadology; the technological and cosmological aspects of non-Western writing systems; and the power of the alphabet song.Author: Bernd Scherer, Ben LernerPublisher: Spector BooksPublished: 04/26/2022Pages:...
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Multilingual Literature as World LiteratureMultilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature, particularly the conceptions of world, global and local, reflecting on the ways that multilingualism opens up the borders of language, nation and genre, and makes visible different modes of...
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Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin DadaGrotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals...
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April twilights, and other poemsThe book "" April twilights, and other poems "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...
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The Cliff-Dwellers; A NovelThe book, "" The Cliff-Dwellers; A Novel "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....
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A Brief Literary History of DisabilityA Brief Literary History of Disability is a convenient, lucid, and accessible entry point into the rapidly evolving conversation around disability in literary studies. The book follows a chronological structure and each chapter pairs a well-known literary text with a foundational disability theorist in...
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