Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin AmericaThis book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and political activists facing state repression have seen themselves reflected in Holocaust histories and have used Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities...
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Fear and Other StoriesFear and Other Storiesis a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn ( 1860-1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired during her long and productive life. The mere existence of these stories...
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Robert Morgan: Essays on the Life and WorkFor more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His...
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Edwidge Danticat: A Companion to the Young Adult LiteratureA comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. An accomplished trilingual children's and YA author, she is also an activist, op-ed and cinema writer, and keynote speaker. Much of her work introduces the world to the cultural...
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A Survey of Catholic History in Modern JapanA Survey of Catholic History in Modern Japan discusses Japanese Catholic history from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present. The aim of this highly original book is to consider the relevance of Japanese Catholics to political and cultural circumstances in modern and contemporary...
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Secretly Treasured Jokes about PiratesAuthor: Julia GarsteckiPublisher: Black Rabbit BooksPublished: 01/11/2022Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.10w x 0.20dISBN: 9781644665619Audience: Ages 9-12
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Understanding Marx, Understanding ModernismA concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx's writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural...
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Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a CityThis is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and...
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.[A] stunning look at...
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Joyce, Aristotle, and AquinasA rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce In this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre....
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The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart EnglandOriginally published in 1984, this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated those men...
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish-Communist Writers in East GermanyThis study investigates six German Jewish writers' negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust East Germany. This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East...
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The Collected Essays of Mary ButtsAuthor: Mary ButtsPublisher: McPhersonPublished: 10/01/2021Pages: 399Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.35h x 5.51w x 1.26dISBN: 9781620540329Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/06/2021About the AuthorA distinctive and original voice within the Modernism movement, the English novelist Mary Butts was a prodigy of style, learning, and energy who wrote...
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Genres of Privacy in Postwar AmericaWith this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category of the private person in the postwar period. Especially after the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to privacy in 1965, legal scholars, judges, and the public...
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The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined the BuddhaThe Light of Asia is an epic poem by Sir Edwin Arnold that was first published in 1879. It is a narrative of the life and message of the Buddha. It quickly became a huge sensation and has continued to resonate powerfully across the...
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Mimesis: The Analytic Anthropology of LiteratureGround-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated for the first time Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. In it he gives a panorama view...
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The New NegroFirst published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhibiting the brilliance of early twentieth-century African American writers, "The New Negro" has been cited as one of the most important texts in the...
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The PoemPublisher: Faber & FaberPublished: 02/08/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.15lbsSize: 6.00h x 9.20w x 1.90dISBN: 9780571356652
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Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the...
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Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American TheatreIn the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs.The philosophical...
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