Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin LiteratureAncient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this...
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Any Person Is the Only Self: EssaysContagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How...
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Abiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic StudiesAbiayalan Pluriverses: Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies looks for pathways that better connect two often siloed disciplines. This edited collection brings together different disciplinary experiences and perspectives to this objective, weaving together researchers, artists, instructors, and authors who have found ways of bridging...
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1900; Or, The Last PresidentIn Ingersoll Lockwood's 1900; Or, The Last President, a politically charged New York City is on edge after a political outsider overcomes stiff opposition to be elected President of the United States. Mob rule threatens, and marching protests rove up and down Fifth Avenue...
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Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor CultureWork Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures--whether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet Union and present-day Russia,...
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Wollstonecraft and ReligionThis book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of "the Mother of Feminism," many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.Author: Brenda AyresPublisher: Anthem PressPublished: 01/16/2024Pages: 380Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781839990182
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This Is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 BooksThese are the books you should read. This is the canon. Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay have curated a decolonized reading list that celebrates the wide and diverse experiences of people from around the world, of all backgrounds and all races. It...
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The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk UprightScience has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with an acute insight into...
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The Turn of the Screw: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition text of the novel--the one that had James's final authority--newly and fully annotated by Jonathan Warren. A full introduction, compositional history, and textual notes by Jonathan Warren. Revised and expanded contextual materials, topically organized to...
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The Theatre of Twenty-First Century Spain / El teatro de España del siglo XXI: Identities, Anxieties, and Social Immediacies / Identidades, ansiedadesIdentifying, naming, and belonging lend a sense of rational order, a feeling of rootedness within specific societies and eras, yet that order may collapse and threaten to undermine the predictability that ensures stability. As Spain enters only its fifth decade as a fully democratic...
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The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial ChinaWinner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful?...
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The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern IberiaThe Politics of Emotion explores the intersection of powerful emotional states--love, melancholy, grief, and madness--with gender and political power on the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Using an array of sources--literary texts, medical treatises, and archival documents--Nuria Silleras-Fernandez...
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The Oxford Handbook of Virginia WoolfWith thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once...
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The Mughal Aviary: Women's Writings in Pre-Modern IndiaThis volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. Three of them, Gulbadan Begam (1523-1603), the youngest daughter of Emperor Babur, Jahanara (1614-1681), the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan, and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638-1702), the eldest daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb,...
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The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods MatterLooking at threats to forest life across the globe, John Miller draws on literature, film and art to explore why woods matter to us, building on the ecological case for saving trees to raise the compelling question of their cultural value. The Heart of...
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The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed the WorldA little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky's The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range...
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The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American LiteratureAfrican American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping...
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The Abiding Image: Inspiration and Guidance for Beginning Writers, Readers, and Teachers of PoetryThe Abiding Image by Cathy Smith Bowers gives testament to poet and editor Alfred A. Poulin's belief that "the very act of writing poetry is an affirmative one, saying no to any force that would destroy the human spirit." Part handbook, part memoir, part...
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Staging Existence: Chekhov's TetralogyAnton Chekhov is justly famous as an author and a playwright, with his work continuing to appear on stages around the world more than a century after his death. However, he is rarely studied for his intellectual and philosophical theories. His disinterest in developing...
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Sound an Alarm! Joseph Perl's Revealer of Secrets and Testing the RighteousRevealer of Secrets is a portrayal-both realistic and satirical-of Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nineteenth century. It reflects the struggle that raged between the Haskalah and Hasidism as the Jewish people stood on the threshold of modernity. In...
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