Literary Criticism

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Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine - Hardcover

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by Eleanore Gardner (Author)This book critically examines the literary antiheroine in contemporary Gothic and crime-thriller novels. Gardner explores a broad range of texts to understand the antiheroine's fluidity, her liminal and abject existence, and what these suggest about cultural anxieties surrounding transgressive women.Author BiographyEleanore Gardner is scholar and teacher at Charles Sturt University in Australia. Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Jul...

Yiddish Literature Under Surveillance - Hardcover

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by Gennady Estraikh (Author)This book gives a broad view on Soviet Jewish literary life, and on the repression suffered by Yiddish writers under the Stalinist rule. It is written as a group biography of five authors, whose literary home was in Kyiv, the capital of Soviet Ukraine from 1934 to 1991.Author BiographyGennady Estraikh is professor at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University. Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien's Middle-earth: Developing a Model for Understanding Power and Leadership - Hardcover

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by James E. Siburt (Author)This book introduces the Social Power Dynamic Model, which helps explain how culture and society impact power. Tolkien's works are used in sample applications of the SPDM, which demonstrates the value of this new model and provides insight into Tolkien's views on power. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 18, 2023

Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth Century Latin American Fiction: Creating Questions - Hardcover

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by Amy Frazier-Yoder (Author)Examining a variety of early- to mid-twentieth century Latin American fiction genres, Amy Frazier-Yoder delves into themes of power, identity, and the transformative potential of literature while analyzing Latin American fiction's increasingly skeptical gaze.Author BiographyAmy Frazier-Yoder is professor of Spanish and Hispanic cultures at Juniata College. Number of Pages: 230 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 30, 2023

Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary: The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle - Hardcover

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by Gary Rosenshield (Author)Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers--poets, novelists, critics, and historians--to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon.Author BiographyGary Rosenshield is professor emeritus of Slavic languages and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Number of Pages: 244 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 08, 2023

Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel - Hardcover

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by Bernard Montoneri (Editor), Majed S. Al-Lehaibi (Contribution by), Miguel Ángel González Chandía (Contribution by)Science Fiction and Anticipation focuses on American and European influential works of science fiction published between the 18th and 20th century. The book explores how writers presented in this book envisioned the future of their country, and it discusses issues such as ethics, censorship, racism, sexism, and slavery.Author BiographyBernard Montoneri is independent researcher...

The Faith of Emerson: American Transcendentalism, Kantian Epistemology, and Vedantic Thought - Hardcover

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by Daniel A. Campana (Author)This book provides an approach to Emerson that walks the line between traditional and revisionist interpretations of his life and works. The author presents Emerson as a man of faith whose unique synthesis of Kantian and Vedantic philosophies resulted in a view of faith that was one hundred years ahead of its time.Author BiographyDaniel A. Campana is professor of philosophy and religion at the University of La Verne. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 I...

The Political Novel in the South Slavic Intercultural Context - Hardcover

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by Ethem Mandic (Author)This book argues that the political novel as a genre in the South Slavic intercultural context is a contradictory, borderline, polyphonic, subversive product of a modernist project that tells the story of an alienated man (political rebel) in totalitarian political regimes. Author BiographyEthem Mandic is professor and member of the Faculty for Montenegrin Language and Literature in Cetinje. Number of Pages: 302 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 15,...

Writing Ambition: Literary Engagements between Women in France - Hardcover

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by Katharine Ann Jensen (Author)Focusing on the psychological aspects of the literary engagements between women in France, Katharine Ann Jensen combines close readings of their works with attention to historical and biographical contexts to consider how and why one or both women in the pair express contradictions or anxiety about writing ambition.Author BiographyKatharine Ann Jensen is professor in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions...

Generative Worlds: New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and Time - Hardcover

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by Luz Ascarate (Editor), Quentin Gailhac (Editor), Renaud Barbaras (Contribution by)The first part of this collection, "Emerging Life," concentrates on the question of the origin in Husserlian phenomenology. The second part, "Generations," is focused on the concreteness of time. The last part of the book, "Homes," takes space rather than time as the most fundamental phenomenological concept.Author BiographyLuz Ascarate is working on a second PhD dissertation at the University Paris 1 Panthéo...

Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau's Works - Hardcover

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by Lisa Connell (Editor), Delphine Gras (Editor), Orane Onyekpe-Touzet (Contribution by)As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisèle Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes devoted entirely to the author and her work. In response to this lack of in-depth critical attention, Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau's Works brings together a range of perspectives from both sides of the A...

Robot Suicide: Death, Identity, and AI in Science Fiction - Hardcover

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by Liz W. Faber (Author)In Robot Suicide: Death, Identity, and AI in Science Fiction, Liz W. Faber blends cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, and medical sciences to show how fictional robots hold up a mirror to our cultural perceptions about suicide and can help us rethink real-world policies regarding mental health.Author BiographyLiz W. Faber is assistant professor of English and communication at Dean College and adjunct instructor of scientific and academic writing at University of M...

Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction - Hardcover

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by Kristina S. Gibby (Author)This book examines four contemporary novels from the US and the Caribbean in which female ghosts recover memory and fill the gaps of official history. The author contends that these female ghosts resist and subvert official narratives, inspiring female creativity as an alternative to monological historical discourse.Author BiographyKristina S. Gibby is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University. Number of Pages: 13...

The Political Christopher Nolan: Liberalism and the Anglo-American Vision - Hardcover

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by Jesse Russell (Author)Throughout his films, Christopher Nolan champions the Anglo-American Neo-Liberal world order. Nestled within this order, his characters are free to undergo their ludic creation of little worlds of selfhood.Author BiographyJesse Russell is assistant professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 26, 2023

Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 - Hardcover

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by Nicole C. Dittmer (Author)Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female "monster" figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature. Regardless of the extensive scholarship concerning monstrosities, these pre-fin-de-siècle figurations have often been neglected by critical studies or interpreted as fragments of mind and body which create a division between culture and nature. In Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism, Dittmer deploys monism to delineate from and contest such dualis...

Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric: Disquietude, Rumination, Interruption, Inspiration, Constellation - Hardcover

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by Irene Ramalho-Santos (Author)Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric studies Pessoa's poetic theory and practice, emphasizing Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. A number of Pessoan concepts are examined in relation to different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative studies of poetry.Author BiographyIrene Ramalho-Santos is Professor Emerita of English and Feminist Studies of the Faculty of Letters and Sen...

American Boarding School Fiction, 1981-2021: Inclusion and Scandal - Hardcover

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by Alexander H. Pitofsky (Author)American Boarding School Fiction, 1981-2021: Inclusion and Scandal is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. Before the 1980s, writers of American boarding-school fiction tended to concentrate on mournful teenagers. When teachers, parents, and other adults appeared, they were usually placed far from the center of the action. The center was filled with white, male, Protestant students at boarding schools. In this book, Alexander H. Pitofsk...

Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives - Paperback

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by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas (Editor), Amanda L. Petersen (Editor), María del Carmen Caña Jiménez (Contribution by)Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma.Author BiographyAlberto Ribas-Casasayas is assistant professor of Spanish ...

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals - Paperback

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by Manushag N. Powell (Author)This book embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass market author as a literary character. The author posits that, at the same time, periodicals harbor inescapable doubts as to whether such a character is sustainable.Author BiographyManushag N. Powell is assistant professor in the English Department at Purdue University. Her research...

Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature - Paperback

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by Anne M. Thell (Author)Minds in Motion argues that travel literature expedites individual engagements with epistemology because the genre forces authors to determine and disclose the potential value of their individual perspectives, as well as examines how travel writers explore newly configured models of empiricism in the production of experiential knowledge.Author BiographyAnne M. Thell is assistant professor of English literature at National University of Singapore. Number of Pages: 286 ...

Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision - Hardcover

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by Amy Branam Armiento (Editor), Travis Montgomery (Editor), Melanie R. Anderson (Contribution by)Edgar Allan Poe notoriously identified "the death . . . of a beautiful woman" as "the most poetical topic in the world." Despite this cringeworthy claim, it is widely known that Poe drew creative inspiration from female authors and that women figure prominently among the artists and critics fascinated by the writer's creative legacy. Filling a major gap in scholarship on Poe, this volume investig...

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by Emron Esplin (Editor), Margarida Vale de Gato (Editor), Ayşe Nihal Akbulut (Contribution by)This international and intercultural book examines translation histories and outstanding readings of the words of Edgar Allan Poe in nineteen national and literary traditions. It maps out Poe's global dissemination and examines the different designs, processes, and offshoots of the appropriations of his works.Author BiographyEmron Esplin is assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University....

Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson - Hardcover

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by Jennifer Jahner (Editor), Ingrid Nelson (Editor), C. David Benson (Contribution by)Dedicated to the scholarship of Elizabeth Robertson, Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature is a collection of essays that explore how gender in medieval English literature intersects with philosophy, poetry, history, and religion.Author BiographyJennifer Jahner is professor of English at Caltech. Ingrid Nelson is associate professor of English at Amherst College. Number of Page...

Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse - Paperback

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by Antjie Krog (Author)This is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history--the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Antjie Krog powerfully brings together the historical and the poetic in a turbulent South Africa.Author BiographyAntjie Krog is professor at the University of the Western Cape. Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9...

Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore - Paperback

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by Margaret Ziolkowski (Author)Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny ("new songs"), have often been the subject of folkloristic controversy. This study tells the story of the rise and fall of the noviny in all its cultural richness and pathos, an instructive tale of the interaction of aesthetics and ideology.Author BiographyMargaret Ziolkowski is professor of Russian at Miami University (Ohio). She has worked on topics in Russian literature ranging from the med...

Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel: Revisiting the Past - Paperback

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by Sarah Leggott (Editor), Ross Woods (Editor), Christine Arkinstall (Contribution by)This book proposes a new direction for the study of Spanish literature of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, arguing that novels of this period merit a fresh critical approach that enriches existing perspectives on the Spanish novel during the first two decades of the Franco dictatorship. Essays take an interdisciplinary approach to reveal how contemporary cultural theory relating to memory and trauma can enh...

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by Jody Allen Randolph (Author)In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland's early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease wit...

Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: Transatlantic Transcendence - Paperback

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by Alan Blackstock (Author)Willa Cather and E. M. Forster examines the novels of these influential twentieth-century writers in the context of liberal humanism and modernism, as well as the important questions their work continues to raise about being in the world, connections with the Other, and gender and sexuality.Author BiographyAlan Blackstock is professor of English at Utah State University. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 15, 2022

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by Barbara Cantalupo (Editor)Complementing and extending a project begun by Lois Vines, this book includes essays on Poe's influence abroad from Japanese author, Edogawa Rampo, to Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, and takes a wider perspective on Poe's influence by including essays on Poe's impact on American authors from Harriet Jacobs to Joyce Carol Oates.Author BiographyBarbara Cantalupo is associate professor of English in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University and te...

Deciphering Poe: Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings - Paperback

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by Alexandra Urakova (Editor)Deciphering Poe expands the contextual framework of Poe's work and explores the subversive nature of his art: its use of codes, secret writing, and ratiocination. It offers fresh perspectives Poe's debt to baroque tradition, his response to Catholicism, his tribute to philosophical idea of sublimity, and his controversial afterlife reception.Author BiographyAlexandra Urakova works as a senior researcher at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Aca...

Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets - Paperback

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by Deborah Kennedy (Author)Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," this book explores a female literary network, and emphasizes the range and extent of these writers' poetic achievement and its resonance for the twenty-first-century reader.Author BiographyDeborah Kennedy is professor of English at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where ...

The Collected Works of Harold Clurman - Paperback

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by Harold Clurman (Author)Six decades of commentary on theatre, dance, music, film, art, letters, and politics from this world-renowned critic. A New York Times notable book of the year. Number of Pages: 1122 Dimensions: 2.33 x 9.33 x 7.23 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2000