Literary Criticism

22684 books

Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature - Hardcover

$179.82

by Jon Hegglund (Editor), John McIntyre (Editor), Joseph Anderton (Contribution by)Bringing together work from twelve leading scholars in the field of ecocriticism, Modernism and the Anthropocene explores the diverse ways that early twentieth-century literature initiated far-reaching conversations about the material and non-human world.Author BiographyJon Hegglund is associate professor of English at Washington State University. John McIntyre is associate professor of English at the Universit...

$109.78

by David Lowenthal (Author)Shakespeare's Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays analyzes eleven of Shakespeare's most famous plays offering an in-depth exploration of the ways in which each play demonstrates his political thought and his poetic genius.Author BiographyDavid Lowenthal is D'Alzon Professor of Political Science at Assumption College. Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: March 23, 2018

Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977-2011: She Bites Back - Paperback

$77.74

by Kendra R. Parker (Author)This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire within literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. It invites readers to take a closer look at the black female vampire figure and how that figure shapes and is shaped by cultural narratives about African American womanhood.Author BiographyKendra R. Parker is assistant professor of African American Literature in the Department of Literature at Georgia Southern Un...

Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit through Haiku - Paperback

$77.74

by John Zheng (Editor), Michio Arimitsu (Contribution by), Tiffany Austin (Contribution by)This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez. Her haiku, full of power and emotional voice for people, love, human nature, and African American experience, redefine haiku in English and African American poetic expression with her unique individuality.Author BiographyJohn Zheng is professor and chair of the Department of English at Mississippi Valley S...

Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward - Paperback

$77.74

by Rebecca L. Young (Author), John Adams (Foreword by), David W. Orr (Afterword by)Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward examines ways fiction and non-fiction can shape an instructional lens designed to witness the environmental crises we face both culturally and globally while fostering a more ecologically conscious, globally-minded student body prepared to confront them.Author BiographyRebecca Young is language and literature assessment specialist for Measure...

The Motif of the Messianic: Law, Life, and Writing in Agamben's Reading of Derrida - Hardcover

$179.82

by Arthur Willemse (Author)The Motif of the Messianic is the first sustained commentary on Giorgio Agamben's use of the messianic, with a view of his polemical relationship to Jacques Derrida. Arthur Willemse explains Agamben's move beyond Derrida by way of his critical intervention in the Aristotelian concept of potentiality and the ensuing transformation of the role of theology and theist assumptions within philosophy. Willemse argues that it is not the case that Agamben announces the redun...

Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature - Paperback

$98.80

by Mark Anderson (Editor), Zélia M. Bora (Editor), Juanita C. Aristizábal (Contribution by)This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context of the ongoing expansion of globalized neoliberal capitalism from and ecocritical perspective.Author BiographyMark Anderson is associate professor of Latin American literatures and cultures at the University of Georgia Zélia M. Bora is professor of Brazil...

Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics - Paperback

$87.46

by Andrew Moore (Author)Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare's political outlook by comparing some of the playwright's works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. This ultimately reveals the materialist principles that underpin Shakespeare's imaginary states.Author BiographyAndrew Moore is associate professor of great books at St. Thomas University. Number of Pages: 190 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9...

Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing - Paperback

$105.28

by Iani del Rosario Moreno (Author)Theater of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories utilize theater as a means to present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a sociohistorical and political context.Author BiographyIani Moreno is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Suffolk University where she also directs university productions of contemporary Latin American pl...

Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts - Paperback

$87.46

by Tania Gómez (Editor), Patricia Bolaños-Fabres (Editor), Christina Mougoyanni Hennessy (Editor)This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature.Author BiographyPatricia Bolaños-Fabres is associate professor of Hispanic studies and gender studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University. Tania Gómez is associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of Saint Benedict a...

Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies - Paperback

$97.18

by Dewey W. Hall (Editor), James C. McKusick (Foreword by), Colin Carman (Contribution by)This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.Author BiographyDewey W. Hall is professor of English at Cal...

Literature and the Conservative Ideal - Paperback

$82.60

by Mark Zunac (Editor), Mark Bauerlein (Contribution by), D. Marcel Decoste (Contribution by)Responding in part to the postmodernist turn in literary study, Literature and the Conservative Ideal examines the ways in which conservatism has been depicted in literature, as well as how its tendencies might restore literature's potential as an artistic reflection of the universal human condition.Author BiographyMark Zunac is associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the...

Ousmane Sembene and the Politics of Culture - Paperback

$89.08

by Lifongo J. Vetinde (Editor), Amadou T. Fofana (Editor), Matthew H. Brown (Contribution by)Undoubtedly one of Africa's most influential first generation of writers and filmmakers, Ousmane Sembene's creative works of fiction as well as his films have been the subject of a considerable number of scholarly articles. This book examines this figure within the context of his career-long preoccupation with the production of culture.Author BiographyLifongo Vetinde is an associate professor in the d...

Exploring Nonfiction Literacies: Innovative Practices in Classrooms - Hardcover

$108.54

by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw (Editor), Ruth McKoy Lowery (Editor), Laura Anne Hudock (Editor)The book discusses how learners might be guided to interact with texts in a creative but critically engaged and sustainable manner.Author BiographyVivian Yenika-Agbaw is professor of children's literature and literacy at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She teaches courses on children's and adolescent literature. Ruth McKoy Lowery is professor of literacy and associate chair of the Depart...

The Theatre of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama - Paperback

$32.33

by Robert Brustein (Author)Focusing on Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet, Mr. Brustein uncovers the roots of the modern theatre in the soil of the rebellion they cultivated. "One of the standard and decisive books on the modern theater."-New York Times.Author BiographyRobert Brustein, theatre critic for the New Republic and is the author of Cultural Calisthenics, Dumbocracy in America, The Siege of the Arts, and Reimagining American Theatre. He is also f...

The End of the Ancient Republic: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - Paperback

$84.24

by Jan H. Blits (Author)While recent criticism of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has stressed the corruption of both the common people and the Republic's enemies within the patrician class, this book argues that at the core of the play lies the less obvious but more important corruption of the regime's leading defenders, particularly Brutus.Author BiographyJan H. Blits teaches philosophy and literature at the University of Delaware. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Da...

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays - Hardcover

$134.46

by Michael J. Meyer (Editor)To commemorate To Kill a Mockingbird's 50th anniversary, Meyer has assembled a collection of new essays that celebrate this enduring work of American literature. These essays approach the novel from educational, legal, social, and thematic perspectives.Author BiographyMichael J. Meyer, now retired, was adjunct professor of English at DePaul University and Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of The John Steinbeck Bibliography: 1996-2006 (Scarecrow, 20...

A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes - Hardcover

$160.38

by Patrick M. Valentine (Author)A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes traces the roles of books and libraries throughout recorded history and explores their social and cultural importance within differing societies and changing times. It presents the history of books from clay tablets to e-books and the history of libraries, whether built of bricks or bytes.Author BiographyPatrick M. Valentine is assistant professor of library science at East Carolina University. Val...

Alien Theory: The Alien as Archetype in the Science Fiction Short Story - Paperback

$150.66

by Patricia Monk (Author)From the early days of pulp magazines to contemporary works of science fiction, the subject of the alien has been a fertile and enduring-if not also the most vital-element of the genre.Author BiographyPatricia Monk taught in the English Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she specialized in Canadian literature and science fiction, before retiring in 2003. She is the author of three books: Mud and Magic Shows: Robertson Davies's Fifth Busi...

Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literature - Hardcover

$150.66

by John Rowe Townsend (Author)An authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript on J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman.Author BiographyJohn Rowe Townsend has published more than twenty books for children and young people and has lectured extensively on children's literature in the United States, Britain, Australia, and Japan. Number of Pages: 399 Dimensions: 1.4 x 5.7 x 8.6 IN Publication Date: May 01, 1996

Moxie and a Good Sense of Balance: Nancy Drew and the Power of the Teenage Girl - Paperback

$43.72

by Lynne Byall Benson (Author)Although there have been numerous books written about the fictional character, Nancy Drew, this book includes as analysis of Nancy Drew as a proto-feminist role model for young women in the twenty-first century. I have chosen to focus on the initial iteration of the Nancy Drew character, which was first introduced in 1929: Nancy Drew as an intelligent, independent young woman who reflected the world of her cohort as well as the adult world of criminality. In addi...

Understanding War: An Annotated Bibliography - Hardcover

$179.82

by Christian P. Potholm II (Author)Understanding War divides war material into eighteen overarching themes of analysis and fifty seminal topics. In the process, it gives the reader access to the broadest possible array of material across both time and space, beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with the contemporary situation.Author BiographyChristian P. Potholm is the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. He has studied and taught about...

Pearl of Great Price: A Literary Translation of the Middle English Pearl - Paperback

$89.08

by David Gould (Author)The Middle English poem Pearl is an elegy on the death of a child, written to provide consolation for the loss of a loved one through Christian theology. This translation is accompanied by a reproduction of the poem in its original orthography and instructions on reading the manuscript hand.Author BiographyDavid Gould has an A.B. in English and American literature from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut. He is currently an associa...

Magic and Witchcraft in the Dark Ages - Paperback

$127.96

by Eugene D. Dukes (Author)This book looks at explanations of the black arts as they existed during early medieval centuries in Western Europe. It objectively examines the historical development of magic and witchcraft and emphasizes the reality of these black arts.Author BiographyEugene D. Dukes, now retired, is former Director of the Girard Free Library and served as a professional librarian for 19 years. Number of Pages: 322 Dimensions: 0.72 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 19, 1996

50 Ways to Understand Communication: A Guided Tour of Key Ideas and Theorists in Communication, Media, and Culture - Paperback

$64.80

by Arthur Asa Berger (Author)Is consciousness like an iceberg? Does advertising lead to the commodification of humans? What is the hidden meaning of fairy tales? In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading communication and cultural theorists, such as Saussure, L騅i-Strauss, de Certeau, Lasswell, McLuhan, Postman, and many others. Organized in fifty short segments, this concise guide covers a wide range of important ...

The Philosopher's Song: The Poets' Influence on Plato - Paperback

$104.38

by Kevin Crotty (Author)The Philosopher's Song explores the complex and fruitful relation between the great poets of Greek culture and Plato's invention of philosophy, especially as this bears on Plato's treatment of justice. The author shows how the poets helped shape the development of Plato's thinking throughout the course of his philosophical career.Author BiographyKevin Crotty is professor of classics at Washington and Lee University. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN P...

Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology - Paperback

$111.76

by Reiland Rabaka (Author)Against Epistemic Apartheid offers an archive-informed and accessible introduction to Du Bois's major contributions to sociology. In this intellectual history-making volume multiple award-winning W.E.B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois's seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race, to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural...

Literature among the Ruins, 1945-1955: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism - Paperback

$77.74

by Atsuko Ueda (Editor), Michael K. Bourdaghs (Editor), Richi Sakakibara (Editor)This collection examines literary criticism in postwar Japan. The contributors analyze the debates that occurred among Japanese intellectuals and highlight the various ideological forces that shaped the country's postwar trajectory.Author BiographyAtsuko Ueda is associate professor of modern Japanese literature at Princeton University. Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages ...

Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View - Paperback

$87.46

by Barbara Cook (Editor), Alex Hunt (Contribution by), Susan A. C. Rosen (Contribution by)Women Writing Nature addresses the question, "Do women write about nature differently?" In the process, the collection considers women's writings about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and ecofeminist theory.Author BiographyBarbara J. Cook is assistant professor of English and Women's Studies at Mount Aloysius College. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.92 x 6.09 IN Public...

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb - Paperback

$93.94

by Robert Jacobs (Author), Mick Broderick (Contribution by), John Canaday (Contribution by)Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future presents an international collaboration of scholars and artists who examine multiple reactions of popular culture and the arts to the advent of nuclear weapons. Featuring both contemporary works of scholarship in several fields and works of contemporary artists grappling with what nuclear weapons have wrought, side by side, including Spencer Weart's updating of his...

In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765 - 1799 - Paperback

$111.76

by Louise V. North (Author), Janet M. Wedge (Author), Landa M. Freeman (Author)In the Words of Women is not only about women--their lives, contributions, trials and tribulations during the birth and early years of the United States--but also by women. Their voices evoke a sense of immediacy that enables readers, particularly students, to appreciate the difficulties, complexities, and ambiguities of life from before the Revolution through to its aftermath, a time of strife and upheaval.Author ...

Africana Critical Theory: Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral - Paperback

$135.07

by Reiland Rabaka (Author)Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory through the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and Amilcar Cabral.Author BiographyReiland Rabaka is associate professor of Africana studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is also an affiliate professor of wom...