Literary Criticism

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Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory: Stories That Are Telling - Hardcover

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by Sarah Louise Macmillen (Author)Building on aesthetic, sociological, and literary theories, the author focuses on a selection of novelists from the early 1800s to the early 1900s and their contribution to the sociological imagination. Throughout the text, the book considers these "stories that are telling" in light of social issues today.Author BiographySarah Louise MacMillen is associate professor of sociology and director of the Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution Minor Program at Duq...

Childhood and Innocence in American Culture: Heartaches and Nightmares - Hardcover

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by James M. Curtis (Editor), Colleen Etman (Contribution by), Rodney Marcel Fierce (Contribution by)This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of "childhood"--one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of "innocence."Author BiographyJames M. Curtis is instructor of Englis...

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference - Paperback

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by Dennis Taylor (Author)Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today's ecumenical dialogues.Author BiographyDennis Taylor is professor emeritus of English and former chair of the English Department at Boston College. Nu...

The Wayward Woman: Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888-1917 - Paperback

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by Barbara Antoniazzi (Author)Through an innovating collection of sources which brings together reform, theatrical, and legal texts, The Wayward Woman: Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888-1917 explores the Progressive attitudes toward gender roles, racial formations, and the relationship between the citizens and the state.Author BiographyBarbara Antoniazzi is postdoctoral fellow in American studies at the Free University of Berlin. Number of Pages: 242 Dime...

The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend - Paperback

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by Barbara Brodman (Editor), James E. Doan (Editor)This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each culture and age reshaping the legend in its own image and even seeking psychological and scientific explanations to explain the phenomenon. Author BiographyBarbara Brodman is ...

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by Angèle Kingué (Author), Christine Schwartz Hartley (Translator)The story of Venus of Khala-Kanti unfolds in the ancient forests of an imaginary West African village. The story is at once a straightforward narrative of human courage and an allegory for the amputation of a continent and its peoples. The tale is, above all, the story of hope, recovery and rediscovery. The vitality and reclamation of the characters is accomplished through an indomitable and lyrical animation of the natural wor...

Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor - Hardcover

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by Kate Sheckler (Author)In Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor, Kate Sheckler constructs a new method to categorize metaphor, arguing that the moment of consent that exists in the form determines the effects of the interchange. Using the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, with the work of Paul Ricoeur as a primary theoretical focus, Sheckler identifies both the dangers and necessity of understanding the interplay that determines by whom and at what point consent is offered within the dynamic...

Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood: Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in a Global Context - Paperback

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by Maria D. Lombard (Editor), Alison Graham Bertolini (Contribution by), Lamees Al Ethari (Contribution by)Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood takes a critical look at the representations and lived experiences of migrant, refugee, and otherwise displaced mothers. This volume explores literature, film, and original ethnographic research about migrant motherhood through theoretical lenses including postcolonial theory, feminism, and critical refugee studies.Author BiographyMaria D. Lombard is assista...

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

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by Nicole C. Dittmer (Author)Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.Author BiographyNicole C. Dittmer is lecturer at The College of New Jersey and proofreader/editorial board member at Studies in Gothic Fiction. Number of Pages: 238 Di...

Japanese Horror Culture: Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games - Paperback

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by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Editor), Subashish Bhattacharjee (Editor), Ananya Saha (Editor)This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.Author BiographyFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is assistant professor at the...

The Supporting Cast of the Bible: Reading on Behalf of the Multitude - Hardcover

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by Gina Hens-Piazza (Author)Focusing on supporting characters in the Old Testament, Gina Hens-Piazza argues against the caste system of the biblical narratives and provides insight into the many and different "others" who make up the anonymous multitude in the biblical world.Author BiographyGina Hens-Piazza is professor of biblical studies in the Joseph S. Alemany Endowed Chair at Santa Clara University's Jesuit School of Theology, and professor of biblical studies at the Graduate Theological...

Depictions of Home in African American Literature - Paperback

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by Trudier Harris (Author)This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. The author examines the factors that influence homespaces in African American literature and analyzes why African American writers often portray troubling and dysfunctional homespaces.Author BiographyTrudier Harris is University Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English at the University of Al...

Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis - Hardcover

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by Hervé Anderson Tchumkam (Author)Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa sheds light on marginal bodies and the (post)colonial State, revealing the deep interconnectedness of the past with the recent situation of North Africa. Insecurity is not the consequence of a society perceived as uncivilized, but rather the result of an indecent society.Author BiographyHervé Anderson Tchumkam is associate professor of French and Francophone postcolonial studies at Southern Methodist Unive...

Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction: Narrating the Future - Paperback

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by Tereza Dědinová (Editor), Weronika Laszkiewicz (Editor), Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun (Editor)Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction examines how the Anthropocene and its challenges are addressed by contemporary writers in a variety of genres broadly defined as speculative fiction. The book demonstrates that speculative fiction, can alter the readers' perception of their duties and responsibilities towards their communities.Author BiographySylwia Borowska-Szerszun is assistant profe...

Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture: Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship - Hardcover

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by J. Woodrow McCree (Author)Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture argues that Irving offers not only a critique of a culture losing rootedness, but also positive multi-cultural vision of world citizenship in the new Republic. American Romantic art contemporary to Irving sheds light on his critique and positive vision of what America could be.Author BiographyJ. Woodrow McCree is professor of religion and philosophy at the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota. Number of Pages:...

Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts - Hardcover

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by Amrita Ghosh (Author)Kashmir's Necropolis: New Literatures and Visual Texts explores the literary, visual, and cultural productions from and on Kashmir. The author argues that the selected texts articulate an aberrant space caught in a violence in which postcolonial concepts of agency, violence, resistance and horror undergo unique transformations.Author BiographyAmrita Ghosh is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Number of Pages: 174 Dime...

Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction - Hardcover

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by Ann Genzale (Author)Nationhood and Improvised Belief in American Fiction highlights how religious beliefs intersect with questions of national belonging in the work of contemporary American novelists. Religious practices serve as a means of critiquing exclusionary constructions of national identity and provide models for alternate ways of belonging.Author BiographyAnn M. Genzale is assistant professor of English at Hostos Community College, City University of New York. Number of Pages: 166...

Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity - Paperback

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by James McGrath (Author)Explores representations of 'high-functioning' adult autism in autobiographical, scientific and fictional texts to demonstrate the value of Cultural Studies towards understanding autism as a subjective condition and social category.Author BiographyDr James McGrath is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. His poems appear in various literary magazines. He has also published on popular music, particularly The Beatles and Joy Div...

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England - Hardcover

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by S. P. Cerasano (Editor), Heather Anne Hirschfeld (Associate Editor), Edward Gieskes (Associate Editor)Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theater history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays...

Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare - Hardcover

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by Dennis McCarthy (Author), June Schlueter (Author)Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of Queen Mary's delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval of England's return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas North as its author. It also points to numerous connections betwee...

Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration - Hardcover

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by Jayjit Sarkar (Editor), Arka Chattopadhyay (Contribution by), Maria Carmen ﾁfrica Vidal Claramonte (Contribution by)This book is a collection of essays on the various intersections between trans(in)fusion thinking and critical theory.Author BiographyJayjit Sarkar is assistant professor in the Department of English at Raiganj University in India. Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 15, 2023

The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism - Hardcover

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by Karin M. Danielsson (Editor), Kenneth K. Brandt (Editor), Paul Baggett (Contribution by)This volume includes theoretically innovative essays focusing on the nonhuman by writers working in the tradition of American literary naturalism from the 1890s to the present day.Author BiographyKarin M. Danielsson is associate professor in English at M舁ardalen University. Kenneth K. Brandt is professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 ...

McOndo Revisited: The Making of a Generation Defining Anthology in the Latin American Literature-World - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nulley-Vald駸 (Author)The first book-length analysis of the controversial Pan-Hispanic short story anthology "McOndo" (1996) draws on World Literature scholarship to take a step toward reclaiming the anthology's artistic intentions and considering its generation-defining legacy in Latin American literary history.Author BiographyThomas Nulley-Vald駸 is assistant professor in Spanish studies at The Australian National University. Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publicat...

The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture - Hardcover

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by Nahum N. Welang (Author)In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship, the author examines how three popular black female authors (Roxane Gay, Beyoncé and Issa Rae) simultaneously complement and complicate hegemonic notions of race, identity and gender in contemporary American culture.Author BiographyNahum N. Welang is assistant professor in English Language-Literature at the University of Stavanger (Norway). Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Oc...

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by Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Author), Susan J. Behrens (Contribution by), Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Contribution by)Literary Onomastics analyzes the namecraft of authors ranging from William Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin, studying how names function and convey meaning in works of literature and in genres including poetry, novels, science fiction, and fantasy.Author BiographyDorothy Dodge Robbins is the Charlotte Lewis Endowed Professor of English at Louisiana Tech University. Number of Pages: ...

Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism - Paperback

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by James M. Hutchisson (Author), Amy C. Branam (Contribution by), Dennis Eddings (Contribution by)Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. In Edgar Allan...

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by Daniel Herman (Author)Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick examines how Herman Melville's Moby-Dick may have been influenced by contemporaneous sources of information about Buddhist thought and considers the book from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings.Author BiographyDaniel Herman teaches American literature at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.82 x 9...

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick - Paperback

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by Daniel Herman (Author)Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick examines how Herman Melville's Moby-Dick may have been influenced by contemporaneous sources of information about Buddhist thought and considers the book from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings.Author BiographyDaniel Herman is adjunct professor of English at the University of San Francisco. Number of Pages: 219 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Octobe...

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by Elizabeth R. Napier (Author)This book argues that recent materialist approaches to Defoe are insufficiently attentive to the dominant preoccupations of his fictional oeuvre, which center on moral accountability and self-definition, and addresses Defoe's characters, narration, aesthetic, and ethical experiments that constitute his innovative achievements in the novel form.Author BiographyElizabeth R. Napier is professor of English and American literatures at Middlebury College. Number of Pa...

Willa Cather and Aestheticism - Paperback

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by Ann Moseley (Editor), Sarah Cheney Watson (Editor)This collection of essays investigates the various connections between Willa Cather's fiction and her aesthetic beliefs and practices.Author BiographyAnn Moseley is William L. Mayo Professor and professor emerita of literature and language at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Sarah Cheney Watson is professor of English and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at East Texas Baptist University. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions:...

The Theory of the Modern Stage - Paperback

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by Various (Composer)Including Antoin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Stanislavsky, W. B. Yeats, and Emile Zolaing. Number of Pages: 498 Dimensions: 1.16 x 8.16 x 5.19 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2000

From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater - Paperback

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by Carey Purcell (Author)This volume chronicles the history of feminist theater, from the early 1700s to contemporary productions such as The Heidi Chronicles and Fun Home. Profiled here are key authors, performers, and other significant figures--including Lillian Hellman, Lorraine Hansberry, and Paula Vogel--along with organizations such as the Women's Theatre Group. Author BiographyCarey Purcell is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and League of Professional Theatre Women...