Literary Criticism – all Bücher, CDs und LPs, Page 10

Douglas A Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones's Pragm…

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African Literature in Transition: Volume 5

This volume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range of genres in African literature and verbal arts. It provides a holistic and accessible presentation of African literary history that inco…

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Mantra Mukim,
Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth a…

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Will Kaufman
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be ackn…

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Stephen Marino
Arthur Miller's New York

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today.

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Stephen Marino
Arthur Miller's New York

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today.

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman A…

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John Mullan
What Matters in Jane Austen?

"An Austen lover's greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." -- The AtlanticMarking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's b…

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Tom McCarthy
The Threshold and the Ledger

A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth cent…

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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Maria Farland
Degraded Heartland

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception?What happens when rural America--long romanticized in pastoral lite…

lieferbar ab 18.11.2025.

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Arthur Bahr
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve i…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Thomas C Foster
How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]

"A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide-a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that s…

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Garrett Stewart,
Closer Reading

Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays - on close analysis of novels, literary theory, conceptual art, and cinema - is joined by a new inte…

lieferbar ab 13.11.2025.

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Michèle Roberts
Colette

Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughou…

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James Sallis
Difficult Lives Hitching Rides

James Sallis's (Drive) seminal biographical essays on crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes restored to print and joined by a handpicked collection of essays, reviews, and i…

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Alexander Menrisky
Wild Abandon

The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wil…

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