Literary Criticism – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 5

Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff,
War and the Iliad

War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.Si…

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Maria Nasioula
By Heart or from the Scroll

Grammatika vases, one of the most distinctive varieties of Hellenistic relief pottery, present modern scholars with compelling research opportunities, as they document the reception of ancient Greek liter…

lieferbar ab 3.2.2026.

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Stephen Orgel
The Globe in Print

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Editorial efforts since the first folio of 1623 have attempted to establish a correct, final text of Shakespeare's plays. Yet the text in …

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John Curran
The Murder Game

From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Magpie Murders , and related diversions including cryptic crosswords and Cain's Jawbone , The Murder Gameexamines the games authors played with their readers and the im…

lieferbar ab 27.1.2026.

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James Kearney
Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity

What does it feel like to be enjoined to avenge your father's murder? What is it like to banish your daughter or disavow your community? To murder? Focusing on Shakespeare's most ethically charged plays, …

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Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023

"This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been cont…

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Stephanie M Hilger,
Medicalizing Difference

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as "hermaphrodites", this book draws on insights from gender, critical race, and disability studies.

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Philipp Reisner,
Faith in Verse

Examining the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English, this book explores the work of Brooks Haxton, Suji Kwock Kim, Kevin Hart, and Li-Young Lee. Going beyond a me…

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Maggie Nelson
Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009'sBluets , Pathematamerges a pain diary chronicling a decade of j…

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Michael DC Drout
The Tower and the Ruin

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his world of Middle-earth. In The Tower and the Ruin , Michael D.C. Drout explores Tolkien's genius, allowing us …

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Maggie Nelson
Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of …

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Joseph Luzzi
Dante's Divine Comedy

"A new volume in the Lives of Great Religious Books series, this book explores the creation and cultural afterlives of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy"--

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Peter Conrad
Dickens the Enchanter

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination.

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M Genevieve West
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and appreciated years …

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Jeffrey Meyers
Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has ne…

lieferbar ab 18.11.2025.

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Ashokan Nambiar C
Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala

The book demonstrates how the early novel can be seen as a good site to think about what was effected by the print technology in the last decades of the 19th Century in Kerala. It was in the novel that ch…

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Courtney Weikle-Mills
Sugarcoated Ethics

Coming soon! Sugar-Coated Ethics by Courtney Weikle-Mills.Coming soon! Sugar-Coated Ethics by Courtney Weikle-Mills.

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Sarah D Phillips,
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary con…

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Sarah D Phillips,
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary con…

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Complexities of Anger

Anger is not simply an affect; it is a complicated and complex emotion that is culturally constructed and at the same time constructive of cultural, political, ecological and even psychological change and…

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