Search results for “[Subject: literary-criticism]”

• Author(s): George Mariscal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseThis ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by ...

• Author(s): Julie Ellison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): Arlene Keizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWriters as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and D...

• Author(s): Bella Grigoryan • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietRelations between the Russian nobility and the state underwent a dynamic transformat...

• Author(s): Petrus Liu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseKnown in the West primarily through poorly subtitled films, Chinese martial arts fiction is one of the most iconic...

• Author(s): Joel Fineman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called making st...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A reference guide to 468 stories and folktales from China, Japan, and Korea, this book aims to lead storytellers,...

• Author(s): Mark Bracher • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryConvinced that cultural criticism need not merely be an academic exercise but can help improve people's l...

• Author(s): Jess Nevins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 19th Century This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to...

• Author(s): Astradur Eysteinsson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical th...

• Author(s): Carl Rollyson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samue...

• Author(s): Laurie A. Finke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryIn this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the...

• Author(s): Laurie A. Finke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryIn this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the...

• Author(s): Rosemary Scanlon McTier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General During the nineteenth century, insects became a very fashionable subject of study, and the writing ...

• Author(s): Michael Starr | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy The writings of H.G. Wells have had a profound influence ...

• Author(s): K. Martial Frindéthié • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Setting the stage for a critical encounter between Francophone African cinema and Contine...

• Author(s): David D. Seelow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & Humanities Imagine a classroom where students put away their smart phones and enthusiasticall...

• Author(s): Northrop Frye • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Presented here is a selection from the professional and personal correspondence of Northrop Frye, one of the preeminent ...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Prominent dance critic Arlene Croce wrote for The New Yorker during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Through mor...

• Author(s): William B. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Critical interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has never been greater. New editions of the autho...

• Author(s): Keneth Kinnamon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his ...

• Author(s): Leona Toker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionVladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective i...

• Author(s): Marc Redfield • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GermanMarc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictio...

• Author(s): Barbara C. Foley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsBarbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fictio...

• Author(s): Marc Redfield • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GermanMarc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictio...

• Author(s): Barbara C. Foley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsBarbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fictio...

• Author(s): Christopher Douglas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligionThe rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trai...

• Author(s): Leona Toker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietVladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation ...

• Author(s): George Baker • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralIllustrated critical essays on the work of artist James Coleman.James Coleman has emerged in recent years as one of the m...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Science Fiction & Fantasy The Time Machine is one of the most enduring works of the English language. ...

• Author(s): Linda Jones Roccos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Costume production distinguishes early civilization from the Paleolithic era as much as a...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralFrom the Back CoverOriginally published in 1879, Henry James's Hawthorne has been out of print for many years....

• Author(s): Nathaniel Philbrick • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: United States - 19th Century"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." --Los Angeles Times Nathani...

• Author(s): Brian Patrick McGuire • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - History"I assume that historical sources can convey human feeling, even though it is fruitless to p...

• Author(s): William J. Burling | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy While Kim Stanley Robinson is perhaps best known for...

• Author(s): Dag Nikolaus Hasse • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Europe - MedievalPeter Abelard's autobiography, the Historia calamitatum, is one of the best-known medieval texts, especially because of the story of...