Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, Theory into Practice provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses. This brief, practical...
Criticism
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Author:Dobie, Ann B.Summary: -
Author:Whiston, JamesSummary:Fortunata y Jacinta is the magnum opus of Benito Pérez Galdós, acknowledged in the field of Spanish letters as second only in importance to Cervantes. This study is an analysis of the different parts of the manuscript as "palimpsest,"...
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Author:Macey, DavidSummary:The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory provides definitions and information on the bewildering maze of theorists, theories and terms that comprise the wide discipline of critical theory. It is written for arts students of all...
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Author:Lynn, StevenSummary:This updated edition offers expanded explanations of many of the critical theories, step-by-step reference guides to using each approach, and more examples of students applying critical theory to their own writing. The texts that are...
- Author:Nafisi, AzarSummary:
Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi Azar explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman...
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"Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literatureuncovers a surprising nuance in the Renaissance construction of masculinity -- namely, that it is precisely the destabilization of manhood in Ovid that Renaissance writers use to...
- Author:Cotte, JérômeSummary:
Professeur de philosophie au niveau collégial, Jérôme Cotte s'intéresse à ce que les grands philosophes de toutes les époques ont dit ou écrit sur l'humour; il fait des liens avec ce que font ou disent les humoristes modernes du...
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Author:French, DavidSummary:A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation....
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Author:Summary:Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to Postcolonialism.
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Author:Culler, Jonathan D.Summary:Culler offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, looks at whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind deconstruction and semiotics....
- Author:Marsan, Jean-Sébastien, Beaucage, RéjeanSummary:
Icône moustachue de la contre-culture californienne, tantôt compositeur (trop) expérimental, tantôt bouffon provocateur et vulgaire... L’opinion publique entretient une image fragmentaire et superficielle de Frank Zappa, limitée à...
- Author:Mateso, LochaSummary:
Dans les études littéraires consacrées à l'Afrique noire, l'attention s'est traditionnellement portée sur les auteurs et leurs oeuvres. En revanche on s'est beaucoup moins occupé du destinataire de l'oeuvre, qui constitue l'autre pôle...
- Author:Husti-Laboye, CarmenSummary:
Nourrie par les problématiques du monde contemporain, engagée dans des relations polémiques avec le pouvoir symbolique, reflétant l'idéologie postmoderne et postcoloniale, mais aussi féministe, la littérature de la diaspora...
- Author:Rochmann, Marie-ChristineSummary:
On appelait "nègre marron" l'esclave qui, aux Antilles, s'échappait de la plantation. La figure de cet esclave fugitif ne cesse d'attirer les écrivains. Des premiers auteurs blancs du XIXe siècle aux romans afro-antillais contemporains...
- Author:Morissette, AlanisSummary:
The official behind-the-scenes look at the powerful new musical based on Alanis Morissette's cult classic album Jagged Little Pill. Celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2020, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette's Grammy-Award winning...
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Author:Leedahl, Shelley A.Summary:Some people claim they'd like to walk away from their lives -- Shelley A. Leedahl had the nerve to do it. Was it selfishness, or self-preservation? Drawing upon childhood memories, hikes, road trips, foreign travel, her self-...
- Author:Babiak, PeterSummary:
In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural hot topics of our time. Babiak deconstructs our fascination with internet culture, devolves the rhetorical hallucinations of economics and marketing, and...
- Author:Tissières, HélèneSummary:
Ce livre est le premier à traiter des multiples circulations qui traversent les oeuvres littéraires écrites en français, provenant du Maghreb et de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Tout en s'écartant des scissions communément pratiquées entre...
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Author:Vint, SherrylSummary:Anxieties about embodiment and posthumanism have always found an outlet in the science fiction of the day. In Bodies of Tomorrow, Sherryl Vint argues for a new model of an ethical and embodied posthuman subject through close readings of...
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