Literary Criticism - Page 12

Rilke: The Life of the Work

The life of Rilke’s work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Ril...

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Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell

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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

“Fascinating.”—Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian“Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.”—Rhys...

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A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt

Melancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its s...

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All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything

** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Li...

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The Wife of Bath: A Biography

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first...

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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlig...

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Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading

‘Utterly fascinating. I have long felt that books can be medicine. Now I understand why. Read this b...

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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become...

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Revolution in Poetic Language

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the...

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Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

Julia Kristeva examines melancholia across art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and...

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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art

Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investi...

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A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which litera...

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The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioner...

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The Children of Athena: Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400

The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellec...