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Poetry Of Emily Dickinson

by Victoria N. Morgan

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 Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson''s poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteenth-century reviews up to some of the definitive critical interventions of the twenty-first century.
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Comics And Graphic Novels

by Julia Round, Maaheen Ahmed e Rikke Platz Cortsen

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 Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural. Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.
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Fiction Of Margaret Atwood

by Fiona Tolan

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 Winner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her Work Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally diverse and ambitious, and has amassed an enormous body of literary criticism. In this invaluable guide, Fiona Tolan provides a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to Atwood''s work. Addressing all of the author''s key texts, the book deftly guides the reader through the most characteristic, influential, and insightful critical readings of the last fifty years. It highlights recurring themes in Atwood''s work, such as gender, feminism, power and violence, fairy tale and the gothic, environmental destruction, and dystopian futures. This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood.
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Asian American Literature

by Jinqi Ling

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 This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling''s presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field''s interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book''s Introduction and Conclusion. The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and its cross-cutting relationship with the trends in other disciplines. What has emerged and been given prominence to in the surveys and discussions of this book then constitute the essential criticism of Asian American literary studies, a discourse almost 5 decades in the making when examined retrospectively.
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Contemporary British Drama

by Catherine (Loughborough, Uk) Rees

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 This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars have sought to understand and write about modern theatre, from the earliest reviews to revivals appearing decades later.
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Contemporary British Drama

by Catherine (Loughborough, Uk) Rees

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 This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars have sought to understand and write about modern theatre, from the earliest reviews to revivals appearing decades later.
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Victorian Sensation Fiction

by Jessica Cox

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 Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts.
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Fiction Of A.S. Byatt

by Louisa Hadley

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 Examines the critical responses to Byatt's fiction (both her novels and short stories) tracing the debates about realism, postmodernism and feminism with which they engage. This guide also explores the themes which are central to Byatt's work, such as her depiction of writer-figures and her conception of artistic vision.
Brian Friel

by Scott (Emory And Henry College English Department, Emory, Va, Usa) Boltwood

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 Brian Friel is the author of more than thirty plays and over one hundred stories. This Reader's Guide provides a deeply informed survey of the criticism of the major stories and all the plays of this Irish writer's long career.
Contemporary British Fiction

by Nick (Keele University, Uk) Bentley

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 This invaluable Guide explores the primary debates in the literary criticism of contemporary British fiction. Drawing heavily from a wide range of current criticism, Nick Bentley examines key trends and issues in the work of some of the main contemporary novelists, critics and theorists.
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Antony And Cleopatra

by J. Turner

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 This Guide provides a critical survey of the responses to this popular play. Chronologically arranged, the book draws on a rich range of critical writings, including Dr Johnson, Coleridge, Bradley and Leavis. This material is linked to more general issues regarding Shakespearean criticism and scholarship, and the development of literary theory.
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Plays Of Harold Pinter

by Andrew Wyllie e Catherine Rees

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 This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays from academics and the press, along themes such as Absurdism, politics and gender identity.
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Philip Larkin

by Robert C. Evans

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 This Reader's Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the key critical literature surrounding Philip Larkin's poetry. Robert C. Evans charts the major developments in Larkin's career as a writer alongside the evolution of critical responses to his work.
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The Plays Of Harold Pinter

by Andrew (University Of The West Of England) Wyllie e Catherine (Loughborough, Uk) Rees

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 This Reader's Guide synthesises the key criticism on Pinter's work over the last half century. Andrew Wyllie and Catherine Rees examine critical approaches and reactions to the major plays from academics and the press, along themes such as Absurdism, politics and gender identity.
The Poetry Of Robert Browning

by Britta (University Of The West Of England, Bristol) Martens

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 A stimulating and accessible introduction to critical perspectives on the work of Robert Browning, the main practitioner of the dramatic monologue. Martens explores the major critical issues and debates surrounding the poet's work and examines a range of sources, from Victorian reviews through to twenty-first-century criticism.
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Children'S Literature

by Pat Pinsent

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 This invaluable Guide surveys the key critical works and debates in the vibrant field of children's literature since its inception. Leading expert Pat Pinsent combines a chronological overview of developments in the genre with analysis of key theorists and theories, and subject-specific methodologies.
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey/Persuasion

by Enit Karafili (University Of Lausanne (Unil), Lausanne, Switzerland) Steiner

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 This approachable guide explores the secondary criticism surrounding Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, from their publication in 1818 through to today. Enit Karafili Steiner explores the key themes and concerns that have stimulated debate over the years, as well as providing an overview of the critical responses to screen adaptations.
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Modernist Literatures

by Sarah Davison

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 This Readers Guide offers a stimulating and accessible introduction to the key criticism which surrounds the diverse range of literature of the modernist period. Sarah Davison explores a variety of critical works, from initial pronouncements to recent studies which have shaped the way that Anglo-American modernism is understood and theorized today.
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Science Fiction

by Brian Baker

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 This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and introduces key critical texts and major critics.
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Shakespeare: The Tragedies

by Nicolas Tredell

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 This Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on Shakespeare's tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. Introducing essential concepts, themes and debates, and summarising major critical texts, Nicolas Tredell examines how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed, contested and changed.
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Rise Of The Novel

by Nicholas Seager

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 This guide explores the dominant methodologies, theories and debates surrounding the emergence of the novel during the eighteenth century. Covering key criticism on authors such as Defoe, Fielding, Richardson and Austen, the emphasis is on how critical work is interrelated, allowing readers to discern trends in the critical conversation.
Arthur Miller - Death Of A Salesman/The Crucible

by Stephen (Formerly Of St Francis College, Brooklyn, Usa) Marino

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 This guide surveys the criticism surrounding two of Arthur Miller's most popular and widely-studied plays. From initial theatre reviews to twenty-first-century scholarship, Stephen Marino examines the major debates and trends of critical inquiry providing an essential resource for anyone with an interest in Miller's work.
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

by Michael (University Of Oxford, Uk) Whitworth

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 This Reader's Guide introduces the criticism surrounding Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway from its initial reception to the present day. Incorporating various schools of criticism, such as feminism, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis, Michael H. Whitworth creates an invaluable guide to the literature on Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.
Shakespeare: The Tragedies

by Nicolas Tredell

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 This Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on Shakespeare's tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. Introducing essential concepts, themes and debates, and summarising major critical texts, Nicolas Tredell examines how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed, contested and changed.
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