LITERARY CRITICISM: Showing 1 to 25 of 36 results sorted by Newest to oldest

Reclaiming Black Brazil

Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Diaspora

Edited by Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey & Paulo Dutra
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Caribbean & Latin American, Social Science, Caribbean & Latin American Studies

Foregrounds the cultural production of some of the most significant Black Brazilian writers and artists

Vasto Pensamiento, Vast Thought

Latinas in the Nineteenth-Century California Press

By Vanessa Ovalle Perez
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Hispanic American, Women Authors

This book centers the words, stories, and social justice messages of Latinas in newspapers of nineteenth-century California.

The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein

A Critical Study of His Work (Second Edition)

By Farah Mendlesohn
Subjects: Literary Criticism, General, Science Fiction & Fantasy

A critical analysis of Heinlein’s context and response to the world and the future

China's Battler Poetry

Writing Like There's No Tomorrow

By Maghiel van Crevel
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Chinese, History, China
Series: cultural china

China’s Battler Poetry tells a gripping story of underclass writing as art and social practice.

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Russian Symbolist Criticism

A Reader

Edited by Lindsay Ceballos, D. Brian Kim, and Chloë Kitzinger
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, 19th Century

The first collection of newly translated Russian Symbolist essays on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in decades

Travels with Mina Loy

Navigating the Avant-Garde

By Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan, and Susan Rosenbaum
Subjects: Literary Criticism, 20th Century, Women Authors, Art, Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)

Maps Mina Loy’s “long aesthetic itinerary,” providing an essential guidebook to her art and writing

Forgotten Friendships

Yugoslavia and the Anticolonial Francophone World

By Alexandra Perišic
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Caribbean & Latin American

Constructed Latinx(s) Identities

Racialized Bodies in Visual and Textual Culture

Edited by José I. Lara
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Hispanic American

Expressive Networks

Poetry and Platform Cultures

Edited by Matthew Kilbane
Subjects: Literary Criticism, 21st Century, Computers, Social Networking

Drift Net

The Aesthetics of Literature and Media in Migration

By Chris Campanioni
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory, Gay & Lesbian

Theorizes literature and art produced through experiences of migration, detention, and exile

The Hero and the Victim

Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War Fiction

By Gregory Brazeal
Subjects: Literary Criticism, General, Social Science, General, History, Iraq War (2003-2011)

How American fiction represents soldiers—and soldier criminality—in depictions of the Iraq War

The Detroit Genre

Race, Dispossession, and Resilience in American Literature and Film, 1967-2023

By Vincent Haddad
Subjects: Literary Criticism, African American, Performing Arts, History & Criticism

The first comprehensive investigation of the literary and popular cultural representations of Detroit

Shredding the Map

Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922

By Edith Clowes
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Historical Events, History, Russia & The Former Soviet Union

Urban Fantasy

Exploring Modernity through Magic

By Stefan Ekman
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Science Fiction & Fantasy, General

The first book-length historical and theoretical analysis of the urban fantasy genre

Game Poems

Videogame Design as Lyric Practice

By Jordan Magnuson
Subjects: Art, Video Game Art, Digital, Literary Criticism, Poetry
Series: Electronic Communities of Making

Abiayalan Pluriverses

Bridging Indigenous Studies and Hispanic Studies

Edited by Lauren Beck & Juan Sánchez Martínez
By Gloria Chacón
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Caribbean & Latin American, Art, Environmental & Land Art