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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing. Though not intended to be an exhaustive history of the period, Critical Forms begins in the mid-eighteenth...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current -- and inescapable -- vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The city's "Americanness" has been disputed from the time of Jefferson's struggle with Hamilton over the new nation's character and its future. At another peak of antiurban sentiment, this volume brings literary and cultural history and criticism to bear on city lives and spaces, engaging a history of promise and struggle as represented literature, film, and visual arts. Drawing on social science to define the urban condition, but as literature does,...
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