Literary Criticism 78 books by secondbestgirl

Offensive Films

ByMikita Brottman

1 Reader • 5

Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

BySteven T. Brown

2010 • 3 Readers • 5

Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation

BySteven T. Brown(editor)

2005 • 1 Reader

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations

BySteven T. Brown

2018 • 1 Reader • 330 pages

Orientalism

ByEdward W. Said

1978 • 150 Readers • 396 pages • 4.2

Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society

BySharon Kinsella

2000 • 2 Readers

Beautiful Fighting Girl

BySaito Tamaki,J. Keith Vincent(Translator),+1 more

9 Readers • 3.8

Ghosts of My Life

ByMark Fisher

2014 • 52 Readers • 245 pages • 4

#10

The savage god

ByAl Álvarez

1971 • 3 Readers • 322 pages

#11

Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination

ByKaren Halttunen

1998 • 1 Reader • 374 pages

#12

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

ByDavid Foster Wallace

1997 • 140 Readers • 353 pages • 4.2

#13

E Unibus Pluram

ByDavid Foster Wallace

1 Reader

#14

定本物語消費論

ByEiji Otsuka,大塚英志

2001 • 1 Reader • 342 pages

#15

#248 of 1 in Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies

Beowulf and the Critics

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1936 • 1 Reader

#16

Supernatural Horror in Literature

ByH.P. Lovecraft

1927 • 3 Readers • 106 pages

#17

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime

ByChristopher Bolton(Editor),Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr.(Editor)

2007 • 1 Reader • 269 pages • 2

#18

Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters with Ethical Event Films

ByDavid H. Fleming

2017

#19

Transatlantic Sensations

ByJennifer Phegley(Editor),John Cyril Barton(Editor)

2012 • 1 Reader • 303 pages

#20

Literary Executions: Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

ByJohn Cyril Barton

2014 • 345 pages

#21

From Caligari to Hitler

BySiegfried Kracauer

1947 • 13 Readers • 440 pages • 4

#22

Torture Porn

BySteve Jones

2013 • 2 Readers • 248 pages

#23

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1936 • 1 Reader • 51 pages • 4

#24

The Feel-Bad Film

ByNikolaj Lübecker

2015 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

#25

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace

BySarah Brouillette

2007 • 240 pages

#26

Seduction of the Innocent

ByFredric Wertham

2 Readers

#27

#1 of 3 in The Comic Books

Understanding Comics

ByScott McCloud

1993 • 198 Readers • 215 pages • 4.3

#28

3 Sequential Art

Comics and Sequential Art

ByWill Eisner

1985 • 14 Readers • 175 pages • 3

#29

The Contemporary Superhero Film: Projections of Power and Identity

ByTerence McSweeney

2020 • 1 Reader • 216 pages

#30

Pop Song

ByLarissa Pham

2021 • 7 Readers • 288 pages

#31

The Superhero Reader

ByCharles Hatfield,Jeet Heer,+1 more

2013 • 319 pages

#32

Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

BySamuel R. Delany

1977 • 1 Reader • 326 pages

#33

Archaeologies of the Future

ByFredric Jameson

2005 • 7 Readers • 431 pages • 3

#34

Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism

BySheri-Marie Harrison

2014 • 206 pages

#35

ByHelen Young

2015 • 1 Reader • 238 pages

#36

The Great Derangement

ByAmitav Ghosh

2017 • 24 Readers • 196 pages • 4.3

#37

Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art

BySusan J. Napier

2018 • 17 Readers • 316 pages • 3.9

#38

Poetics

ByAristotle,Anthony Kenny(Translator)

-335 • 78 Readers • 161 pages • 3.7

#39

#40

1992 • 6 Readers • 206 pages • 4

#41

Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature

ByErich Auerbach,Willard R. Trask(Translator)

1942 • 18 Readers • 616 pages

#42

Chasing Lolita

ByGraham Vickers

2 Readers

#43

#3 of 3 in Диалози

The Republic

ByPlato

-400 • 413 Readers • 306 pages • 3.8

#44

A Defense of Poesie

ByPhilip Sidney

1595 • 1 Reader • 112 pages

#45

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

ByChinua Achebe

1975 • 1 Reader

#46

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

ByLangston Hughes

1 Reader

#47

Epistemology of the Closet

ByEve Kosofsky Sedgwick

1990 • 7 Readers • 258 pages • 3.5

#48

#16 of 4 in Werke und Nachlaß. Kritische Gesamtausgabe

A Obra de Arte na Era de Sua Reprodutibilidade Técnica - Volume 1. Coleção L&PM Pocket

ByWalter Benjamin

1936 • 22 Readers • 4

#49

Comics Culture

Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics

ByAndrew Hoberek

2014 • 1 Reader

#50

The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade

ByBrannon Costello(editor),Brian Cremins(Editor)

2021 • 1 Reader • 576 pages

#51

New Southern Studies

Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America

ByColeman Hutchison

2012 • 1 Reader • 294 pages

#52

Hitchcock's Motifs

ByMichael Walker

2005 • 2 Readers

#53

The Rape of the Nation and the Hymen Fantasy: Japan's Modernity, the American South, and Faulkner

ByMizuho Kuirbayashi,Tomoko Terasawa

2002 • 1 Reader • 222 pages • 1

#54

The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

ByMark McGurl

2009 • 1 Reader

#55

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

ByHeather Clark

2020 • 42 Readers • 1,152 pages • 4.8

#56

Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

ByGillian Beer

2016 • 1 Reader • 307 pages

#57

Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction

ByPhilip Fisher

1999 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#58

#240 of 55 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature

ByStephen Dodd

2005 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

#59

Faulkner at Nagano,

ByWilliam Faulkner

1973 • 1 Reader • 206 pages

#60

The death of Narcissus

ByMorris Fraser

1976 • 1 Reader • 244 pages

#61

Intercourse

ByAndrea Dworkin

1987 • 14 Readers • 349 pages

#62

1 Asia Pacific Modern

Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan

ByTravis Workman

2015 • 1 Reader

#63

Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature

ByJeffrey Angles

2011 • 1 Reader • 302 pages

#64

The Ghost

BySusan Owens

2017 • 5 Readers • 288 pages

#65

Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature

ByDavid C. Atherton

2023 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

#66

Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture

BySari Kawana

2008 • 1 Reader • 271 pages

#67

The Empire of the Text

ByChristopher Leigh Connery

1998 • 1 Reader • 209 pages

#68

The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan

ByMichael Baskett

2008 • 1 Reader • 226 pages

#69

Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945

ByMark Driscoll

2009 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

#70

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

ByMiriam Silverberg

2006 • 2 Readers • 422 pages

#71

Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937

ByMark Silver

2008 • 1 Reader • 217 pages

#72

As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality

ByMichael Saler

2011 • 3 Readers • 492 pages • 3

#73

Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga

ByKaoru Nagayama,Patrick W. Galbraith(Translator),+1 more

1 Reader • 290 pages

#74

The History of Hentai Manga

ByKimi Rito

2021 • 2 Readers • 392 pages

#75

Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu

ByAlan Stephen Wolfe

1990 • 1 Reader • 263 pages

#76

Rewriting Language: How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use

ByChristiane Luck

2020 • 1 Reader • 204 pages

#77

Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History

ByCathy Caruth

1996 • 1 Reader • 168 pages

#78

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

BySteven Ruszczycky

2021 • 224 pages

#79

The Anime Machine

ByThomas Lamarre

2009 • 4 Readers • 408 pages • 4

#80

Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry

ByGotthold Ephraim Lessing,Edward Allen McCormick‏(Translator)

1766 • 3 Readers

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