Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a Side of ScornJane Austen always knows just what to say!Why waste time inventing your own insults when you can borrow topnotch snipes from a literary genius? With The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can clap back at bad dates, micromanaging bosses, irritating strangers,...
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A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025Edited by the magazine's poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin,...
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On MorrisonAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor--"a revelatory encounter with the Nobel laureate's oeuvre" (The New York Times) "In this lavish yet clear-eyed study, Serpell shows how Morrison breathed new life into the novel....
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Common SenseIn January of 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth the fires of dissent were already smoldering, but Paine's impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. One...
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The Life of Violet: Three Early StoriesVirginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fiction--published in its final, revised form for the first time A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical "cottage of one's own," battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies...
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Autobiography of Death*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before...
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Inhabit the Poem: Last EssaysIn 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a...
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Right and Wrong ThinkingRenew Your Mind What you believe is the result of your thinking. If you think wrong, you will believe wrong. But meditation in the Word of God will straighten out your thinking! In Right & Wrong Thinking, Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin explores the Scriptures...
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The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm JonesDostoevsky's greatest novel is a story of murder told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky's final novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between a larger-than-life father...
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Animal StoriesFrom a writer who has "invented a new form" (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.Animal Stories begins with Kate Zambreno's visit to the monkey house at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: EssaysBeautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is...
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Leaves of Grass"I am large, I contain multitudes" A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the...
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Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by WomenDiscover the Scream Queens of Must-Read Horror Bram Stoker Awards(R) winning author Sadie "Mother Horror" Hartmann has curated the ultimate collection of recommendations from the leading ladies of horror! From classic authors such as Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, and Daphne du Maurier to the...
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Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain EnglishRead Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts...
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Reading with Jane AustenJane Austen has more readers today than at any time in history. Many of Austen's legions of fans, however, came to her novels after first seeing films or other adaptations made for twenty-first-century audiences. Austen herself conversely spent her literary career undermining romantic clichés...
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Optimistic AbsurdismIn a world that often feels chaotic and devoid of inherent meaning, Optimistic Absurdism emerges as a beacon of hope and introspection. With a blend of philosophical inquiry and prose, this thought-provoking work invites readers to explore the richness of life's absurdity while uncovering...
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Why Orwell MattersFrom the bestselling author and iconoclast Christopher Hitchens, a bracing reappraisal of George Orwell's life and thought "Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century."--The Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the...
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Thinking Through ShakespeareHow Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions--about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong--explains his lasting power, popularity and relevance In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he "is above all writers, at least above all modern...
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The Horror Theory ReaderA comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes--fear, dread, and disgust--are ones we typically seek to avoid, so what is the appeal of narratives and artistic representations that seek to scare,...
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The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol. 4 Hardcover EditionAs the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy's bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing...
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