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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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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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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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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Under the GlacierNobel laureate Halldór Laxness's Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn fells Glacier, who, among...
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect LifeT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a whole school of literary criticism. Today, as long-awaited personal papers...
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The World of Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen's artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star's career peaked in their eighth decade as Leonard Cohen's did. Cohen's popularity is still growing five years after his death. In The World of Leonard...
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The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic FormsThis bestselling reference guide includes 76 entries on traditional and modern poetic forms. Defined in alphabetical order, each entry is allotted 1-7 pages with examples and histories of-and ideas for using-each form.Author: Ron PadgettPublisher: Teachers & Writers CollaborativePublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.45h...
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The SonnetsThe complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--in English and SpanishThis landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. More intimate and...
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The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden AgeAuthor: John CurranPublisher: Collins Crime ClubPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 480Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 9.43h x 6.39w x 1.45dISBN: 9780008679880Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 11/24/2025About the AuthorDr John Curran is a lifelong fan of Golden Age detective fiction and one of Ireland's foremost experts on classic crime. For...
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Shakespeare Box SetTo paraphrase the Bard, though they be but little, they are fierce... A pocket-sized box set of three 3" hardcover Bard books, the perfect gift for your favorite Shakespeare enthusiast. Behold a deluxe box set of three classic Shakespeare miniature books: William Shakespeare: The...
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Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian AestheticsPetroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and inquiries in the energy humanities have recently taken their rightful place as necessary reflections on the...
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Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington GardensJ.M. Barrie's classic tale of the "boy who would not grow up" Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie's sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy...
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Origin Myths of the Stars: The Handbook of the Greek Zodiac Origin Myths & Their Symbolic MedicineHow did a Scorpion become a constellation? Who lifted the Archer into the sky? Which timeless tales gave birth to the twelve zodiac signs-and when did we forget we ever knew their origins?In ancient times, mythos was neither true nor false but a living...
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