Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly GuideThis thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis.Author: Lois TysonPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 04/25/2023Pages: 478Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00dISBN: 9780367709426About the AuthorLois...
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Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Light Novel) Vol. 2TROUBLE ON THE ISLAND Ayanokouji's relationship with Karuizawa deepens, while the aftershock of his perfect mathematics score ripples through the school. Horikita asks to join the student council, and is accepted by Nagumo. And summer vacation brings with it no rest, but another special...
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Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations"Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it." -- TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details not only...
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English--and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it....
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The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of FolkA fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as "folk." By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more difficult to resurrect. But folk culture is all around...
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The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus"The Gospel in Brief lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy's thinking about the meaning of life. ... Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren. ... Although little known, this book remains hugely important." --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last...
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The End of Your Life Book Club: A MemoirA profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love between a mother and her son--and about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others. "A graceful, affecting testament to a mother and a life well...
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Open Closed Open: PoemsIn poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai's...
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical InquiryOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue--sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things--and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue...
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Oh, to Be a Painter!The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf's writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle,...
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Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)A landmark collection of the work of pioneering Chicana scholar, Norma Alarcóoacute;n. Forced by Circumstance gathers in one volume foundational essays by, and interviews with one of the most highly esteemed intellectuals in Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Feminist Studies. Reading Alarcón's essays-from her early work...
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100 Books That Shaped my Life: Reflections on a Lifetime of ReadingJohn Pepper's love affair with books began when he was a child. He sought refuge and escape in books; he began to explore the world through them; he developed friendships, of a sort, with the authors whose writing inspired him. Over time, he came...
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Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid's LifeAbout "Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid's Life" by Michael Parenti: On these pages, fans of Michael Parenti's insightful political and historical writings are given a revealing picture of his early years as a youth in New York's East Harlem, along with...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Revised"This must now be the edition of first resort." - Review of English Studies Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world. First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, the Sonnets has been a consistent best-seller in the Arden Shakespeare series....
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Paule Marshall: A Writer's LifeAn elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marshall (1929-2019) was fiercely driven to become a writer, making art from the world she...
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On Frost and EliotNamed a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice ReviewsRobert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they have usually been considered apart from one another, the homely all-American Frost assumed...
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Hannibal Lecter: A LifeDrawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibal's journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly adored antihero. This unique biography traces the many lives and crimes of Hannibal Lecter: his disturbing debut in Thomas Harris's...
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Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and His WorkGuillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema's most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary film. Widely regarded as one of the most imaginative directors working in...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (20th Edition)'This is, in fact, not what you were looking for; but it's much more interesting' Terry Pratchett Much loved for its wit and wisdom since 1870, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable takes you on a captivating adventure through its trademark blend of language,...
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024**A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a "beloved and wonderful writer" (George Saunders), teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize SemifinalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to...
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