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Literary Criticism

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  • The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China by Galvany, Albert
    The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China
    Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.Author: Albert GalvanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 01/02/2024Pages: 380Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85dISBN: 9781438493763This title is not returnable
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  • Spectral Memories of Post-Crash Iceland: Memory, Identity and the Haunted Imagination in Contemporary Literature and Art by Knútsdóttir, Vera
    Spectral Memories of Post-Crash Iceland: Memory, Identity and the Haunted Imagination in Contemporary Literature and Art
    How does the spectre appear in Icelandic literature and visual art created in the aftermath of the economic crash in Iceland in 2008? Why does it emerge at that specific point in time and what can it tell us about repressed collective memories in...
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  • Revolution in Poetic Language by Kristeva, Julia
    Revolution in Poetic Language
    In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and...
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  • Relic by Simon, Ed
    Relic
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr,...
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  • Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century Case Studies by Hansen, Julie
    Reading Novels Translingually: Twenty-First-Century Case Studies
    This book examines how literary fiction depicts multilingual practices and incorporates them on the level of the text. Multiple languages surround us today, rendered more visible in the digital and globalized age. In literature, too, languages intermingle, often to striking effect. The early twenty-first...
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  • Reading Hemingway's for Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary by Vernon, Alex
    Reading Hemingway's for Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary
    Author: Alex VernonPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 02/20/2024Pages: 408Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781606354728
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  • Question A Day Journal for Kids Ages 6-9: Total 365 days To Record Memories with Writing Prompts (Guided Self-Exploration Thoughtful Prompts) by Ortega, Fiona
    Question A Day Journal for Kids Ages 6-9: Total 365 days To Record Memories with Writing Prompts (Guided Self-Exploration Thoughtful Prompts)
    This cute "Question a day journal for kids ages 6-9" is a perfect book for kids to explore who they are! It's a fun and easy way for children to keep track and look back about their life. It is a perfect self-exploration guided...
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  • Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator by Petrocelli, Heather O.
    Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator
    A new analysis of the connection between the horror genre and the queer community. Queer for Fear is the groundbreaking empirical study of the LGBTQ+ community that not only documents the opinions, habits, and tastes of the horror-loving queer spectator but also evidences how...
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  • Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being by Marriott, David
    Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being
    In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not in art, philosophy, autobiography, literary theory, political theory, and psychoanalysis. With the critical rigor and polemical bravura which he displayed in...
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  • Mary, and the Wrongs of Woman by Wollstonecraft, Mary
    Mary, and the Wrongs of Woman
    Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 03/11/1999Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 7.64h x 5.02w x 0.56dISBN: 9780192835369This title is not returnable
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  • Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal by Kornstein, Daniel
    Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal
    Two-thirds of Shakespeare's plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare's plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions...
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  • Italian Trans Geographies by Cannamela, Danila
    Italian Trans Geographies
    Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.Author: Danila CannamelaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06dISBN: 9781438494586This title is not returnable
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  • In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative by Gates, Henry Louis
    In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative
    Two years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Escaped From North Carolina, which turned out to be the first novel by a female African-American slave ever found, and possibly the first novel...
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  • Hamletics: Shakespeare, Kafka, Beckett by Cacciari, Massimo
    Hamletics: Shakespeare, Kafka, Beckett
    One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles...
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  • Guachimanes: Doce aguafuertes by Hernandez B., Martin
    Guachimanes: Doce aguafuertes
    Guachimanes: doce aguafuertes para ilustrar la novela del petroleo, fue escrita por mi abuelo para describir de qué manera la explotación petrolera en Venezuela, explotó, transculturizó y corrompió a la población venezolana.La obra fue escrita y solo pudo ser publicada en Chile, el año...
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  • God's Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very by Davis, Clark
    God's Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very
    A biography of a long-forgotten but vital American Transcendentalist poet. In September of 1838, a few months after Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his controversial Divinity School address, a twenty-five-year-old tutor and divinity student at Harvard named Jones Very stood before his beginning Greek class...
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  • Geopoetry: Geology, Materiality, Ecopoetics by Enggass, Dale
    Geopoetry: Geology, Materiality, Ecopoetics
    At its core, geopoetics proposes that a connection between language and geology has become a significant development in post-World War II poetics. In Geopoetry, Dale Enggass argues that certain literary works enact geologic processes, such as erosion and deposition, and thereby suggest that language...
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  • Feminism's Progress: Gender Politics in British and American Literature and Television Since 1830 by Colatrella, Carol
    Feminism's Progress: Gender Politics in British and American Literature and Television Since 1830
    Carol Colatrella is Professor of Literature and Codirector of the Center for Women, Science, and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the coeditor (with Joseph Alkana) of Cohesion and Dissent in America, also published by SUNY Press.Author: Carol ColatrellaPublisher: State University...
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  • Euphony by Keith, Michael C.
    Euphony
    Euphony: Micro Prose Poems contains works best defined as thoughts, both observational and insightful, expressed in laconic form. The collection delivers the reader through subatomic communiques, electric "jolts of awareness," about the ever-shifting realm of human emotion and experience-a world both known and exotic....
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  • Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 by Boehmer, Elleke
    Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
    Empire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. This wide-ranging selection reveals the diversity of...
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Literary criticism books are essential resources for anyone interested in analyzing and understanding literature on a deeper level. These books offer insights into various literary theories, critique methods, and analytical approaches that help readers and scholars interpret and evaluate literary works.

Literary criticism books delve into the analysis of literature, exploring how different aspects such as themes, characters, and narratives contribute to a text's meaning and impact. They provide valuable frameworks and perspectives that enhance the reader's ability to engage critically with literary texts.

Criticism literature includes works that assess and interpret the value and significance of various literary genres, styles, and authors. Books such as "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom and "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster are highly regarded for their comprehensive exploration of literary traditions and techniques.

Literary criticism theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding literature. These theories include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonialism, among others. Books like "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács offer foundational knowledge in these critical perspectives, providing readers with tools to analyze texts through various lenses.

For those seeking the best books to read on literary criticism, it’s helpful to explore both classic and contemporary texts. Works like "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" by Lois Tyson and "The Elements of Literary Style" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley offer practical advice and theoretical insights for readers and students.

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Q. What are literary criticism books used for?

A. Literary criticism books are used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. They offer various theoretical frameworks and methods to understand and critique literary works, helping readers and scholars explore themes, characters, and narrative techniques in depth.

Q. Can you recommend some foundational books on literary criticism theory?

A. Yes, some foundational books on literary criticism theory include "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton, which provides an overview of various critical approaches, and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács, which explores the evolution and form of the novel.

Q. What is criticism literature, and why is it important?

A. Criticism literature refers to works that analyze and assess the value and significance of literary texts. It is important because it helps readers and scholars gain a deeper understanding of literature, its context, and its impact, enhancing appreciation and critical engagement with texts.

Q. Where can I find the best literary criticism books?

A. You can find the best literary criticism books at online bookstores such as BooksDeli.com. These bookstores offer a wide selection of both classic and contemporary texts on literary criticism, making it easy to access essential readings and expand your knowledge.

Q. How do I choose the right literary criticism book for my needs?

A. To choose the right literary criticism book, consider your interests and the type of literature you are studying. Look for books that cover the specific theories or approaches you want to explore. Reviews, recommendations, and best-seller lists can also guide you in selecting books that are well-regarded and relevant to your needs.

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