Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.Created as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader's speeches, sermons, and writings. Selected and introduced by Coretta Scott King, The Words of...
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The TáinThe Táin Bó Cuailnge, center-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. Thomas Kinsella's lively translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with elements from other versions. This edition includes a group of related stories...
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Fairies2019 Reprint of 1893 Edition Edited by Andrew Lang. Robert Kirk (1644 -1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight (a type of extrasensory perception described as a...
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The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing DeathA moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment"Original and beautifully written."--Ruth Scurr, Wall Street JournalWhat would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they...
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Tales for Fairies: Tracing Queer Fairy-Tale RetellingsAuthor: Alba Morollón DÃaz-FaesPublisher: Wayne State University PressPublished: 01/13/2026Pages: 238Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.10w x 0.65dISBN: 9780814350423Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 11/03/2025Library Journal 12/01/2025 pg. 78About the AuthorAlba Morollón Díaz-Faes is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences...
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Salvage: Readings from the WreckOne of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards. Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the...
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Poetry: A Writer's Guide and AnthologyFully revamped and expanded, this second edition offers a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. Mapping out 38 foundational elements of poetry including image, line, point of view, metaphor, movement, and music, authors Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko use...
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My Book Journal: A Reading Diary for BibliophilesThis gifty book journal offers the perfect place to indulge your passion for reading and to record your literary explorations. This beautifully refreshed edition of our popular My Book Journal provides space to record reviews and thoughts on 100 books, as well as track...
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American CanonNobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious. In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison...
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American CanonNobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious. In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison...
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Hadewijch: The Complete Works"Each volume has been critically chosen, lucidly translated and excellently introduced by internationally acknowledged scholars. (The publisher) must be praised for its selectivity, overall book format, original cover designs by contemporary artists, and indexes for each volume." Theological Studies Hadewijch: The Complete Works translation...
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Fire: From "A Journal of Love" the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1937In this "erotically charged"(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-"that brilliant giant toy" -then back to Paris and Henry, and eventually into the arms of a passionate...
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Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our LivesA celebration of books and a love story to the written word that reveals how books help us connect with other readers through shared stories. As a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of...
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A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World LiteratureCurated from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark anthology celebrates a century of exploration through pen and ink, and reimagines what international readership can be.From Nobel laureates to dissident authors, iconic mainstays to extraordinary newcomers, this global chorus of fiction, essays, poetry,...
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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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