Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Magic Mountain'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a...
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The House of BeingAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey "Trethewey doesn't just explore the reasons why she writes. She also offers a compassionate argument for why we must all...
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Shadow Side of Grace: The Nekyia of Flannery O'Connor's Wise BloodAuthor: Scott M. ForanPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 207Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.03w x 0.48dISBN: 9798897360260About the AuthorScott M. Foran is associate professor of English at Montreat College in North Carolina and serves as the editor of the Flannery O'Connor Society Newsletter....
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Reading Matters: A History for the Digital AgeTraces earlier revolutions in the history of reading to orient our shift to the digital age Considered one of the greatest inventions of human civilization, writing has served as a pathway to culture and education through history. The digital revolution has ushered in a...
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Notes on the Poet: A Little Book of CriticismIn Notes on the Poet, John Poch revives the ancient but little-practiced art of the aphorism. Like prayer ribbons, these compressed utterances are tied to that space between reading and writing, poet and poem, life and art, making up a "little book of criticism,"...
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark"A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer."--Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentieth-century British author of beloved novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The...
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How Queer Bookshops Changed the WorldThe remarkable tale of how queer bookshops built communities, nourished minds, redefined literature - and changed the world For over a century, LGBTQ+ bookshops have been the unsung heroes of queer liberation Home not only to books but chaotic community noticeboards, vicious rescue cats...
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Defacing the MonumentDefacing the Monument opens with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing, a proceeding during which as many as 75 undocumented migrants are criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to serve jail time prior to deportation. It's an attempt to bear witness to what...
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Classic Literature Made Simple: Fifty Great Books in a NutshellIt has been said, quite correctly, that we write as well as we read. It can also be said that we think as well as we read. Since reading well is so important, it is good to get into the habit of reading good...
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A Bloody and Barbarous GodA Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor...
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Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper RamblesWalt Whitman's short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated poems from Leaves of Grass showing its influence. Walt Whitman's New Orleans is the first book dedicated to republishing his...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Deluxe Hardbound EditionIn light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing his entire estate. Despite his and his wife's compassionate treatment of their slaves, Shelby is compelled to sell two of them to Mr. Haley, a...
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The Works of Anne BradstreetAnne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work. Hensley's introduction sketches the poet's...
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The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' EyesThe revered teacher and bestselling author reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings.More than fifty years after his death, revered intellectual and teacher C. S. Lewis...
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Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal ArtsWhat Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare was a keen and discerning reader who was mocked by writers who, unlike him, had been to university--so it's not surprising that his portrait of scholarly life...
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Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior QueenShe is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear's daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or female, whose entire life--from youth to old age--appears on stage. She is a wealth of insight into Shakespeare's understanding...
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Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of ItWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored...
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Early American WritingDrawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature--including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years,...
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The Mirror, the Mask, and the Masterpiece: A Guide to C. S. Lewis's "Till We Have Faces"Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis has been described as the most controversial of Lewis's fiction--despised by some and celebrated by others. Yet Lewis himself regarded the novel as "far and away the best [book] I have written." What are we to...
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Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989Author: Audre Lorde,Mecca Jamilah SullivanPublisher: Sinister WisdomPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9781938334290About the AuthorAudre Lorde (1934-1992) was the author of ten volumes of poetry and five works of prose, including Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, The Black...
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