Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Amen Corner: A PlayFrom one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century--a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses...
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Sinclair Lewis: The 1920s and the Shaping of American IdentityAuthor: Edward Gale AgranPublisher: Mercer University PressPublished: 12/02/2025Pages: 344Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.07w x 0.94dISBN: 9780881469967About the AuthorEdward Gale Agran is professor emeritus of History at Wilmington College. He holds a PhD in American History from the University of Wisconsin. Agran is...
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Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It MattersWhat happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology's ability to draw, do computer coding, and especially to write. Those AI-generated essays and poems, legal briefs and responses...
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Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 3 (Light Novel)Contains the complete volumes 5-6!Sorawo and Toriko have been spending their days surrounded by the supernatural. They managed to successfully spend a night together in the Otherside and can now venture even deeper! As they go back and forth between the normal and abnormal,...
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One Aladdin Two Lamps"Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp. Jeanette Winterson and Shahrazad are the perfect co-pilots to take us into new worlds on the wings of old stories."--Kamila Shamsie, award-winning author of Home FireI can change the story because I am the story."One of the most daring and...
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Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of ReadingThe heyday of reading is probably behind us, but in these shrewd and witty essays Brooke Allen examines the relics of the saints (and sinners) who made it what it was. Focused as much on literary lives as oeuvres, she excavates the glories of...
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Folk and Fairy Tales - Fifth EditionAn updated edition of Broadviewâ (TM)s top-selling anthology with more critical material and illustrations. Author: Martin HallettPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 07/04/2018Pages: 504Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 10.50h x 6.20w x 0.90dISBN: 9781554813650About the AuthorMartin Hallett has retired from teaching and lives in Grand Pré, Nova...
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at WorkA New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the Year A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards--now with a new preface by the author "Create dangerously, for...
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Complete Works Of William ShakespeareCOMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Abridged PAPER- BACK TEXT ONLYAuthor: Adam LongPublisher: Applause BooksPublished: 02/01/2000Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9781557832719
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Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary CreationTaking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-dûm, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging style to reveal the full scale of J. R....
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The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: And Other StoriesI entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose copious writings include deeply learned studies of art, music, literature,...
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The Logic of SenseConsidered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status...
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The Image of HerSimone de Beauvoir's gripping classic of a woman striving for perfection Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a handsome husband, two daughters, and a lover. She also has a successful career...
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The Art of Description: World Into Word"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring...
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Reading TogetherA lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszyńska thinks back on various book clubs she has been a part of. Through brief discussions of a variety of novels,...
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on AbjectionIn Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline,...
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Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. TolkienSince the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has...
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Much ADO about Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and TimesShakespeare's era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of "zero" to Galileo's redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare's plays--and his world--touring astronomy, code-breaking, color theory, navigation, music, sports, and more. How reliable...
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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned ChildhoodAs a comedian and conservative thinker, whip-smart funny Tom Shillue grounds his ideas about our current culture and political climate in stories from his childhood -- a portrait of growing up in 1970s America. Growing up as one of five kids in a devout...
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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the MidwestHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology, Andy Oler collects 72 original short essays by a...
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