Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic: Rereading the Women of the TalmudAuthor: Gila FinePublisher: MaggidPublished: 06/01/2024Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.79h x 5.84w x 0.91dISBN: 9781592646739
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The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women: Spotting Red Flags from Across the BallroomNo one knows red flags like Jane Austen! Why settle for mediocre dating advice when you can consult the queen of the meet-cute? With The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can effortlessly dispense with rakes, avoid boring suitors, evade meddling relations,...
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Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.' Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman's body be measured against a man's life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Measure explores these questions through a series of substitutions:...
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Leaves of GrassDelight in the work that forever changed the course of American poetry! Walt Whitman's modern and ecstatic free-verse poems shocked, enraged, and delighted critics of the time for their celebration of physical pleasures and the human body. Throughout his life, Whitman continuously revised and...
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Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on TolkienA major contribution to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship With the release of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and forthcoming film version of The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien's popularity has never been higher. In Green Suns and Faërie,...
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Dr Johnson and MR SavageA classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright...
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CoriolanusThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female DetectiveA revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account--and how they became a cultural sensationShortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2025 From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people...
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The Master of GoFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire society. Go...
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The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street"A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in touch with mankind." --New York TimesNewly reissued with an introduction by Plum Sykes, this cult favorite is a delightful diary--think Nancy Mitford-meets-Nora Ephron--chronicling author Helene Hanff's "bucket list" trip to London...
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The Cripple of InishmaanIn 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning...
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The Complete Works of NietzscheThis is a complete collection of all the novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Human All Too Human,...
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Life Is a DreamThe masterwork of Spain's preeminent dramatist--now in a new verse translationLife Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending...
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Dorothy Parker in HollywoodAn expansive, illuminating, and "welcome addition to understand" (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood--from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting...
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The World's Greatest Left-Handers: Why Left-Handers are Just Plain Better Than Everybody ElseFrom Buzz Aldren to Queen Victoria, the fascinating foibles of the sinister set.Author: Sandy Huffaker,James Tertius de KayPublisher: M. Evans and CompanyPublished: 02/15/1985Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.20h x 7.30w x 0.30dISBN: 9780871314499
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply ExplainedLearn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Literature in...
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920-1924The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier...
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Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of LifeIn Other Lovings, Seulghee Lee traces the presence and plenitude of love embedded in Black and Asian American literatures and cultures to reveal their irreducible power to cohere minoritarian social life. Bringing together Black studies, Asian American studies, affect theory, critical theory, and queer...
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Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3Eugene Thacker's three cult-classic volumes of supernatural horror come together in this new Zer0 Books omnibus, revised with updated material, offering an essential resource for thinking about the unthinkable world. Zer0 Books presents a new, omnibus edition of a cult classic: all three volumes...
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to PornographyIn his "best achievement to date" (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a "deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written" (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to...
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