Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Pandaemonium, 1660-1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary ObserversPandaemonium was the biggest single inspiration for the Olympics Opening Ceremony . . . the book is the equivalent of Pepys giving a guided tour of the birth of electricity and the mechanical age--it's brilliant, exciting, and essential.--Danny BoyleHumphrey Jennings was a film maker...
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Annotated Ancient Mariner: The Rime of the Ancient MarinerColeridge's greatest work, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is utterly unique, unlike any other ballad. No narrative poem has rivaled it in combining scenes of terror with scenes of incomparable beauty. Although enormously popular in the nineteenth century, it is seldom read or...
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Conversations with Margaret WalkerI read somewhere in Newsweek where Margaret Walker is one of those moral writers and that is supposed to be a form of derision. But to me, I could not have a greater compliment." Margaret Walker (1915-1998) began her writing career as a poet...
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Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems That Challenged Tudor TyrannyShakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension,...
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The Road to Xanadu - A Study in the Ways of the ImaginationThis vintage book contains John Livingston Lowes's most famous work, 'The Road to Xanadu'. In this text Lowes examines the various sources of Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan', exploring the books that he believed Coleridge would have read. It...
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100 Novels That Changed the WorldThe inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems...
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Robot Suicide: Death, Identity, and AI in Science FictionIn Robot Suicide: Death, Identity, and AI in Science Fiction, Liz W. Faber blends cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, and medical sciences to show how fictional robots hold up a mirror to our cultural perceptions about suicide and can help us rethink real-world policies regarding...
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Poetry for the Many: An AnthologyJeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour's election slogan "For the many, not the few."That slogan,...
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Porphyry, >On Principles and Matter: A Syriac Version of a Lost Greek Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and GlossariesThe Syriac treatise published in the present volume is in many respects a unique text. Though it has been preserved anonymously, there remains little doubt that it belongs to Porphyry of Tyre. Accordingly, it enlarges our knowledge of the views of the most famous...
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Failures East and West: Cultural Encounters Between East Asia and EuropeOften, the story of encounters between Asia and the West has been told as one of success, of cross-fertilization, reciprocal stimulation and an exchange of commodities and knowledge. Yet, the history of East-West encounters is riddled with prominent examples of misunderstandings, ignorance, unrealistic expectations...
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Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century LiteratureHow eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian LegendFor more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chr...
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Bathhouse and Other Tanka"Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka. For many decades now, Ishii has turned the classical poetic...
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Robin Hood: Starter: 250-Word VocabularyThis award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...
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Menander: DyskolosThis well established scholarly edition was first published in 1965, seven years after publication of the papyrus containing the text. It includes introductory essays on scenery, staging, setting, actors and their roles, costumes and masks. The Greek text is accompanied by an apparatus and...
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Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VIIAuthor: Christopher B. KrebsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 07/27/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94dISBN: 9781009177122
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Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century ParisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study--the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades--Michael Mulryan explores his...
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The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping BeautyNeil Gaiman is one of the most widely known writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, having produced fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and horror, television, comics, and prose. He often attributes this eclecticism to his "compost heap" approach to writing, gathering inspiration from life,...
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Way Makers: An Anthology of Women's Writing about WalkingA sweeping collection of women's writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries. The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews's Way Makers is the first anthology of women's writing about walking. Moving from Elizabeth Carter's correspondence with Catherine Talbot in...
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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the WorldThe sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems...
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