Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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DMZ ColonyWINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War cranes had no...
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Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and DeathThe celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship--and open up the concept of...
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing NinetyFormer poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."**(New York Times) "Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?" Donald Hall answers his own question in...
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A Apple Pie - Illustrated In ColorAn Unabridged Full Color Edition To Include All Letters Of The Alphabet With Corresponding Illustrations By Kate GreenawayAuthor: Kate GreenawayPublisher: Watchmaker PublishingPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.07dISBN: 9781603864619
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You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke2025 Nautilus Award Winner Silver Body, Mind, SpiritFollowing Rilke's advice to "live the questions," this book invites us to draw upon his startling insights and often unconventional wisdom to see ourselves as ripening, unfolding, and always becoming."This is a book to savor, soaking up...
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World of Tolkien Seven-Book Boxed SetThis striking collection of seven books with specially designed spines and illustrated page edges encompasses the myriad lands and inhabitants of Middle-earth. Discover the vast and enchanting world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middleâ 'earth with this deluxe boxed set by bestâ 'selling author...
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Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion.The journal, like the novel...
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century EnglandA "delightful reader's companion" (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England. For anyone who has...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on WritingWhen the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America's greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It's hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches,...
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The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le GuinWhen Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new novel, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World is the first publication focusing on maps by the celebrated author, publishing many for the first time together with writing from a variety...
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The Pocket HaikuQuintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition. In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three...
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The OresteiaThe most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides. These three plays recount the murder of Agamemnon by his queen Clytemnestra on his return from Troy with the captive...
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The Key to the Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English PassagesUmberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is a brilliant mystery set in a fictitious medieval monastery. The text is rich with literary, historical, and theoretical references that make it eminently re-readable. The Key makes each reading fuller and more meaningful by helping the...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: InfernoThis is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and sardonic humour,...
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The Brothers Grimm: A BiographyThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm A New Yorker "Best Book of 2024" - Winner of the Wayland D. Hand Prize, sponsored by the...
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The Art of Revision: The Last WordThe fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision--on the page and in life In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the...
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The Arcades Project"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk)...
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Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of ManyAuthor: HillmanPublisher: Kent State University PressPublished: 12/19/2023Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781606354711About the AuthorThomas P. Hillman is a retired scholar and teacher of classics whose work on J. R. R. Tolkien has appeared in Tolkien Studies and in presentations...
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Look Back in AngerJimmy Porter, frustrated and bitter in his drab flat, lives with his middle-class wife, Alison. Also sharing the flat is Cliff who keeps things tenuously together. Alison's friend Helen arrives and persuades her to leave Jimmy only to fall for him herself. When Alison...
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Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do"If this book isn't a minor classic--and one uses the term 'minor' only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major--well, one doesn't know what book is. Let's compromise and just call it a classic." --Will Cuppy, New...
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