Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Nine Unforgettable TalesThe greatest hunting stories by Ben East, Patrick O'Brien, Thomas McGuane, Vance Bourjaily, William Faulkner, Thomas McIntyre, Robert C. Ruark, Havilah Babcock, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Charles Fergus, John Barsness, Jesse Hill Ford, John Madison, Tom Hennessey, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Elliot, George Reiger, Russell Annabel,...
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The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: - Seven different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood," "Beauty and the Beast," "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Cinderella," "Bluebeard," and "Tricksters." These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar. - Tales by Hans...
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Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of Winnie-The-PoohFor the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Winnie-the-Pooh," Gyles Brandreth chronicles the writing of this beloved classic and the life of its creator, A. A. Milne. Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear tells the remarkable story of A A Milne, a playwright, a...
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Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and...
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Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction - Second Edition"Reading Children's Literature: A Critical Introduction offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children's literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, it is a compact core text that introduces students to the...
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Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and MonstersThis book takes the reader around the world on a journey to discover the queer stories behind the characters of folklore, from werewolves and faeries to demons and aliens.Author: Sacha CowardPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 11/18/2025Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.88dISBN:...
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary JudgmentA landmark of twentieth-century criticism that provided new standards and new techniques for examining literature. "Richards is a master of the psychology of criticism" (Saturday Review). Index.Author: Ivor a. RichardsPublisher: Houghton MifflinPublished: 02/01/1956Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.76h x 6.04w x 0.99dISBN: 9780156736268
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Pericles: Prince of TyreThe 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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On the Nature of the UniverseThis is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially helpful to those looking at the text from a scientific or philosophical point...
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Notes from the Underground and the GamblerOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and...
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Looking Backward 2000-1887Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient...
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Hamlet on the Holodeck, Updated Edition: The Future of Narrative in CyberspaceAn updated edition of the classic book on digital storytelling, with a new introduction and expansive chapter commentaries.I want to say to all the hacker-bards from every field--gamers, researchers, journalists, artists, programmers, scriptwriters, creators of authoring systems... please know that I wrote this book...
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Faust: Part 1Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will...
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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to BooksFrom the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books. Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate,...
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Dark StarParis, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret...
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Collected Poems of W. H. AudenBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin...
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A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 1)H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of weird fiction of their era. Dominating the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, they have gained worldwide followings for their compelling writings and also for the very different...
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A Black Story May Contain Sensitive ContentIn a q&a after a reading I gave at George Mason University in the spring of 2023, I paraphrased a conversation I had with my brother earlier that year. We were on the stoop of his home in Bed-Stuy, talking about technology, about AI...
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List"The ultimate literary bucket list." --The Washington Post "If there's a heaven just for readers, this is it." --O, The Oprah Magazine Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising,...
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Seldom Disappointed: A MemoirIn this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of...
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