Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by WomenDiscover the Scream Queens of Must-Read Horror Bram Stoker Awards(R) winning author Sadie "Mother Horror" Hartmann has curated the ultimate collection of recommendations from the leading ladies of horror! From classic authors such as Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, and Daphne du Maurier to the...
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Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain EnglishRead Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts...
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Walt Whitman's New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper RamblesWalt Whitman's short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated poems from Leaves of Grass showing its influence. Walt Whitman's New Orleans is the first book dedicated to republishing his...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Deluxe Hardbound EditionIn light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing his entire estate. Despite his and his wife's compassionate treatment of their slaves, Shelby is compelled to sell two of them to Mr. Haley, a...
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The Works of Anne BradstreetAnne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long been the standard edition of Bradstreet's work. Hensley's introduction sketches the poet's...
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The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' EyesThe revered teacher and bestselling author reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings.More than fifty years after his death, revered intellectual and teacher C. S. Lewis...
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Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal ArtsWhat Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare was a keen and discerning reader who was mocked by writers who, unlike him, had been to university--so it's not surprising that his portrait of scholarly life...
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Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior QueenShe is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear's daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or female, whose entire life--from youth to old age--appears on stage. She is a wealth of insight into Shakespeare's understanding...
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Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of ItWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored...
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Early American WritingDrawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature--including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years,...
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The Mirror, the Mask, and the Masterpiece: A Guide to C. S. Lewis's "Till We Have Faces"Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis has been described as the most controversial of Lewis's fiction--despised by some and celebrated by others. Yet Lewis himself regarded the novel as "far and away the best [book] I have written." What are we to...
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Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989Author: Audre Lorde,Mecca Jamilah SullivanPublisher: Sinister WisdomPublished: 02/01/2018Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9781938334290About the AuthorAudre Lorde (1934-1992) was the author of ten volumes of poetry and five works of prose, including Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New, The Black...
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Please Look After This Bear: How Paddington Became BritishAn exploration of Paddingon the Bear as an international cultural phenomenonIn 1958, a little marmalade-loving brown bear from Peru named Paddington was introduced to the post-war British public. Inspired by his creator Michael Bond's memories of displaced Jewish children in the United Kingdom during...
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Night SoldiersBulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim...
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CantaresPoems and micro-essays intertwine in this poetically attuned adaptation of the mid-sixteenth century Nahuatl-language Cantares MexicanosCantares is a multipart engagement with the poetics and history of the colonial and Indigenous Americas, oscillating between poetry and essay in a structure of repetitions derived from Mesoamerican...
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Black Narratives of Slavery: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--enslaved and not-enslaved--have experienced and imagined slavery. It also investigates how slavery's long reach and afterlife...
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Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men: Reclaiming the Stories of Mythology's Most Iconic Women, Goddesses, and Female MonstersMeet the goddesses, warriors, witches, and monsters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning in this this bold, empowering illustrated collection perfect for fans of New York Times bestseller Circe. Was Circe really just a temptress? Were the Amazons nothing more than...
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Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation"These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation."--Jhumpa LahiriA manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena breaks stale rules about who can and should translate, envisioning a future more reflective of the beautiful polyphony of...
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The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written: The Wisdom of the Lord of the Rings and the Brothers KaramazovThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky are both widely regarded as two of the greatest novels ever written. The former, originally published in English between 1954 and 1955, is an epic fantasy set in an...
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The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research into Its Early HistoryDespite Muhammad's exalted place in Islam, even today there is still surpisingly little actually known about this shadowy figure and the origins of the Qur'an because of an astounding lack of verifiable biographical material. Furthermore, most of the existing biographical traditions that can be...
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