Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic LiteratureAnyone Can Read the Great Books . . . with a Little Help "An illuminating, learned, well-written, and entertaining survey of the giants of world literature. Busy people, and especially the young, will be grateful for this useful and concise introduction." --Paul Johnson Not...
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I Am Myself: A Woman Growing Up with Tourette SyndromeIn I Am Myself, Thersea Borrelli recounts her journey from a diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome in childhood, to a state of acceptance. At first, Theresa developed an attitude that was defensive, and critical of the doctors who treated her. Slowly, as a young adult,...
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Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate ChangeLiterary Nonfiction. California Interest. Contributors include: Stephen Collis, CAConrad, Matthew Cooperman & Aby Kaupang, Adam Dickinson, Suzi F. Garcia, Brenda Hillman, Brenda Iijima, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Lucas de Lima, Eric Magrane, Joyelle McSweeney, Julie Patton, Craig Santos Perez, Evelyn Reilly, Linda Russo, Metta...
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The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987In these pages, the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging, and brilliant essays gathered together for the first time. The essays explore myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday...
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The Comics Journal Library Vol. 10: The EC Artists Part 2No comics publisher has had a greater impact -- or generated more controversy -- than the immensely influential EC Comics. The second and concluding volume of conversations with the creators behind the EC war/horror/science fiction/suspense line brings The Comics Journal's definitive interviews together with...
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The Sweet and the Bitter: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's the Lord of the RingsIn 1956, J. R. R. Tolkien famously stated that the real theme of The Lord of the Rings was Death and Immortality. The deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of Tolkien's masterpiece have a great deal to teach us. From the...
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Reading Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea: Glossary and CommentaryThe Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish--a Monday morning...
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The System of ComicsThe System of Comics by Thierry Groensteen translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen. This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium's foremost scholars. In this book, originally published...
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Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of ThinkingThe Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to...
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Mark Twain's Civil War: The Private History of a Campaign That FailedFrom the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twain's controversial Civil War story "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Twenty years after Appomattox, Twain published a highly fictionalized account of his two-week stint in the Confederate Army. Ostensibly this...
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Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible BlundersJane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for literary comment, Jane loved everything about...
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Reading BackwardsAuthor: John CrowleyPublisher: Subterranean PressPublished: 11/30/2019Pages: 464Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.80dISBN: 9781596069466Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/14/2019
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The Jewish Odyssey of George EliotIt is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew - a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally...
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BastiAn NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain's extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim...
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Asleep in the SunLucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She's been staying out till all hours of the...
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The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change, Second Revised EditionAuthor: Bezalel PortenPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 10/12/2011Pages: 656Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.20lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 1.32dISBN: 9781589836280This title is not returnable
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The Ahhiyawa TextsAuthor: Eric H. Cline, Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. BrycePublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 12/12/2011Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9781589832688Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 171This title is not returnable
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live inPolitical theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as "a centrally important 20th-century figure." Through such landmark works as The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary,...
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Desert Islands: And Other Texts, 1953-1974A fascinating anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian, Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles...
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A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of RochesterOf the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses...
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