Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." --The Atlantic One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is narrative. He published his famed debut...
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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the WorldAn entrancing collection of myths and legends of the seaThe 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...
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Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We AreAn expert on presidential history and national identity explores the complicated and conflicted ways Americans remember Thomas Jefferson and what these impressions reveal about the nation he helped to found.Thomas Jefferson is everywhere. In Washington, DC, and on Mount Rushmore. In history textbooks and...
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York MagazineThe magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments...
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My World-And Welcome to ItThe world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriage-all fall within Thurber's scope. Drawings by the Author.Author: James ThurberPublisher: Harper...
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MemoryA poet's spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer. A spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer's monumental artwork of the same title, Dorothea Lasky's Memory is a cycle of "poet's essays" stirred by two profound questions. What constitutes personhood and...
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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction - Second EditionAnne Stevens's accessible introduction to literary theory has been updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Author: Anne H. StevensPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 09/16/2021Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9781554815371About the AuthorAnne H. Stevens is Professor of English and...
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Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other NonsenseThe winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusting) explains his process for writing comedy without going insane. Philosophers may debate the meaning of comedy (thankfully keeping them too busy to fall into a life...
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Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!Looking to step up your Japanese before that big trip next year? Are you getting prepared for an interview with a recruiter in Tokyo? Maybe you're tired of reading the subtitles on the latest anime! This is the book for you. No language is...
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Jane Austen: A LifeWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and...
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How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek LiteratureHow the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one--aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was...
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Henry David Thoreau's Kalendar: Charts and Observations of Natural PhenomenaAn immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau's final project--a monthly almanac of natural phenomena.In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new. Part blueprint for a major new work, part scientific chart, and part re-envisioning of the way...
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Euthydemus. GorgiasSocrates against sophistry. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family circa 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates,...
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Daredevil: Born AgainExplore the Stories Behind the Legends What happens when a hero loses everything? In Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil: Born Again, the comic's titular hero has his life destroyed after his most menacing enemy learns his real identity. His attempts to rebuild his...
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BeowulfThe greatest surviving Old English poem rendered into modern prose Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the...
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Beautiful and Ugly TooBeautiful and Ugly Too is a firsthand account of life in the Crescent City told through poetry and essays. A third-generation New Orleanian, author Chuck Perkins was born and raised in the Pigeon Town neighborhood. This, his first collection of poetry, aims to provide...
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black PerformanceNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A sweeping, genre-bending "masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity--from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé ONE OF THE...
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VideotapeObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then...
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and EuripidesChicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume. Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore's collections of the complete Greek tragedies, expertly updated by Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most, this...
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The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro: Bilingual EditionHere, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend,...
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