Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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U and I: A True StoryBaker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size--fellow novelist and omnipresent influence John Updike. "Willfully outrageous and often very funny".--The New York Times.Author:...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New TranslationMore than a century after its composition, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus--Wittgenstein's first masterwork, and the only book he published during his lifetime--endures as the definitive modern text on what logic can and cannot do. Since its first English-language publication in 1922, this profoundly enigmatic work has...
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and WritingRichard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called "one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living," was that rare phenomenon--a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping...
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The Poetry BookAn accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them. The...
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The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other EndingsOne of Esquire's best books of spring 2022An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). How and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What...
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The Heroine with 1001 FacesThe Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and...
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The Golden Age of MurderThe new and updated 10 year anniversary edition Winner of the Edgar, Agatha, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating crime-writing awards, this definitive account of the secretive Detection Club and its trail-blazing founders told for the first time the extraordinary story of British detective fiction between...
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays"One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century."--Washington Post Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present--and...
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The GateAn NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children...
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The Double Flame: Love and EroticismIn this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. "Brimming...
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The Deorhord: An Old English BestiaryAn entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained...
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The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in CommunityC. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, the creators of Narnia and Middle-earth, were close friends, colleagues, and members of the Inklings, a writers group that met in Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, sharing and discussing their works-in-progress. This important study challenges...
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The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of SongWith intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate...
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Ten Days in a Mad-HouseAuthor: Nellie BlyPublisher: Sanage Publishing House LlpPublished: 12/31/2023Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35dISBN: 9788119623822This title is not returnable
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John DonneWinner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of 2022 A New York Times Notable Book of the YearNamed a Best...
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Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's WorldJ. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The...
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Smilla's Sense of SnowNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime, an Inuit expat must confront a buried secret back home to bring a murderer to justice in this "finger-biting Danish suspense novel" (Chicago Tribune) from the internationally renowned author of The Woman...
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Simple & DirectA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written...
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Shakespeare: The World as StageBill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship--updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in...
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Selected Poems: Dual-Language EditionA selection of poems from one of the nineteenth century's greatest French writers For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day...
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