Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They SeeA new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime...
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Present Concerns: Journalistic EssaysA repackaged edition of the revered author's essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical.C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters,...
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Paradise Lost: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized for student readers. An illuminating introduction and abundant explanatory annotations by Gordon Teskey. Source...
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Our Sense of Gratitude: For Christopher RicksThis collection honors Christopher Ricks, the eminent textual editor and literary critic and one of the founders of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (ALSCW), an organization thirty-one years young. In the capacious spirit of the ALSCW, this festschrift is a core...
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One More Page: A Sticker Book for Book Lovers!Show off your love for books with this amazing collection of book-themed stickers, perfect for decorating your reading accessories like e-readers, journals, water bottles, phones, and more--with over 500 unique designs made just for book lovers and bibliophiles! Attention bibliomaniacs, book addicts, and literature...
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Motel ChroniclesMotel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures...
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Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989A comprehensive English-language history of a beloved medium, Manga's First Century tells the story of the artists and fans who built a cultural juggernaut. Manga is the world's most popular style of comics. How did manga and anime--"moving manga"--become ubiquitous? Manga's First Century delves...
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Leaves of Grass'I spring from the pages into your arms' Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Widely credited as the originator of free verse in English, Whitman put forward a...
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and IllustratorJ.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) renowned author of THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE SILMARILLION, was an artist in pictures as well as in words. Though he often remarked that he had no talent for drawing, his art has charmed his readers and...
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How to Read and WhyInformation is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students...
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Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & EpiphaniesAn inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that they never meant to say, the saying, in...
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Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's the Hobbit"An admirable and thought-provoking consideration of the underlying themes of The Hobbit, following the there-and-back-again progress from its famous first line on through to Bilbo's return home at the story's end." -- Douglas A. Anderson, author of The Annotated Hobbit The Hobbit is one...
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Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack SpicerCollected correspondence showcases the dazzling intelligence of an iconic American writerThe more than 300 letters collected in Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared are a crucial component of Jack Spicer's unique oeuvre, and they radiate with the brilliance, ferocity, and vulnerability that characterizes his...
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Dead and Alive: Essays"Smart, somber...There's pleasure in watching a novelist wired to see all sides at once wrangle with her own dynamic subjectivity." - The New York Times Book Review A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays In this...
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022In this brilliant selection of essays--including three new pieces--the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia to the importance...
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Baldwin, Styron, and MeLonglisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - Finalist for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation - Finalist for the 2025 John Glassco Translation PrizeAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public...
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Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black SouthBuilt on the grounds of a former cotton plantation, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, offered agricultural and industrial education as a strategy for Black self-determination. There--and in many other communities in the U.S. South, the Caribbean, and Central America--Black people repurposed...
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The Art of Subtext: Beyond PlotCharles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction. Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter's The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot...
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the ImaginationJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings....
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Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished - 2014 UpdateMajor Updates in this 2014 addendum to the 2012 Expanded Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished and these updates are only found in this trade paperback and the e-book version. There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic...
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