Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Talking Classics: The Shock of the OldThe incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she's talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why--for better or (sometimes) worse--antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative...
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Outlander and Scotland: Touchstones and SignpostsWhat is the 'Outlander Effect'?How does Outlander shape understanding of clan identity and Jacobite allegiance?How does the series balance modern feminist perspectives with historical realities?How does Diana Gabaldon answer ten key questions about her work?Inspired by Scotland's tumultuous history of 'treachery, betrayal and murder',...
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Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for UsIn praise of spiders in all their inspirational glory Spiders are often found lurking in dusty corners, where we can observe them with interest or brush them away with disgust--or make a run for it, as the agitated Miss Muffet does. They are just...
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What the Mirror Said: The Necessity of Black Women in PoetryWhen did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old--reciting "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem, showed her there was a place for her in...
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Stephen Colbert's Midnight ConfessionsBased on the popular recurring sketch, Stephen Colbert "confesses" to all the shameful things we all think or do in secret...and have no intention of stopping anytime soon. This paperback will be published in time for The Late Show's upcoming May 2026 cancellation. Forgive...
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Once Upon a Time There Was Truth: Or, Why We Need Fairy TalesEssays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy talesFairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the conflicts in our hearts are literalized in the world around...
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Nothing at AllAn atmospheric rumination on gendered violence, cosmic collapse, and colonialism. From deep inside a black hole, comes Nothing at All--the space where everything collapses: form, genre, gender, and being. Olivia Tapiero's poetic and essayistic fragments overflow with lyric beauty as they explore how colonialism,...
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Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley's LoverA vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last centuryD. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its...
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Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century LiteratureA lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated-specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa...
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AntigoneA stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Antigone taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the Greek tragedies. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's Complete Greek Tragedies series, this stand-alone edition of Elizabeth Wyckoff's elegant rendition of Antigone reminds readers why...
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Always Under Siege: Olga Freidenberg's Diary-Theory and the Everyday Terror of StalinismAlways Under Siege presents a remarkable and harrowing account of life in dark times that describes and embodies strategies of physical and moral survival. Irina Paperno brings to light the autobiographical chronicle (her "notes") of Olga Freidenberg (1890-1955), a pioneering Russian philologist and cultural...
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Turn Where: A Geography of HomeA probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study "In Chet'la Sebree's sensitive and tender hands, this book's quest (and question) of home is captivating. An intimate rendering of...
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The Souls of Black Folk"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in...
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Theory of LiteratureBringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What...
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The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold BloomA selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an...
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Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler"He has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life." Orwell read Hitler--and believed him. In this blistering review from 1940, he lays out what most of polite society refused to face: that Hitler's appeal wasn't madness, but meaning. Not policy, but myth....
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Poetry for DummiesExplore the mystique, power, and beauty of poetry with this easy-to-read guide Poetry For Dummies, 2nd Edition is an easy-to-follow and insightful guide to poetry designed to unlock your innate ability to understand and appreciate this powerful art form. The authors offer clear discussions...
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Pleasures of Reading in an Age of DistractionIn recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers,...
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My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy"An engaging, introspective view of poet Langston Hughes and curates a compelling narrative of Hughes as an activist, advocate, and champion of justice through his poetry." --Library Journal "By resisting a sanitized version of Hughes, My America presents him as a radical thinker who,...
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How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy PanelsEverything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden's groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks...
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