Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade HistoryWinner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians Winner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Winner, 2025 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Library History Round Table of The American Library Association Honorable Mention, 2025 Lawrence W. Levine...
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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending. August...
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Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe EditionThe most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf. The history of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth is filled with an ongoing struggle between...
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Reading Dante: From Here to EternityThis is far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante's poetry--the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval...
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Reacher: The Stories Behind the StoriesAuthor: Lee ChildPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 1Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.30dISBN: 9781420527865
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Queer Cambridge: An Alternative HistoryQueer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources - including personal diaries and letters - the author reveals a network that was...
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Pygmalion: A Romance in Five ActsExclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin ClassicShaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--"an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers"--for...
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book HistoryA funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY's hit series Pawn Stars.Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been...
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Pocket Book of Dragons: Myth, Magic & MeaningCelebrating the stories and symbolism of the king of mythical beasts, the Pocket Book of Dragons explores dragons throughout history and across the world. Overflowing with ancient and modern dragon tales from every corner of the globe and beautifully illustrated with a curated archive...
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Plums or Nuts: Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe HumorA master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty-five stories--often bawdy, full of mischief and misbehavior--in Ojibwe and English. Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teachings Amik strove to pass along to his students, he cherished most the humor of...
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Philip Roth: Stung by LifeA landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933-2018), one of America's most celebrated writers. Born in Newark, New Jersey--where his...
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On the Natural History of DestructionDuring World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died--a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given...
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Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print CultureWhat is the internet doing to poetry? Good question! In Nothingism, Jason Schneiderman grapples with the way that digital culture has begun to reshape America's poetry landscape, examining this profound shift in the way that poetry is written, read, and taught. He dives into...
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Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative CultureAuthor: Stephen DuncombePublisher: Microcosm PublishingPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80dISBN: 9781648415890About the AuthorStephen Duncombe is Professor of Media and Culture at New York University and author and editor of ten books and numerous articles on the intersection of culture...
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Modernism: A Literature in CrisisAn engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of growing alienation in an industrial world, and a desire to change how people live together in society. Art, architecture,...
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded EditionThe classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great...
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Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black WritersAuthor: Mary Helen WashingtonPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 12/01/1990Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.16w x 1.02dISBN: 9780385247832About the AuthorMary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was...
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A ReclamationSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination--the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne--a superfan and scholar--radically reimagines the last years of...
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Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave BarryNow in paperback from the Pulitzer Prize winner, the hilarious New York Times-bestselling exploration of what generations can teach one another--or not. During the course of his life, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom, and he is eager to pass it on. Among...
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Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars have long assumed...
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