Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and LiteratureA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning." --Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review "An absolute joy to read!" --Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration...
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How to Read Now: Essays"How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories." "A book that doesn't seek...
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A Walker in the CityKazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to "americanca"-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Drawings...
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American Daughter Gone to WarFrom Simon & Schuster, American Daughter Gone to War is Winnie Smith's story of being a 21-year-old student nurse joining the Army "to see the world" and was sent to Vietnam. American Daughter Gone to War is the extraordinary story of how she was...
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Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative WritersA practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own. Do you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It's not a subject that's generally...
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William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic RevolutionBefore the era of fake news and anti-fascists, William S. Burroughs wrote about preparing for revolution and confronting institutionalized power. In this work, Burroughs' parody becomes a set of rationales and instructions for destabilizing the state and overthrowing an oppressive and corrupt government. As...
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Why Read the Classics?"All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics." --from Why Read the Classics? Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal:...
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White Butterfly: An Easy Rawlins NovelFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed "one of America's best mystery writers" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell--he'd rather have his old...
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War and PeaceTolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history...
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Travels in HyperReality"A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our times." --Los Angeles TimesWith the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco entertains and intrigues once again,...
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of PoetryA classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.Author: Cleanth BrooksPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 02/23/1956Pages: 324Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.07h x 5.35w x 0.74dISBN: 9780156957052About...
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and CareWINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne...
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The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new worldThat has such people in't!' Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was...
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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American CultureFinalist, 2025 Frances Fuller Victor Award in General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards Honorable Mention, 2024 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's...
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The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the RingsTo learn more about J.R.R. Tolkien visit Wh ile nothing can equal or replace the adventure in reading Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, Peter Kreeft says that the journey into its underlying philosophy can be another exhilarating adventure. Thus, Kreeft takes the...
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The Epic of GilgameshSince the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. It recounts the deeds of a hero-king...
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The Crusades: A Reader, Third EditionSince its first appearance in 2004, The Crusades: A Reader has been the go-to sourcebook in the field. S.J. Allen and Emilie Amt cover the entire crusading movement, from its origins to its modern afterlife, using key primary source documents.The third edition features a...
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the PresentFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the...
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Roughing ItThe celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."* In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a...
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Permission to Be Seen"Permission to Be Seen" by Aurora Jade is a deeply personal debut poetry collection that deals with the universal struggle to feel seen and understood. Divided into four chapters-roots, thorns, storm, and bloom-the book traces the journey from growing unseen in a broken home,...
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