Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic"The book has a rambunctious humor that complements its polemical spirit . . . As Disney has evolved from an animation studio into a corporate behemoth--with theme parks, a cruise line, and content streaming around the world--How to Read Donald Duck and its charge...
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How to Be a Good Savage and Other PoemsThe latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse...
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How I Became a TreeAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written--grown--a radiant and wondrous book."--Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old...
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How Fiction Works: (Tenth Anniversary Edition) Updated and Expanded10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our...
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Giving an Account of Oneself: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the AuthorWhat does it mean to lead a moral life? In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice--one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject....
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For the Love of MoneyIn this New York Times bestseller, streetwise and boy-crazy teenager Tracy Ellison of Flyy Girl fame makes her grand return--now on the brink of superstardom as a screenwriter and actress--in a captivating novel exploring love, friendship, and the price of fame. At twenty-eight, Tracy...
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Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works (Loa #39): Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must ConvergeIn her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the...
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and ThoughtSince first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, "The condition it describes is our...
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Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal: Latin text, notes, maps, illustrations and vocabularyTrebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by...
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby"Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she's earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page."--Kirkus (STARRED review)The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years...
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Book of Lies: (With Commentary by the Author)This edition of master magician Aleister Crowley's sly, witty, and instructive collection of paradoxes includes rarely published commentary by the author himself. Written by the famed English occultist Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies was first published in 1913. But later, around 1921, Crowley...
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Beauty and SadnessNOBEL PRIZE WINNER - The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before. "Endlessly provocative and original." --The New York...
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As You Like ItAn improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. The Rex Gibson active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways, sharing Shakespeare's love of...
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's MasterworkIn this edition of Campbell & Robinson's seminal decoding of Joyce's masterpiece, the authors analyse the novel page by page, stripping the layers of obscurity & offering interpretations through footnotes & bracketed commentary.Author: Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton RobinsonPublisher: New World LibraryPublished: 03/05/2013Pages: 402Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 3 Volume 5 (Light Novel): Volume 12Rozemyne needs only one more ingredient for her jureve: the ruelle fruit she failed to gather the year before. With it, she and Ferdinand can finally brew the potent potion that will make her a normal, healthy girl. Well, probably...She funnels her excitement into...
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Thoreau's GodMeditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine. Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the...
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The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to a Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and the Book of LifeFrom the author of The Black Bird Oracle comes a fully illustrated guide to the #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series--"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People). Look for the hit series "A Discovery of Witches," now streaming on...
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The Temptation to Exist"A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning"--The Washington Post This collection of eleven essays, when originally published in France, created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes...
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The Road to Middle-EarthThe Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey's classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's professional background led him to write The Hobbit and how he created a timeless charm for...
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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other AphorismsEric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Passionate State of Mind is a...
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