Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal NarrativeA guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit...
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The Secret History of Wonder WomanNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Within the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. "Everything you might want in a page-turner...skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details,...
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature: Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary CollageThe fourth volume in the immensely popular Field Guide series, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature gives readers unprecedented insight into the techniques of 28 of today's most innovative creators of poetry comics, graphic narratives, and image-text hybrids. With original craft...
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The Olive TreeOn her 90th birthday, Big Yiayia unwraps a photo album that opens the door to a lifetime of memories...As Marie celebrates her beloved Big Yiayia's milestone birthday, she doesn't expect the most meaningful gift to be a book filled with photos and memories that...
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The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro," charting how...
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The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne TillmanCandid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is a must have for any fan. A breakthrough for the legendary underground icon, who speaks about her life as a writer and her work in a...
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The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of EromangaWhile manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium's international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of manga's erotic world a genre known internationally simply as...
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol"A superb new translation" (The New Yorker) of stories that allow readers to experience the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. When Nikolai Gogol left his Ukrainian village in 1828 to seek his fortune in St. Petersburg,...
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The Black Unicorn: PoemsRich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents have the timelessness of...
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The Art of Memoir"Karr is a national treasure--that rare genius who's also a brilliant teacher. This joyful celebration of memoir packs transcendent insights with trademark hilarity. Anyone yearning to write will be inspired, and anyone passionate to live an examined life will fall in love with language...
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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical VersePulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition."True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance," wrote Alexander Pope. "The dance," in...
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Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by HeartCelebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems--with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language During a public reading Robert Frost was once asked why...
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary ImaginationAn immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and promises to change the way we read American literature--from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and...
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Othello: The Moor of Venice: The Oxford Shakespeareothello: The Moor of VeniceAlong with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems evil, betraying...
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OmerosOmeros is the grand epic poem told in multiple chapters from Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott. With circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events--the tribal losses...
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Notes of a Native SonA deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin's most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity Part of the Beacon Classics series Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's timeless and moving essays on...
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Notes From Underground"The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction."--from the Introduction by Donald Fanger "I am a sick man . ....
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No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English Finalist for the 2025 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation - Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Translation "An unvarnished view of war and...
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A PlayNOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom--winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. The time is 1927. The...
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Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across the World of LiteratureA beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years From Homer's Odyssey, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes's Don Quixote to Melville's Moby-Dick, Kerouac's On the Road, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, some...
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