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  • Modernist Hellenism by Stergiopoulou, Katerina
    Modernist Hellenism
    Modernist Hellenism argues that engagement with Greek was central to the evolution of modernist poetics throughout the first half of the twentieth century. It shows that Eliot, Pound, and H.D. all turn to Greek literature, and increasingly Greek tragedy, as they attempt to grapple...
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  • Lorca's Experimental Theater: Breaking the Guardrails of Convention by Anderson, Andrew A.
    Lorca's Experimental Theater: Breaking the Guardrails of Convention
    Critical and historical discussions of the life and work of Federico Garc?a Lorca, Spain's foremost poet and playwright of the twentieth century, often obscure the author's more avant-garde dramatic works. In Lorca's Experimental Theater, Andrew A. Anderson focuses on four of Lorca's most challenging...
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  • Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan by Heller, Natasha
    Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
    In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an emergent family Buddhism in Taiwan that fashions children as religious subjects through shared attention...
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  • Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination: Ming Fantasies about Conquest Dynasty Harems by Milburn, Olivia
    Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination: Ming Fantasies about Conquest Dynasty Harems
    Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination is a study and translation of two classic Chinese texts about the lives of Khitan and Mongol empresses and imperial consorts, never...
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  • Keith Roberts's Pavane: A Critical Companion by Kincaid, Paul
    Keith Roberts's Pavane: A Critical Companion
    This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature. In addition to a focused exploration of the individual stories and themes that make up Pavane,...
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  • J. G. Ballard's Crash by March-Russell, Paul
    J. G. Ballard's Crash
    J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) remains a byword for transgression in literature: declared 'too disgusting for words' upon publication. The basis for David Cronenberg's equally provocative film, Crash has been regarded variously as the apotheosis of New Wave science fiction, the ur-source for postmodernism, a...
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  • Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective by Vellucci, Sabrina
    Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective
    This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. It fills a gap in the theoretical discourse on Italian American culture, whose concerns about environmental justice have been mostly overlooked. From mid-twentieth-century poets such as John Ciardi...
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  • Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography by Hones, Sheila
    Interspatiality: Inhabiting Literary Geography
    A consideration of literary geography as a specialist academic field. Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory, and practice of a literary geography which takes as its subject matter the inseparability of writing, reading, and living. It explores ways of engaging with interrelated...
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  • Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by Coetzee, J. M.
    Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee is...
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  • Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to Mimesis by Lawtoo, Nidesh
    Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to Mimesis
    Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the cognitive and the posthuman turns, it is now time to re-turn to the ancient,...
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  • Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin by Jones, Polly
    Gulag Fiction: Labour Camp Literature from Stalin to Putin
    This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system since the Stalin era compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus. The Soviet labour camp system, or Gulag, was a highly complex network of different types of penal...
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  • Fin-De-Si?cle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other Is the Universal by Chu, Jinyi
    Fin-De-Si?cle Russia and Chinese Aesthetics: The Other Is the Universal
    Author: Jinyi ChuPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 12/26/2024Pages: 192Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.55h x 6.43w x 0.89dISBN: 9780198920397About the AuthorJinyi Chu, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University Jinyi Chu is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He holds...
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  • Film and Literature: A Comparative Approach to Adaptation by Aycock, Wendell
    Film and Literature: A Comparative Approach to Adaptation
    Classic films can and do derive from classic literature, but the predication and process by which they arrive stirs debate among veteran filmmakers and scholars alike. How these films endure despite their tailoring for specific stars, audiences, and contemporary social or political messages seems...
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  • Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy: Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime by Publicover, Laurence
    Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy: Horror, Mystery, and the Oceanic Sublime
    This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the maritime art of fathoming--that is, dropping a lead and line into water to measure...
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  • Emotions and Contingencies in Conrad's Fiction by Okuda, Yoko
    Emotions and Contingencies in Conrad's Fiction
    This book sets out to elucidate Conrad's unique insight into the workings of human emotions for a readership of scholars and graduate students engaged in Conrad studies. It argues that the originality of Conrad's conception of human emotions lies in his comprehensive grasp of...
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  • Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe by Brickhouse, Anna
    Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe
    Author: Anna BrickhousePublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 01/10/2025Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.35w x 0.97dISBN: 9780198914143About the AuthorAnna Brickhouse, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English and American Studies, University of Virginia Anna Brickhouse is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English and American Studies...
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  • Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style by Guzm?n, Joshua Javier
    Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style
    How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height...
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  • Difficult Lives Hitching Rides by Sallis, James
    Difficult Lives Hitching Rides
    James Sallis's (Drive) seminal biographical essays on crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes restored to print and joined by a handpicked collection of essays, reviews, and introductory writings on noir fiction. At the time of its original publication by Gryphon...
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  • Desistencia y pol?mica en el Caribe. Imagen, cr?tica, pol?tica by Quintero Herencia, Juan Carlos
    Desistencia y pol?mica en el Caribe. Imagen, cr?tica, pol?tica
    Esta colecci?n de ensayos es una zambullida en la fantas?a playera de lo archipel?gico. La desistencia aqu? practicada es una toma de la palabra que no escamotea agotamientos ni cierres y que abandona la escena de sujetos y pol?ticas aurorales, disciplinantes por disciplinarias, moralizantes...
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  • Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William
    Cymbeline
    Read & Co. Classics presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's play, "Cymbeline", featuring a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare. Although one of Shakespeare's less-performed plays, murderous plots and mistaken identities make "Cymbeline" a compelling story of intrigue. Set in ancient...
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Literary criticism books are essential resources for anyone interested in analyzing and understanding literature on a deeper level. These books offer insights into various literary theories, critique methods, and analytical approaches that help readers and scholars interpret and evaluate literary works.

Literary criticism books delve into the analysis of literature, exploring how different aspects such as themes, characters, and narratives contribute to a text's meaning and impact. They provide valuable frameworks and perspectives that enhance the reader's ability to engage critically with literary texts.

Criticism literature includes works that assess and interpret the value and significance of various literary genres, styles, and authors. Books such as "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom and "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster are highly regarded for their comprehensive exploration of literary traditions and techniques.

Literary criticism theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding literature. These theories include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonialism, among others. Books like "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács offer foundational knowledge in these critical perspectives, providing readers with tools to analyze texts through various lenses.

For those seeking the best books to read on literary criticism, it’s helpful to explore both classic and contemporary texts. Works like "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" by Lois Tyson and "The Elements of Literary Style" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley offer practical advice and theoretical insights for readers and students.

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Q. What are literary criticism books used for?

A. Literary criticism books are used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. They offer various theoretical frameworks and methods to understand and critique literary works, helping readers and scholars explore themes, characters, and narrative techniques in depth.

Q. Can you recommend some foundational books on literary criticism theory?

A. Yes, some foundational books on literary criticism theory include "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton, which provides an overview of various critical approaches, and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács, which explores the evolution and form of the novel.

Q. What is criticism literature, and why is it important?

A. Criticism literature refers to works that analyze and assess the value and significance of literary texts. It is important because it helps readers and scholars gain a deeper understanding of literature, its context, and its impact, enhancing appreciation and critical engagement with texts.

Q. Where can I find the best literary criticism books?

A. You can find the best literary criticism books at online bookstores such as BooksDeli.com. These bookstores offer a wide selection of both classic and contemporary texts on literary criticism, making it easy to access essential readings and expand your knowledge.

Q. How do I choose the right literary criticism book for my needs?

A. To choose the right literary criticism book, consider your interests and the type of literature you are studying. Look for books that cover the specific theories or approaches you want to explore. Reviews, recommendations, and best-seller lists can also guide you in selecting books that are well-regarded and relevant to your needs.

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