Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the PersiansAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness...
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On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy"Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic."--Robert Lowell Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate--now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author For Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual,...
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Melville: His World and WorkIf Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian's perspective and a critic's insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded -- in his books,...
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Mandarin Chinese Characters Made Easy: An Easy Step-by-Step Approach to Learn Chinese Characters (HSK Level 1)Looking to write Chinese characters like a native?Your journey starts today! With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy and their business influence spreading across the world in every possible way, both the Chinese culture and language have been attracting unprecedented numbers of learners...
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King LearAn 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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Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war' Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the historical framework of...
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Henry IV Part I: The New Oxford Shakespeare'What is honour? A word. What is in that word 'honour'? What is that 'honour'? Air.' A history play that combines a coming-of-age narrative with a tale of power, rebellion, friendship, and betrayal, Henry IV, Part I has been a perennial favourite from Shakespeare's...
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short IntroductionbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Elizabeth Bishop has been described as the 'best-loved' poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the 90 or so published poems that are at the core of her...
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient LiteratureIn this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson--whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination--explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and teaching, Wilson explores the...
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Cicero's Tongue: The Life of Rome's Greatest Orator and the End of the RepublicA new biography of Cicero, one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history.When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off, and his tongue pierced with pins - a final, brutal act of revenge against...
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Walter Benjamin: A Very Short IntroductionAuthor: Eli ZaretskyPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 06/01/2026Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 6.72h x 4.42w x 0.37dISBN: 9780197670033About the AuthorEli Zaretsky is Professor Emeritus at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Political Freud (2015), Why America Needs a Left (2012),...
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Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded EditionDon Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of Ulysses. The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of...
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Thinking from Black: A LexiconAn expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributors--the Practicing Refusal Collective--are visual artists, poets, dancers, historians, writers, architects, painters,...
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The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young AdultsThe best children's and young adult novels take readers on wonderful outward adventures and stirring inward journeys. In The Magic Words, editor Cheryl B. Klein guides writers on an enjoyable and practical-minded voyage of their own, from developing a saleable premise for a novel...
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The Illustrated Compendium of HorrorWITH A GLOW IN THE DARK COVER The world of horror comes to life with this gorgeously illustrated and whimsical journey through the genre--exploring the folklore, monsters, and tropes that have fueled our fears for centuries. Horror is where the macabre meets the profound,...
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a WarA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR "An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion." --Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the...
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The Afro-Hispanic Reader and AnthologyThe growing prominence of afrocentricity has contributed to the increase in black Hispanic literature and the emergence of Afro-Hispanism as a legitimate genre of historical and sociocultural study. From Nicolás Guillén to Manuel Zapata Olivella and Nancy Morejón, Spanish-speaking black writers have been steadily...
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Steinbeck's Landscapes: Where Story Meets PlaceFrom one of the foremost scholars on the subject, comes our most in-depth look at John Steinbeck as a writer deeply connected to the natural world. Among the many reasons that John Steinbeck has reached the highest tier of the American literary canon is...
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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take SidesAward-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice--in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides. Songs My Mother Taught Me is Williams' clear-eyed exploration of the role of the artist in these times by...
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Making of a SonnetThis illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus on vicissitudes, paying particular attention to how individual poets from Shakespeare to Strand have claimed...
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