Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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To Have or to Be?To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating...
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Titus AndronicusThe authoritative edition of Titus Andronicus from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare. Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of...
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The Writing Life"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." -- Chicago TribuneFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the...
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The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self"Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder."--Ada LimónIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith...
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The Making of Middle-Earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and the Lord of the RingsThis volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, films, games, and shows. This book, originally published...
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common ParadiseIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's...
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The Comedy of Errors: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain EnglishRead Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts...
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The Black Swan MysteryTHE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan--for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto! Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest alibi deconstruction mysteries ever written...
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Silent Catastrophes: EssaysFrom the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shaped his life and work. Silent Catastrophes brings together the...
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Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Graphic NovelsNOW IN COLOR! Read Romeo and Juliet in graphic-novel form--with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel--now with fully-colored illustrations--brings the tragic star-crossed lovers to life. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat and sure to appeal to today's...
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Reading GenesisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with...
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Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek MythsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!"--Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a...
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Nothing PersonalJames Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's...
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Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse MythologyDiscover the gods, goddesses, and heroes from Norse mythology with this beautiful handbook that captures the ancient stories that captivated the Vikings. Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles that share the real stories behind the...
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MasochismIn his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks...
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Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary EditionThis slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a...
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Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and CommentaryA fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and...
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Kaiju No. 8: Exclusive on the Third DivisionKaiju No. 8's Third Division takes center stage in this tell-all novel! Extra! Extra! Read all about the Third Division! After all, who wouldn't want to memorize every little tidbit about the talented folks saving Japan from the threat of monstrous kaiju? In this...
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Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's ComradeThe origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure "Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character."--Publishers Weekly Mark Twain's Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man,...
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Into the WeedsAn illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her uncomfortable. Maybe she would rather not know. Instead, Davis considers how she writes her stories,...
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