Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Leaves of Grass"I am large, I contain multitudes" A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the...
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Collected Maxims and Other ReflectionsDeceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published...
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Ambivalence: An EducationA coming-of-age memoir set in late-twentieth-century Dublin, recounting writer and critic Brian Dillon's first encounters with pivotal writers in his life--Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, and others--and in the process arguing for the transformative power of art, literature, and learning. When Brian Dillon...
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Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and WiseA celebration, in a pocket-sized format, of the joys and vital importance of children's literature for adult readers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Impossible Creatures. Katherine Rundell, one of the most accomplished modern children's writers, offers an extended essay about...
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The Book of MemoryMary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material...
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The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on TrialA riveting, brilliant account of a court case in which a woman accused her best friend of impersonating a man during sex, and won--a study of desire, performance, truth, and the stories we tell about ourselves in public, online, in love, and in law....
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The Cambridge Introduction to NarrativeWhat is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised...
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Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms (Revised)The classic reference work--an invaluable sourcebook for poets and readersAuthor: Babette DeutschPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 01/20/1982Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.34w x 0.54dISBN: 9780064635486Review Citation(s): ALA Ref Srces for Small/Med Li 01/01/2000 pg. 266
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King Lear: The New Oxford Shakespeare'As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods: They kill us for their sport.' Set in the recesses of British antiquity, King Lear broods on gift-giving, gratitude, service and love; the bonds that sustain human life within families, communities and the state....
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Jean Toomer: Writer for a New AmericaA critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was among the most influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance, inspiring generations of Black writers with his...
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Homecoming: New and Collected PoemsHomecoming is Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic. Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. Long before her award winning...
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El Viejo y El MarUna lucha épica entre el hombre y la naturaleza.Después de ochenta y cuatro días sin pescar nada, un viejo pescador cubano se adentra solo en el Golfo para enfrentarse a la captura más grande y desafiante de su vida: un enorme marlín que pondrá...
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Cassandra: A Novel and Four EssaysIn this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels...
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The School for Scandal and Other Plays: The Rivals/The Duenna/A Trip to Scarborough/The School for Scandal/The CriticRichly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of all English comedy. This edition includes his most famous plays, The Rivals, The School for Scandal, and The Critic, as well as two lesser known musical...
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The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about JesusThe world's foremost Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan shows us how the parables present throughout the New Testament not only reveal what Jesus wanted to teach but also provide the key for explaining how the Gospels' writers sought to explain the Prophet of Nazareth...
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The Odyssey: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are...
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The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet EarthOFFERING INSIGHTS INTO ALL 40 DISCWORLD NOVELS Find out - Why cheeses roll down hills - The hazards of treacle mining - What's so uncanny about the humble hare -The origins of orcs (which are not the same as goblins!) - Why witches come...
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The Art of Fairy TalesStep into a world where imagination knows no bounds with The Art of Fairy Tales by Joanna Ebenstein. This lavishly illustrated gift book invites readers on a mesmerizing journey through the enchanted realm of fairy tales as interpreted by master artists across centuries. From...
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Refusing Heaven: PoemsMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert's The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness,...
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Othello: Revised EditionThis second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times. Othello...
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