Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Trauma Plot: A LifeFrom a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival A VULTURE NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Piercing . . . . Trauma Plot...
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Residence On EarthIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual. Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication...
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I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern ConditionCombining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of "the Wandering Jew" The story behind the mythical figure of "the Wandering Jew" is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National...
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All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek MythsAncient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and genderfluid identity--but what can these ancient stories tell us about our contemporary world?Tales as old as antiquity--whether the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the genderfluid Tiresias, or the infamous Heracles--are still capturing our...
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What's in a Name?: How Historians Know Shakespeare Was ShakespeareA compelling tour of Shakespeare's England that makes a powerful contribution to the 'authorship question'. How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare? Could a glover's son who left school at fifteen really be the author behind such masterpieces as Hamlet, King Lear and The...
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtryBy his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West.Before Larry McMurtry became one of the most...
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Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston HughesA landmark book--the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writers In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than...
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Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and FantasyFrom two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing--and reading!--work. Jo Walton and Ada Palmer are two of the most innovative and insightful writers to emerge in the SF and fantasy genres in...
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My LifeAn editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)--a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books.Nearing his fortieth birthday, author...
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The Word: How We Translate the Bible--And Why It MattersFrom a distinguished Oxford scholar and the author of A History of the Bible, an examination of how biblical translation works and why it matters Throughout history, most Jewish and Christian believers have understood scripture not in the languages in which it was first...
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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter GreenOne of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures...
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The Child That Books Built: A Life in ReadingIn The Child That Books Built, this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school. Reading made him who he is. To understand the thrall of fiction, Spufford...
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The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her ArchbishopAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather's adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book. Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop her "best book." The Atlantic magazine concurred, including Archbishop...
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The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian ClassicsWhat do you do when you realize that the books you were taught to revere imbued you with false perspectives on humanity, society, and morals? This is the question editor and journalist Rebecca Bratten Weiss poses, as she revisits beloved but problematic Christian writers...
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SnowboundRiding five horses and leading five more, three young New York men, their guide, and a camp cook entered the untamed vastness of the Bitteroot Mountains. They expected the trip to be the adventure of a lifetime, but it was already September. As the...
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Light and ThreadFrom Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English--a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture. A LITERARY HUB AND ELECTRIC LIT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang...
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Lexicon Urthus, Second EditionLexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires...
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Lectures on Don QuixoteA fastidiously shaped series of lectures based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Spanish classic. Rejecting the common interpretation of Don Quixote as a warm satire, Nabokov perceives the work as a catalog of cruelty through which the gaunt knight passes. Edited and with...
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Kaleidoscopic Quill: An Inspiring Butterfly Anthology50% of proceeds will be donated to Foundation Fighting Blindness Kaleidoscopic Quill invites you to break out of your cocoon, spread your wings, and soar into stories and poems that center on one of the most extraordinary creatures to flutter in our azure sky:...
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InfernoHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.'Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on Good...
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