Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 4: Volume 4Her training complete, the Alicia who emerges is more confident and cunning than the girl who locked herself in that cottage years ago. But despite having pushed her magic to level 90, she's still barely keeping up with Liz and whatever OP heroine buff...
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I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 3 (Novel): Volume 3A journey to lands unknown! Hooray! I, Alicia Williams, am finally being exiled! After Prince Duke loses his memories, he puts me on trial as the prime suspect in the crime of tampering with his mind. My punishment? Exile to the nation of Laval....
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Great Short Stories of the MastersForty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and 20th century Western European giants such as Proust, Sartre,...
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Charlotte Brontë's Life Through ClothesMeet the real, thinking, feeling woman that was Charlotte Brontë, as told in this biography by the surviving witnesses to her life - the clothes that she once wore. These garments were present as she penned Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets...
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Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary EndingsBreaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those that reverse expectation, embody paradox, or enact their logic in their formal...
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Appendix NAPPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It...
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Reading with Jane AustenJane Austen has more readers today than at any time in history. Many of Austen's legions of fans, however, came to her novels after first seeing films or other adaptations made for twenty-first-century audiences. Austen herself conversely spent her literary career undermining romantic clichés...
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Optimistic AbsurdismIn a world that often feels chaotic and devoid of inherent meaning, Optimistic Absurdism emerges as a beacon of hope and introspection. With a blend of philosophical inquiry and prose, this thought-provoking work invites readers to explore the richness of life's absurdity while uncovering...
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Why Orwell MattersFrom the bestselling author and iconoclast Christopher Hitchens, a bracing reappraisal of George Orwell's life and thought "Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century."--The Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the...
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Thinking Through ShakespeareHow Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions--about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong--explains his lasting power, popularity and relevance In the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he "is above all writers, at least above all modern...
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The Horror Theory ReaderA comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes--fear, dread, and disgust--are ones we typically seek to avoid, so what is the appeal of narratives and artistic representations that seek to scare,...
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The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol. 4 Hardcover EditionAs the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy's bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing...
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Reflections on the Human ConditionEric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Reflections on the Human Condition is a...
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Nine Gates"With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious--one random passage in her last piece, on 'writing and...
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern ScienceA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests,...
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A Woman of PropertyA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A new book from a poet whose work is "wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive" (Jorie Graham) Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the poems that comprise A Woman of Property draw formal and imaginative...
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The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White FolkA collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist A Penguin Vitae Edition When The Souls of Black Folk was...
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The Seed Of YggdrasillThe most comprehensive guide to Norse literature, historical folk lore and more. Kvilhaug peels back the layers of the Eddas, Poems and Sagas to reveal hidden truths within Maria's background in research and archaeology is visible throughout with full illustrations, timelines and beautiful translations...
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The American Transcendentalists: Essential WritingsTranscendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world,...
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Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas about WomenThe belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to "traditional" values is a dangerous myth that has long prospered in American politics, providing justification for increasing control over women's bodies and lives. How did such damaging ideas arise? In Reproductive Wrongs, acclaimed...
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