Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One...
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On Resistance: A ManifestoFrom the writer Elle calls the "most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" comes a hands-on, don't-lose-hope study of how writers, painters, musicians, and other cultural figures respond to fascism ... From a veteran writer and activist comes a concise yet potent guide...
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No Archive Will Restore YouAt once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, NO ARCHIVE WILL RESTORE YOU is a feverish meditation on the body. Departing from Antonio Gramsci's summons to compile an inventory of the historical traces left in each of us, Singh engages with both the impossibility...
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Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient LiteratureLeithart analyzes the grand classics of ancient literature-The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and others-commenting on each and contrasting their pagan worldview to the biblical worldview. If you fall asleep in your English classes, this book is like drinking ten cups of coffee. Maybe...
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A Room of One's OwnReprint of the 1929 First Edition. This is the third volume in a new series of student-focused reprints of the world's most iconic books being rolled out by Martino Fine Books in 2026. This series presents classic and foundational texts in a clean, double-column...
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular AgeAn inspirational book that is "a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today and for the controversial advice it offers on how to live" (The New York Times)."What constitutes human excellence?" and "What is...
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TriageA groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of Citizen and Just UsClaudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory,...
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Titus Andronicus: Fourth SeriesThe bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare's plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism. Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood...
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The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and ReadingJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she turns her writer's eye to subjects ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to creativity, feminism, and the joy of imagination. In this collection of essays, talks, and performance pieces, one of our great literary icons shares profound...
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The Second Common Reader: The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated EditionHere, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield's letters and De Quincey's autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited...
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The Republic - ClassicsThe Republic by Plato is a timeless dialogue that examines the meaning of justice, the structure of the ideal state, and the nature of truth and knowledge. As Socrates leads the conversation, readers are drawn into profound discussions that remain astonishingly relevant even today....
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The Portable Medieval ReaderIn their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in...
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Selected Poems of Thomas HardyThomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This...
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Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade...
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Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our FaithHumans are story-shaped creatures.We make sense of our world, pattern our lives, and reflect on what is ultimately significant through language and the words that compose our stories. But how does this relate to the narrative of the Bible and the story that God...
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Nine Horses: PoemsIn Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America s Poet Laureate for 2001 2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection reach dazzling heights while being firmly grounded in the everyday. Traveling by...
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Moralia, Volume I: The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. on Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend.Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides. Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek...
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Latinx Literature: A Very Short IntroductionAuthor: Frederick Luis AldamaPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 08/03/2026Pages: 184Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 6.91h x 4.46w x 0.40dISBN: 9780197663769About the AuthorFrederick Luis Aldama is Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at University of Texas, Austin. He founded the Latinx Pop Lab and...
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Julius CaesarTyranny, imperialism and political authority define Shakespeare's enduring dramatic depiction of ruling power and regime change in ancient Rome. A touchpoint for characterising tyrannical leaders throughout the world, Julius Caesar has told a cautionary tale of the uneasy relationship between political leaders and citizens...
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Guide to the LakesWilliam Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, such as how the growing number of visitors, and the money they might...
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