Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Spanish Literature: A Very Short IntroductionSpanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the "invention" of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is...
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic BookThis is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways...
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Historiae: Volume I: Books I-IVAuthor: ThucydidesPublisher: Clarendon PressPublished: 12/31/1942Pages: 350Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.02w x 0.93dISBN: 9780198145509This title is only available via back order
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Antharjanam: Memoirs of a Namboodiri WomanEnding the silence of centuries comes this startling murmur: the first full-length account of a Namboodiri woman's life describing a world long gone. Told without a trace of self-pity, Devaki Nilayamgode's work is a remarkable achievement in the domain of personal and social history....
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The Alice Behind WonderlandOn a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon...
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Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. SeussDr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have...
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Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime StoriesWhat are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it...
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Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, 2nd EditionFar more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to...
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PersiansThe Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is drawn directly from the playwright's own experiences at the battle of Salamis,...
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: ParadisoAn invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries,...
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: PurgatorioFirst published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 12/31/1961Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.50w x 1.15dISBN: 9780195004137This title is not returnable
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Collected Plays: Volume 1Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includes A Dance of the Forests, The Swamp...
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of LiteratureThe Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge...
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Alice Behind WonderlandOn a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon...
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Redeeming the KamasutraThe Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in...
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Revolutionary PetuniasThese poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while...
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the MorningVivid poems of "breakdown and spiritual disarray." Writing these, Walker says, "led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world." What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of...
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Virginia Woolf: An Inner LifeVirginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts...
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Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's JourneyIn Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo-a laboratory mouse and a man-who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and...
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great GatsbyKirkus (STARRED review)Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she's earned the right to play on Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page."The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years...
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