Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Style: The art of writing well*4th edition with a new foreword by Joseph Epstein (Harriman Classics)* Lost for almost forty years, Style has acquired the status of a legend. Loved by some of the greatest modern authors and acclaimed by critics, this guide to recognising and writing stylish prose...
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Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday LifeWINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZEResist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the source and summit of Christian cultural resistance is the Eucharist. In Commodified Communion, Antonio Eduardo Alonso calls into...
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North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's WorkThe true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.What if Shakespeare...
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Books to Die for: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery NovelsThe world's most beloved mystery writers celebrate their favorite mystery novels in this gorgeously wrought collection, featuring essays by Michael Connelly, Kathy Reichs, Ian Rankin, and more. In the most ambitious anthology of its kind, the world's leading mystery writers come together to champion...
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The Grand Inquisitor: A Graphic Novel Based on the Story from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's the Brothers KaramazovOne of the most famous passages in modern literature reimagined in a graphic novel adaptation. Two acclaimed Russian artists have collaborated to create an original graphic novel adaptation of the most famous chapters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov: "Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor."...
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Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the EditorA rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak...
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Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle (...Afterwords)Literary Nonfiction. In a series of warm and often funny letters, essayist and memoirist Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard. Adrian's book of letters begins as a witty and entertaining...
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Keywords for Children's Literature, Second EditionIntroduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children's literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of...
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La poética de Lorenzo de Zamora: Una apología de la literatura secularEntre finales del siglo xvi y principios del xvii, Lorenzo de Zamora empez a publicar la Monarqu a M stica de la Yglesia, una obra ambiciosa en la que utilizaba recursos extra dos de las letras humanas para la ex gesis b blica y...
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Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the political, aesthetic,...
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Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings'This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it's about more than our need to understand (the failures of) the anti-colonial struggles on the African continent. This...
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The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012) and Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave (2013), slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of...
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The Song Weigher: Complete Poems of Egill SkallagrímssonEgill Skallagr msson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth- to thirteenth-century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's saga details his life-story as well as...
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Study Guide to The Tin Drum by Gunter GrassA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for G nter Grass's The Tin Drum, the most widely read postwar German novel. As a novel, The Tin Drum is a memoir of a man living in an insane asylum with supernatural...
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Study Guide to The Awakening by Kate ChopinA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Kate Chopin's The Awakening, one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. As a feminist novel of the American South at the end of the nineteenth century,...
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NietzscheA scintillating biographical study of the one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth. In this vivid biography, Zweig eschews traditional academic discussion and focuses on Nietzsche's habits, passions and obsessions. This work, concentrating...
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Radical InsurgenciesRadical Insurgencies draws and translates wisdom from Africology, history, sociology, and philosophy to stitch together various social and political concerns presented by Asante in various academic settings. The book offers selected portions of significant speeches, an adaptation from the author's The American Demagogue, and...
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Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry LecturesIn this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by...
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Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable FormsFor over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence -- a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes...
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Genkouyoushi Notebook [8.5x11][110 pages]: Learn Japanese Writing Kanji Hiragana Katakana Furigana Characters Practice Script Notebook Workbook, MangaLearning Japanese? Then you will need to practice your Kanji, Katakana or Hiragana. This stylish Genkouyoushi notebook workbook contains more than to practice Japanese script and writing. Every square is divided for getting the writing perfectly write and each even contain a sidecar where...
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