Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous WritersImagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed history--and lived...
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Robert Frost Review: Issue 32The Robert Frost Review is a peer-reviewed annual publication of the Robert Frost Society, which was founded in 1978 to promote scholarlydiscussion of the poet's life and work. The Review is committed to publishing high quality scholarship in all areas of study related to...
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Trickster & The Thunder GodNorse myths are chock full with stories of heroism, gods, giants, dwarfs, along with strong elements of shamanism, pagan ritual, sorcery and shape-changing. With commentary by Maria Kvilhaug, this volume two book is a collection of Old Norse medieval texts concerning the gods Thor...
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JourneysAuthor Karl Hicken has entitled each of his hauntingly evocative poems a 'Journey' followed by a number. By so doing, he takes the reader along a paint by number tour through life, capturing bittersweet moments of experience in vivid snapshots of memory. The sum...
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Decoding Anne ListerAuthor: Caroline GondaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 07/13/2023Pages: 287Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781009280730
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Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890sMatthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired to promote the notion of decadence in the 1890s.Author: Matthew SturgisPublisher: Pallas AthenePublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 328Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsISBN: 9781843680734About the AuthorMatthew Sturgis is the...
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American Sweetheart: Still Not Making the TeamIn 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. "That day in Texas Stadium, I finally understood what I had missed out on in high school and college growing up as the eldest...
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Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic LiteratureA unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last fifteen hundred years.From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colorful stories of...
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The Karamazov Case: Dostoevsky's Argument for His VisionThis is a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov that scrutinizes it as a performative event (the "polyphony" of the novel) revealing its religious, philosophical, and social meanings through the interplay of mentalités or worldviews that constitute an aesthetic whole. This way...
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Glencoe Literature, Course 5Author: GlencoePublisher: McGraw-Hill/GlencoePublished: 06/15/2009Pages: 1163Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 5.60lbsSize: 10.10h x 8.10w x 1.80dISBN: 9780078779794This title is only available via back order
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Book PartsWhat would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of...
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McTeague: A Story of San FranciscoLike his more famous contemporary Upton Sinclair, American author BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NORRIS, JR. (1870-1902) also highlighted the corruption and greed of corporate monopolies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... themes that continue to make his work riveting reading more than a century...
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A New Companion to the GothicThe thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on 'Global Gothic' reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the...
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The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and TransformationWhen L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time. Echoes of Dorothy and her friends are everywhere: popular television shows often have an Oz episode, novelists borrow character types and echo...
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Vergil: The Poet's LifeA biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic...
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Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern FictionThe essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to...
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Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, OrganismsFor most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source...
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UNESCO and the Fate of the LiteraryA case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy. Focusing on UNESCO's use of books, Sarah Brouillette identifies three phases...
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Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Vikings to Valkyries, an Epic Who's Who in Old Norse MythologyDiscover the gods, goddesses, and heroes from Norse mythology with this beautiful handbook that captures the ancient stories that captivated the Vikings. Learn more about your favorite Norse gods, goddesses, and heroes with this collection of profiles that share the real stories behind the...
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In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]"Embark on a literary journey of unparalleled depth and beauty with Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time.' Across seven mesmerizing volumes, Proust intricately weaves together memory, love, and the passage of time into a tapestry of human experience. Delve into the captivating prose...
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