Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey"He was a poet of the first order, a humorist, a philosopher, a man of affairs. He achieved fame as an English-Indian dialect writer and journalist. He was the leading man of the Creeks and the one great man produced by the Confederacy known...
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In Fine Form: A Contemporary Look at Form PoetryIn the decade since the publication of the first edition of In Fine Form, there has been a resurgence of poets writing in "form" - in sonnets and ghazals, triolets and ballads, villanelles and palindromes -- and formal poetry has become more visible in...
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The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women PoetsThe Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets takes its readers through the lush alphabet of Nebraska poetry-from Adkins to Zumpfe-with selections of poetry by nearly 90 native-born or transplanted Nebraska writers who write and live fearlessly and with great skill. Their topics...
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The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete TranslationThis study renders the complex corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable form, incorporating the past several years of scholarly activity on these texts and providing them with a comprehensive introduction along with a complete and well-annotated translation into English.Author: Scott...
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A Apple Pie - Illustrated In ColorAn Unabridged Full Color Edition To Include All Letters Of The Alphabet With Corresponding Illustrations By Kate GreenawayAuthor: Kate GreenawayPublisher: Watchmaker PublishingPublished: 06/01/2012Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.07dISBN: 9781603864619
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The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese MastersThe ancient Chinese regarded the written word as a transformative force able to move heaven and earth and unite the reader with the source of all things, the Tao. The power of writing, especially poetry, is celebrated here in short texts that present both...
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Heaven and HellFor thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, and poets have tried to pierce through the veil of death to gaze with wonder, fear, and awe on the final and eternal state of the soul. Indeed, the four great epic poets of the Western tradition (Homer,...
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Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted AgeLeads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. The humanities, considered by many as...
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Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century FictionNew in paperback! Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory. Scent is also both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material cultural. While other intangibles of the human experience have been examined in the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has...
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Juan Felipe Herrera: Migrant, Activist, Poet LaureateFor the first time, this book presents the distinguished, prolific, and highly experimental writer Juan Felipe Herrera. This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading experts offers critical approaches on Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. It expertly demonstrates Herrera's versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and...
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Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern EnglandDramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating how an apparently secluded theatrical culture...
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Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic CrimeWhy does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well...
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These Spindrift PagesTheodore Dalrymple finds deep satisfaction in books, and in this work he captures the thoughts occasioned by his recent reading. Inspired by a great and varied group of writers and touching on subjects of eternal interest, Dalrymple's observations here are carefully considered and beautifully...
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Memory & Landscapes: The Works of Four Early Twentieth-Century Barbadian WritersMemory and Landscapes examines the impact of the literary and journalistic contributions of W. S. Arthur, Hilton Vaughan, Karl Sealy, and A. N. Forde, key contributors to the shaping of Barbadian and West Indian writing. Where the early works of Jamaican writers such as...
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Second Five Books of the Top Ten SeriesThis collection of the second five Top Ten Books is for published authors who will learn a great deal more about getting their books in front of readers and decision-makers. This collection goes into more detail about interviews, and marketing and has a bonus...
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Between Wisdom and TorahPrevious scholars have largely approached Wisdom and Torah in the Second Temple Period through a type of reception history, whereby the two concepts have been understood as signifiers of independent, earlier "biblical" streams of tradition that later came together in the Hellenistic and Roman...
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The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations En La Frontera, Volume 1This volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives. For several decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theatermakers have been repurposing Shakespeare's plays to reflect the histories and lived realities of the US-Mexico Borderlands and to create space to tell...
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The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo EmersonThis is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era's most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and...
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Things to Do Now That You're RetiredNew edition into the 'Things to do... series', packed with inspiring and original ideas and fun-filled tips and thought-provoking quotations to encourage the reader to live life to the full. A great impulse purchase! Retirement is not the end of your working years but...
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The CypriaThe Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot...
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