Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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CliffsNotes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Literature NotesWhen you need help understanding a book, choose the name you've trusted for years-CliffsNotes. Gain the understanding you need with our in-depth literature study guides, and get more from every book you read.In CliffsNotes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart, you explore the ground-breaking work...
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The Believer Issue 141: Spring 2023Named the best magazine of 2022 by Alta. Inside issue 141 of The Believer A mystery of literary lineage involving Muriel Rukeyser and Robinson Jeffers; an extensive, reported feature from Dave Eggers on his trip to Ukraine; Andrea Bajani on the rarely discussed, highly...
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Lgbtqia+ Books for Children and Teens, Second EditionBooks for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, asexual, and intersex readers and their allies continue to thrive and evolve in reflection of the variety of families and individual identities today. Deemed "an essential purchase" in a starred review by School Library Journal, this matchless...
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies Volume 1Contains three of Chesterton's most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the spirited public debate which led to the writing of Heretics. Then in Orthodoxy, Chesterton accepts the...
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A Very Gay Book: An Inaccurate Resource for Gay ScholarsFrom the creators of @verygaypaint, the immensely popular comedy design brand, A VERY GAY BOOK paints a cheeky and satirical portrait of the world where everything--from sports to science to soup--is gay. Trees are gay. It's why their branches brush up against each other...
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Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's TravelWhat would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women...
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Emo Poetry GeneratorThis flip book-style emo poetry generator is the perfect gift for anyone looking for a little early-to-mid-2000s nostalgia to soothe their deep, dark soul. Chock-full of playfully melancholic and angsty phrases reminiscent of emo internet poetry from the early millennium, this volume invites you...
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City"What decided me to go to Lhasa was, above all, the absurd prohibition which closes Thibet." One of the great adventure classics, published in 1927, and considered one of the best adventure books of the last 100 years by Outside magazine, My Journey to...
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Fairy Tellers: A Journey Into the Secret History of Fairy Tales"The general reader is unlikely to have met Mr. Jubber's other subjects and may be amazed to learn the degree to which these unsung men and women have shaped the fairy-tale canon, an enthusiastic and enjoyable book--The Wall Street Journal 'A carnival of a...
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Community Across Time: Robert Morgan's Words for HomeOne of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan. One of the first book-length studies of Robert Morgan, Community across Time considers the Appalachian writer's explorations of memory, family history, and landscape. It provides a study of all of Morgan's fiction...
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Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in Speculative UtopiasAdult-directed utopian fiction has historically rejected depictions of persons with disabilities, underrepresenting a community that comprises an estimated 15% of the world's population. From the earliest stories of utopias written for and about children, however, persons with disabilities have been included in abundance, and...
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The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy TalesVasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from Ukraine who joined left-wing circles in Japan and befriended the famous modernist writer Lu Xun in China. Born in a small Ukrainian village...
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A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and EnlargedAuthor: D. B. MonroPublisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersPublished: 12/06/2022Pages: 460Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dISBN: 9781666764666
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A Poetic History of the Oceans: Literature and Maritime ModernityWhat is the ocean's role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, S ren Frank...
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Spider-Man Psychology: Untangling WebsAcclaimed author, psychology professor, Wheel of Fortune game show champion, and "superherologist" Dr. Travis Langley has returned with the newest installment of his lauded Pop Culture Psychology series. Backed by an entourage of expert contributors, Dr. Langley explores the psychology of real human nature...
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Faulkner the Southerner and the Continuity of Southern LettersFaulkner the Southerner is the first biography to place the author in the context of his Southern culture and the continuity of Southern letters. Doing so helps prevent glaring misreadings of his fiction. It explores Faulkner's humor, sense of honor, rootedness in place, criticism...
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Broken Promises and Lies of the RepublicansReagan *Bush 43* Trump is intended to convince the America VOTER that conservative ideas are wrong for our country. We are faced with serious issues that must be solved! Our huge deficit, tax reform, immigration, background checks for gun purchase, funding shortfall of Social...
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised EditionA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Now recognized as one of the giants of...
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The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction: The Literary AgendaDiscusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship. The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction argues that YA fiction helps us to think about some of most pressing problems of the twenty-first century by offering imaginative...
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic BookbCelebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio/b This is the 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...
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