Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Barbarians at the Gates of Hollywood: Sword and Sorcery Movies of the 1980sJourney into the realm of VHS tapes and midnight showings where brawny barbarians rescue nubile virgins from evil wizards, giant snakes, and armies of the undead Although originating in the era of the pulp magazines, sword and sorcery fiction enjoyed a cinematic boom in...
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Lovecraft Annual No. 14 (2020)Author: S. T. JoshiPublisher: Hippocampus PressPublished: 08/20/2020Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.53dISBN: 9781614983088This title is not returnable
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The Myth of the Mayflower"The Myth of the "Mayflower"" is a 1921 work by G. K. Chesterton. Within it, he attempts to separate fact from fiction concerning the story of the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. The ship has...
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Artifice in the Calm DamagesPoetry. As a drummer, Andrew Levy's rhythmic knowledge is intimate and the work of ARTIFACE IN THE CALM DAMAGES moves across a range of percussive possibility, with its long lines and structured blocks of text providing a solid lead to the everyday madness of...
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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965: Volume 2This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement...
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Austen Years: A Memoir in Five NovelsOne of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer's commitment to another. --The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice)An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again. --Helen Macdonald,...
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Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us about EmpathyAn award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy "Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readable--and uncommonly timely. Especially now that so many younger readers are casting suspicious glances at Shakespeare, Of Human Kindness shows with mind-changing clarity...
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Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine HansberryA "loving, lavishly detailed" (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry's life, art, and political activism--one of O Magazine's best books of April 2021 "A devoted and deeply felt account of the development of an artist's mind."--Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Book...
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Study Guide to Cry, The Beloved Country and Other Works by Alan PatonA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Alan Paton, whose wide knowledge of the Union of South Africa culture inspired much of his work. Titles in this study guide include Too Late the Phalarope, Cry, the...
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TVObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Once upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their laps, awaiting weekly...
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Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public IntellectualIn the last couple of decades there has been a surge of interest in Octavio Paz's life and work, and a number of important books have been published on Paz. However, most of these books are of a biographical nature, or they examine Paz's...
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Study Guide to The Aeneid by VirgilA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Virgil, ancient Roman poet. Titles in this study guide include The Aeneid. As a poet of the Augustan period, his poems are regarded as one of the most important...
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Study Guide to the Plays of AeschylusA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aeschylus, the ancient greek playwright. Titles in this study guide include The Suppliant Maids, The Persians, The Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, The Eumenides, and The Libation Bearers....
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Study Guide to The Plays of SophoclesA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sophocles, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. Titles in this study guide include Oedipus, Philoctetes, Trachiniae, Electra, Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Ajax. As...
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Study Guide to The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, whose creative endeavors earned him two Pulitzer Prizes. Titles in this study guide include The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. As an author of southern...
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Study Guide to Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack LondonA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Jack London, an influential writer of the Industrial Revolution. Titles in this study guide include Call of the Wild and White Fang. As works of adventure fiction, London's novels...
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Study Guide to The Republic and Other Works by PlatoA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Plato, ancient Greek philosopher. Titles in this study guide include The Republic, Gorgias, Meno, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Phaedrus, Symposium, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. As a philosopher and poet during the...
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Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in OvidSilenced Voices is a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. In his book-length poem Metamorphoses, characters are transformed in ways that include losing their power of human speech. In...
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The thirty-six dramatic situationsAuthor: Georges PoltiPublisher: Alpha EditionPublished: 07/10/2020Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46dISBN: 9789354037474This title is not returnable
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Economía del pájaro en tiempos de guerra; Comunicación y disenso en la poesía de Eduardo MilánLa obra de Eduardo Mil n se ha convertido, en los ltimos a os, en uno de los referentes indiscutibles a la hora de hablar de poes a en espa ol. Su grado de difusi n e influencia, a ambos lados del Atl ntico,...
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