Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Black Comedy: 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and EssaysThis first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept pace with historical events, like the sit-in demonstrations, the bus boycotts, black nationalism,...
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One with Others: [a Little Book of Her Days]Honored in Best Books of the Year listings from The New Yorker, National Public Radio, Library Journal, and The Huffington Post.One With Others represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet.--The New Yorker A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode...
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VoicesAntonio Porchia (1886-1968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction by...
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The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction and NonfictionOne has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up by Downton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductive as ever. But incorporating historical events and figures into a shapely narrative...
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Introduction to Indigenous Literary Criticism in CanadaThis unique collection gathers 26 important works of criticism on Canadian Indigenous literature. Author: Heather MacFarlanePublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 12/18/2015Pages: 344Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781554811830About the Author Heather Macfarlane is Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at Queen's...
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Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical PerspectivesAn anthology of tales and original critical essays that moves beyond canonized "classics" and old paradigms. Author: Christine A. JonesPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 10/19/2012Pages: 584Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781554810437About the Author Christine A. Jones is Associate Professor of French...
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Boom!: Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular MarketSince the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed,...
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In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art SpiegelmanJeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not one. As well-versed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his subject not...
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The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell"The Crystal Spirit" is a revealing look at the great writer and political thinker George Orwell, whose visionary work gave us the great anti-utopias of twentieth-century literature. A close friend and colleague during the last decade of that remarkable writer's life, Woodcock was uniquely...
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 6b: The Twentieth Century and Beyond: From 1945 to the Twenty-First CenturyIn all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of...
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Winona; Or, the Foster-Sisters"The Broadview edition of Winona opens a large and revealing window onto Isabella Valancy Crawford's times and writerly concerns." -- D.M.R. Bentley, University of Western Ontario Author: Isabella Valancy CrawfordPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 10/16/2006Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781551117096About the Author Len Early is Associate...
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Native American Mythology in Modern American Literature: Analysis of the Novels "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday and "Ceremony" by Leslie MarmIn this book the author dwells on the role of Native American mythology and storytelling in "House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday and "Ceremony" by L.M. Silko. The first part of the book has an overview of Native American mythology and history,...
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Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William ShakespeareIn 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad...
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A Flauta Magica de Mozart: Traducao e ensaioNeste volume, apresenta-se uma tradu o portuguesa do facsimile da edi o original de 1791 da Flauta M gica de Mozart e uma reflex o, ancorada nas ra zes simb licas da tradi o esot rica e na literatura do final do s culo...
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Shakespeare Beyond Doubt?: Exposing an Industry in DenialThe Book the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Doesn't Want You to Read: Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Never has the case against the Stratford man been made so clear and compelling. Unsettled by the growing success of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and its online Declaration of Reasonable...
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El Conde de MontecristoEl conde de Montecristo (Le comte de Monte-Cristo) es una novela de aventuras cl sica de Alexandre Dumas padre y Auguste Maquet. Este ltimo no figur en los t tulos de la obra ya que Alexandre Dumas pag una elevada suma de dinero para...
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Telling the Stories Right: Wendell Berry's Imagination of Port WilliamWendell Berry thinks of himself as a storyteller. It's somewhat ironic then that he is better known as an essayist, a poet, and an advocate for small farmers. The essays in this collection consider the many facets of Berry's life and work, but they...
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Why Read Four Quartets?Why Read Four Quartets? is offered to encourage readers unfamiliar with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece to ""take up, read, and inwardly digest"" these beautiful and sacred poems. Commentary is offered to hopefully make the poems more accessible to a general reader. Most critics and...
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PhasesThe poems in Phases are as interested in the creeping penumbral edge of language as they are in the shadowy fact of faith. Playful experiments with form swing to the conceptual ring's apegee, while a colloquy across history and place center the proverbial orbit....
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Alphabet YearThese poems started with a bag of children's beach toys--primary-colored alphabet sand-molds--and a quiet afternoon. They ended up needing a spreadsheet to keep track of the first words. ""Love"" is the ""L"" word for all the disorderly abecedarians because it creates a thread with...
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