Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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London After Midnight: A New Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources (hardback)Tod Browning's silent movie horror film, London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, and Polly Moran, has intrigued silent movie fans for decades. Now considered a lost film, surviving production stills, a Photoplay Edition novel, scripts, and...
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The Thin Man Films Murder Over CocktailsThe Thin Man films are one of the most highly regarded and successful series of films from Hollywood's classic era. This book looks at the people who populated the films, including full chapter profiles of its stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, whose chemistry...
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The Logic of Alice: Clear Thinking in WonderlandMany commentaries have been devoted to Lewis Carroll's masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The interpretations range from Freudian analysis to speculations about the real-life people who may have inspired the animal characters. In this unique approach to interpreting Alice, the fruit of ten years...
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The Annotated Joseph and His Friend: The Story of the America's First Gay NovelThe Annotated Joseph and His Friend: The Story of America's First Gay Novel contains the original novel by Bayard Taylor, with annotations and commentary by L.A. Fields. Joseph and His Friend is the story of a young Pennsylvania farmer, Joseph Asten, and his marriage...
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Dante: Poet of the Secular WorldErich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century...
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Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Song of SongsAuthor: Gregory, Richard A. Norris Jr.Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 10/17/2012Pages: 517Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.28dISBN: 9781589831056This title is not returnable
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El AbencerrajeStudent edition of the 16th century Moorish novel, El Abencerraje.Author: AnonymousPublisher: Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic MonographsPublished: 09/01/2006Pages: 72Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17dISBN: 9781589770331Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Untangling Tolkien: A Chronological Reference to the Lord of the RingsHere is the book Tolkien fans have needed for 50 years--a detailed chronologyof Tolkien's complex tale.Author: Michael W. PerryPublisher: Inkling BooksPublished: 09/05/2003Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.45h x 7.34w x 0.57dISBN: 9781587420191This title is not returnable
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H.P. Lovecraft: Contre Le Monde, Contre La VieAuthor: Michel HoullebecqPublisher: iUniversePublished: 02/01/1999Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.14h x 6.18w x 0.35dISBN: 9781583481943Language: FrenchThis title is not returnable
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Why Read?-A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 (or so) non-fiction title 2004 In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in...
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Guillaume de Machaut, the Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2: The Boethian Poems Le Remede de Fortune and Le Confort d'AmiThis volume is the second of the thirteen in preparation that will offer the first complete scholarly edition of the poetry and music of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost practitioner of these related arts at the end of the Middle Ages in France. It...
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Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling: And Other Feminist Fairy TalesThis wickedly wise (and wisecracking) parody of classic fairy tales redefines happily ever after for the modern feminist era. You know what? It's super creepy to kiss a woman who is unconscious. And you know what else? The way out of poverty isn't by...
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Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat GenerationEssays, poems, photographs, and letters explore the link between Buddhism and the Beats--with previously unpublished material from several beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Diane diPrima.Author: Carole TonkinsonPublisher: Riverhead BooksPublished: 09/01/1995Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.16h x 5.46w...
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Rainer Maria Rilke's the Book of Hours: A New Translation with CommentaryA superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary. Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry....
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The Song of HiawathaAmerica's most popular 19th century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devoted himself to providing his country with a national mythology, poetic tradition and epic forms. Known and loved by generations of schoolchidlren for its evocative storytelling, his 1855 classic is regarded as a masterpiece of...
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Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews & ManifestoesVow to Poetry is a trumpet call from our most iconoclastic poet that tears down the walls of prescribed creative processes. This stimulating mix of autobiography, interviews, and essays reveals a life possessed by the muse. You've seen the safe versions, now comes this...
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Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925, Volume IThese first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span the...
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Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and HomeA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.Author: JohnsonPublisher: Olive Branch PressPublished: 10/01/2013Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781566569064Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/29/2012Choice 08/01/2013About the AuthorJohnson: - Penny Johnson is an Associate Editor...
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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral LawWitness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in...
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EvangelineFrench edition of the classic heartbreaking story of two Acadian lovers separated during the expulsion of the French settlers from Nova Scotia.Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyPublished: 04/30/1999Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.94h x 4.22w x 0.49dISBN: 9781565544758Language: French
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