Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial DecadeFans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators such as Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Art...
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What about the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of FictionA collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched virtuoso of language and image (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe) What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of...
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Antigone Uninterrupted: Antigone's Biographical Tale of Learning from Tragic CounselThis book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her...
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Possessed: A Cultural History of HoardingIn Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding--once a paradigm of economic rationality--came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the...
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What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My LifeMark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of...
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Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses...
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Study Guide to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, arguably the most famous of all Middle English literature. As a series of twenty-four stories, The Canterbury Tales was written in 1392 and tells of the pilgrimage...
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Study Guide to Bleak House by Charles DickensA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's Bleak House, said to be one of Dickens's most powerful novels due to the way it challenged Britain's court system and caused legal reform in the 1870s. As an 1830...
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A Child's Machiavelli: A Primer on Power (2019 Edition)Beatrice is proud to present a new edition of A Child's Machiavelli: A Primer on Power by Claudia Hart. Originally published in 1995, A Child's Machiavelli reimagines Niccol Machiavelli's political treatise The Prince as an instructional children's book. Hart simplifies the core ideas embedded...
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The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing StoriesOn a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture, and ripping apart mattresses as he desperately looked for a stack of papers he had sworn to God to protect. Those pages containing the only...
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Première leçon du cours de poétique«... Tous les arts admettaient, nagu re, d' tre soumis chacun selon sa nature, certaines formes ou modes obligatoires qui s'imposaient toutes les oeuvres du m me genre, et qui pouvaient et devaient s'apprendre, comme l'on fait la syntaxe d'une langue. On ne consentait...
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." --NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly,...
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The Divine MimesisWritten between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini's imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. It is also a self-critique by the author of The Ashes of Gramsci (1957)...
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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other AphorismsEric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Passionate State of Mind is a...
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TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy (c.100 - c.178 AD), of Alexandria, was one of the greatest philosopher/scientists of the ancient world. Among his books are the Almagest, Geography, Optics, Planispherium and Tetrabiblos. The earliest surviving version of Tetrabiblos is the paraphrase attributed to Proclus the Philosopher (412-485)....
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Introduccin a la Literatura Infantil En EspaolIntroduccin a la literatura infantil en espaol is an indispensable textbook for college courses on Children's Literature in Spanish. Today, in its second edition, more and more Colleges are adopting this textbook for their literature courses. The author, Dr. Lidia Daz is the developer...
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BloodhoofBloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem - but this only begins to hint at its attractions. It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from the land of giants to the court...
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Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient LiteratureLeithart analyzes the grand classics of ancient literature-The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and others-commenting on each and contrasting their pagan worldview to the biblical worldview. If you fall asleep in your English classes, this book is like drinking ten cups of coffee. Maybe...
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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"It's all devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies" -- Douglas AdamsUpon publication, Don't Panic quickly established itself as the definitive companion to Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This edition comes up to date, covering the movie, And Another...
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A Companion to Medieval Scottish PoetryA full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages. The poetry written in Scotland between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth century is exceptionally rich and varied. The contributions collected here, by leading...
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