Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Certain and Impossible EventsLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Selected by Cheryl Strayed for the Kore Press Institute Memoir Award. CERTAIN AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENTS begins in April 1994, with the suicide of a fourteen-year-old boy in a small New England town. The boy left behind no trail of...
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Create Your Own Midlife Crisis: The Best Way to Make the Worst DecisionsCreate Your Own Midlife Crisis is a fun and humorous choose-your-own-path book on making risqu and bold choices in the prime of midlife, giving you the chance to try countless roads not yet taken. What's the worst that could happen? Are you on the...
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Study Guide to The Odyssey by HomerA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Homer's The Odyssey, possibly the most famous epic poems in history. As an epic poem of ancient Greece, it is the second oldest surviving work in Western literature. Moreover, this work has...
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Study Guide to Washington Square by Henry JamesA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Henry James' Washington Square, a simple tragicomedy that is based on a true story. As a novel of the nineteenth-century, illustrates family conflict between a daughter and her unemotional father. Moreover, Washington...
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Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-DickAlthough Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best...
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Hebrew Myths: The Book of GenesisA scholarly approach to sixty-one stories from the book of Genesis, following in the lucid format of Graves' canonical The Greek Myths. With a new introduction by author of Bibliotheca, Adam Lewis Greene. An exhaustive study of sixty-one stories from the Old Testament and...
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Zorro's Shadow: How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero"SADDLE UP Andes takes us on an exhilarating, dust-kicking ride through the actual origins and history of the first hemispheric Latinx superhero: Zorro." --Frederick Luis Aldama, editor of Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Zorro's Shadow explores the masked character's Latinx origins and his...
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Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the UniversityCan the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities--the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation--are at odds with the very publics they are intended to...
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The Life of Saint Eufrosine: In Old French Verse, with English TranslationAs a young woman from a wealthy family, Eufrosine was expected to marry a nobleman. Instead, she wanted to serve God. So she cut her hair, dressed as a man, and traveled to a monastery, becoming a monk named Emerald.Adapted from a Latin source,...
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The Communist ManifestoWith 6 alternate language edition prefaces. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about by a proletarian...
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Reading Is Magic: A Book Log for FamiliesA family keepsake journal for parents and children to record the magic of reading together Reading Is Magic is a guided journal in which families can capture that magical period when parents and children read together. It begins with a foreword by bestselling author...
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Night PhilosophyNight Philosophy is collected around the figure of the child, the figure of the child not just as a little person under the tutelage of adults, but also the submerged one, who knows, who is without power, who doesn't matter. The book proposes a...
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A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken ChineseThis book is intended as a companion reference work to Chinese textbooks for beginners. It uses a comparative approach to address over 200 points of grammar and vocabulary that frequently present difficulties to students of Chinese. This volume serves as an easy and efficient...
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The Little Book of Spider-ManSince his debut in Amazing Fantasy No. 15 in August 1962, Spider-Man has been a hero to millions. Peter Parker was an ordinary teen who received powers from a radioactive spider, and failed to stop the man who would murder his uncle. This led...
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Petites Sagas IslandaisesCes Petites Sagas islandaises recelent quelques joyaux narratifs des lettres medievales islandaises des XIIIe et XIVe siecles. Leur charme reside dans leur dramatisation, due a la frequence des dialogues et au dosage subtil de la prose et des strophes, et a leur technique narrative...
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Civil DisobedienceDisgusted by slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau gave lectures on, "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government," which became the basis for this 1849 essay Civil Disobedience originally titled, "Resistance to Civil Government." Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and...
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This Little ArtAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own...
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Languages of Our Land/Langues de Notre Terre: Indigenous Poems and Stories from Quebec/Poèmes Et Récits Autochtones Du QuébecLanguages of Our Land/Langues de notre terre is a collection of poems and stories by twelve emerging and established Indigenous writers living in Quebec and writing in French. These writers all participated in either the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program (now the Indigenous Writing Program)...
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Under Storm's WingUnder Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the celebrated volumes As It Was and World Without End, her letters to Edward, and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Davies, D.H.Lawrence, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon,...
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Staring Down the Tiger: Stories of Hmong American WomenTsov tom, or tiger bite--an insult in Hmong culture--means you were stupid enough to approach a tiger and get bitten. In this remarkable new book, Hmong American women reclaim that phrase, showing in prose and poetry that they are strong enough and brave enough...
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