Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover TalesCollected through firsthand interviews, author Mindy Campbell Hudson brings local lore to life in The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover Tales with stories of Dover, Arkansas's own legends, history, and supernatural tales. Complete with photographs of historical Dover, this collection of...
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The Voyager Record: A TransmissionLiterary Nonfiction. Lyric Essay. History-in-Fragments. Hybrid Genre. Winner of the Silver Medal in Nonfiction for Cover Design at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Late summer 1977: two identical robotic spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral. Their divergent paths through the solar system take them...
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The Graveyard School: An AnthologyThe poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England and was an important forerunner of the Romantic period and a major influence on the development of the Gothic novel. Yet, despite...
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The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing"Read everything that is good for the good of your soul. Then learn to read as a writer, to search out that hidden machinery, which it is the business of art to conceal and the business of the apprentice to comprehend." In The Hidden...
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Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and PernWhen Anne McCaffrey passed in November 2011, it was not only those closest to her who mourned her death; legions of readers also felt the loss deeply. The pioneering science fiction author behind the Dragonriders of Pern(R) series crafted intricate stories, enthralling worlds, and...
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Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to LiveThis National Book Critics Circle Award is "an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges (The New York Times). "Stories, both...
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The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japanvolume 70Author: P. F. KornickiPublisher: U of M Center for Japanese StudiesPublished: 01/08/2010Pages: 290Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 22.70w x 0.80dISBN: 9781929280650Review Citation(s): Choice 05/01/2011
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An Analysis of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of ManC.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy - and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes...
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Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman RepublicSextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily - or not at all - into the grand narrative of the civil war of 49-31BC. Modern scholars tend to exclude him or mention him without asking what or whom he represented. Ronald...
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Twelfth Night: Third SeriesCritically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The Introduction explores the multiple factors that...
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The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on ShakespeareIn The Quality of Mercy, one of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. In this sequence of essays - all but one published here for the first time - Peter Brook debates such questions as who...
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The Symbolist Movement in LiteratureFirst published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism and introduced the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Arthur Symons's interest in writers such as Verlaine and Mallarme puts him at the heart of contemporary debates about...
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The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to ShakespeareA new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence. From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by...
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste LandIn this Readers' Guide, Nick Selby brings together some of the most important critical writings about The Waste Land and provides a clear discussion of their place within the development of critical theory from modernism to postmodernism. The Guide begins with early reviews and...
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Raymond Chandler: The Detections of TotalityThe master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he...
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Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and WisdomDespite its popularity in Eastern cultures, and though Eastern and Western scholars alike recognize it as a literary masterpiece, the Ramayana is unknown to most in the West. This edition gives English-speaking readers the best opportunity yet to discover and enjoy this ancient classic....
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Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other EssaysJon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not...
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Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance PoeticsThe notion of a harmonious universe was taught by Pythagoras as early as the sixth century BC, and remained a basic premise in Western philosophy, science, and art almost to our own day. In Touches of Sweet Harmony, S. K. Heninger first recounts the...
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Stray Birds2015 Reprint of 1916 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Collected here are three hundred twenty short poems by Rabindranath Tagore. They were written in Bengali before being translated into English by Tagore. These poems are beautiful,...
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Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsThis selection of interviews showcases the remarkable career of one of this generation's greatest and most divisive thinkers--featuring a foreword by Stephen Fry. " . . . pulls together some of Hitchens's greatest dialogues, each sparkling with intelligence and wit." --New York Times Book...
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