Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Dialogues and LettersIncluded in this volume are the dialogues On the Shortness of Life and On Tranquility of Mind, which are eloquent classic statements of Stoic ideals of fortitude and self-reliance. This selection also features extracts from Natural Questions, Seneca's exploration of such phenomena as the...
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Selected PoemsRobert Browning, a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era, was hailed by Henry James as a tremendous and incomparable modern. The sheer immediacy and colloquial energy of his poetry ensure enduring appeal. Browning paints landscapes both suburban and sublime, combines lyric and demotic...
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The Saga of King Hrolf KrakiComposed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of the exploits of King Hrolf and of his famous champions, including Bodvar Bjarki, the...
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Metaphysical PoetryA key anthology for students of English literature, featuring some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious uncertainty....
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table...
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Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical EssaysA truly useful collection of literary criticism on a widely studied author, this collection of essays, selected and introduced by a distinguished scholar, makes the most informative and provocative critical work easily available to the general public. KEY TOPICS: Offers volumes of the same...
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The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan WilsonThe phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything Now the latest edition turns an evil eye toward the strange, the blood-curdling, and the macabre with spine-tingling fun...
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year...
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PN Review 264The March-April 2022 issue. Major interview with American poet Carl Philips. Nuash Sabah, editor of Poetry Birmingham, in conversation. Frederic Raphael writes to Wittgenstein. Isobel Williams adds to her Shibari Catullus. John Clegg discovers Mrs Bleaney. New to PN Review this issue: Wendelin Wai...
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Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading in Search of Lost TimeNamed a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian revisits Marcel Proust's masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity--that of the novel's narrator and Proust's own. This engaging reexamination of In Search of...
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The Romantic Rhetoric of AccumulationThe Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are...
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All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark CoolidgeAll This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic...
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Wheel with a Single Spoke: And Other PoemsA selection of the best known poems by the Nobel nominated, Herder Prize-winning poet.Author: Nichita StanescuPublisher: Archipelago BooksPublished: 07/13/2012Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9781935744153Award: Best Translated Book Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorNichita Stanescu (1933-1983) was the most beloved and...
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Surprising, Goofy Jokes about HolidaysHolidays are times of amazing food and celebrating cheer that bring people together. They make for great jokes that readers will rush to share with their family and friends, too. Through an engaging design that brings the jokes to life with humorous illustrations, fun...
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Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic LiteratureSecrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in their writings, such that casual readers will only understand the surface meaning of their texts while those with greater insight will grasp the...
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation"One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the...
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Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African LiteratureThis handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in...
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Actual Fictions: Literary Representation and Character Network AnalysisThis Element sheds a new light on the ubiquitous yet complex notion of mimesis. By systematically comparing the social dynamics of the Dutch population at a given time with the social dynamics of characters in Dutch literary fiction published in the same period, it...
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Deep Time: A Literary HistoryHow the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"--most often associated with geological epochs--began as a metaphorical language...
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Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century BritainThis study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the...
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