Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Philosophy & Literature: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, CommitmentAuthor: Cameron V. ThompsonPublisher: iUniversePublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 612Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.04w x 1.18dISBN: 9780595187560This title is not returnable
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Greek DramaAuthor: Moses HadasPublisher: Bantam ClassicsPublished: 12/01/1983Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 6.82h x 4.29w x 0.85dISBN: 9780553212211About the AuthorAESCHYLUS: A complete fifth-century Athenian, he was the creator of her proudest artistic achievement, tragedy. By using more than one actor he changed the form of plays...
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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel LectureThe Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in...
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The Cambridge Companion to Wallace StevensWallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens' poetic achievement. The Introduction explains why Stevens is...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political, and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare GuideAre you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essential background on the Shakespeare plays you see on stage? Ideal for students and theatre enthusiasts alike, this lively and authoritative guide...
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume...
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The Grand Canyon ReaderThis superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful and compelling writing about the Grand Canyon--stories, essays, and poems written across five centuries by people inhabiting, surviving, and attempting to understand what one explorer called the "Great Unknown." The Grand Canyon Reader includes...
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Tartuffe and the Bourgeois Gentleman: A Dual-Language BookOften called the Father of French Comedy, Moli re (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) was a master at exposing the foibles and complexities of humanity in plays notable for their dramatic construction, varied and diverse humor, and subtlety of psychological observation. This convenient dual-language volume contains...
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Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing LifeIn Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life, seventeen award-winning writers--all expert teachers--share the secrets of creating compelling, imaginative stories and novels. A combination handbook, writer's companion, and collection of spirited personal essays, the book is filled...
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Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. LiteraturesOn a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us...
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Homer the Odyssey: A Prose TranslationThe Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic about the challenges and hardships Odysseus faces in his rambling ten-year journey homeward after the Trojan War and in the days following his arrival on the island of Ithaka, his homeland. Depicting his own and others' social...
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic BookAnimated by the stories of some of the last century's most charismatic and conniving artists, writers, and businessmen, Men of Tomorrow brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes gained their cultural power and established a crucial place in the modern imagination. This history...
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Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical AnthologyA unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America. Black women's writing has finally emerged as one of the most dynamic fields of American literature. Here, leading literary critics--both male...
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Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women"Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intelligent passion."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWNative American scholar, literary critic, poet, and novelist Paula Gunn Allen, who is herself a Laguna Pueblo-Sioux Indian, became increasingly aware in...
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The Location of CultureRethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality...
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Northanger AbbeyThis Norton Critical Edition is the most extensively annotated student edition available. "Backgrounds" features material carefully chosen to enhance readers' appreciation of the novel, including biographical commentary, early works and correspondence related to Northanger Abbey, and excerpts by Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and William...
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and MiltonThis brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others....
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The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Volume 2: The Traditions in EnglishNow, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make...
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