Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Dante's New Lives: Biography and AutobiographyFrom two leading scholars, a thrilling and rich investigation of the life and work of Dante Alighieri. Numerous books have attempted to chronicle the life of Dante Alighieri, yet essential questions remain unanswered. How did a self-taught Florentine become the celebrated author of the...
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Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-IsraelLiron Mor's book queries what conflict means in the context of Palestine-Israel. Conflict has long been seen as singular and primary: as an "original sin" that necessitates the state and underwrites politics. This book problematizes this universal notion of conflict, revealing its colonial implications...
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Arranging WordsArranging Words is Abrams' second chapbook collection. Like her first chapbook, The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras, this book is a series of light-hearted poems that asks the reader to look at the world from a new perspective. These poems approach letters, words, and everyday...
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Aphra Behn: A Secret LifeThe life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth -century dramatist, poet of the erotic and bisexual, novelist, political propagandist, spy.Praise for the first hardback edition: "Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time." --the New York Times"Ground-breaking--it reads...
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50 Books to Read If You're an Armchair DetectiveThe perfect gift for book-loving friends and family, 50 Books to Read If You're an Armchair Detective will provide lots of inspiration for fans of cosy crime to discover lesser known books and revisit forgotten classics. Whether you're a Richard Osman fan or a...
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Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American WestWallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain, as well as his nonfiction books and essays introduced the beauty and character of the American West to thousands of readers....
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Trim ReckoningsIn this stunning new collection, DeWitt Henry reckons with a past that is personal, familial, and cultural as well as the present dysfunction of American political life. His narratives and portraits are drawn and colored by candid and resonant observations. "Are scars proof of...
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The Vanishing of Carolyn WellsThe Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the "lost ladies" of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) excelled at writing country house and...
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The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of PowerA moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war...
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The Norton Shakespeare: The Essential Plays / The SonnetsBoth an enhanced Digital Edition--the first ever edited specifically for undergraduates--and a handsome print volume, The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays / The Sonnets offers the twenty-one most-assigned plays and all of the sonnets in a portable and value-priced paperback. The new Third Edition provides...
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The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translationthe lantern light seems to have written a poem;they feel lonesome since i won't read them.--"lantern" by Fei MingThe work of Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei has long been celebrated in both China and internationally,...
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The House of BeingAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey In a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the crossroads of Highway 49, the legendary highway of the Blues, and...
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The French Alphabet & Numbers - Learn French for Absolute BeginnersDo you want to learn the basics of French in a short amount of time? Do you want to gain confidence in conversational French? Do you want to learn how to pronounce French words like a real Parisian?Imagine flying to France and being able...
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The Fallen Angels And The Heroes Of Mythology (1879)The Fallen Angels And The Heroes Of Mythology is a book written by John Fleming and first published in 1879. This book explores the relationship between fallen angels and the heroes of mythology. Fleming delves into the origins of mythology and the stories of...
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The Cambridge History of the Australian NovelThe Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and...
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Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and GeniusIn Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object...
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Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical AnthologyIf a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is "yes." Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science...
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Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines and Other EssaysBrings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.Author: Ángel RamaPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 388Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438494494About the AuthorJosé Eduardo González is Associate Professor...
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Sonnets to Orpheus: A New Translation (Bilingual Edition)"Rilke's most radiant songs deserve the finest bilingual translation, plus the mind of a translator-poet. Mark S. Burrows provides both with exhilarating skill--and unlimited grace." --Stephanie Dowrick, author of In the Company of Rilke On the centennial of the first appearance (1923) of Rilke's...
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Second Chances: Shakespeare and FreudA powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to...
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