Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Sparring with Gil Kane: Debating the History and Aesthetics of ComicsGil Kane drew every major comic book character in his 50-year career -- from Spider-Man and the Hulk to Superman and Batman -- and conceived and drew independent "graphic novels" long before the term had any meaning to the larger public. He was also...
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Tagore: The Mystic PoetsDiscover How Tagore's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own Rabindranath Tagore's philosophical and spiritual thoughts transcend all limits of language, culture, and nationality. In his writings, the poet and mystic takes us on a spiritual quest and gives us a glimpse of...
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In Memoriam A.H.H.In Memoriam, by world-renown poet Alfred Tennyson, is a requiem written for Tennyson's friend, Arthur, who died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage. While inspired by a tragic event, the work features some of Tennyson's most popular verse. The poem not only explores themes of...
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Wings of DesireA guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings. Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating...
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Why I Like This StoryPresents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or re-read - the stories selected. On the assumption that John Updike was correct when...
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Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo EmersonA thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they could share their journey through our imperfect world. Any biography that concentrates on either Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson tends to...
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The Ribbon at Olympia's ThroatShort fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth...
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Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988Gary Indiana's collected columns of art criticism from the Village Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art scene.In 1985, the Village Voice offered me a job as senior art critic. This made my life easier and lousy at the same...
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Stephen King's the Body: BookmarkedA collection of four novellas, Different Seasons includes some of Stephen King's most enduring and well-known works, including Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption, and The Body, which was made into the movie Stand by Me....
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100 Things Batman Fans Should Know & Do Before They DieMost Batman fans have enjoyed the Dark Knight in comics or on the big screen and are eagerly anticipating the release of the new Justice League movie. But only real fans know the other characters who have donned the cowl in place of Bruce...
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Tests of TimeIn Tests of Time (2003), Gass shares his thoughts about writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion, including essays on classic writers and contemporaries, literary lists and their use, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, and the First Amendment. First...
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Golf BallObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand...
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The Death of Ivan IlychIvan Ilyich Golovin, a high court judge in St. Petersburg with a wife and family, lives a carefree life and like everyone he is aware of, he lives a life spent almost entirely in climbing the social ladder, and his life begins to amass...
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People in a Magazine: The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and His Editors at the New YorkerPlaywright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S. N. Behrman (1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The New Yorker as a time defined by feverish contact with great theatre stars, rich people and social people at posh hotels, at parties, in mansions and great...
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Silence Is a Scary Sound: And Other Stories on Living Through the Terrible Twos and ThreesI'd gone to college. I'd written for the New York Times. I had a solid credit score. How did I end up here? After his breakout hit book I'm Sorry . . . Love, Your Husband, Clint Edwards has more laugh-out-loud tales, this time...
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Devo's Freedom of ChoiceFinally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second LP Duty Now for the Future, and now it was go time. Propelled by the new decade's high-tech, free-market, pre-AIDS promise, 1980's Freedom of...
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When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in AmericaIn When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild, Lilace Mellin Guignard draws from emblematic moments and relationships in her own life to explore issues of gender, recreation, and environmental conservation. Born into a suburban family, Guignard wanted to get up close and personal with...
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Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of PlaceIn the tradition of a decade of bi-annual gatherings of the International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, this volume serves as the fifth refereed symposium anthology. Enchantments of Place celebrates poetry and poetic voices--theorizing and exploring poetic inquiry as an approach, methodology, and/or method for...
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SF-Consensus: Poems of Park Je-chunSF-Consensus is a poetry collection of 80 poems by Park Je-chun. In reading Park's poetry one often gets the impression that he communicates intimately and intensely with nature and the transcendent realm as well as everyday human reality. His poetic prowess often creates esoteric...
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The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of FaerieJ. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, according to this new study of his works. The Flame Imperishable follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien's legendarium,...
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