Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken HeartsAn in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters. In Death By Shakespeare, Kathryn Harkup, best-selling author of A is for Arsenic and expert on the more gruesome side of science, turns her expertise to William...
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Close Reading: The BasicsClose reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond. Using classic...
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Children's Literature Remembered: Issues, Trends, and Favorite BooksEmerging from the Children's Literature Assembly's postconference workshop following the 1999 NCTE fall conference, this compilation of delivered speeches and reflective chapters offers insight into the broad development of American children's literature in the 20th century. With speeches by such luminaries as Julius Lester,...
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Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America: An AnthologyBestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that we know today --...
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Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on WickednessA new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple. In Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness, 'Agathologist' Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead's most famous resident and uses his own detective...
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against DespairChristian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the...
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Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and YiddishThere is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not on Freud but...
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The White RoseThe White Rose was a student resistance group organized in Nazi Germany, for the purpose of resisting the Hitler regime. They engaged in passive resistance by distributing anonymous pamphlets denouncing Hitler and his works. The group was organized by Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and...
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The Second Seedtime: Notebooks, 1980-94The second volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters. One of Europe's finest contemporary poets, Jaccottet is a writer of exacting attention. Through keen observations of the natural world, art, literature, and music, and reflections...
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The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and ModernismPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 08/27/2024Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780231217453
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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume IIThis collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished:...
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The Equality of Flesh: Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern CultureThe Equality of Flesh traces a new genealogy of equality before its formalization under liberalism. While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Brent Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized equality as an ambivalent and profoundly bodily...
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The Divine Comedy Of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno: A Translation With Notes And An Introductory Essay By James Romanes SibbaldThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...
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The Complete Works of NietzscheThis is a complete collection of all the novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Human All Too Human,...
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The Cambridge French-English ThesaurusThis highly useful bilingual thesaurus is aimed at all English-speaking learners and users of French at intermediate and more advanced levels. Structured in a uniquely helpful way, it is arranged thematically, with extensive subdivisions into topic categories. Two alphabetical indexes of more than 8,000...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American LiteratureWhether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinIn this timeless classic, delve into the extraordinary life of one of America's founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin. An architect of the nation and a polymath of unparalleled brilliance, Franklin takes you on an intimate journey through his remarkable life. From his humble beginnings in...
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The Art of Drama, Volume 2: MacbethThis innovative, new critical guide follows the same format as our Art of Poetry series. High quality, fine-grained analysis of key aspects of the play, including essays on key characters and exploration of key scenes, is supported with contextual information, teaching ideas and much...
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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured PoetsFrom Robert Frost's road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift's lyrics are filled with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays...
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Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William ShakespeareA dazzling portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich and complex queer life informed the plays and poems we treasure today "Was Shakespeare gay?" For years the question has sent experts and fans into a tailspin of confusion. But as...
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