Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Première leçon du cours de poétique«... Tous les arts admettaient, nagu re, d' tre soumis chacun selon sa nature, certaines formes ou modes obligatoires qui s'imposaient toutes les oeuvres du m me genre, et qui pouvaient et devaient s'apprendre, comme l'on fait la syntaxe d'une langue. On ne consentait...
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." --NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly,...
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The Divine MimesisWritten between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini's imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. It is also a self-critique by the author of The Ashes of Gramsci (1957)...
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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other AphorismsEric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Passionate State of Mind is a...
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TetrabiblosClaudius Ptolemy (c.100 - c.178 AD), of Alexandria, was one of the greatest philosopher/scientists of the ancient world. Among his books are the Almagest, Geography, Optics, Planispherium and Tetrabiblos. The earliest surviving version of Tetrabiblos is the paraphrase attributed to Proclus the Philosopher (412-485)....
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Introduccin a la Literatura Infantil En EspaolIntroduccin a la literatura infantil en espaol is an indispensable textbook for college courses on Children's Literature in Spanish. Today, in its second edition, more and more Colleges are adopting this textbook for their literature courses. The author, Dr. Lidia Daz is the developer...
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BloodhoofBloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem - but this only begins to hint at its attractions. It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerdur Gymisdottir from the land of giants to the court...
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Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient LiteratureLeithart analyzes the grand classics of ancient literature-The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and others-commenting on each and contrasting their pagan worldview to the biblical worldview. If you fall asleep in your English classes, this book is like drinking ten cups of coffee. Maybe...
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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"It's all devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies" -- Douglas AdamsUpon publication, Don't Panic quickly established itself as the definitive companion to Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This edition comes up to date, covering the movie, And Another...
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A Companion to Medieval Scottish PoetryA full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages. The poetry written in Scotland between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth century is exceptionally rich and varied. The contributions collected here, by leading...
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Sherlock Holmes's London: Explore the City in the Footsteps of the Great DetectiveExplore the hidden streets and spectacular sights of Sherlock Holmes' London. Sherlock Holmes is one of the world's most famous detectives, but Sherlock would be nothing without 221B Baker Street, the West End and the crime-ridden streets of London. Indeed, you cannot talk about...
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Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor...
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I Found God in MeI Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as cutting-edge womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. This book is...
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Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in The HobbitDiscover the Christian meaning in The Hobbit In Bilbo's Journey go beyond the dragons, dwarves, and elves, and discover the surprisingly deep meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novel The Hobbit. Bilbo's quest to find and slay the dragon Smaug is a riveting tale of...
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The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature: Revised and EnlargedH. P. Lovecraft's "Supernatural Horror in Literature," first published in 1927, is widely recognized as the finest historical survey of horror literature ever written. The product of both a keen critical analyst and a working practitioner in the field, the essay affords unique insights...
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Introductory Papers on DanteIntroducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement This introductory volume of essays on Dante by Dr. Dorothy L. Sayers will be eagerly sought by the many thousands of readers...
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical InquiryOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue--sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things--and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue...
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A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ReaderFrances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known and best loved African-American poet of her time, as well as a teacher and lecturer on abolition, suffrage, education, and many other topics. This anthology contains all of her extant poetry and a generous selection of...
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 6a: The Twentieth Century and Beyond: From 1900 to Mid CenturyIn all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of...
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Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt RevealedMeet Clive Cussler's beloved action adventure hero in a way you've never seen him before Plus, a special Dirk Pitt short story included only in this volume Clive Cussler's life parallels that of his fictional hero, Dirk Pitt. Whether searching for famous shipwrecks or...
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