Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Beats: A Literary HistoryKerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these authors, but also...
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Piece of CakeBernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh wrote Piece of Cake as a work of collaborative prose poetry, based on a process of each writing on alternate days in the course of August of 1976-the bicentennial year of the America's Declaration of Independence. It recounts the...
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Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to DiasporaCaribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region, it excavates...
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Appendix NAPPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It...
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Japanese Plays: Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki WorksClassic works from Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki theaters Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held suspended and the mind is filled with words, music, dance, and mysticism. In this groundbreaking book, Professor A.L....
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Thought-Sign-Symbol: Cross-Cultural Representations of ReligionThis unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of spirituality, multiple forms of representation, as well as...
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Xenophon, Memorables: Tome I: Introduction Generale: Livre IAuthor: Michele BandiniPublisher: Les Belles LettresPublished: 01/01/2000Pages: 214Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 7.50h x 4.90w x 1.20dISBN: 9782251004822Language: FrenchThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Midwest FuturesA virtuoso book about midwestern identity and the future of the region. Named a Commonweal Notable Book of 2020, a finalist for a Midwest Independent Book award, and winner of the Independent Publisher Awards' 2020 Bronze Medal for Great Lakes Nonfiction.The Midwest: Is it...
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The Strange World of Willie SeabrookLiterary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two writers: Marjorie Worthington and William Seabrook. A renowned writer on the exotic and the occult, Seabrook was an extraordinary figure from the 1920s to the 1940s who traveled widely and...
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The Secret Life of ObjectsSelected by O, The Oprah Magazine: * Best Memoirs * Best Beach Reads * Best First Lines * Top Books to Pick Up Now ** A Wall Street Journal Bestseller ** MORE PRAISE FOR THE SECRET LIFE OF OBJECTS "Her gift for capturing the...
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The MinerFrom the great Meiji writer Natsume Sōseki, The Miner is an absurdist tale about the indeterminate nature of human personality.'It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be deeply...
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Red Tree, White Tree: Faeries and Humans in Partnership"The most important and challenging book on Arthurian and Grail tradition for many a long year." - Gareth Knight. The relationship between human and Faery lies at the very core of the Arthurian stories. In this radical re-evaluation of the Grail legends, Wendy Berg...
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Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic GuideIntroducing Semiotics outlines the development of semiotics--the study of signs and signifiers in the world around us--from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. It identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms.Author: Paul CobleyPublisher: Icon BooksPublished: 11/02/2010Pages:...
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Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison CampThe first translation of painter and writer J zef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with...
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The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. LawrenceYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet;...
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Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of ModernityPaul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and writing the lives of some of our greatest modern poets. This is a life-spanning collection of his prose explorations of what it means...
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Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House BooksThe Myth-Busting Book That Finally Revealed the True Story Behind the Beloved Children's Classics. Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls...
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Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in LettersH. P. Lovecraft's letters are among the most remarkable literary documents of their time, and they are a major reason why he has become such an icon in contemporary culture. He wrote tens of thousands of letters, some of them of great length; but...
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Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language2013 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This was the first book which presented, in a complete manner, a general theory of composition then current in Renaissance England. Its particular contribution is the reorganization...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksEvery Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists...
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