Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Butch GeographyPoetry. LGBT Studies. In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves, Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are...
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Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham CityBatman Unauthorized explores Batman's motivations and actions, as well as those of his foes. Batman is a creature of the night, more about vengeance than justice, more plagued by doubts than full of self-assurance, and more darkness than light. He has no superpowers, just...
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Reading WritingEvery reader is a potential writer, and every writer is a reader in actuality. Reading Writing is a subjective history of fiction and poetry and a personal meditation on the links between literature and two visual arts: painting and cinema. Gracq's poetics is founded...
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BeowulfPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION WINNER OF THE TIMES STEPHEN SPENDER PRIZE 2011 A warrior sets sail for a distant land, to a once great hall plagued by a murderous enemy - the monster Grendel. Can the hero Beowulf defeat his bloody-thirsty foe, save...
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The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical CityHow does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become an occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral...
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How I Wrote Certain of My BooksRaymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the 20th century. His unearthly style based on elaborate linguistic riddles and puns fascinated the Surrealists and famously influenced the composition of Marcel Duchamp's "Large...
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Fosse: Plays Six: Rambuku; Freedom; Over There, These Eyes; Girl in Yellow Raincoat; Christmas Tree Song; SeaJon Fosse has been called 'the Beckett of the 21st century' (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed 'Waiting for Godot without the gags'. Just as Beckett's plays -- and those of all great playwrights -- grew out of their...
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Blank: Essays and InterviewsBla_K is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of...
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Anne of Green Gables: The Original ManuscriptThis fascinating book presents the original text of Montgomery's most famous manuscript, including where the author scribbled notes, made additions and deletions, and other editorial details. L. M. Montgomery scholar Carolyn Strom Collins offers a rare look into Montgomery's creative process, providing a never-before-published...
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Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: Bookmarked"Birkerts reads Nabokov even as he allows Nabokov to read him. This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise."--CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, author, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay "Much more than an exercise in literary criticism, this short book increasingly reads as a profound,...
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Hilarious Lawyer Jokes: An Illustrated Caseload of Jurisprudential JestsWhat is it about lawyers that has made them the butt of hundreds and hundreds of jokes over the centuries? Whatever the reason, everyone--including lawyers and judges themselves--has had a hearty chuckle over attorney-aimed humor. Hilarious Lawyer Jokes pokes the most fun (and malice)...
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The Initiatory Path in Fairy Tales: The Alchemical Secrets of Mother GooseHidden within age-old classic stories lie the hermetic teachings of alchemy and Freemasonry - Explains how the stages of the Great Work are encoded in both little known and popular stories such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Little Red Riding Hood - Reveals the...
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Christ, My CompanionDescription: ""Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all...
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Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult LiteratureThe first book of its kind, Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature reads Indigenous-authored YA--from school stories to speculative fiction-- not only as a vital challenge to stereotypes but also as a rich intellectual resource for theorizing Indigenous sovereignty in the...
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We Told You So: Comics as ArtIn 1976, a group of young men and women coalesced around a fledgling magazine and the idea that comics could be art. In 2016, comics intended for an adult readership are reviewed favorably in the New York Times, enjoy panels devoted to them at...
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Baptizing Harry Potter: A Christian Reading of J. K. RowlingIn this exquisitely detailed book, a monk gives his own Christian take on the Harry Potter series. He traces the intricate pattern of J K Rowling's surprisingly mystical tale with wit and insight. He brings out the wisdom of her understanding of good and...
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Tolkien Warriors-The House of the Wolfings: A Story That Inspired the Lord of the RingsIn letter written at the end of 1960, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that, while parts of The Lord of the Rings, "owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans,...
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo EmersonThis concise volume collects the core writings that have made Ralph Waldo Emerson into a key source of insight for spiritual seekers of every faith--with an introduction by the bestselling philosopher Jacob Needleman. Here is the essential collection of Emerson's spiritual thought for those...
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The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations: The 100-Year Anniversary EditionIn honor of this book's 100-year anniversary in the English language, The Book Tree presents this special 2016 edition. It has become essential reading for serious writers and those involved in the dramatic arts by providing a more complete understanding of the story structures...
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A Train of PowderLike most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is...
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