Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology, 1560-1700This anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection introduces modern readers to the various examples of the work of women writers from these centuries and includes poems, prose and fiction, drama, letters, prophecies,...
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La Dame Aux CaméliasOne of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love affair with one of the most desirable courtesans in Paris. This is...
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GeorgicsVirgil's affectionate poem of the land brings us the disappointments as well as the rewards of the countryman's year-round devotion to his crops, his vines and olives, livestock great and small, and the complex society of his bees. Part agricultural manual, part political poem...
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Comparative Literature: A Very Short IntroductionComparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at "comparison" have defined...
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The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban PlaysBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in...
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Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and CustomsOver a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. Definitive and lively articles focus on the great tales and traditions of the age and includes information on daily and...
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Living by the WordIn meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial debates, including the controversy surrounding Walker's bestseller, The Color Purple.Author: Alice WalkerPublisher: Amistad PressPublished: 10/23/1989Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.30w x 0.56dISBN:...
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The Second Common Reader: Annotated EditionHere, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield's letters and De Quincey's autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited...
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Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the GameThe only book of its kind, Tennis and the Meaning of Life is a resplendent collection of the best fiction (and poetry ) written about this sport/obsession. The stories are hilarious and sad, whimsical and philosophical - and thoroughly saturated with the art of...
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters"[An] essential Beat masterpiece." --The Village Voice. Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the process of creation of the two most celebrated members of the Beat Generation, but...
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The Death of King ArthurRecounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and...
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Cautivado Por La AlegriaC. S. Lewis, un observador del yo infaliblemente honesto y sumamente perspicaz, cuenta vívidamente la trayectoria espiritual que lo llevó desde una niñez cristiana en Belfast a una adolescencia atea y de vuelta finalmente al cristianismo. Una autobiografía sumamente personal y sinceraacerca de la...
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden"Ackerman has done it again ... one of the most buoyant and enjoyable garden reads ... uplifting, intelligent." -- Boston GlobeIn the mode of her bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons.Whether...
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The Art of the Novel"Lucid, detached, and epigrammatic ...The book has its author's familiar swiftness and variety of attack and his elegant, provocative irony."-- The New Yorker"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have...
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Dark SymphonyThis collection of the works from the nineteenth and twentieth century is filled with powerful, sensitive, and moving writings from the most notable Black writers in history. This anthology of Black writers brings together some of the most notable, effective, and emotional writings in...
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Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/NativeThis book presents how Nation and Narrative are bound together through the figure of the "N/native" as it appears in the non-fictional writings of Cornelia Sorabji, Grazia Deledda, Zitkála-Sá, Virginia Woolf, Victoria Ocampo, and Gwendolyn Bennett. It addresses two questions: How did women writers...
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Oltre La Mer Salee: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Societe Rencesvals Pour l'Etude Des Epopees Romanes, Toronto, 13Oltre la mer salee collects revised versions of twenty-eight papers in English, French, Italian, and Spanish originally presented at the 21st International Congress of the Societe Rencesvals pour l'etude des epopees romanes, held in August 2018 in Toronto. Specialists in the field of medieval...
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Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her WorksWriters and critics have long acknowledged Bronwen Wallace's unique contribution to Canadian literature and yet her work has received little academic recognition. This collection attempts to remedy this with voices old and new. A critical introduction, biography, and interview are followed by previously published...
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FaulkneristaFaulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book's nine...
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Widening the Sphere: Mid-To-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation, and CanonicityThis work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the literature of the Victorian period....
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