Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a WarA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. --Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the...
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The SymphoniesAndrei Bely is best known for the modernist masterwork Petersburg, a paradigmatic example of how modern writers strove to evoke the fragmentation of language, narrative, and consciousness. In the early twentieth century, Bely embarked on his life as an artist with texts he called...
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The Idea of Europe: A Critical HistoryThere is an increasingly widespread sense that Europe is in crisis. Notions of a shared European identity and a common European culture appear to be losing their purchase. This crisis is often seen as a conflict between a cosmopolitan and a nationalist idea of...
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Beyond This Narrow Now: Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du BoisIn "Beyond This Narrow Now" Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. Opening with a distinct approach to the...
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The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to NapoleonThe Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism...
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Dickens by Chesterton: Critical Study, Biography, Appreciations & Criticisms of the Works by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was an English writer and social critic, widely recognized as a literary genius. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. G. K. Chesterton took great interest in...
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Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern FantasyMagdalen College, where C.S. Lewis taught in Oxford, was an appropriate site for the "Informing the Inklings" conference hosted by the George MacDonald Society. Participants explored how MacDonald and fellow literary figures such as S.T. Coleridge, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Andrew Lang paved...
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Augustine's Confessions: A BiographyFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's Confessions In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has...
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Study Guide to The Red Pony and The Pearl by John SteinbeckA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by John Steinbeck's, 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. Titles in this study guide include The Red Pony and The Pearl. As an author of the Civil Rights Era, Steinbeck...
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Study Guide to Walden Two by B. F. SkinnerA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for B. F. Skinner's Walden Two, the behavioral psychologist's only published attempt at fiction. As a novel of the 1940s, Walden Two has been thought of as science fiction due to the fact...
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Robert E. Howard: A Closer LookIn 1987, Charles Hoffman and Marc Cerasini published a volume on Robert E. Howard for the acclaimed Starmont Reader's Guides series. Even then, the book was a pioneering study of Howard's life and work. In the decades that have followed, a great deal of...
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Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational MigrationRipped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration is an innovative and interdisciplinary analysis of Latina narratives of transnational migration that underscore the intersections of the physical, psychological, sociocultural, and legal / structural traumas endured by migrants and their families. Grounded in theories of narrative...
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BlackfaceA New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of...
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Character: The History of a Cultural ObsessionA spirited, engaging investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday life. What is "character"? Since at least Aristotle's time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest...
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Guard the MysteriesGuard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences,...
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Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of EnlightenmentA lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclop die, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment. But how might we delineate the contours...
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne SextonNamed a Best Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times A vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th century--Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton--became bitter rivals and, eventually, friends. Introduced at a workshop in Boston University...
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Buffy and the Art of Story: Writing Better Fiction By Watching BuffyWhat can you learn about fiction writing by watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer?More than you ever imagined.In this book, bestselling author L. M. Lilly takes apart every episode in the first season of Joss Whedon's cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She examines...
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American Literary Cultures: A ReaderAmerican Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors--particularly those of Texas and the Southwest--and includes readings representative of a broad array of American social, religious, racial, and ethnic groups from first contact to early twentieth-century Modernism. Tracing the diverse heritages and global impulses...
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Narrative and Narration: Analyzing Cinematic StorytellingFrom mainstream blockbusters to art house cinema, narrative and narration are the driving forces that organize a film. Yet attempts to explain these forces are often mired in notoriously complex terminology and dense theory. Warren Buckland provides a clear and accessible introduction that explains...
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