Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary FieldWritten with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by one of the world's leading social theorists.Author: Pierre BourdieuPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 07/01/1996Pages:...
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Survivance: Narratives of Native PresenceThe concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America. Engendered and articulated by the Anishinaabe critic and writer Gerald Vizenor, survivance throws into relief the dynamic, inventive,...
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Black FolktalesTwelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius Lester. Arranged by topic -- Origins, Love, Heroes, and People -- the tales combine universal themes and uncanny wisdom. Though some of...
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O Solo Homo: The New Queer PerformanceO Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep -- from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family,...
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Show Me a Story!: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated IllustratorsIn compelling interviews by the acclaimed Leonard S. Marcus, twenty-one top authors and illustrators reveal their inside stories on the art of creating picture books. Max and Mickey; Miss Nelson; Pack, Quack, and Mrs. Mallard; Pigeon; Sylvester; John Henry; and a very hungry caterpillar...
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The Partly Cloudy PatriotFrom public radio This American Life contributor and self-described "history nerd" Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American...
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, esteemed historian John Julius Norwich chronicles the turbulent events of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England that inspired Shakespeare's history plays. It was a time of uncertainty and incessant warfare, a time during which the crown was constantly contested, alliances were...
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Beginning postcolonialism: Second editionPostcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish...
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Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded EditionIn Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of...
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at WorkAn eloquent and moving personal account of art and exile from award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your...
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Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and...
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Economy of the Unlost: (reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers...
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The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and JouissanceThis book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Against the tide of post-structuralist thinkers who announce "the death of the subject," Bruce Fink explores what it means to come into being as a subject where impersonal...
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Women Writer's at WorkSixteen of the world's great women writers speak about their work, their colleagues, and their lives. For More Than Forty Years, the acclaimed Paris Review interviews have been collected in the Writers at Work series. The Modern Library relaunches the series with the first...
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Shadow and ACTWith the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark...
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Selected Poems of Rita DoveHere in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's...
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Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and ChekhovAn original member of the famed Group Theater, Stella Adler was one of the most influential artists to come out of the American theater. As a Stanislavsky disciple and founder of her own highly esteemed acting conservatory, the extravagant actress was also an eminent...
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The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings"What Kafka was to the first half of the twentieth century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half."--Art Spiegelman, author of MAUS Philip K. Dick was both our most brilliant science fiction writer and a visionary philosopher who chose to couch his speculations...
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and ReviewsAuthor: Eudora WeltyPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 08/29/1990Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.76dISBN: 9780679730040About the AuthorOne of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909. . She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College...
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Eros the Bittersweet: An EssayNamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek...
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