Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reflecting the Eternal: Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of C.S. LewisThe characters, plots, and potent language of C. S. Lewis's novels reveal everywhere the modern writer' admiration for Dante's Divine Comedy. Throughout his career Lewis drew on the structure, themes, and narrative details of Dante's medieval epic to present his characters as spiritual pilgrims...
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Random HarvestRandom Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the novel was immensely popular, placing second on The New York Times list of best-selling novels for the year.The novel...
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Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 2In this second volume of S. T. Joshi's landmark history of supernatural fiction, the initial focus is on an incredible efflorescence of weird writing at the turn of the twentieth century-a period that many scholars have referred to as the Golden Age of weird...
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HamletAuthor: William ShakespearePublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 08/10/2011Pages: 330Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74dISBN: 9781613820919This title is not returnable
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Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me: Discover the Magic of Friendship, Family, Courage, and Love in Your LifeAn approachable and inspiring series of short essays that examines the greatest YA series ever with a combination of adult literary criticism and childhood curiosity The books will always be a part of you. Now, revisit old Hogwarts haunts. Reconnect with favorite characters. And...
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The Pocket HaikuQuintessential classical Japanese haiku--selected and translated by one of America's premier poet-translators--now available in a pocket edition. In this collection of haiku, translator Sam Hamill has compiled the best from the tradition, spanning the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, with particular focus on the three...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Changing Your Life Through Positive ThinkingLearn how to change your life by using the power of positive thinking. Follow the steps described in these 101 true stories about using the Power of Positive! Positive thinking is a powerful tool, one that can make you healthier, happier, and more successful....
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A Year with George HerbertSince 1633, when The Temple was first published, many notable Christians have testified of their love for George Herbert's poetry. The great nineteenth-century preacher C. H. Spurgeon and his wife would sometimes read Herbert's poetry together on Sunday evenings. Richard Baxter wrote, ""Herbert speaks...
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A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the ClassicsBoitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and...
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La Dama BobaText in Spanish, with introduction and notes in English.Author: Lope de VegaPublisher: European MasterpiecesPublished: 12/02/2010Pages: 178Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41dISBN: 9781589770720Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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In the Company of Rilke: Why a 20th-Century Visionary Poet Speaks So Eloquently to 21st-Century ReadersConnecting to your inner life through the transformative poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.In the Company of Rilke is a rare book about a rare poet. Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who remains a visionary voice for our own time, captivating...
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Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1930-1935This third volume of a projected six reinforces Huxley's stature as one of the most acute and informed observers of the social and ideological trends of the years between the world wars. It contains the important collection of essays "Music at Night" as well...
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Jack Kerouac: A BiographyAll the components of the Jack Kerouac legend are here: the excesses of alcohol and drugs; the soul searching; the characters -- Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr, John Clellon Holmes and William Burroughs, Jack's mother, Gabrielle, and the other...
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The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on ShakespeareExquisite... enthralling... This short, modest and brilliant book does more than many more grandiose tomes to renew the reader's fascination with the plays, and the theatre-goer's wonder at the extraordinary and diverse sensations locked up inside the First Folio. It should be required reading...
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The Life of the Drama"Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again." -...
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On Poetry and Craft: Selected ProseOne of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre.Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to...
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Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of DesireNostalgia for Death is the sole book of Villaurrutia, who was one of the few openly homosexual Latin American writers and one of Mexico's most important authors of the early twentieth century. The latest of Eliot Weinberger's brilliant translations of Latin American poets brings...
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Walking the Rez Road: Stories, 20th Anniversary EditionCelebrating two decades in publication, this twentieth-anniversary edition of a timeless classic comprises forty stories and poems that feature Luke Warmwater, a Vietnam veteran who survived the war but has trouble surviving the peace.Author: Jim NorthrupPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished: 07/01/2013Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.40h...
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The Art of Mystery: The Search for QuestionsA sensitive and nuanced exploration of a seldom-discussed subject by an acclaimed novelistThe fourteenth volume in the Art of series conjures an ethereal subject: the idea of mystery in fiction. Mystery is not often discussed--apart from the genre--because, as Maud Casey says, "It's not...
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The Jew of MaltaA new critical introduction and very extensive appendices on the major philosophical and political texts of the play make this edition unique on the market. Author: Christopher MarlowePublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 12/02/2011Pages: 290Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60dISBN: 9781554810680About the Author...
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