Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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In the House of the Interpreter: A MemoirRenowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for independence and Kenyan sovereignty gripped his country. While he enjoyed scouting trips and chess tournaments, his...
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The New Cambridge Companion to ColeridgeThis new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder...
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Narrative and Its Nonevents: The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian RealismThis book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel. Through careful examination of the plots of several nineteenth-century classics, Glatt argues for the central role of these "unwritten plots" in Victorian narrative construction. Abandoning the allegorical mode-in which characters are bound...
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The Romantic LifeThe world is disenchanted. Rationalization, intellectualization, and scientism rule the day. We used to see the world as a magical place, but now it's just a material space. How did we get here? The shift comes in part from the rise of a certain...
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Tsunami Fun Fact for KidsFun Fact for Kids - Tsunami Children will learn about Fun Facts of Tsunami.Such as "Palm trees are the most tsunami safe trees on Earth.""Tsunami can have a wavelength of up to 120 miles""Tsunami can travel up to speed of 500 miles or 805...
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SpainLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Here we are, in Spain. Caren Beilin's travelogue lays out a new path for the genre. SPAIN is sly cultural criticism (Blanchot to The Shining), feminist wink, post-breakup corrective, and portrait of the artist as a young mansplained woman. Our...
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City of the Dead: The Fascinating Supernatural History of EdinburghEdinburgh is a modern, lively capital in a civilized western country. Yet it has a reputation for being one of the most haunted places on earth. This book is an attempt to find out why.It's a history of Edinburgh's dark side, a guide to...
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Wild Grass on the RiverbankPoetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California desert and her native Japan, tracking migrant children who may or may not be human, or alive, Hiromi It 's WILD GRASS ON THE...
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Wrap It In A Bit of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog: The fifth collection of essays and emails by New York Times Best Selling author, David ThorneFrom the New York Times Best Selling author of The Internet is a Playground and the creator of the website 27b/6, comes a brand new collection of never before published essays and emails."Thorne's best book yet. Clever, awkward, and laugh-out-loud funny."The Huffington PostAuthor: David...
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Essential Poems and Writings of Joyce MansourJoyce Mansour (1928-1986) is widely considered to be one of the most important of the woman Surrealists. Her work has gained more recognition every year since her death. Following the release in France of a 700 page critically acclaimed anthology (in French), this anthology...
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The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century FranceIrresistibly charming or shamelessly deceitful, remarkably persuasive or uselessly verbose, everything one loves to hate -- or hates to love -- about "French lovers" and their self-styled reputation can be traced to eighteenth-century libertine novels. Obsessed with strategies of seduction, endlessly speculating about the...
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The Tale of Saigyo: Volume 25The Tale of Saigyo is a poetic biography of the late Heian poet Saigyo (1118-90), one of the most loved and respected poets in Japanese literary history. Its anonymous author followed the venerable poem-tale tradition by using 128 of Saigyo's finest and best-known poems...
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Alfonsina Storni: Selected PoemsThis collection is painful, disturbing, and rewarding. Freeman and three other translators transform Storni's razor-sharp poetry into English versions that invite constant rereading. This is a poetry of fatal beauty that leads toward unavoidable death, but not before freeing the poet to leave everything...
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Quilting: Poems 1987-1990Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton's personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.Author: Lucille CliftonPublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 09/01/2000Pages:...
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Conversations with James BaldwinThis collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.Twenty-seven interviews reprinted here...
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Shake-It-Up Tales!Winner of Storytelling World Award Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Not-Ready-for-Newbery & Recommended Reference Title Pegasus Award As any good storyteller knows, audience participation often makes the difference between a so-so story and a terrific tale. Here, veteran performer Margaret Read MacDonald shares her experience...
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The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual WritingsHow did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the world's greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of all time. Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place...
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The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. SayersThe impact of Dorothy L. Sayer's work is a powerful one. She was a gifted artist who worked in many genres and addressed many issues, but her achievement goes beyond creative skill and variety of range. What she consistently communicates about Sin--the basic problem...
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Women Saints' Lives in Old English ProseTranslations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints' lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration...
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One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of RyokanThe hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his...
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