Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Study Guide to Faust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, the poetic drama that establishes Goethe as a renowned Romantic author. As a play written in poetic verse of the Romantic era, Faust is a universally meaningful...
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Study Guide to The Virginian by Owen WisterA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Owen Wister's The Virginian, considered by many to be the first fictional western written. As a fictionalized historical account of post-Civil War Western America, The Virginian gives readers a social picture of...
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Study Guide to Zorba the Greek by Nikos KazantzakisA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek, the internationally acclaimed novel of opposing forces. As a tale of Greek's Great Famine during WWII, Zorba the Greek gives a fresh perspective on the duality between...
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Study Guide to David Copperfield by Charles DickensA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel of the main character. As an 1800s English work, David Copperfield shows how power leads to corruption, a still-relevant theme today. Moreover, the novel draws...
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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in ReviewNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of...
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The She Said Dialogues: Flesh MemoryIn her original author's note to the 1999 edition, Akilah Oliver writes,"What I am trying to do in these poems is investigate the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language." the she...
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Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical ThoughtSince its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children's literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in children's classics, especially Lewis Carroll's Alice books, and has also developed a literature for beginners that resembles children's literature...
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The World of Bob DylanBob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact. Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and topics central to Dylan's...
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Get Even: The Complete Book of Dirty TricksA hilarious overview of the methods people use to get even with big business, government and enemies. These dirty tricks range from the simple to the elaborate, including more sophisticated schemes devised by CIA and Mafia members and political dirty tricksters. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES...
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Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. SayersKnown for her bestselling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C.S. Lewis. This pioneering woman not only forged a literary career for herself but also spoke...
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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance EducationA lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought--one that demonstrates what we've lost...
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The Neglected C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Riches of His Most Overlooked BooksReaders who can quote word for word from C.S. Lewis's theological classic, Mere Christianity, or his science fiction novel, Perelandra, have often never read his work as a professional literary historian. They may not even recognize some of the neglected works discussed, here. Mark...
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Printing Virgil: The Transformation of the Classics in the RenaissanceIn this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, transforming his work into poetry that was both classical and postclassical.Author: KallendorfPublisher: BrillPublished: 12/05/2019Pages: 204Binding Type:...
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Eighteen YearsAuthored by Madisen Kuhn // Illustrated by Laura SupnikEighteen Years is a collection of 220+ poems. Madisen Kuhn, popularly known as m.k., writes honestly and personally about the thoughts and feelings that come with finding your way. Eighteen Years is here to tell you...
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Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry: Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Nagase KiyokoThis bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the development of modern Japanese poetry. A general introduction provides the literary and historical context for their achievement, while each poet's work is prefaced with...
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The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and PoetryClarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his many accolades, he was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Fulbright scholar and received the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett...
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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the AestheticIn 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by...
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Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political HorrorJordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploring Get Out's roots in the horror tradition and its complex and timely commentary on twenty-first-century US race relations. The first section, "The Politics of Horror," traces the influence of...
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Manning Up: Transsexual Men Finding Brotherhood, Family and ThemselvesLiterary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. A call to trans men everywhere to embrace their personal journey of transition, MANNING UP brings together a wide range of voices, from young men to elders, to candidly share their journeys of transitioning to manhood. More than just the...
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Proof of LossLiterary Nonfiction. California Interest. Upon learning about her ex-brother-in-law's cancer diagnosis, Sara Marchant decides to stand in as caretaker during his intensive treatment. Marchant's distinct, evocative, and at times humorous memoir, PROOF OF LOSS, grips the reader from all sides, illuminating Marchant's own tragic...
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