Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Against Nature (A Rebours)Author: Joris -. Karl HuysmansPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 10/30/2018Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781731702050This title is not returnable
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In the American Grain2017 Reprint of 1925 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is "a fundamental book, essential...
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Hafiz: The Mystic PoetsDiscover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your OwnHafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur'an itself. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people...
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Christmas in Minnesota: A Celebration in Memories, Stories, and Recipes of Seasons PastLike the warmth of a cabin fireplace and the twinkle of lights along the edge of a frozen lake, Christmas in Minnesota evokes memories of holidays long ago. Beloved Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz recalls the boyhood Christmas when he learned how to sketch...
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New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Honour of Helen DamicoNew Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Early Medieval English culture and in Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas. Honouring the eminent scholar Helen...
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The Eloquent Peasant, 2nd editionFour thousand years ago, Egyptian society struggled with the downfall of the Old Kingdom, which brought an end to material success and introduced anarchy and chaos. Out of this period of crisis came such literature as A Dialogue between a Man and His Ba,...
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I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana PhilosophyFirst published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology and adopted as a text in a wide variety of college and university courses. Bringing together writings by prominent black thinkers from Africa, the Caribbean, and North...
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The Long-Legged HouseFirst published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays...
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New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the CityNew York Elegies attempts to demonstrate how descriptions and evocations of New York City are connected to various stylistic modes and topical questions urgent to Ukrainian poetry throughout its development. The collection thus gives readers the opportunity to view New York through various poetic...
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Superhero ReaderWith contributions from Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott Bukatman, John G. Cawelti, Peter Coogan, Jules Feiffer, Charles Hatfield, Henry Jenkins, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Gerard Jones, Geoff Klock, Karin Kukkonen, Andy Medhurst, Adilifu Nama, Walter Ong, Lorrie Palmer, Richard Reynolds, Trina...
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Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue (Fourth Revised Edition)H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This fourth revised edition provides comprehensive information on 1085 books owned by Lovecraft.These books focus chiefly on four...
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Sex and the Cthulhu MythosH. P. Lovecraft was one of the most asexual beings in history-at least by his own admission. Whether we accept this view of his own sexual instincts or not, there is no denying that sexuality-normal and aberrant-underlies a number of significant tales in the...
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Washington Irving: The Definitive Biography of America's First Bestselling AuthorBrian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle" quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington...
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Understanding Cormac McCarthyNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and...
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My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking Your TruthThe ultimate writing guide that is a helping hand to anyone who dreams of telling their truth through words on a page." --Ellen Bass, author of Indigo [This book] gives us endless ways to access our creative selves and shows us how to shape...
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Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about WritingLike Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the...
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A Broken Thing: Poets on the LineIn the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is...
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The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and MoreHenry David Thoreau saw nature as teacher and companion, and many of his philosophies guide the contemporary environmental movement. What Thoreau wrote about simplicity, materialism, technology, and our troubled relationship with nature is perhaps even more relevant to our lives today than it was...
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The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent"[A] superb tribute . . . [an] essential collection" of essays analyzing the works of the preeminent twentieth-century poet and voice of social justice (Booklist).Winner of the Central New York Book Award for NonfictionFinalist for the Chicago Review of Books AwardPoet, educator, and social...
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The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 2: 1975-1977Funky, Les, and the gang pun their way through Westview High Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. This second volume, which presents strips from 1975, 1976,...
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