Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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America's England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic SectionalismThe wealth of transatlantic scholarship to emerge in recent years has greatly enriched our understanding of the mutual, far-reaching cultural exchange between Great Britain and the United States. Yet scholars often lose sight of this relationship in the years immediately leading up to the...
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Greek and Latin Letters: An Anthology with TranslationThe seventy-eight letters in this Anthology are selected both for their intrinsic interest and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c.500 BC and c.400 AD, they include naive and high-style, "real" and "fictitious", and classical...
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Prussian Nights: Bilingual EditionThe pictorial quality of the whole poem is an eye-opener. There is always a tendency, on the part of his detractors, to make of Solzhenitsyn something less than he is, but here is further evidence that he is something more than even his admirers...
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CandideThe novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: - A full...
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Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final YearsThe last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were--lived in the shadow of deception...
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Huis ClosThe full French text of Sartre's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.Author: Keith Gore, Jean-Paul SartrePublisher: RoutledgePublished: 12/03/1987Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.28dISBN: 9780415040037This...
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 6 (1936-1941)The final volume of Virginia Woolf's remarkable letters. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann.Author: Virginia Woolf, Nigel NicolsonPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 09/30/1982Pages: 576Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.52w x 1.42dISBN: 9780156508872About the AuthorWoolf, Virginia: - VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major...
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and SouthThe best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting social change.Author: Pauline E. HopkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/09/1991Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10dISBN: 9780195067859This...
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Canto General: Volume 7The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.Author: Pablo NerudaPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 05/17/2011Pages: 424Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9780520269972About...
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ParadisoRobert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of...
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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse BooksRacism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern FictionPostmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun...
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Talking about Detective FictionP. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The...
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The Blessing of the Animals: True Stories of Ginny, the Dog Who Rescues CatsMove over, Lassie--the dog who rescues cats has struck a chord in America that will not stop resonating. This canine crusader's uncanny ability to find and rescue stray cats has melted hearts from coast to coast, generating massive media attention, making her the top...
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Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullersMore than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation--the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden...
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Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings--An AnthologyMANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the...
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The Sackett Companion: The Facts Behind the FictionLittle did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating what would become perhaps North America's most widely followed literary family: the Sacketts. The...
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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar AmericaLiterature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers--attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tongue-in-cheek term, "bad" readers. They read...
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Women and WritingKnown for her novels, and for the dubious fame of being a doyenne of the 'Bloomsbury Set', in her time Virginia Woolf was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, and women's writing in...
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Jorie Graham: Essays on the PoetryJorie Graham is one of the most important American poets now writing. This first book-length study brings together thirteen previously published essays and review essays by many of the major critics currently interested in her work and five new essays commissioned for this volume....
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