Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Faulkner: A BiographyWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding...
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The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual PoetryThe Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry celebrates the unique spiritual life of women through a rich selection of poetry written over the past four thousand years, from thirty-six different languages and cultures. It ranges from verse by the first recorded poet, a Sumerian...
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Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee PeriodIn Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the imagery and myths of Platonic, gnostic, and existentialist...
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The Black Mountain Letters: Poems and EssaysIn The Black Mountain Letters, poet and scholar Jonathan C. Creasy breathes new life into one of the most important experiments in arts and education ever established in the United States. Through years of research into the life and legacy of Black Mountain College,...
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Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and AccountsA dazzling collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite...
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Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of TranslationAfter nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English translation, William H. Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing himself, in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. Gass examines the genesis...
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Oulipo: A Primer of Potential LiteratureA remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative writing...
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Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the WorldStrong women who prevail and triumph using their intelligence, courage, or resourcefulness are celebrated in this gathering of stories for all ages. It features legends, folklore, and fairy tales from such far-flung places as the Punjab, Africa, China, Japan, the Middle East, and Europe...
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An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton WilsonA fair and balanced look at the writing of Robert Anton Wilson and its relationship with the Kaballah, Finnegans Wake, General Semantics, Quantum Mechanics, Ezra Pound, The Wizard of Oz, Aleister Crowley, and a zillion other subjects. Whether you are a newcomer or already...
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Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth CenturyThis book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne Miller argues...
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Black Comedy: 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and EssaysThis first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept pace with historical events, like the sit-in demonstrations, the bus boycotts, black nationalism,...
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One with Others: [a Little Book of Her Days]Honored in Best Books of the Year listings from The New Yorker, National Public Radio, Library Journal, and The Huffington Post.One With Others represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet.--The New Yorker A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode...
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VoicesAntonio Porchia (1886-1968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction by...
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The Art of History: Unlocking the Past in Fiction and NonfictionOne has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up by Downton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductive as ever. But incorporating historical events and figures into a shapely narrative...
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Introduction to Indigenous Literary Criticism in CanadaThis unique collection gathers 26 important works of criticism on Canadian Indigenous literature. Author: Heather MacFarlanePublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 12/18/2015Pages: 344Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781554811830About the Author Heather Macfarlane is Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at Queen's...
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Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical PerspectivesAn anthology of tales and original critical essays that moves beyond canonized "classics" and old paradigms. Author: Christine A. JonesPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 10/19/2012Pages: 584Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781554810437About the Author Christine A. Jones is Associate Professor of French...
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Boom!: Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular MarketSince the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed,...
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In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art SpiegelmanJeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not one. As well-versed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his subject not...
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The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell"The Crystal Spirit" is a revealing look at the great writer and political thinker George Orwell, whose visionary work gave us the great anti-utopias of twentieth-century literature. A close friend and colleague during the last decade of that remarkable writer's life, Woodcock was uniquely...
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 6b: The Twentieth Century and Beyond: From 1945 to the Twenty-First CenturyIn all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of...
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