Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Sweet Theft: A Poet's Commonplace BookCenturies ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before returning the precious book to its owner. These anthologies came to be known as Commonplace Books, and modern...
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The Greek Search for WisdomThe philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was but a series of footnotes to Plato. By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an extension of the ancient Greek cultural legacy. The Greeks...
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Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1S. T. Joshi is one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, and in this expansive new study he provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the entire range of weird fiction from antiquity to the present day. This first volume focuses on weird...
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Women and Fiction [A Room of One's Own]2015 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. "Women and Fiction" was first published in the U.S. in Forum Magazine, a prominent literary journal of the 1920's It is the principle essay and title of a series of lectures Woolff delivered...
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The World Beyond the Hill - Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence"An unbelievably wonderful book"-Isaac Asimov *****The World Beyond the Hill is a unique book-a story about stories. It tells not only where science fiction came from and how it got that way, but what science fiction means. *** Science fiction has been the myth...
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The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to PynchonOur foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another--how literary traditions are made--and no...
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Lectures on GodmanhoodLess known in the anglophone world than Berdyaev (who was a pupil of his), or Martin Buber, Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900), philosopher, mystic, poet, has nevertheless a contribution of the first importance to offer to Western scholarship. He came from a rich and not yet...
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Rumi and Islam: Selections from His Stories, Poems, and Discourses Annotated & ExplainedPresents the most important of Rumi's writings with insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that conveys how his teachings about the nature of love for God and God's love for us can increase our understanding of Islamic wisdom in the West.Author: Maulana Jalal al-Din RumiPublisher: Skylight...
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Hot and Cold: The Works of Richard HellHot and Cold: The Works of Richard Hell is a stupendous compendium of poetry, prose, photography, illustrations, interviews, essays, lyrics, and more by acclaimed artist, author, and rock star, Richard Hell. Since he first came to public attention in the 1970s, Richard Hell has...
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Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and PoetryCross-Pollinations is a book about dissolving boundaries and blending disciplines to reveal a world rich in possibility, one where unthinkable solutions emerge.Gary Paul Nabhan, an accomplished biologist and writer--and "a voice that speaks to the laity in clear and coherent sentences" (New York Times)--believes...
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The Prelude: Newly Edited from the Manuscripts and Fully Illustrated in Color"An outsize, gorgeous book, replete with paintings and drawings--landscapes, houses, portraits--contemporaneous with the poem. At last we have a worthy visual counterpart to one of the timeless monuments of English verse."--The Wall Street Journal The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank...
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Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk HumorJuha is an old Arab comic literary figure (known also to Persians and Turks) around whom countless popular anecdotes were written. He appears variously as preacher and beggar, porter and petty merchant, thief and honest man, judge and social critic, wise man and fool,...
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God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of GodWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published twelve books of poetry and five books of essays. Her poems are quoted in everything from Web sites to hymn books. Earthlight, a "Magazine of Spiritual Ecology," has declared her an "earth...
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Sun at Midnight: Poems and LettersAn undisputed master.--The New York TimesLong out of print, this reissue is the first translation into English of the work of Muso Soseki, the thirteenth-century Zen roshi and founder of the rock garden. A gorgeous introduction by co-translator W.S. Merwin sets the stage for...
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Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black StudiesQueer Returns returns us to the scene of multiculturalism, diaspora, and queer through the lens of Black expression, identity, and the political. The essays question what it means to live in a multicultural society, how diaspora impacts identity and culture, and how the categories...
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From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican RepublicSovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti--a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies--the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti,...
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The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century DramaThis comprehensive and inclusive anthology is the best of its kind. Author: J. Douglas CanfieldPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 05/31/2001Pages: 2000Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.70lbsSize: 9.40h x 7.70w x 1.50dISBN: 9781551112701About the Author The late J. Douglas Canfield was Regents' Professor of English at the University...
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I Ragazzi GrandiCarlo Collodi, all'anagrafe Carlo Lorenzini (Firenze, 24 novembre 1826 - Firenze, 26 ottobre 1890), stato uno scrittore e giornalista italiano. divenuto celebre come autore del romanzo Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino, pi noto come Pinocchio.Author: Jhon Duran, Carlo CollodiPublisher: Createspace Independent...
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through...
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New Hampshire: Poem with Notes and Grace NotesNew Hampshire is Robert Frost's poetic tour de force. It won the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in poetry. While Frost had been a respected poet before New Hampshire's release New Hampshire forever cemented Frost's standing as the greatest American Poet. If you've never read...
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