Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Study Guide to The Major Poetry of Emily DickinsonA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Emily Dickinson, famous American poet. Titles in this study guide include Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers, A Bird Came Down The Walk, 'Twas Like A Maelstrom, With A Notch,...
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Study Guide to the Major Works by Edgar Allan PoeA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Edgar Allen Poe, a key figure in Romanticism. Titles in this study guide include The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado. As...
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A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's PetersburgAndrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Few artistic works created before the First...
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Wild Belief: Poets and Prophets in the Wilderness""Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark."" Dante's Inferno begins with imagery of the wilderness marked by darkness, fear, and the unknown. In folktales, legends, and children's stories, the wilderness is a place of conflict and...
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Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie ApocalypseIt's not easy being a parent these days. There are bills to pay. Kids to feed. And hordes of undead monsters to keep at bay. There are plenty of guides out there about how to survive the zombie apocalypse. All of them assume readers...
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Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part"Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man's incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes's marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show...
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Finding God in the Lord of the RingsThe bestselling book now revised and updated with new content!Hailed as the most popular and best-loved series of the twentieth century, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is more than a great story; it's a reflection of life's epic quest for all of us....
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Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic ImaginariesSenegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, it depicts how they make sense of who they are-and how they fit into their communities, countries,...
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The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick DouglassIn The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had "elaborated a political philosophy" from his own "slave experience." Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide...
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Colonial Legacies in Chicana/O Literature and Culture: Looking Through the KaleidoscopeColonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture exposes the ways in which colonialism is expressed in the literary and cultural production of the U.S. Southwest, a region that has experienced at least two distinct colonial periods since the sixteenth century. Vanessa Fonseca-Ch vez traces...
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Study Guide to Silas Marner and Middlemarch by George EliotA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Eliot, who developed the method of psychological analysis in modern fiction. Titles in this study guide include Silas Marner and Middlemarch. As a revolutionary voice of literary realism...
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Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan GuilbaultDeath opens the gates to resurrection. The pathways to faith are diverse, but all carry components of death and renewal. In Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault, Charles Taylor takes readers through a handful of books that played a crucial role in shaping...
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Nobre Alcorao: PortuguesePortuguese: Nobre Alcorao, Koran, Quran - Portuguese translation With Arabic Nobre Alcorao]. O Alcor o a maior d diva de Deus humanidade e a sua sabedoria de uma esp cie nica, exposto, em termos breves, o prop sito do Livro consiste em ser o...
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Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday LifeMari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of...
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Mysteries of Dune: Sufism, Psychedelics, and the Prediction of Frank HerbertThe need for this study has never been greater. More than 50 years since its appearance, Dune is only increasing in relevance, as the rise of ISIS in the Middle East has recently shown. Now Mahmoud Shelton examines a world of psychic confusion in...
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First CenturyIn Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race across centuries, continents, and cultures. While Ryan Coogler and Janelle Monáe may have helped bring...
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There Must Be Happy Endings: On a Theater of Optimism & HonestyLiterary Nonfiction. Drama. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Performance Studies. Women's Studies. Is it possible--is it even ethical?--to make hopeful art in an unjust and chaotic world? In the tradition of artist-essayists such as James Baldwin, Anne Lamott, and...
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Study Guide to Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, an immediate popular success when it was published as Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in 1726. As a novel of eighteenth century Britain, Gulliver's Travels...
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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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