Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, HawA perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings.Author: William F. RussellPublisher: HarmonyPublished: 01/28/1992Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.16h...
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionIn 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture...
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Writing Themselves Into the Movement: Child Authors of the Black Arts EraBetween 1967 and 1972, a previously obscure group of authors entered the US cultural spotlight. During this five-year period, at least thirty anthologies of poetry and prose by African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Native American children came out of adult-led workshops, classrooms, and...
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Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They SpunLong before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales--these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together...
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Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greek PoetryAuthor: Andromache KaranikaPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.41h x 6.38w x 1.05dISBN: 9780198884576This title is not returnable
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Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Latin American LiteratureLatin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. They also have critiqued these characters using traditional gender binary concepts or have viewed their access to power as...
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Walking Each Other HomeMichael Hogan, as a poet and educator, has been gifted with friendships of fellow writers throughout most of his life. Three of these were Nobel laureates, still others household names: Seamus Heaney, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, Marge Piercy, Naomi Shihab Nye and Ray Bradbury,...
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Us According to Them: Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010The acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony in 1898 prompted the interest of many in the United States--the military, correspondents, investors, missionaries, politicians, scientists, and tourists. Wanting to know more about Puerto Rico, its inhabitants, and its potential utility, many of these curious...
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Us According to Them: Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010The acquisition of Puerto Rico as a colony in 1898 prompted the interest of many in the United States--the military, correspondents, investors, missionaries, politicians, scientists, and tourists. Wanting to know more about Puerto Rico, its inhabitants, and its potential utility, many of these curious...
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Typologies of Humor in African LiteraturesTypologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Despite humor being omnipresent in African societies and their literatures, discussions of contemporary African literature have largely dismissed it as...
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Typologies of Humor in African LiteraturesTypologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Despite humor being omnipresent in African societies and their literatures, discussions of contemporary African literature have largely dismissed it as...
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A MemoirA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was...
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The Oxford Handbook of Lord ByronAuthor: Jonathon Shears, Alan RawesPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 01/03/2025Pages: 784Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.39lbsSize: 9.72h x 7.03w x 2.03dISBN: 9780198808800This title is not returnable
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Theory as World LiteratureThe first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa. What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? This volume...
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The Old Man and the WolvesPart detective story, part fable, this novel--narrated by a French journalist--takes the reader to a mythical postindustrial city where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarianism have been erased. Wolves invade the seaside resort town of Santa Varvara in Eastern Europe, killing...
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The New Cambridge History of Russian LiteratureThis is the essential new guide to Russian literature, combining authority and innovation in coverage ranging from medieval manuscripts to the internet and social media. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral narrative...
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The Lives of the Poets: A SelectionHere is a substantial selection of Samuel Johnson's magisterial and unforgettable portraits of the lives of the English poets of the 17th and 18th centuries. Originally covering the lives of 52 poets, with the primary focus on Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope, Johnson's Lives...
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The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of DarknessHow can we "rejoice always" when the world often seems so broken? Andrew Klavan explores how artists' imaginative engagement with the darkness can point the way to living beautifully in the midst of a tragic world.In his USA Today bestselling The Truth and Beauty,...
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The Haunting of Aberdeen Manor: Book 1: The Aberdeen HauntingsThe Haunting of Aberdeen Manor by C.K. SmithThe Aberdeen Manor estate has always been shrouded in mystery-a sprawling property with a dark history hidden within its brick walls and shadowed halls. For Maeve and Ethan Adams, their family home is more than just an...
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The Great War and Modern Memory: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary EditionThe year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction...
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