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  • Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Haw by Russell, William F.
    Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Haw
    A 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 Edition by Whitman, Walt
    Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
    In 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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  • The Book Lover's Journal: My Personal Reading Record by Peter Pauper Press, Inc
    The Book Lover's Journal: My Personal Reading Record
    Calling all book lovers! Here is the reading journal youve always wanted. At last, a place to record the books youve read. Months and years from now, this journal will help you instantly recall long-forgotten details of your reading experience. This is also the...
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  • What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern by Rasula, Jed
    What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
    A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But,"...
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  • Trump, Hitler, and Me by Navarro, Frank
    Trump, Hitler, and Me
    The book explores the complexities and challenges of teaching in contemporary society, particularly in the context of political and social issues. It reflects on the experiences of educators and the impact of their work on students, emphasizing the importance of truth, free speech, and...
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  • Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish by Ortuño Casanova, Rocío
    Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish
    Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish approaches literature that has been forgotten or neglected in studies on other literatures in Spanish due, in part, to the fact that today Spanish is no longer spoken in the Philippines or in Asia. However,...
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  • The Prose Edda by Sturluson, Snorri
    The Prose Edda
    "The Prose Edda," a timeless compilation of Old Norse tales and poetic theories meticulously crafted by Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Offering a treasury of myths, legends, and insights into Viking Age beliefs, this cornerstone of Norse literature unveils the rich...
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  • The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter by Grant, Paul Benedict
    The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov: Mind and Matter
    Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that...
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  • The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom by Haile III, James B.
    The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom
    An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life. In a series of stories and essays, James B. Haile, III, traces...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime by Berndt, Jaqueline
    The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime
    This Companion takes a unique approach, exploring manga and anime as two distinct but interrelated forms. Firmly based in Japanese sources, it offers a lively and accessible introduction, exploring the local contexts of production and reception in Japan, as well as the global influence...
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  • The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History by Levine, Naomi
    The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History
    A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it...
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  • Shy of the Squirrel's Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books by Martrich, Andy
    Shy of the Squirrel's Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books
    The Jargon Society, a boundary-pushing publisher of poetry and experimental writing, was founded by Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) in 1951. Jargon quickly gained a reputation as the home of the poetic and literary avant-garde, including noted midcentury poets like Charles Olson and Lorine Niedecker. Williams...
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  • Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero by Smith, Troy D.
    Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero
    Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze. Further, the book explores how voices of color have...
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  • Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives by Bauer, Matthias
    Shakespeare's First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives
    This wide-ranging collection reflects on the various motivations that caused the Folio to come into being in 1623, 7 years after Shakespeare's death, and on how the now iconic book has been continually reimagined after its initial publication to the present day. In honour...
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  • Shadows & Verse: Classic Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary by Maberry, Jonathan
    Shadows & Verse: Classic Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary
    Shadows & Verse: Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary is a very special collection of poems and song lyrics that explore 'darkness' in all its many forms -the supernatural, grief, PTSD, loss, the unknown, death, and even joy. Darkness itself is not always bad or...
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  • Screaming at the Window: The Tragic Story of Blanche Monnier, the Prisoner of Poitiers by Dent, Rj
    Screaming at the Window: The Tragic Story of Blanche Monnier, the Prisoner of Poitiers
    Based on details and information reported in contemporaneous newspaper reports, Screaming at the Window is the true and tragic story of Blanche Monnier, the young daughter of Louise, an aristocratic mother and Emile, a former dean of the faculty of letters, who became known...
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  • Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism by Palmer, Isobel
    Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism
    How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into poetry Isobel Palmer spotlights Russian modernist poets' and formalist theorists' conscious engagement with formal convention, showing how their efforts were tied up with broader attempts in the early Soviet...
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  • Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century by Gefen, Alexandre
    Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century
    Talk of repair has become ubiquitous in recent years. In the age of trauma culture, art and literature have a new purpose: to do justice, to console, comfort, and heal. Drawing on works of twenty-first-century French-language literature, this monograph shows how literature can not...
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  • Peripatos: A History of Ancient Aristotelianism by Gili, Luca
    Peripatos: A History of Ancient Aristotelianism
    With the exception of Paul Moraux's Die Aristotelismus bei den Griechen (in German), the most recent books on the history of ancient Aristotelianism are H. Balthussen 2016 (The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs) and A. Falcon 2018 (Aristotelismo). Both works do not follow the chronological order...
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  • Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature by Kochar, Shubhanku
    Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature
    Village is not just a place, but an idea. Likewise, a city is not just a place, but a metaphor. Human imagination has conceived both village and city as opposite to one another. When we were tired of living in villages, we invented cities;...
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Literary criticism books are essential resources for anyone interested in analyzing and understanding literature on a deeper level. These books offer insights into various literary theories, critique methods, and analytical approaches that help readers and scholars interpret and evaluate literary works.

Literary criticism books delve into the analysis of literature, exploring how different aspects such as themes, characters, and narratives contribute to a text's meaning and impact. They provide valuable frameworks and perspectives that enhance the reader's ability to engage critically with literary texts.

Criticism literature includes works that assess and interpret the value and significance of various literary genres, styles, and authors. Books such as "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom and "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster are highly regarded for their comprehensive exploration of literary traditions and techniques.

Literary criticism theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding literature. These theories include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonialism, among others. Books like "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács offer foundational knowledge in these critical perspectives, providing readers with tools to analyze texts through various lenses.

For those seeking the best books to read on literary criticism, it’s helpful to explore both classic and contemporary texts. Works like "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" by Lois Tyson and "The Elements of Literary Style" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley offer practical advice and theoretical insights for readers and students.

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Q. What are literary criticism books used for?

A. Literary criticism books are used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. They offer various theoretical frameworks and methods to understand and critique literary works, helping readers and scholars explore themes, characters, and narrative techniques in depth.

Q. Can you recommend some foundational books on literary criticism theory?

A. Yes, some foundational books on literary criticism theory include "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton, which provides an overview of various critical approaches, and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács, which explores the evolution and form of the novel.

Q. What is criticism literature, and why is it important?

A. Criticism literature refers to works that analyze and assess the value and significance of literary texts. It is important because it helps readers and scholars gain a deeper understanding of literature, its context, and its impact, enhancing appreciation and critical engagement with texts.

Q. Where can I find the best literary criticism books?

A. You can find the best literary criticism books at online bookstores such as BooksDeli.com. These bookstores offer a wide selection of both classic and contemporary texts on literary criticism, making it easy to access essential readings and expand your knowledge.

Q. How do I choose the right literary criticism book for my needs?

A. To choose the right literary criticism book, consider your interests and the type of literature you are studying. Look for books that cover the specific theories or approaches you want to explore. Reviews, recommendations, and best-seller lists can also guide you in selecting books that are well-regarded and relevant to your needs.

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