Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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A History of Western American LiteratureThe American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing...
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Nnedi Okorafor: Magic, Myth, Morality and the FutureThis work is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor's critically acclaimed fiction. Written for an audience that includes serious fans as well as scholars, it is an introduction to Okorafor's work and major influences. The scope of the text is ambitious, featuring...
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Autumn in VeniceThe illuminating story of writer and muse--which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity--Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingway's final years. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife...
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How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too MuchWhile debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation--her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks on...
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Shakespeare and Senecan TragedyAuthor: Curtis PerryPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/03/2022Pages: 308Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65dISBN: 9781108791618
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Shakespeare's Accents: Voicing Identity in PerformanceAuthor: Sonia MassaiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/18/2022Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53dISBN: 9781108454612This title is not returnable
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Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and BeyondThe veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939-2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what...
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Eighty Years of Arkham House: A History and BibliographyArkham House, based in Sauk City, Wisconsin, is the most famous small press in the field of weird fiction. Since 1939, it has been a pioneering publisher of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber,...
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Moby-Dick as Philosophy: Plato - Melville - NietzscheMoby-Dick as Philosophy is at base a chapter-by-chapter commentary on Herman Melville's masterwork, Moby-Dick. The commentary form of the book subserves a higher end, the presentation of an ideal of the type philosopher. Superimposing portraits of Plato, Melville, and Nietzsche--the thinkers themselves, their ideas...
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A woman is a woman is a woman is a woman"Chrys Tobey's a woman is a woman is a woman is a woman is a book in which Gertrude Stein's roses and Freud's cigars collide. These witty, poignant poems--eco-feminist in their approach, abundant in their gestures and forms--engage our cultural moment while re-imagining the...
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Infinity to DineInfinity to Dine is a collection of essays. Each was drafted in response to an anonymous question, over the course of six years. Dying, addiction, reading, NASA, racism, love, despair and other subjects are woven together by one of the kindest and most erudite...
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Consider David Foster WallaceFrom Tristram Shandy to Fredric Jameson, Consider David Foster Wallace blazes a trail into the new territory of David Foster Wallace studies. Greg Carlisle, author of the landmark Wallace study Elegant Complexity, provides an introduction that sets the scene and speculates on the future...
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Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Dual-Language Book)This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The texts are precisely synchronized. See more details about this and other books on Russian Novels in Russian and English...
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Cottonmouth KissesWhether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood, Catalyst unearths the trashy truth in his characters' unconventional lives.Author: Clint CatalystPublisher: Manic D PressPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize:...
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AdrenalinPoetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham. Here is ADRENALIN, Syrian-born, Stockholm-based Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's first collection to be published in English. This sinuous translation comprises poems that span years and continents, that circulate between cities, ideas, lovers, places...
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligensia, 1880-1939In this landmark study, John Carey analyzes the elitest views of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book, as defined in his preface, "is about the response of the English literary intelligentsia to...
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The Eloquent Poem: 128 Contemporary Poems and Their MakingFrom the New York Times best-selling anthologist, Elise Paschen, comes The Eloquent Poem, a groundbreaking collection of new poems by 128 contemporary poets, including Mary Jo Bang, Marilyn Chin, Billy Collins, Cornelius Eady, Martîn Espada, Kamiko Hahn, Joy Harjo, Edward Hirsch, Major Jackson, Laura...
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The Laura (Riding) Jackson ReaderIn a single volume, the essential work of a major Modernist poet and thinker. Some see Laura Riding and Laura (Riding) Jackson as virtually two separate writers, the former a strikingly original Modernist poet and critic, the latter a supposedly reclusive thinker on man...
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Seneca's ThyestesAuthor: R. J. TarrantPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/01/1985Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.80dISBN: 9780891308713This title is not returnable
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Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas AuthorsStirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors is a delightfully revealing look at some of Texas's best writers. Initially conceived as a Who's Who of Texas authors, Deborah Douglas quickly realized that asking authors to write about their favorite recipes freed them from "the big...
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