Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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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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Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Childrenas LiteratureChildren's books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about...
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Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries: Annotated Lists and Guides: Volume XII: OvidFounded in 1945 by P. O. Kristeller, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum has evolved over time to reflect developments in the field of reception studies; each article begins with an overview of a Greek or Latin author's reception and contains detailed and accurate information...
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The Cult of ChildhoodCould our fascination with childhood and the issues of child abuse, abortion, and family therapy mean that we are caught in the myth of purity and innocence? Boas exposes the assumptions that continue to plague nearly everything we do and say about children.Author: George...
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Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930sThis penetrating analysis of one of the most extraordinary fads ever to strike America details how dance marathons manifested a potent from of drama. Between the two world wars they were a phenomenon in which working-class people engaged in emblematic struggles for survival. Battling...
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The Ox-Bow Man: A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg ClarkWalter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel The Ox-Bow Incident, was one of the important writers of the twentieth century. This work is an examination of a complex, anguished writer and an assessment of Clark's pivotal place in the literary history of...
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State of ExileCristina Peri Rossi was born in Uruguay and is considered a leading light of the "Latin American Boom" generation. In 1972, after her work was banned under a repressive military regime, she left her country, moving to Spain.This collection of poems, written during her...
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Poems of Fernando PessoaFernando Pessoa is Portugal's most important contemporary poet. He wrote under several identities, which he called heteronyms: Albet Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and Bernardo Soares. He wrote fine poetry under his own name as well, and each of his "voices" is completely...
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Destruction of the Jaguar: From the Books of Chilam BalamChristopher Sawyer-Laucanno writes in his introduction to Destruction of the Jaguar that The Books of Chilam Balam are the only principal surviving texts of the ancient Maya. Written in the Mayan language but in European script, they are generally considered to be transcriptions and...
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Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose CompositionThis frequently reprinted volume is the 'sine qua non' for all whowould attempt to write faultless classical Latin Prose. It isimpressively detailed in explaining syntactical nuances, in itsexemplification andin the range of its exercise. Bradley's Arnold remains an essentialsource.Author: J. F. MountfordPublisher: Bristol Classical...
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The Scottish Novels: Kidnapped: Catriona: The Master of Ballantrae: Weir of HermistonKidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country.Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure...
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