Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: PurgatorioFirst published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1939.Author: Dante AlighieriPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 12/31/1961Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.50w x 1.15dISBN: 9780195004137This title is not returnable
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Collected Plays: Volume 1Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, this Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist writes of the rich cultural traditions as well as the hopes and frustrations of black Africa. This two-volume collection of his plays includes A Dance of the Forests, The Swamp...
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The Idea of the Book and the Creation of LiteratureThe Idea of the Book and the Creation of Literature explores the intersection of literary history and the history of the book. For several millennia, books have been the material embodiment of knowledge and culture, and an essential embodiment for any kind of knowledge...
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Alice Behind WonderlandOn a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon...
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Redeeming the KamasutraThe Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in...
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Revolutionary PetuniasThese poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while...
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Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the MorningVivid poems of "breakdown and spiritual disarray." Writing these, Walker says, "led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world." What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of...
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Virginia Woolf: An Inner LifeVirginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts...
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Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's JourneyIn Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo-a laboratory mouse and a man-who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and...
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great GatsbyKirkus (STARRED review)Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she's earned the right to play on Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page."The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years...
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Hedda Gabler and Other PlaysA collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theater A Penguin Classic One of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the...
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Love's Labor's LostThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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The Miser and Other Plays: A New SelectionThis volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to...
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Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of TermsThe classic reference work--an invaluable sourcebook for poets and readersAuthor: Babette DeutschPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 04/21/2009Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.34w x 0.54dISBN: 9780064635486Review Citation(s): ALA Ref Srces for Small/Med Li 01/01/2000 pg. 266
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How Shakespeare Changed EverythingNearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever little book, Esquire columnist...
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The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls WilderA testament to inspirational women throughout literature, Erin Blakemore's exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors shows today's women how to best tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence, grace, vitality and aplomb. This collection of unforgettable characters--including Anne...
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Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a MockingbirdTo commemorate the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird, filmmaker Mary Murphy has interviewed prominent figures--including Oprah, Anna Quindlen, and Tom Brokaw--on how the book has impacted their lives. These interviews are compiled in Scout, Atticus, and Boo, the...
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The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic CaseFrom award-winning and internationally acclaimed author, Batya Gur, comes a hair-raising mystery in which Israeli investigator Michael Ohayon's detective skills are put to the ultimate test.When Dr. Eva Neidorf is found dead on the morning that she is to give a lecture to the...
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Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other CalamitiesFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium.Her novels are read and adored by millions...
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Dr Johnson and MR SavageA classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright...
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