Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Cuentos Verdaderos / True TalesEl nuevo libro de Rosa Montero, Premio Nacional de las Letras Espa?olas La realidad convertida en la mejor literatura «Por la creaci?n de un universo personal, cuya tem?tica refleja sus compromisos vitales y existenciales, que ha sido calificado como la ?tica de la esperanza...
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Una Habitaci?n Propia / A Room of One's OwnEdición en tapa dura del ensayo que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura modernista y del feminismo, con una nueva y cuidada traducción. Texto señero del feminismo del siglo XX, basado en dos conferencias impartidas por Virginia Woolf en la universidad...
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century NovelA legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends. "How can we live differently?" a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf's novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question...
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In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the AtmosphericExplores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. You'll find his face everywhere, from coffee mugs, bobbleheads, and T-shirts to the cover of the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Edgar Allan Poe is...
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The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold WarAddresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls "the Blue Period." In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest...
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Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and AnthologyA text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in historical and theoretical thinking. With a focus on...
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The Lonely House: A Short Biography of Emily DickinsonDuring her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life's work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life...
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A River Dies of ThirstThis remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish's last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish's musings on unrest and loss dwell...
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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics: Volume 8This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle."Bakhtin's statement on the dialogical nature of...
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The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on LibertyA war against liberty in America is being waged by Republicans and Democrats in government, the media, and our churches.In The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty, seasoned political analyst David Leach draws on his years of experience in the...
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Los cuentos de los presagios, Segunda Edici?nEl Dr. Roberto Ar?valo Araujo MD, FACP (Renato Bettio), naci? en El Salvador. Al terminar su bachillerato fue a M?xico a continuar sus estudios y se gradu? como M?dico y Cirujano de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNAM, en el Distrito Federal, en...
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KingfisherThe dramaturg, writer, and teacher Matthew Goulish reflects on the practice of reading poetry, of reading just one poem: 'Kingfisher' by Ed Roberson. How to attend, to follow the course of poem as a waterway, to recognise in its surface tension impending drops, hidden...
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Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora BabbThis saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature. In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective...
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My Lover Is a Woman: My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love PoemsThis superb compendium features the work of more than 120 lesbian poets, including Adrienne Rich, Chrystos, Cheryl Clarke, Dorothy Allison, Olga Broumas, Judy Grahn, Muriel Rukeyser, Jewelle Gomez, and Paula Gunn Allen.Author: Leslea NewmanPublisher: Ballantine GroupPublished: 06/01/1999Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.62w...
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Greatest Short Stories of DostoevskyExplore Fyodor Dostoevsky's world in the Greatest Stories of Dostoevsky, a captivating collection of timeless tales delving into human complexities. From the poignant beauty of unrequited love in White Nights to the moral struggles in An Honest Thief , each story offers gripping narratives...
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Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary RetrospectivePsychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective offers in-depth discussions of and conversations with six psychoanalytic writers: Christopher Bollas, Nancy Chodorow, Sander L. Gilman, Adam Phillips, and Allen and Joan Wheelis. All are genuinely interdisciplinary in their work, bridging multiple cultural and professional positions, but all are...
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The Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and PoetryAn examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination--a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the...
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American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as honesty about the American past. The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native...
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Mapping Post-War Italian Literature: Boom and Aftermath (1956-1979)In the aftermath of the reconstruction period immediately after the Second World War, Italy experienced an unprecedented and unexpected phase of economic development, which transformed it from a traditionally agrarian and impoverished country into one of Europe's most industrialized nations. The idea, treasured to...
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The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of PropertyIn The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation--rather than merit or good taste--are responsible for popular...
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