Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Write Like Hemingway: Find Your Voice, Discover Your Style Using the 10 Rules That Guided a Nobel LaureateAn examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style.Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable fiction. After graduating high school, and before heading...
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Ford Madox FordA critical biography of the great modernist editor and novelist. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad, Ford was a...
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Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public SpeechIn Echo and Critique, Florian Gargaillo skillfully charts the ways that poets have responded to the clichés of public speech from the start of the Second World War to the present. Beginning around 1939, many public intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic lamented...
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Exemplary England: Historical Inquiry and Literary Recompense in Pope, Gray, and RichardsonWhat meaning does the past hold for the present? History writing often prioritizes the ethos and actions of the "great men" of the past, those connected to formal expressions of power, as models worthy of imitation. The problem with such exemplars is that they...
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La Correa InvisibleLos papá s de Zack no saben có mo ayudarlo para que pueda pasar mejor por la pé rdida de Jojo, su mascota y mejor amigo en todo el mundo. Pero Emily, una buena amiga de Zack, sabe exactamente lo que sucede, pues cuando...
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Into the World's Great Heart: Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent MillayAn annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her life Throughout her life, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote hundreds of letters, which together create a colorful tapestry of...
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The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary WalkerThe Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing its full philosophic and moral teaching. The Reveries has been celebrated as a work of literature that is an...
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Dreaming the MountainThe North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ-poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam--and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series.In addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a Zen master, Tuệ Sỹ is...
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Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century StateThe formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and...
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Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose, 25th Anniversary EditionCelebrating the 25th anniversary of its publication, the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network and Texas Tech University Press are proud to release a newly updated version of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, the seminal anthology of Vietnamese American literature. Contextualized by a new foreword...
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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern LiteratureDriven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping-crucial to understanding life in the southern United States-from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century,...
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A History of Russian LiteratureRussia possesses one of the richest and most admired literatures of Europe, reaching back to the eleventh century. A History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present...
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French Lessons in Late-Medieval England: The Liber Donati and Commune ParlanceFrench Lessons in Late-Medieval England presents two fifteenth-century manuals designed to support facility in French among the English, the Liber donati and Commune parlance. These texts treat the grammar, lexis, and orthography of French as well as compiling a selection of entertaining dialogues that...
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Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's TravelWhat would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women...
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Octavia E. Butler"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside...
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My Man in Antibes: Getting to Know Graham GreeneWhen a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction he's famous for. While living in southern France in 1972,...
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Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA) 2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Edited Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture Award (Honorable...
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Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American LiteratureInterpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers' reactions to short texts during crucial moments of the reading experience. These readers are students at universities in the US and several Spanish-speaking countries. Far from reducing the reading experience to a...
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Mientras los hombres mueren: Carmen CondeCarmen Conde is a major figure in twentieth-century Spanish poetry. Though neglected up to now, Mientras los hombres mueren is the most important collection of war poetry to emerge from the Spanish Civil War. It was first published, in a limited edition, in Italy...
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the HeartA copiously illustrated account of the famed Paris bookstore on its 65th anniversaryThis first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Ana s Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette...
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