Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Pericles: Third SeriesSuzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through...
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Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue MetropolisMontreal was the literary centre of Canada in the 1940s, a hotbed of literary activity in both English and French crowned by the international success of Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute. With the rise of nationalism in both English...
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Stephen King: Uncollected, UnpublishedMajor Updates in this Revised and Expanded Edition of Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished and this updates are only found in this edition. There are a multitude of interesting updates in the revised edition of the classic book about Kings hidden work Stephen King: Uncollected,...
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Where the Shadows Lie: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkiens the Lord of the RingsWhere the Shadows Lie takes the reader on a journey through Tolkien's Middle-earth, following the hobbits, their companions, and the characters they encounter on their quest. Along the way, Skogemann reveals the deep symbolic layers that are the source of joy and enchantment that...
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Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. TolkienSince the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has...
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Hymns to the Night and Spiritual SongsNOVALIS: HYMNS TO THE NIGHT A new edition of Novalis' Hymns To the Night, and Spiritual Songs, translated by George Macdonald, with an introduction and notes by Carol Appleby. Includes the German text. Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801) is the most mystical of the...
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Maurice Sendak and the Art of Children's Book IllustrationMAURICE SENDAK Maurice Sendak is the widely acclaimed American children's book author and illustrator. This critical study focusses on his famous trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, as well as the early works and Sendak's superb...
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Walking in CornwallURSULA LE GUIN This is a new edition of a poetry book by the American author Ursula Le Guin published in the mid-1970s, Walking In Cornwall. The poems are about a visit to Cornwall in the West of England. Walking In Cornwall is illustrated...
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Charles Lamb Selected Writings: Charles LambThis thematic selection of Lamb's writings not only demonstrates his literary achievements; it forms a self-portrait of the writer: generous, amused, and gregarious, finding imaginative escape from grim circumstances in the teeming life of London and the theatre.Author: Charles LambPublisher: Carcanet PressPublished: 09/25/2003Pages: 290Binding...
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A Doll's HouseAuthor: Henrik IbsenPublisher: Nick Hern BooksPublished: 04/01/1995Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 6.33h x 4.17w x 0.30dISBN: 9781854592361Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.9Point Value: 4Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 10028 / Doll's House
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Jaan Kaplinski: Selected PoemsEstonia's Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament in 1992-95 and his essays on cultural transition and the challenges of globalisation are...
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Eavan Boland: Inside HistoryThrough critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History takes a fresh look at Boland'sinfluence as a poet and critic for the twenty-first century. The essays, poems, and interviews gathered here provide a new frame for critically engaging with Boland's work, one that crosses...
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A Shakespearean BotanicalWhen Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he highlights the belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make...
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Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional DwellingsMany beloved novels have place at their heart--and often even in their title. Novel Houses visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction, exploring how Uncle Tom's Cabin came to start the American Civil War, why Bleak House is used...
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The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex ComfortThe Duty to Stand Aside tells the story of one of the most intriguing yet little-known literary-political feuds--and friendships--in 20th-century English literature. It examines the arguments that divided George Orwell, future author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Alex Comfort, poet, biologist, anarchist-pacifist,...
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The Collected Essays of Virginia WoolfA collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay, The Death Of The Moth Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car, Three Pictures, Old Mrs. Grey, Street Haunting: A...
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The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature: An Anthology of CriticismProminent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as echtrai (adventures) and immrama (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of Celtic legend. These tales have long held a fascination for both scholars and general readers, but there is no...
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Ideology: An IntroductionIdeology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debate,...
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Medievalism in a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of ThronesGame of Thrones is famously inspired by the Middle Ages - but how "authentic" is the world it presents? This volume offers different angles to the question. One of the biggest attractions of George R.R. Martin's high fantasy series A Song of Ice and...
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A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the book is now recognized as a field of central importance for understanding the cultural changes that swept through Tudor England. This...
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