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  • The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by Garrison, John S.
    The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets
    The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker...
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  • The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said by Barsamian, David
    The Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said
    Interviews with the late Edward Said, world-renowned literary scholar, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights.Author: David Barsamian, Edward W. SaidPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 04/01/2010Pages: 180Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9781931859950About the AuthorDavid Barsamian is the director of Alternative Radio in...
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  • The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-Earth for Dummies by Harvey, Greg
    The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-Earth for Dummies
    J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian - have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter...
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  • The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and Its Progeny by George, Sam
    The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and Its Progeny
    This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori's foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy from the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, through further Gothic fictions and horror films, to twenty-first...
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  • The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a Side of Scorn by Reed, Emily
    The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a Side of Scorn
    Jane Austen always knows just what to say!Why waste time inventing your own insults when you can borrow topnotch snipes from a literary genius? With The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can clap back at bad dates, micromanaging bosses, irritating strangers,...
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  • The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology: Challenging the Nation by Andrews, Charles
    The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology: Challenging the Nation
    A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology - works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fuelled and supported the First World War -...
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  • Sublime Reciprocity in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth: Light Out of Darkness by Budick, Sanford
    Sublime Reciprocity in Milton, Kant and Wordsworth: Light Out of Darkness
    In Paradise Lost the reciprocal forces of 'first matter' are centrally located in 'Light Ethereal, first of things', 'that light', as Raphael explains, that is constituted from its inhering 'reciprocal' forces. This study argues that the workings of this Miltonic reciprocity were first understood...
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  • Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine by Critchley, Simon
    Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine
    The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him. Arguably, no literary work, not even the Bible, is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's Hamlet. Everyone knows at least six words from the play; often people know many more. Yet the...
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  • Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Mar??ez, Sophie
    Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
    An in-depth analysis of literary and cultural productions from Haiti and the Dominican Republic and their diasporas Spirals in the Caribbean responds to key questions elicited by the human rights crisis accelerated in 2013 by the Dominican Constitutional Court's Ruling 168-13, which denationalized hundreds...
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  • Shakespeare's Original Stage Conditions and Their Afterlives Across the Globe: From the Wooden O to the Yards of Seoul by Ko, Yu Jin
    Shakespeare's Original Stage Conditions and Their Afterlives Across the Globe: From the Wooden O to the Yards of Seoul
    This book brings together two separate fields by combining a study of Shakespeare's original stage conditions with an exploration of his plays in performance across the globe. The book contributes new insights into how early-modern stage conditions shaped the writing, production, and reception of...
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  • Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature by Anthony, David
    Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature
    This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others. But this figure also plays an...
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  • Seamus Heaney's Gifts by Hart, Henry
    Seamus Heaney's Gifts
    "The fact of the matter," Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, "is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry." Throughout his career, Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize...
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  • Satyricon reliquiae by Petronius Arbiter
    Satyricon reliquiae
    No detailed description available for "Satyricon reliquiae".Author: Petronius ArbiterPublisher: de GruyterPublished: 01/20/2004Pages: 247Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.53dISBN: 9783598712579Language: LatinAudience: Young Adult
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  • Rootedness and Acculturation: Experiences from German Immigrant Communities in the Usa, 1883-1918 by Coignard, Tristan
    Rootedness and Acculturation: Experiences from German Immigrant Communities in the Usa, 1883-1918
    German-Americans represent the largest self-declared ancestry group in the United States of America. The period from the 200th anniversary celebration of Germantown's founding in 1883 to the end of the First World War was an age of intense turmoil within the ranks of German-American...
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  • Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction by Hintz, Carrie
    Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction
    Author: Carrie Hintz, Eric L. TribunellaPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 11/12/2024Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.63dISBN: 9781554815852This title is not returnable
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  • Ramses the Great by Booth, Charlotte
    Ramses the Great
    A warrior leader and builder of many temples, the Pharaoh Ramses II was the greatest ruler of his Age. Regarded as the greatest of all Pharaohs, Ramses II reigned at the height of Ancient Egypt's power and influence. He led military campaigns with his...
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  • Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust by Feldman, Daniel
    Poesis in Extremis: Literature Witnessing the Holocaust
    How can genocide be witnessed through imaginative literature? How can the Holocaust affect readers who were not there? Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis...
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  • Persuasion After Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism by Solomonescu, Yasmin
    Persuasion After Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism
    While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attention to how values that were once bound up with rhetoric were rearticulated after its demise. This volume explores how persuasion ceased...
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  • Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism by Layne, Priscilla Dionne
    Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism
    Examining Afro-German artists' use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to describe African diasporic artists' use of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy to reimagine the diaspora's pasts and to counter not only...
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  • Nld 12: Newman: Letters & Diaries Nld 12 C by Dessain
    Nld 12: Newman: Letters & Diaries Nld 12 C
    A scholarly edition of the letters and diaries of John Henry Newman. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Author: DessainPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)Published: 10/18/2016Pages: 456Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00dISBN: 9780199683369
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Literary criticism books are essential resources for anyone interested in analyzing and understanding literature on a deeper level. These books offer insights into various literary theories, critique methods, and analytical approaches that help readers and scholars interpret and evaluate literary works.

Literary criticism books delve into the analysis of literature, exploring how different aspects such as themes, characters, and narratives contribute to a text's meaning and impact. They provide valuable frameworks and perspectives that enhance the reader's ability to engage critically with literary texts.

Criticism literature includes works that assess and interpret the value and significance of various literary genres, styles, and authors. Books such as "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom and "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster are highly regarded for their comprehensive exploration of literary traditions and techniques.

Literary criticism theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding literature. These theories include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonialism, among others. Books like "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács offer foundational knowledge in these critical perspectives, providing readers with tools to analyze texts through various lenses.

For those seeking the best books to read on literary criticism, it’s helpful to explore both classic and contemporary texts. Works like "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" by Lois Tyson and "The Elements of Literary Style" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley offer practical advice and theoretical insights for readers and students.

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Q. What are literary criticism books used for?

A. Literary criticism books are used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. They offer various theoretical frameworks and methods to understand and critique literary works, helping readers and scholars explore themes, characters, and narrative techniques in depth.

Q. Can you recommend some foundational books on literary criticism theory?

A. Yes, some foundational books on literary criticism theory include "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton, which provides an overview of various critical approaches, and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács, which explores the evolution and form of the novel.

Q. What is criticism literature, and why is it important?

A. Criticism literature refers to works that analyze and assess the value and significance of literary texts. It is important because it helps readers and scholars gain a deeper understanding of literature, its context, and its impact, enhancing appreciation and critical engagement with texts.

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Q. How do I choose the right literary criticism book for my needs?

A. To choose the right literary criticism book, consider your interests and the type of literature you are studying. Look for books that cover the specific theories or approaches you want to explore. Reviews, recommendations, and best-seller lists can also guide you in selecting books that are well-regarded and relevant to your needs.

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