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  • Dawn of Labor by Park, Nohae
    Dawn of Labor
    Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae's first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation's...
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  • Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China by Li, Cheng
    Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China
    For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid increases in industrial production, the "Greening the Motherland" campaign promoted conservationist tree-planting nationwide. Contested Environmentalisms explores the seemingly contradictory rhetoric and...
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  • Cloud of Unknowing Eetso: C 218 C by Hodgson
    Cloud of Unknowing Eetso: C 218 C
    Author: HodgsonPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)Published: 01/01/1944Pages: 324Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.64w x 0.98dISBN: 9780197222188
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  • China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China's Others by Kinkley, Jeffrey C.
    China Mysteries: Crime Novels from China's Others
    With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press...
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  • Byron and Translation by Schoina, Maria
    Byron and Translation
    This collection of essays offers an image of Byron not only as a poet - for which he is best known - but as a translator of foreign literature and culture. To recover this underexplored element of Byron's work, the contributors examine his translated...
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  • Becoming Jane Austen by Spence, Jon
    Becoming Jane Austen
    Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the...
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  • Asian Political Cartoons by Lent, John a.
    Asian Political Cartoons
    2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title2024 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkIn Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan),...
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  • Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature by Wachs, Anthony M.
    Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature
    Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety resulting from the decline of narratives that provided individuals with a meaningful human life. The authors argue that the twentieth-century...
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  • Ada to Zembla: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov by Vernon
    Ada to Zembla: The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov
    'Nabokov's novels are playgrounds of perfection and dungeons of despair' Exile, ?migr? and refugee, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was buffeted by the tides of his times, from the Russian Revolution to the rise of Hitler. But he converted that personal anarchy into a seductive, often...
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  • A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets by Weidle, Roland
    A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets
    This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the literary tradition, themes, stylistic features and cultural contexts of the genre and the collection, and offering close readings of more than...
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  • Working Lives in Ancient Rome by Maticic, del A.
    Working Lives in Ancient Rome
    This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world. It starts with the individual laborer and works up, emphasizing their agency in navigating, transforming, and transcending the systems and structures around them. Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions...
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  • Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater by Wills, Garry
    Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of the Theater
    Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. "Riveting . . . a double-barreled salvo that hits two bull's-eyes." --The New York Times Book ReviewThis dazzling study of the three operas that Giuseppe Verdi adapted from...
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  • Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry by Gillan, Maria Mazziotti
    Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry
    A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary...
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  • Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art by Schultz, Elizabeth A.
    Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art
    Endlessly pursued but ever elusive, Moby-Dick roams freely throughout the American imagination. A fathomless source for literary exploration, Melville's masterpiece has also inspired a stunning array of book illustrations, prints, comics, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and even architectural designs. Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Unpainted...
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  • Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics by Rudrum, David
    Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics
    Trolling began long before the internet. This accessible history traces the ancestry of its textual and rhetorical strategies, by looking at literature from ancient Greece to the 1980s. Trolling is the most controversial genre of writing to have risen to prominence in the 21st...
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  • The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy by Palmer-Patel, Charul
    The Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy
    The Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and philosophy. Although Fantasy Fiction is generally defined by its impossibility, Fantasy Fiction not an illogical form. It is, in fact,...
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  • These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks by Millichap, Joseph R.
    These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks
    The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its economic challenges. In time, the project...
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  • The Life of William Collins, Poet by Stewart, Mary Margaret
    The Life of William Collins, Poet
    Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.The Life of William Collins, Poet presents a much-needed biographical study of William Collins based on archival research. Collins's work has long been considered central to understanding the development of English...
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  • The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943: Last Train from Jerusalem by Davies, Ross
    The Life and Mysterious Death of Poet and Intelligence Agent Stephen Haggard, 1911-1943: Last Train from Jerusalem
    Actor, memoirist, novelist, playwright and poet, Stephen Haggard was a highly individual figure in the English literature and theatre of the 1930s and Second World War. Haggard was born in Guatemala City in 1911, the son of a British colonial officer - who was...
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  • The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology by Barbeau, Jeffrey W.
    The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology
    Three Essays on C. S. Lewis and RomanticismMany readers have heard C. S. Lewis's logical arguments for the Christian faith. Yet throughout his wide-ranging study and writing, Lewis often began with experience, intuition, and religious feeling rather than dogmatic assertions. The most profound questions...
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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.

Q. Where can I find the best literary criticism books?

A. You can find the best literary criticism books at online bookstores such as BooksDeli.com. These bookstores offer a wide selection of both classic and contemporary texts on literary criticism, making it easy to access essential readings and expand your knowledge.

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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