Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of FaithNegro spirituals were profoundly influenced both by the African origins of the singers and by the nature of slavery itself. Music permeated every part of African culture from birth to death, and continued to have a powerful, healing role among the people brought to...
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Introduction to German Poetry: A Dual-Language BookThe poems in this anthology represent a panorama of the main trends in the development of the poetry of the German-speaking people. Beginning with a minnesong of the early Middle Ages and a poem of the seventeenth century, the book then focuses on the...
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You Must Revise Your LifeStafford reflects on the writing process and on the influences on his artAuthor: William StaffordPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 11/28/1986Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.01h x 5.30w x 0.44dISBN: 9780472063710
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Lake Country: A Series of JourneysOne writer's quest to locate herself within the wet, wild, and diversely human cultural heritage that has shaped herAuthor: Kathleen StockingPublisher: University of Michigan RegionalPublished: 04/27/1994Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.08w x 0.80dISBN: 9780472065165Review Citation(s): Library Journal 05/15/1994 pg. 89Publishers Weekly 04/18/1994...
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The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital AgeWritten originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous...
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The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, OccultsIn The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media; hosts "strange meetings"...
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The Science of Stephen King: From Carrie to Cell, the Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Masters FictionAdvance Praise What a treasure house is this book! Robots, space aliens, Einstein, black holes, time travel--these themes, and much more, from Stephen King's amazing books are opened up like toy chests. It's tremendous fun, entirely educational, and a great tribute to King.--Peter Straub...
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Attention: Dispatches from a Land of DistractionA wide-ranging, rule-bending collection of nonfiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life."--Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED...
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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest WritingsEdited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books--the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on...
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How Poems Get MadeWhy does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exemplary poems, from Shakespeare through Blake, Dickinson,...
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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (Revised)"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describing the revision process." --Adrienne RichAuthor: Audre LordePublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 10/01/1992Pages: 224Binding Type:...
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Russia's Lost Literature of the AbsurdThese bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language.Author: Daniel...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy TalesNew edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss...
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In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time RegainedTime Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw...
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best PoemsAmerica's most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition--and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our...
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God's SilenceIn this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha's Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God's Silence with "East Boston, 1996," a powerful long...
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Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres"Poems wake us up, keep us company, and remind us that our world is big and small, And too, poems teach us how to write. Anything." Amy Ludwig VanDerwater explains in Poems Are Teachers. This is a practical book designed for every classroom teacher....
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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume a: The Ancient WorldThis volume samples a broad range of literature from the ancient world. It offers extensive selections from The Bible, The Book of Songs, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Virgil's Aenid, as well as seven longer works in their entirety, including The Epic of Gilgamesh...
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The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My HeroesAcclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute (New York Times Book Review). From his bid to...
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John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath: A Reference GuideJohn Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is one of the most widely read American novels. Much has been written about the book, yet a number of recent critics have challenged its merits and questioned its place in the canon. The novel was published...
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