Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary ClassicThe Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be...
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The Portable North American Indian ReaderThe Portable North American Indian Reader compiles myths, tales, poetry, and oratory from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hopi, and many other tribes. In addition, Frederick Turner includes a number of "culture contact" selections--explorers' accounts, captives' narratives, and Indian autobiographies--as well as a...
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Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose, Third EditionPermanence and Change was written and first published in the depths of the Great Depression. Attitudes Toward History followed it two years later. These were revolutionary texts in the theory of communication, and, as classics, they retain their surcharge of energy. Permanence and Change...
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Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis Volume 3Greek Tragedies, Volume III contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides," translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes," translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus," translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae," translated by William Arrowsmith; and Euripides's "Alecestis," translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago, the...
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A Fly in the Soup: MemoirsA Fly in the Soup is a book of memoirs. Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and spent his childhood in a city bombed by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944. He was jailed with his...
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Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance PoetryImpossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the...
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The Last Fine TimeAuthor: Verlyn KlinkenborgPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 209Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.48w x 0.65dISBN: 9780226443355About the AuthorVerlyn Kilnkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers. A member of the editorial board of the New York Times, Klinkenborg has been published in...
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On RacineAuthor: Roland BarthesPublisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublished: 05/26/2017Pages: 188Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.44dISBN: 9780374717834About the AuthorBarthes, Roland: - Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the...
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Doorways to PoetryAuthor: Louis UntermeyerPublisher: iUniversePublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 532Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 8.92h x 5.94w x 1.40dISBN: 9780595006526This title is not returnable
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Entre Eternidades / Between Eternities: Y Otros EscritosUna nueva y estimulante colecci n de textos personales y cr ticos de Javier Mar as, aclamado autor de Los enamoramientos y Coraz n tan blanco, que abarcan m s de veinte a os de su trabajo como escritor. Javier Mar as es un...
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Ideas and OpinionsSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeAuthor: Albert EinsteinPublisher: Modern LibraryPublished: 06/21/1994Pages: 448Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 7.52h x 4.95w x 1.29dISBN: 9780679601050Review Citation(s): Discover 09/01/2004 pg. 86About the AuthorAlbert Einstein (1879-1955), one of the greatest...
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Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-De-Siècle ParisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A brilliant look at turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. "Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life...a world of culture,...
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The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read NovelsFrom the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red--an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels. In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part...
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Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary FriendsAn original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the...
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Collected PoetryA new collection of John Donne's verse, from the witty conceit of The Flea to the intense spirituality of his Divine Poems Regarded by many as the greatest of the metaphysical poets, John Donne was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan...
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Thomas HardyA masterful portrait (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who...
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest MetropolisA fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces...
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper LeeNew York Times Bestseller "A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we'll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life." --USA Today There are many reasons to be grateful for The Mockingbird Next Door....A zesty account of two women...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream"Each volume of The Annotated Shakespeare proves to be a splendid addition to the series."--Tita French Baumlin, Southwest Missouri State University From the hilarious mischief of the elf Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace...
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