Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
-
Comparing Roman Hellenisms in ItalyThe story of Roman Hellenism--defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power--begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated. Think...
- ¥34,270 JPY
- ¥34,270 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe is part of the Timeless Classics series and comprises every known story penned by the legendary gothic American writer. Poe's name conjures up ideas of murderers and insane people, as well as premature funerals and enigmatic women...
- ¥5,243 JPY
- ¥5,243 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Shakespeare the Bodger: Ingenuity, Imitation and the Arts of the Winter's TaleDrawing inspiration from Robert Greene's deathbed attack on Shakespeare as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers," The Bodger (Elizabethan variant of "botcher," "mender," "patcher") argues that Shakespeare's dramas are compositions of "shreds and patches" pieced together by a mind of extraordinary synthetic acuity....
- ¥39,793 JPY
- ¥39,793 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Companion to Javier MaríasA detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías'...
- ¥13,365 JPY
- ¥13,365 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017From one of the world's greatest modern writers: collected here is some of Martin Amis's best nonfiction work from over two decades, ranging from politics and sports to celebrity, America, and literature. "Amis throws off more provocative ideas and images in a single paragraph...
- ¥4,113 JPY
- ¥4,113 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Women's Literary Education, C. 1690-1850The essays in this volume reveal the complex, various, sometimes contradictory, and often significant ways in which female literary authors interrogated and advanced educational philosophy and practice during the long eighteenth century, reaching back to the last decade of the seventeenth century and forward...
- ¥45,218 JPY
- ¥45,218 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo CampbellMichigan Salvage is the first scholarly collection on celebrated writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, the author of two novels and three short story collections, including National Book Award finalist American Salvage (2009). Her writing captures a diverse and bustling rural America, brimming with complex characters...
- ¥15,211 JPY
- ¥15,211 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exemplifying a lack of originality and sensibility in the period's scientific literature-the very qualities that such literature had...
- ¥12,377 JPY
- ¥12,377 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Book about Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's UlyssesTo celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated...
- ¥6,852 JPY
- ¥6,852 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany: On fireAn examination of the largely forgotten anti-war writing from West Germany spurred by the Vietnam War. Though the Vietnam War did not directly involve West Germany, it was nonetheless a decisive catalyst for the era's wider protest movements in that country, and it gave...
- ¥17,136 JPY
- ¥17,136 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Fall of the House of UsherThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
- ¥10,036 JPY
- ¥10,036 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Pacific End: Notes for a NovelPacific End was written during a recent summer retreat on the Oregon Coast in a time of tumult and disquiet, where the search for security and purpose feels more pressing than ever before. These chaotic times demand steadfast resilience, as well as the courage...
- ¥7,600 JPY
- ¥7,600 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and FilmA sequel of sorts to Bradley Birzer's Beyond Tenebrae (Angelico Press, 2019), Mythic Realms seeks to pursue excellences in the last hundred years of literature and film. Still rooted in Christian Humanism and Burke's moral imagination, Birzer offers here a series of autobiographical vignettes,...
- ¥10,130 JPY
- ¥10,130 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Modern TimesPreserving Armenia's rich literary tradition from a multitude of viewpoints has been the aim of this three-volume work. This third volume joins the previous two in making excerpts of Armenian masterpieces accessible in beautifully rendered English translations, while enabling readers to enjoy the immediacy...
- ¥21,304 JPY
- ¥21,304 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Fassbinder Thousands of MirrorsMelodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-imposed...
- ¥3,657 JPY
- ¥3,657 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version"[A] masterpiece . . . Babi Yar [is] every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness [such as] Anne Frank's diary . . . Wiesel's Night . . . Solzhenityn's Gulag Archipelago." --George Packer, The AtlanticAn internationally acclaimed documentary novel that describes...
- ¥4,569 JPY
- ¥4,569 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of FreedomOne of California's leading writers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, presents her first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005's best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel."Smiley gives educators, readers, and writers much to discuss. Highly recommended." --Library Journal, starred review"Line for...
- ¥6,398 JPY
- ¥6,398 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration: A Highly Illogical Search and Find Parody (Star Trek Fan Book, Trekkies, Activity BooIt's Where's Waldo? for Trekkies--the activity book you didn't know you needed! Dr. Spock is missing! Travel through space and time to search and find Dr. Spock among more than 100 other characters, aliens, villains, and crew members. This hidden intergalactic adventure is a...
- ¥3,425 JPY
- ¥3,425 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Beyond The Palace: The Implications of Joseph's DreamsIn Beyond the Palace, Smith has thoroughly labored to open the door of our hearts to God's all-encompassing, incredibly awesome sovereignty. This time, I did not see it coming. Jimmy SneedFounder and PastorLiving Waters ChurchAlbany, Georgia ________________________________ From the beginning to the very end...
- ¥5,823 JPY
- ¥5,823 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Word: How We Translate the Bible--And Why It MattersFrom a distinguished Oxford scholar and the author of A History of the Bible, an examination of how biblical translation works and why it matters Throughout history, most Jewish and Christian believers have understood scripture not in the languages in which it was first...
- ¥7,311 JPY
- ¥7,311 JPY
- Unit price
- per