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  • Giving an Account of Oneself: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author by Butler, Judith
    Giving an Account of Oneself: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
    What does it mean to lead a moral life? In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice--one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject....
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  • For the Love of Money by Tyree, Omar
    For the Love of Money
    In this New York Times bestseller, streetwise and boy-crazy teenager Tracy Ellison of Flyy Girl fame makes her grand return--now on the brink of superstardom as a screenwriter and actress--in a captivating novel exploring love, friendship, and the price of fame. At twenty-eight, Tracy...
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  • Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works (Loa #39): Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge by O'Connor, Flannery
    Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works (Loa #39): Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge
    In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the...
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  • Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought by Heller, Erich
    Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought
    Since first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, "The condition it describes is our...
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  • Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal: Latin text, notes, maps, illustrations and vocabulary by Mulligan, Bret
    Cornelius Nepos, Life of Hannibal: Latin text, notes, maps, illustrations and vocabulary
    Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by...
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  • Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby by Churchwell, Sarah
    Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
    "Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she's earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page."--Kirkus (STARRED review)The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years...
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  • Book of Lies: (With Commentary by the Author) by Crowley, Aleister
    Book of Lies: (With Commentary by the Author)
    This edition of master magician Aleister Crowley's sly, witty, and instructive collection of paradoxes includes rarely published commentary by the author himself. Written by the famed English occultist Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies was first published in 1913. But later, around 1921, Crowley...
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  • Beauty and Sadness by Kawabata, Yasunari
    Beauty and Sadness
    NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before. "Endlessly provocative and original." --The New York...
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  • As You Like It by Gibson, Rex
    As You Like It
    An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. The Rex Gibson active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways, sharing Shakespeare's love of...
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  • A Study Guide for the New Edexcel IGCSE Anthology Non-Fiction for the English Language Exam: A Line-by-Line Analysis of the Non-Fiction Prose Extracts by Pearce, Josephine
    A Study Guide for the New Edexcel IGCSE Anthology Non-Fiction for the English Language Exam: A Line-by-Line Analysis of the Non-Fiction Prose Extracts
    A guide to mastering the new Edexcel IGCSE Anthology Non-fiction prose extracts, for first examination in 2017, for the English Language exam. This book has a line by line analysis of all the extracts, with a detailed explanation of all the literary techniques. It...
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  • A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork by Campbell, Joseph
    A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork
    In this edition of Campbell & Robinson's seminal decoding of Joyce's masterpiece, the authors analyse the novel page by page, stripping the layers of obscurity & offering interpretations through footnotes & bracketed commentary.Author: Joseph Campbell,Henry Morton RobinsonPublisher: New World LibraryPublished: 03/05/2013Pages: 402Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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  • Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 3 Volume 5 (Light Novel): Volume 12 by Kazuki, Miya
    Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 3 Volume 5 (Light Novel): Volume 12
    Rozemyne needs only one more ingredient for her jureve: the ruelle fruit she failed to gather the year before. With it, she and Ferdinand can finally brew the potent potion that will make her a normal, healthy girl. Well, probably...She funnels her excitement into...
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  • African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology by Young, Kevin
    African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
    A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets...
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  • Thoreau's God by Higgins, Richard
    Thoreau's God
    Meditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine. Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the...
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  • The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to a Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and the Book of Life by Harkness, Deborah
    The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to a Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and the Book of Life
    From the author of The Black Bird Oracle comes a fully illustrated guide to the #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series--"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People). Look for the hit series "A Discovery of Witches," now streaming on...
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  • The Temptation to Exist by Cioran, E. M.
    The Temptation to Exist
    "A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning"--The Washington Post This collection of eleven essays, when originally published in France, created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes...
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  • The Road to Middle-Earth by Shippey, Tom
    The Road to Middle-Earth
    The Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey's classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's professional background led him to write The Hobbit and how he created a timeless charm for...
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  • The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms by Hoffer, Eric
    The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
    Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Passionate State of Mind is a...
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  • The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories by Bradley, Don
    The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories
    On a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture, and ripping apart mattresses as he desperately looked for a stack of papers he had sworn to God to protect. Those pages containing the only...
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  • The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition by Turco, Lewis
    The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition
    Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their work.Author: Lewis TurcoPublisher: Unm PressPublished: 09/01/2020Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.40h...
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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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