Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public IntellectualIn the last couple of decades there has been a surge of interest in Octavio Paz's life and work, and a number of important books have been published on Paz. However, most of these books are of a biographical nature, or they examine Paz's...
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Study Guide to The Aeneid by VirgilA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Virgil, ancient Roman poet. Titles in this study guide include The Aeneid. As a poet of the Augustan period, his poems are regarded as one of the most important...
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Study Guide to the Plays of AeschylusA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aeschylus, the ancient greek playwright. Titles in this study guide include The Suppliant Maids, The Persians, The Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, The Eumenides, and The Libation Bearers....
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Study Guide to The Plays of SophoclesA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sophocles, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. Titles in this study guide include Oedipus, Philoctetes, Trachiniae, Electra, Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Ajax. As...
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Study Guide to The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Tennessee Williams, whose creative endeavors earned him two Pulitzer Prizes. Titles in this study guide include The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. As an author of southern...
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Study Guide to Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack LondonA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Jack London, an influential writer of the Industrial Revolution. Titles in this study guide include Call of the Wild and White Fang. As works of adventure fiction, London's novels...
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Study Guide to The Republic and Other Works by PlatoA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Plato, ancient Greek philosopher. Titles in this study guide include The Republic, Gorgias, Meno, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Phaedrus, Symposium, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. As a philosopher and poet during the...
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Silenced Voices: The Poetics of Speech in OvidSilenced Voices is a pointed examination of the loss of speech, exile from community, and memory throughout the literary corpus of the Roman poet Ovid. In his book-length poem Metamorphoses, characters are transformed in ways that include losing their power of human speech. In...
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The thirty-six dramatic situationsAuthor: Georges PoltiPublisher: Alpha EditionPublished: 07/10/2020Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46dISBN: 9789354037474This title is not returnable
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Economía del pájaro en tiempos de guerra; Comunicación y disenso en la poesía de Eduardo MilánLa obra de Eduardo Mil n se ha convertido, en los ltimos a os, en uno de los referentes indiscutibles a la hora de hablar de poes a en espa ol. Su grado de difusi n e influencia, a ambos lados del Atl ntico,...
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The Best Presidential Writing: From 1789 to the PresentA sweeping and groundbreaking treasury of the most essential presidential writings, featuring a mix of the beloved and the little-known, from stirring speeches and shrewd remarks to behind-the-scenes drafts and unpublished autobiographies. From the early years of our nation's history, when George Washington wrote...
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Tragedy and Postcolonial LiteratureThis book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile...
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SexistenceSex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence. Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are...
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Queer Between the Covers: Histories of Queer Publishing and Publishing Queer VoicesQueer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. Chronicling the gay struggle for acceptance and liberation, the book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged between the covers of books in...
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ManaliveManalive details the story of Mr. Innocent Smith, a new tenant at a London boarding house, who uses a great wind that follows him to breathe life into the residents at Beacon House. Mr. Innocent Smith uses his comedic nature and eccentric antics to...
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The Voyage of St BrendanIn The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned...
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Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces.Author: Jon PadgettPublisher: Grimscribe PressPublished: 05/18/2020Pages:...
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The Missionary Sutras: The Forty-Two Paragraph Sutra & Eight Realizations of a Mahasattva SutraLiterary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Red Pine. The two sutras translated in this chapbook were among the first to arrive in China in the first and second centuries and among the first to be translated. Compiled from other texts as...
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Foreign Sounds or Sounds ForeignJohn Yau has long championed the overlooked, neglected, and misunderstood. Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign brings together a selection of reviews and essays touching upon a wide range of subjects. The result is a decidedly alternative view of what to pay attention to-to what...
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Grief and the Hero: The Futility of Longing in the IliadGrief and the Hero examines Achilles' experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad's study of anger. No action can undo his friend Patroklos' death, but the experience of death drives him to behave as though he can achieve something...
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