Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The New Species of WritingWilliam Park received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He has taught at Hamilton College, Columbia, the University of Navarre, and for thirty-eight years at Sarah Lawrence College, where he also co-founded the...
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Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of CharacterHow did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers' lives and their works? When did the person of the author--both as context and target of textual interpretation--come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development...
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created HerThe true story behind the iconic fictional detective is "a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing" (The Seattle Times).An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearThe plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930--and...
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Spatial and Discursive Violence in the Us SouthwestIn Spatial and Discursive Violence in the US Southwest Rosaura S nchez and Beatrice Pita examine literary representations of settler colonial land enclosure and dispossession in the history of New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. S nchez and Pita analyze a range of Chicano/a and...
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2020The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding writing, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism. The anthology features excerpts from major projects that challenge American certitudes: the Washington Post Magazine's "Prison" issue, detailing the scope of mass incarceration, and the New York Times...
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Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and CultureYoung adult literature featuring LGBTQ+ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more frequently in film, on...
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Tarot Tracings: Essays on literature and divinationLovers, villains, murderers, magicians, spirit conjurors, and ghosts. You'd think this was a popular book of fiction blending tales of love, war, and magic. It isn't. It's a book written for the curious reader who might like to know what some of the greatest...
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Son of Rebel Bookseller: A Very Large Homework AssignmentI AM NOT MY SO-CALLED ILLNESSThis celebration of Samuel Laties braids his visionary and humorous fiction, poetry, and essays together with Andrew Laties' reminiscences--along with the tale of Andy's struggle to invest Sam's death with meaning by rescuing a legendary bookstore. In counterpoint, son...
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A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to TwitterAn engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and cultures Aphorisms--or short philosophical sayings--appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form....
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Poet of Revolution: The Making of John MiltonA groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalization John Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose...
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Study Guide to The Crucible and Other Works by Arthur MillerA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Arthur Miller, two-time Tony Winner and 1949 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama. Titles in this study guide include All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A Memory...
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Study Guide to the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and John LockeA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. These two English philosophers are recognized for being some of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. As two of the most prominent...
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Selected PoemsUltimately Lew's poems are devotional songs to the Goddess Gaia . . . -Gary SnyderAuthor: Lew WelchPublisher: Grey Fox PressPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.95h x 5.79w x 0.33dISBN: 9780912516202
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There's Something About Darcy: The curious appeal of Jane Austen's bewitching heroFor some, Colin Firth emerging from a lake in that clinging wet shirt is one of the most iconic moments in television. What is it about the two-hundred-year-old hero that we so ardently admire and love? Dr Malcolm examines Jane Austen's influences in creating...
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Jane Austen: Writing, Society, PoliticsIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice, it deftly...
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An Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across NationsThe Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology - and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the foundation for strong...
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it...
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Caldo de Pollo Para El Alma: Vivir La Fe Católica: 101 Historias Para Compartir Esperanza, Fe Y AmorThese 101 positive powerful stories from Catholics of all ages will offer hope, deepen faith, and spread love. Vivir la fe cat lica is not only a book about "living the faith" but also about a faith that is living. Whether you are a...
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Funny Things to PonderSteve Vogt was born on January 22, 1950 in Wood River, Illinois. Vogt graduated from Civic Memorial High School in Bethalto, Illinois in 1968. During that time he went through both the Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts. He was awarded the Eagle Scout Rank...
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Émile Zola: A Very Short IntroductionÉmile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that scandalized...
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