Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Simplify: Selected Writings from Henry David Thoreau; Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Reform and ReformersAn anthology of writings from one of America's most famous naturalists and political activists. Contains "Walden", "Civil Disobedience", "Life Without Principle" and the unpublished "Reform and the Reformers". Preface gives a brief biography.Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Red and Black PublishersPublished: 03/29/2010Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Poetic Species: A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert HassA meeting of great minds at the intersection of the arts and sciences"Enchanting. . . . The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating." --Maria Popova, MarginalianIn this shimmering conversation, Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of...
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Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang ChinaThis collection of 106 poems by 44 female Tang-era poets is the most comprehensive of its kind. Poets are organized based on their status in Tang dynasty society: women of the court, women of the household, courtesans and entertainers, and women of religion. While...
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Economic Science FictionsAn innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged...
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An Analysis of Martin Buber's I and ThouMartin Buber's I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an 'I' towards an 'It', where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the...
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An Analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and BiasesAmos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's 1974 paper 'Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases' is a landmark in the history of psychology. Though a mere seven pages long, it has helped reshape the study of human rationality, and had a particular impact on economics -...
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An Analysis of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay's the Federalist PapersThe 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers' clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 by three of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States, the Papers were written with the specific intention of convincing...
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An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's the Location of CultureHomi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and...
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An Analysis of Emile Durkheim's On SuicideEmile Durkheim's 1897 On Suicide is widely recognized as one of the foundational classic texts of sociology. It is also one that shows the degree to which strong interpretative skills can often provide the bedrock for high-level analysis. Durkheim's aim was to analyse the...
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An Analysis of Baruch Spinoza's EthicsBaruch Spinoza's Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its uncompromisingly direct arguments about the nature of God, the universe, free will, and...
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Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens: Peter Roe Series XIXThis volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, 'Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens' explores Tolkien's complex use of religious ideology, the readers' approach to their...
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Echoes of Truth: Christianity in The Lord of the RingsIn addition to being a professor, master of language and myth, and a loving husband and father, J.R.R. Tolkien was a devout Christian. He saw the Gospel of Christianity as myth come true within human history and all great stories in the world as...
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The Little Book of the Great EnchantmentWilliam Sharp (1855-1905) was a prolific writer; friend and confidant to the literati of the day; an active member of the occult world of the late Victorian period; and a man who spent his life cloaked in layers of secrets - the most important...
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The Secret Tradition in Arthurian LegendIn this book Gareth Knight takes the most famous and most haunting of all British legends and places it in its rightful position as the core of the Western Mystery Tradition, which draws its inspiration from Greek, Irish and even Atlantean myth. The central...
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Suicide BridgeThis classic text has in recent times been fused to its contemporaneous volume, Lud Heat, but very much deserves to stand on its own. Suicide Bridge was originally published by Albion Village Press in 1979 with the sub-title A Book of the Furies, A...
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The Faery Gates of AvalonThe knights of King Arthur's Round Table - Erec, Lancelot, Yvain, Perceval and Gawain - first appeared in the works of Chr tien de Troyes, who cast into Old French stories told by Welsh and Breton story tellers which had their origin in Celtic...
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Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph RothJoseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is...
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The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay FilmThe Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms--the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and the self-portrait--is cinema in the first person. It is a cinema of thought,...
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The Winter's Tale: Third SeriesOne of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that her...
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Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, C.1100-C.1500Groundbreaking surveys of the complex interrelationship between the languages of English and French in medieval Britain. With co-editors: CAROLYN COLLETTE, MARYANNE KOWALESKI, LINNE MOONEY, AD PUTTER, and DAVID TROTTER England was more widely and enduringly francophone in the Middle Ages than our now standard...
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