Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Astrotheology for Life: Unlocking the Esoteric Wisdom of Ancient MythWhat do the world's ancient myths have to say for your life? This book will help you learn to converse with humanity's myths, scriptures, and sacred stories in the language that they are actually speaking: the language of the stars. Clear, systematic explanation accompanied...
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Walk It Off, PrincessA new collection of articles from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Internet is a Playground, That's Not How You Wash a Squirrel and Wrap it in a Bit of Cheese Like You're Tricking the Dog."Absolutely hilarious One of the funniest books...
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GilgameshComposed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey beyond the limits of human experience, Gilgamesh is a tale of...
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Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays!: Volume 2See the legendary comic strip as its creator intended: full broadsheet-sized and with glorious colors. In 2005, the publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, the oversized deluxe reprint edition, marked the centennial of Winsor McCay's supreme graphic achievement. That book...
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The Isis Thesis: a study decoding 870 Ancient Egyptian SignsThe Isis Thesis is a transdisciplinary study of eight major ancient Egyptian texts, revealing that over 870 decoded signs, including art and architecture, communicate modern scientific knowledge about microbiology and human potential for genetic immortality. Put simply, the Egyptian afterlife is the quantum domain,...
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Russian Classics in Russian and English: The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Dual-Language Book)This book contains The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy's afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The...
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A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and PoeticsOne of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays--by William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, and Sandra McPherson, among others--have become classics. This...
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by PalinurusCyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of...
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Cajun and Creole FolktalesThis teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are...
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Ecopoetry: Critical IntroductionThe burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions...
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A Reader's DelightOne of America's finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.Author: Noel PerrinPublisher: Dartmouth College PressPublished: 03/01/1988Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.57dISBN: 9780874514322This title is not returnable
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Blues Vision: African American Writing from MinnesotaA rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth.Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how much and how little conditions...
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Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic PoetryA bilingual volume of poetry presenting the work of three award-winning Arabic poets from the past forty yearsAuthor: Adonis, Mahmud Darwish, Samih Al-QasimPublisher: Saqi Books - Saqi BooksPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 165Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.45w x 0.37dISBN: 9780863565243
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Baby Storytime Magic: Active Early Literacy Through Bounces, Rhymes, Tickles and MoreWhether you've been presenting baby storytimes for fifteen years or fifteen minutes, you probably already know that the first five years of life are key for brain development and early literacy. Many public libraries have instituted baby and toddler programs, but finding exciting materials...
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Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors Through ReadingSurveying the landscape of youth literature, this contributed volume shows how books have grown to include the wide range of our increasingly diverse society. Identifying both exemplary and problematic titles, the contributors Provide context by sketching out the historical trajectory of diversity in youth...
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From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic BooksJews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators of the...
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August Wilson's FencesFences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist,...
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What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World LiteratureIn What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative theory of...
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The Weather in ProustThe Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation...
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Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural PoliticsIn Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S....
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