Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Raymond Carver's What We Talk about When We Talk about Love: BookmarkedA haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one's way through the dark, Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the...
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Attending OthersBecoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called "patients." Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's...
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J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsFrom the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses--sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly--what that...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: From Lemons to Lemonade: 101 Positive, Practical, and Powerful Stories about Making the Best of a Bad SituationFrom lemons to lemonade; from heartbreak to happiness; from victim to victorious. Have you ever wondered how other people overcome their challenges and move forward with such a positive attitude? You'll meet 101 inspiring people in these pages, role models who share revealing personal...
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Prose Poetry and the City"In this fascinating book, Donna Stonecipher doubles down on the development of prose poetry and the city. Tactically, her sweeping, complex yet meticulous essay engages Baudelaire's sudden--or is it sudden?--incursion from the constraints of verse into the 'roominess' of prose, 'paragraphs of place, '...
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March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women: A Library of America Special PublicationFor fans of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed film, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny...
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Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater (Loa #172)Collected Plays and Writings on Theater, the most comprehensive one-volume edition of Thornton Wilder's work for the stage ever published, takes the measure of his extraordinary career as a dramatist by presenting the complete span of his achievement, beginning with his early expressionist experiments...
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How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary AnthologyHmong history and culture can be found in the form of oral stories, oral poetry, textile art, and music but there is no written account of Hmong life, by a Hmong hand, passed down through the centuries. As an undergraduate, Burlee Vang experienced this...
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History Beyond TraumaIn the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation...
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The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and SocietyThe Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier...
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The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His TimeBefore Marshall McLuhan became the media & communications philosopher of the modern age, he wrote a doctoral dissertation that provided scholars with a thorough examination of the 16th century's "age of rhetoric." In this previously unpublished work, a young McLuhan, as cultural historian, illuminates...
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The Unavowable CommunityTHE UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly "communal." The problem, for Blanchot, is that the very terms of an ideal community make an "avowal" of membership...
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and MemoryBeginning with the idea that memory is nothing more than "an angle of perception," Murdock explores the recurrent question asked by writers and readers of memoir alike: what actually happened? Prompted by the loss of identity that accompanied her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's and...
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Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas: An Annotated German-Language ReaderThe first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible. German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet...
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Yellowstone's Hot Legends and Cool MythsTen of Yellowstone National Park's most fascinating tales are presented in an appealing graphic novel format, perfect for kids ages 8-12. Come sit by the campfire and listen as Tall Tale Tom brings to life some of park's wildest legends and myths Discover the...
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Poems on Various Subjects - Religious and Moral"Poems on Various Subjects - Religious and Moral" from Phillis Wheatley. African American poet whose writings helped create the genre of African American literature (1753-1784).Author: The Perfect Library, Phillis WheatleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 01/02/2016Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21dISBN:...
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Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy After SocialismIn this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia...
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Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and BeyondThe life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American and world literature. However, some details on Faulkner's life collected by his early...
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Keywords for Media StudiesIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies Keywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining,...
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To Tell a Black Story of MiamiHow portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and culture In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmopolitan...
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