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Literary Criticism

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  • The Land of Piceno by Leed, Phoebe
    The Land of Piceno
    Indigenous peoples cancelled by a burgeoning empire. Devastating earthquakes level ancient monuments. Marauding invaders loot and pillage art treasures. And yet, verdant hillsides ripple with vineyards and olive groves. The dramatic blue Sibillini mountains shelter shepherds, freedom fighters, and necromancers. Lined with palms and...
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  • Listen, We All Bleed by Wong, Mandy-Suzanne
    Listen, We All Bleed
    Mandy-Suzanne Wong does something far beyond 'giving voice' to animals and the artists that record them. She listens: quietly, carefully, truthfully. And the animals speak for themselves. Listen, we all bleed is a powerful and much needed book for our times. Now more than...
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  • Won in Translation: Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe by Chartier, Roger
    Won in Translation: Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe
    In Won in Translation Roger Chartier, one of the world's leading historians of books, publishing, and reading, considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating versions of the same work. The agent for both is translation, for through their...
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  • Wagner's Ring and the Germanic Tradition by Cleary, Collin
    Wagner's Ring and the Germanic Tradition
    In this remarkable book, Collin Cleary defends Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen against the claim that it "distorts" Germanic mythology. Wagner was a serious student of the myths and sagas of Northern Europe, and the Ring is surprisingly faithful to them. Wagner retells...
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  • Afropolitan Horizons: Essays Toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria by Hannerz, Ulf
    Afropolitan Horizons: Essays Toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
    Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of...
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  • Posthumous Lives: World War I and the Culture of Memory by London, Bette
    Posthumous Lives: World War I and the Culture of Memory
    Posthumous Lives explores the shifting significance of public and private efforts to commemorate British soldiers killed in World War I--as well as the less well-remembered casualties of the war, including Voluntary Aid Detachments, nurses, conscientious objectors, civilians, and soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice--and...
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  • Seamus Heaney in Context by Higgins, Geraldine
    Seamus Heaney in Context
    Author: Geraldine HigginsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/01/2021Pages: 384Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.80w x 1.00dISBN: 9781107180147Review Citation(s): Choice 04/01/2022About the AuthorHiggins, Geraldine: - Geraldine Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Irish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her publications...
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  • Love Affair in the Garden of Milton: Loss, Poetry, and the Meaning of Unbelief by Mintz, Susannah B.
    Love Affair in the Garden of Milton: Loss, Poetry, and the Meaning of Unbelief
    Love Affair in the Garden of Milton interweaves the private story of a marriage coming apart with readings of John Milton's poetry and prose. Connected essays chart the chaos of loss and the discovery of how a writer can inhabit our emotional as well...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities by Cohen, Jeffrey
    The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
    This Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It...
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  • As Long as the Earth Endures: Annotated Miami-Illinois Texts by Costa, David J.
    As Long as the Earth Endures: Annotated Miami-Illinois Texts
    As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma. These texts, gathered from native speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea in the 1890s and the...
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  • Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production by Raynor, Cecily
    Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production
    To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cultural production. Drawing on...
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  • On Bataille and Blanchot by Sartre, Jean-Paul
    On Bataille and Blanchot
    An in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades....
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  • For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Moxley, Jennifer
    For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays
    Literary Nonfiction. Essays. A blend of literary criticism and memoir, Jennifer Moxley's FOR THE GOOD OF ALL, DO NOT DESTROY THE BIRDS recounts a life spent in the company of birds and poems, intimately attuned to the mysteries of singing. These essays trace the...
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  • A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas by Grybauskas, Peter
    A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas
    Exploring the uncanny perception of depth in Tolkien's writing and world-building A Sense of Tales Untoldexamines the margins of J. R. R. Tolkien's work: the frames, edges, allusions, and borders between story and un-story and the spaces between vast ages and miniscule time periods....
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  • Principia Discordia by The Younger, Malaclypse
    Principia Discordia
    Discordianism, based on worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of Chaos and confusion (among other things), was invented by Kerry W. Thornley aka Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst and Greg Hill Malaclypse the Younger. Principia Discordia was written by Hill, and includes material by Thornley, Robert...
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  • Jane Austen, Early and Late by Johnston, Freya
    Jane Austen, Early and Late
    A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels--and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" work Jane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature by Traister, Bryce
    The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature
    This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence...
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  • Toward a Sacramental Poetics by Schwartz, Regina M.
    Toward a Sacramental Poetics
    Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature.What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ...
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  • Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir by de Bres, Helena
    Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir
    Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir. Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher's perspective to a general audience, Helena...
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  • Image and Argument in Plato's Republic by McCoy, Marina Berzins
    Image and Argument in Plato's Republic
    Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an important, positive role in Plato's philosophical argumentation. She begins by examining the poetic educational context in which Plato...
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Literary criticism books are essential resources for anyone interested in analyzing and understanding literature on a deeper level. These books offer insights into various literary theories, critique methods, and analytical approaches that help readers and scholars interpret and evaluate literary works.

Literary criticism books delve into the analysis of literature, exploring how different aspects such as themes, characters, and narratives contribute to a text's meaning and impact. They provide valuable frameworks and perspectives that enhance the reader's ability to engage critically with literary texts.

Criticism literature includes works that assess and interpret the value and significance of various literary genres, styles, and authors. Books such as "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom and "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster are highly regarded for their comprehensive exploration of literary traditions and techniques.

Literary criticism theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding literature. These theories include formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, and post-colonialism, among others. Books like "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács offer foundational knowledge in these critical perspectives, providing readers with tools to analyze texts through various lenses.

For those seeking the best books to read on literary criticism, it’s helpful to explore both classic and contemporary texts. Works like "Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide" by Lois Tyson and "The Elements of Literary Style" by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley offer practical advice and theoretical insights for readers and students.

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Q. What are literary criticism books used for?

A. Literary criticism books are used to analyze, interpret, and evaluate literature. They offer various theoretical frameworks and methods to understand and critique literary works, helping readers and scholars explore themes, characters, and narrative techniques in depth.

Q. Can you recommend some foundational books on literary criticism theory?

A. Yes, some foundational books on literary criticism theory include "Literary Theory: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton, which provides an overview of various critical approaches, and "The Theory of the Novel" by Georg Lukács, which explores the evolution and form of the novel.

Q. What is criticism literature, and why is it important?

A. Criticism literature refers to works that analyze and assess the value and significance of literary texts. It is important because it helps readers and scholars gain a deeper understanding of literature, its context, and its impact, enhancing appreciation and critical engagement with texts.

Q. Where can I find the best literary criticism books?

A. You can find the best literary criticism books at online bookstores such as BooksDeli.com. These bookstores offer a wide selection of both classic and contemporary texts on literary criticism, making it easy to access essential readings and expand your knowledge.

Q. How do I choose the right literary criticism book for my needs?

A. To choose the right literary criticism book, consider your interests and the type of literature you are studying. Look for books that cover the specific theories or approaches you want to explore. Reviews, recommendations, and best-seller lists can also guide you in selecting books that are well-regarded and relevant to your needs.

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