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  • Die Anti-Utopische Tradition: Eine Ideen- Und Problemgeschichtliche Darstellung by Meyer, Stephan
    Die Anti-Utopische Tradition: Eine Ideen- Und Problemgeschichtliche Darstellung
    Besonders seit 1989 ist die Diskussion um das Ende der Utopien wieder heftig entbrannt. Die in der Debatte pr sentierten Argumente gegen Utopien sind dabei so alt wie die literarisch manifestierten Utopievorstellungen. Die spezifischen Artikulationsmuster werden in der Untersuchung zu einer ideengeschichtlichen Traditionslinie utopischen...
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  • AB Excessu Divi Augusti (Annales) by Cornelius Tacitus
    AB Excessu Divi Augusti (Annales)
    Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegründet 1849, ist die weltweit älteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Sämtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio ergänzt. Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe...
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  • Rhapsodiae I-XII by Homerus
    Rhapsodiae I-XII
    Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegr ndet 1849, ist die weltweit lteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. S mtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische Praefatio erg nzt. Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der...
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  • Je näher ihm, desto vortrefflicher by Fantino, Enrica
    Je näher ihm, desto vortrefflicher
    Although Antiquity itself has been intensively researched, together with its reception, to date this has largely happened in a compartmentalized fashion. This series presents for the first time an interdisciplinary contextualization of the productive acquisitions and transformations of the arts and sciences of Antiquity...
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  • Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan by Wimmer, Gernot
    Ingeborg Bachmann und Paul Celan
    Die Ver ffentlichung der Korrespondenz Bachmanns und Celans erm glicht neue wissenschaftliche Zugriffe auf das Werk der Autoren. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt der Band vielf ltige Korrelationen zwischen Biographie und Dichtung auf: Die Briefe flankieren den literarischen Umgang der Autoren mit der Erfahrung des...
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  • Lettre-Traite de Pierre-Daniel Huet Sur l'Origine Des Romans: Edition Du Tricentenaire 1669-1969, Suivie de la Lecture Des Vieux Romans Par Jean Chape by Gegou, Fabienne
    Lettre-Traite de Pierre-Daniel Huet Sur l'Origine Des Romans: Edition Du Tricentenaire 1669-1969, Suivie de la Lecture Des Vieux Romans Par Jean Chape
    Author: Fabienne GegouPublisher: KlincksieckPublished: 01/01/1971Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9782707802545Language: FrenchAbout the AuthorA egalement publie, aux editions Nizet, Antoine Furetiere, abbe de Chalivoy, ou la Chute d'un immortel (1962)This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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  • Giono Et Le Travail Des Sensations: Un Barrage Contre Le Vide by Vignes, Sylvie
    Giono Et Le Travail Des Sensations: Un Barrage Contre Le Vide
    Author: Sylvie VignesPublisher: KlincksieckPublished: 01/01/1999Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9782707812421Language: FrenchAbout the AuthorDocteur es lettres, maitre de conferences a l'Universite de Toulouse-Le MirailThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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  • Les Sources Esoteriques Et Occultes de la Poesie Symboliste (1870-1914): II. Le Symbolisme Europeen by Mercier, Alain
    Les Sources Esoteriques Et Occultes de la Poesie Symboliste (1870-1914): II. Le Symbolisme Europeen
    Author: Alain MercierPublisher: KlincksieckPublished: 01/01/1974Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9782707803467Language: FrenchThis title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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  • Patience, Mon Coeur by Romilly, Jacqueline de
    Patience, Mon Coeur
    Quand, et comment, est ne ce que nous appelons psychologie ? A l'origine, l'epopee montrait des actes plutot que d'analyser des sentiments. Mais quand Ulysse, dans l' Odyssee, resiste a son impulsion du moment et dit Patience, mon coeur, cette petite crise interieure, qui...
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  • Proclus, Theologie Platonicienne: Tome VI: Livre VI: Index General by Proclus
    Proclus, Theologie Platonicienne: Tome VI: Livre VI: Index General
    Sixieme et dernier volume de la premiere edition critique et la premiere traduction francaise de la Theologie platonicienne de Proclus (410-485). Le projet de Proclus - constituer, au moyen des methodes scientifiques de la theologie, un corps de doctrines theologiques empruntees aux sources les...
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  • Writing For Pleasure by Rosen, Michael
    Writing For Pleasure
    This booklet is third in a series about reading, writing and responding to literature. It focusses on how to make writing pleasurable and interesting and would be ideal as part of teacher training, staff discussion, curriculum development or just reading and using. Author: Michael...
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  • Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder by Koupal, Nancy Tystad
    Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Published over eighty years after its inception, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography" edited by Pamela Smith Hill gave readers new insight into the truth behind Wilder's fiction. "Pioneer Girl Perspectives" further demonstrates the importance of Wilder as an influential American author whose stories of...
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  • Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet by Moore, Anne Elizabeth
    Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet
    EISNER AWARD WINNER Best Academic/Scholarly Work About Comics 2019 One of the most influential women in independent comics, Julie Doucet, receives a full-length critical overview from a noted chronicler of independent media and critical gender theorist. Grounded in a discussion of mid-1990s media and...
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  • Glitter in the Blood: A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing by Nettifee, Mindy
    Glitter in the Blood: A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing
    You do not want to write good poems. You want to write great poems. You want to write poems that challenge, inspire and awe. You want to write poems that forever alter your audience, that forever alter yourself. Those poems take guts. Glitter in...
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  • And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing by Spark, Debra
    And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing
    Debra Spark's Curious Attractions remains a hugely popular fiction writing guide thirteen years after its publication. Now, she tackles the thorniest aspects of literary fiction craft: plot, humor, research, scope, and more. In And Then Something Happened, Spark brings her widely-loved wisdom, wit, and...
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  • Credo: An Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing by Banerjee, Rita
    Credo: An Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing
    Literary Nonfiction. CREDO. I believe. No other statement is so full of intent and subversion and power. A Credo is a call to arms. It is a declaration. A Credo is the act of an individual pushing back against society, against established stigmas, taboos,...
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  • Sephardic Women's Voices: Out of North Africa by Lichtenstein, Nina B.
    Sephardic Women's Voices: Out of North Africa
    Sephardic women's writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in France and North Africa. These stories offer testaments of a generally excluded human experience that belongs in the diverse and hybrid collection of post-colonial stories of displaced peoples....
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  • El áncora y otras novelas cortas by Pardo Bazan, Emilia
    El áncora y otras novelas cortas
    Emilia Pardo Baz n (1851-1921) is a central and influential figure in nineteenth-century Spanish literature, the author of more than thirty novels as well as a number of short stories and critical essays on literary criticism. Surely no Spanish woman has produced the sheer...
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  • Antologia: Cuentos de la nena terrible by Ocampo, Silvina
    Antologia: Cuentos de la nena terrible
    Silvina Ocampo (1903-93), author of seven volumes of poetry and more than three hundred short stories, was a member of Argentina's Sur generation, the extraordinary group of writers who initiated Latin America's literary boom. Like her most distinguished contemporary, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo...
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  • Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems by Trinidad, David
    Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems
    This magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objects--dirty, glamorous, destructible. Jacqueline...
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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.

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