Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife"Prose's book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create." -- Minneapolis Star TribuneIn June, 1942, Anne Frank received...
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A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction"Erudite and meditative, A Stay Against Confusion. . . depicts a profound, complex spirituality. . . brims with intelligence, passion and conviction." --San Francisco ChronicleIn this vivid and deeply felt collection of essays, Ron Hansen talks about his novels, childhood, family, and mentors such...
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Los MilagrosEn realidad suceden milagros? ""El milagro principal del que hablan los cristianos es la Encarnación. Ellos dicen que Dios se hizo Hombre. Cualquier otro milagro sucedió en preparación para esto, o es un resultado de esto."" Este es el punto clave de Los Milagros,...
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The Souls of Black Folk: Introduction by Arnold RampersadThe Souls of Black Folk is both a groundbreaking work of sociology and an influential cornerstone of African-American literature. From the moment it was published in 1903, this unique and stirring blend of history, essay, fiction, and memoir set the terms of the conversation...
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Black Women in Sequence: Re-Inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and AnimeBlack Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic...
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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and LiteratureExtraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings...
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American Originality: Essays on PoetryWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is...
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Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert LowellRobert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that you ha ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend. The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,...
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Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of CultureGloria Anzaldua Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2009 In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida,...
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Why Translation MattersFrom the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garci M rquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed...
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Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.The 1963 publication of Thomas Pynchon's V. changed the landscape of American fiction. Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. offers a detailed examination of the dramatic transformations that took place as Pynchon's foundational novel went from typescript to published work. Luc Herman and John...
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Dreaming by the BookDreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint,...
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Twelfth Night: Or, What You WillTwelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of...
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Theories of MythologyTheories of Mythology provides students with both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth, the most elementary form of narrative. Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth. Introduces the...
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Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary ClassicThe Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be...
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The Portable North American Indian ReaderThe Portable North American Indian Reader compiles myths, tales, poetry, and oratory from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hopi, and many other tribes. In addition, Frederick Turner includes a number of "culture contact" selections--explorers' accounts, captives' narratives, and Indian autobiographies--as well as a...
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Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose, Third EditionPermanence and Change was written and first published in the depths of the Great Depression. Attitudes Toward History followed it two years later. These were revolutionary texts in the theory of communication, and, as classics, they retain their surcharge of energy. Permanence and Change...
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Greek Tragedies 3: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis Volume 3Greek Tragedies, Volume III contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides," translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes," translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus," translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae," translated by William Arrowsmith; and Euripides's "Alecestis," translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago, the...
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A Fly in the Soup: MemoirsA Fly in the Soup is a book of memoirs. Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and spent his childhood in a city bombed by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944. He was jailed with his...
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Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance PoetryImpossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry examines the limits of embodiment, knowledge, and representation at a disregarded nexus: the erotic carpe diem poem in early modern England. These macabre seductions offer no compliments or promises, but instead focus on the...
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