Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the InternetA 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE PROSE AWARDS MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come. The age of print...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece. Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations. Eleven illustrations. Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite...
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The Bible Reexamined: Eve Is a Hero, Mary Is Not a Virgin, Jesus Is Not the WayThis book presents several counterintuitive interpretations of classical biblical texts: Creation as a parable, not exposition. Eve as a hero, not a villain. Love, not Jesus, as the way the truth and the life. The gospels as sectarian tracts, not history. The book also...
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The Art of Beatrix Potter: Sketches, Paintings, and IllustrationsPublished to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, this magnificent collection celebrates the artist behind The Tale of Peter Rabbit and numerous other beloved children's books. Brimming with famous images and rarely seen gems--ranging from character sketches and notebook pages to...
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The Apocalypse of ElijahAuthor: Albert PietersmaPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 01/01/1981Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.10w x 0.32dISBN: 9780891303732This title is not returnable
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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being HumanNATIONAL BESTSELLER - What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men--the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television...
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Song of Myself: The First and Final Editions of the Great American PoemThis book compiles both the first (1855) and final revised (1892) versions of Walt Whitman's masterpiece, "Song of Myself" in one volume, making it unique and valuable for students of American literature.Author: American Renaissance Books,Walt WhitmanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/04/2013Pages: 134Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Romeo and Juliet In Plain and Simple English: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)Love. Feuds. Secret plans. Tragedy. Romeo and Juliet has it all-but the language can be hard to follow if you're not used to reading Shakespeare.Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories ever written-but that doesn't mean it's easy to read....
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Reading ColoradoTake a drive into the literary landscapes of Colorado. Meet Kent Haruf's bachelor farmers in the Eastern Plains, ford the South Platte with Mark Twain, rail against nuclear weapons with Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg, hitch a ride to Denver with Jack Kerouac, climb...
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Proofs and TheoriesWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureProofs and Theories, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, one of this country's most brilliant poets.Like her poems, the prose of Glück, who won the Pulitzer...
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O Pioneers!Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, "the first time I walked off on my own feet-everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired." Cather's novel of life on the Nebraska frontier established her...
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live InA new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James's reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution. Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901-89) was a brilliant polymath who was...
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Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a psychologically...
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Living Revision: A Writer's Craft as Spiritual Practice"Revision is the spiritual practice of transformation--of seeing text, and therefore the world, with new eyes. Done well, revision returns us to our original love." In Living Revision, award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew guides writers through the writing and revision process. With...
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Laozi's DAO de Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative TimeA fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics--the foundational work of Daoism--by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously enigmatic text. Laozi's Dao De Jing was written around 400 BC by a compassionate soul in a...
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in BetweenThe New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an...
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How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic"The book has a rambunctious humor that complements its polemical spirit . . . As Disney has evolved from an animation studio into a corporate behemoth--with theme parks, a cruise line, and content streaming around the world--How to Read Donald Duck and its charge...
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How to Be a Good Savage and Other PoemsThe latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse...
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How I Became a TreeAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written--grown--a radiant and wondrous book."--Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old...
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How Fiction Works: (Tenth Anniversary Edition) Updated and Expanded10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our...
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