Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible BlundersJane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for literary comment, Jane loved everything about...
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Reading BackwardsAuthor: John CrowleyPublisher: Subterranean PressPublished: 11/30/2019Pages: 464Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.80dISBN: 9781596069466Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/14/2019
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The Jewish Odyssey of George EliotIt is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew - a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally...
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BastiAn NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain's extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim...
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Asleep in the SunLucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She's been staying out till all hours of the...
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The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change, Second Revised EditionAuthor: Bezalel PortenPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 10/12/2011Pages: 656Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 3.20lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 1.32dISBN: 9781589836280This title is not returnable
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The Ahhiyawa TextsAuthor: Eric H. Cline, Gary M. Beckman, Trevor R. BrycePublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 12/12/2011Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9781589832688Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 171This title is not returnable
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Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live inPolitical theorist and cultural critic, novelist and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901 - 1989) was a brilliant polymath who has been described by Edward Said as "a centrally important 20th-century figure." Through such landmark works as The Black Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary,...
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Desert Islands: And Other Texts, 1953-1974A fascinating anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian, Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles...
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A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of RochesterOf the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses...
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Faulkner: A BiographyWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding...
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The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual PoetryThe Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry celebrates the unique spiritual life of women through a rich selection of poetry written over the past four thousand years, from thirty-six different languages and cultures. It ranges from verse by the first recorded poet, a Sumerian...
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Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee PeriodIn Reading the World Dianne C. Luce explores the historical and philosophical contexts of Cormac McCarthy's early works crafted during his Tennessee period from 1959 to 1979 to demonstrate how McCarthy integrates literary realism with the imagery and myths of Platonic, gnostic, and existentialist...
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The Black Mountain Letters: Poems and EssaysIn The Black Mountain Letters, poet and scholar Jonathan C. Creasy breathes new life into one of the most important experiments in arts and education ever established in the United States. Through years of research into the life and legacy of Black Mountain College,...
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Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and AccountsA dazzling collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite...
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Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of TranslationAfter nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English translation, William H. Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing himself, in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. Gass examines the genesis...
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Oulipo: A Primer of Potential LiteratureA remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative writing...
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Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the WorldStrong women who prevail and triumph using their intelligence, courage, or resourcefulness are celebrated in this gathering of stories for all ages. It features legends, folklore, and fairy tales from such far-flung places as the Punjab, Africa, China, Japan, the Middle East, and Europe...
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An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton WilsonA fair and balanced look at the writing of Robert Anton Wilson and its relationship with the Kaballah, Finnegans Wake, General Semantics, Quantum Mechanics, Ezra Pound, The Wizard of Oz, Aleister Crowley, and a zillion other subjects. Whether you are a newcomer or already...
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Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth CenturyThis book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne Miller argues...
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