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  • Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World by Ensor, Sarah
    Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World
    What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse What does it mean to live at the end of life, the end of a family line, the end of a species, or the end of the future itself? When...
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  • Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It by Hauser, Emily
    Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It
    Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest epics of ancient Greece have been pored...
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  • On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction by Kinane, Ian
    On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction
    On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946-2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies that prioritizes "bi-ness" as a methodological tool. The...
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  • On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction by Kinane, Ian
    On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction
    On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946-2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies that prioritizes "bi-ness" as a methodological tool. The...
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  • Of Worlds and Artworks: A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora by Fendler, Ute
    Of Worlds and Artworks: A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora
    The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks - including literature, visual arts, film and performances - as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing worlds, implying movement as opposed to the boundary drawing of area...
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  • Now Feed Yourself: Anglo-American and Italian Scholarship on Dante by Barański, Zygmunt G.
    Now Feed Yourself: Anglo-American and Italian Scholarship on Dante
    This volume is the first to examine in parallel the ways in which twentieth- and twenty-first century Anglo-American Dante scholarship and Italian dantistica have studied key issues at the centre of the poet's oeuvre. It offers a critically and contextually informed overview that concentrates...
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  • Novel-Poetry: The Shape of the Real and the Problem of Form by Allen, Emily
    Novel-Poetry: The Shape of the Real and the Problem of Form
    Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel--a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century--to make a larger claim about the nature of genre and formal structures for time, action, and identity that cross genres. The volume uncovers trajectories of literary influence that...
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  • Narrative, Film, and Identity: How Cinema Impacts the Meaning of Life by Pamerleau, William
    Narrative, Film, and Identity: How Cinema Impacts the Meaning of Life
    Our identities are shaped by narratives, and cinema contributes to that process. While there is substantial scholarship on both narrative identity and film narrative, there is very little investigation of the intersection between them. This book provides that, with particular attention to how the...
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  • Moderns - Chaucer to Contemporary Fiction by Lee, A. Robert
    Moderns - Chaucer to Contemporary Fiction
    In this compelling new book, A. Robert Lee tackles the questions: how, and why, does a literary work assume the mantle of 'modern'? He shows, with wit and verve, that writing as far back as Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales can be called 'modern'. That...
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  • Modernism and the Idea of India by Brown, Judith
    Modernism and the Idea of India
    In his 1909 manifesto Hind Swaraj, Gandhi made an impassioned call for passive resistance that he soon retracted. 'Passive resistance' didn't, in the end, serve his overarching aims, but was troubled on multiple grounds from its use of the English phrase to the weakness...
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  • Mi Primer Libro de Poemas by Garcia Lorca, Federico
    Mi Primer Libro de Poemas
    Author: Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Juan Ramon Lorca JimenezPublisher: Lectorum PublicationsPublished: 06/01/2001Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.96h x 5.18w x 0.13dISBN: 9788420777634Language: SpanishAudience: Ages 9-12This title is only available via back order
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  • Mater Genetrix: Les Images de la M?re Dans La Litt?rature Contemporaine d'Expression Fran?aise by Hertrampf, Marina Ortrud M.
    Mater Genetrix: Les Images de la M?re Dans La Litt?rature Contemporaine d'Expression Fran?aise
    Que signifie ?tre m?re ? Les r?ponses ? cette question ont vari? fortement au cours des si?cles, ?voluant avec les paradigmes id?ologiques et culturels qui sous-tendent le statut des femmes dans la soci?t?. La conception des femmes en tant que m?res, leur rapport ?...
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  • Manifestations of trauma in the post-2000 Zimbabwean Literature: An Analysis of Tendai Mwanaka's 'Notes from a Modern Chimurenga' and Christopher's Ku by Kanyemba, Nyarai Maria
    Manifestations of trauma in the post-2000 Zimbabwean Literature: An Analysis of Tendai Mwanaka's 'Notes from a Modern Chimurenga' and Christopher's Ku
    As a literature student the selection of the topic of this dissertation was mainly inspired by the emotional trauma experienced by the writer when she lost her daughter who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend. The study sought to expose various traumas that are...
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  • Making the Literary-Geographical World of Sherlock Holmes: The Game Is Afoot by McLaughlin, David
    Making the Literary-Geographical World of Sherlock Holmes: The Game Is Afoot
    The ideas and practices that bring a fictional character into reality. In the second half of the twentieth century, American readers of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories--known as Sherlockians--worked together to create a world of Sherlock Holmes that crossed the boundary between reality...
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  • Living with Jane Austen by Todd, Janet
    Living with Jane Austen
    Author: Janet ToddPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/20/2025Pages: 246Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.22h x 5.35w x 0.82dISBN: 9781009569316Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2025
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  • Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups by Daniels, Harvey
    Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs & Reading Groups
    The second edition includes: four different models for preparing students for literature circles using response logs, sticky notes, and newly designed role sheets;dozens of variations on the basic version of student-led bookclubs;new models and procedures for primary, intermediate, and high school grades.Author: Harvey DanielsPublisher:...
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  • Literary Illusions: Performance Magic and Victorian Literature by Pittard, Christopher
    Literary Illusions: Performance Magic and Victorian Literature
    Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century's most popular modes of performance: conjuring. It explores the ways in which Victorian literature frequently deployed the figure of the magician to explore performance magic as a metaphor for writing...
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  • Le Labyrinthe Litt?raire de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr by Burnautzki, Sarah
    Le Labyrinthe Litt?raire de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
    Depuis ses d?buts avec la nouvelle La Cale en 2014, les textes de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr connaissent un succ?s qui ne se d?ment pas. Terre ceinte en 2015, Silence du choeur en 2017 et De purs hommes en 2018 ont remport? des prix litt?raires...
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  • John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy by Abe, Frank
    John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
    No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided...
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  • Italo Calvino and Classics: Lightness - Quickness - Multiplicity by Cordes, Lisa
    Italo Calvino and Classics: Lightness - Quickness - Multiplicity
    In his Memos for the Next Millennium, the Italian writer Italo Calvino identified five literary qualities that should accompany writers and readers into the literature of the future: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity. Though never finished, the Memos continue to inspire readers and scholars....
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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?

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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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