Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the WorldWhat is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we...
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So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian VillageKandel's memoir is a powerful picture of a young American woman's struggle to reconcile her new marriage with the realities of living in East Africa.Author: Jill KandelPublisher: Autumn House PressPublished: 01/01/2015Pages: 184Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9781938769023About the AuthorJILL KANDEL...
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Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader - Reel OneVolume One of a two volume, HBO documentary companion collection of the writings of film historian and gay activist Vito Russo.Author: Vito RussoPublisher: White Crane BooksPublished: 07/01/2012Pages: 298Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67dISBN: 9781938246012
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More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time"Read what you enjoy, not what bores you," Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author's monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells...
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DriftCaroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as...
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Goodnight, BooneAuthor: Yozette Yogi Collins, Marlis JenningsPublisher: All Star PressPublished: 11/15/2012Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.80h x 7.90w x 0.10dISBN: 9781937376185This title is not returnable
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C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven: A Reader's Guide to The Great DivorceC.S. Lewis' novel, The Great Divorce, about a man who takes a bus trip from Hell to Heaven, is full of fascinating characters and conversations. C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven is the first book dedicated to exploring this story, revealing many important secrets that...
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The Colonel's DreamWritten in 1905, The Colonel's Dream is a compelling, bitter tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a regions awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convect-labor exploitation, and endemic violent repression. The events in this novel are powerfully...
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The SupergirlsTHE history of the American superheroine. The Supergirls, a cultural history of comic book heroines, asks whether their world of fantasy is that different from our own. Are the stories of Wonder Woman's search for an identity or Batwoman's battle for equality also an...
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Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon KeesKees was, I believe, one of the four or five most talented members of his generation. And this is the great post-modern generation of American poets which includes Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Theodore Roethke. That these other writers are...
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Moms & Sons: Stories by Mothers and Sons, in Appreciation of Each OtherThis book contains 101 favorite stories and poems from Chicken Soup for the Soul's library honoring the lifelong relationship between mothers and sons. Heartfelt and loving stories written by mothers, grandmothers, and sons, about each other, span generations and show how the mother-son bond...
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Grand and Great: Grandparents and Grandchildren Share Their Stories of Love and WisdomGrandparents and grandchildren share their stories of love and wisdom in this collection celebrating the unconditional love of this special relationship. A parent becomes a new person the day the first grandchild is born. Formerly serious and responsible adults go on shopping sprees for...
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Simplify: Selected Writings from Henry David Thoreau; Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Reform and ReformersAn anthology of writings from one of America's most famous naturalists and political activists. Contains "Walden", "Civil Disobedience", "Life Without Principle" and the unpublished "Reform and the Reformers". Preface gives a brief biography.Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Red and Black PublishersPublished: 03/29/2010Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Poetic Species: A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert HassA meeting of great minds at the intersection of the arts and sciences"Enchanting. . . . The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating." --Maria Popova, MarginalianIn this shimmering conversation, Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of...
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Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang ChinaThis collection of 106 poems by 44 female Tang-era poets is the most comprehensive of its kind. Poets are organized based on their status in Tang dynasty society: women of the court, women of the household, courtesans and entertainers, and women of religion. While...
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Economic Science FictionsAn innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged...
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An Analysis of Martin Buber's I and ThouMartin Buber's I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an 'I' towards an 'It', where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the...
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An Analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and BiasesAmos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's 1974 paper 'Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases' is a landmark in the history of psychology. Though a mere seven pages long, it has helped reshape the study of human rationality, and had a particular impact on economics -...
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An Analysis of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay's the Federalist PapersThe 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers' clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 by three of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States, the Papers were written with the specific intention of convincing...
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An Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's the Location of CultureHomi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and...
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