Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction WritersIn the late-20th century, gay literature had earned a place at the British and American literary tables, spawning its own constellation of important writers and winning a dedicated audience. This collection of probing interviews represents an attempt to offer a group portrait of the...
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American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2: A Cultural HistoryAuthor: Will KaufmanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 08/18/2022Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.40dISBN: 9781316514337About the AuthorKaufman, William: - Will Kaufman is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, England. He is the author of Woody...
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Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss MythAuthor: Patrick VincentPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/22/2022Pages: 330Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781009210294This title is not returnable
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Newton Forster; Or, The Merchant ServiceNewton Forster; Or, The Merchant Service has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both...
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Herr Wenzel auf Rehberg und sein Knecht Kaspar DinckelHerr Wenzel auf Rehberg und sein Knecht Kaspar Dinckel wurde in der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk angesehen, und um sicherzustellen, dass dieses Werk niemals verloren geht, haben wir Schritte unternommen, um seine Erhaltung zu gewährleisten, indem wir dieses Buch in einem zeitgemä en...
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Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897-1959volume 3Kafū the Scribbler is neither pure biography nor pure criticism nor yet a pure anthology, but a blending of the three. It is an introduction to Nagai Kafū and his city, accompanied by a fairly generous sampling from his works. Marleigh Ryan writes: "In...
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Leaf-Huts and Snow-HousesPoetry Book Society Recommended Translation In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though deeply rooted in the West Norwegian landscape which he evokes so memorably, Hauge's poetry has...
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The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the NovelIn The Story of Fictional Truth, Paul Dawson looks anew at the historical relationship between the genre of the novel and the concept of fictionality, arguing that existing scholarship on the emergence of realist fiction has been shaped by the trope of the death...
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The Books in My LifeSome writers attempt to conceal the literary influences which have shaped their thinking--but not Henry Miller. In The Books in My Life he shares the thrills of discovery that many kinds of books have brought to a keenly curious and questioning mind. Some of...
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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: A GuidebookThis guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the...
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D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional StudyIn 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a...
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What Is to Be Done?Almost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done?, had a profound impact on the course of Russian literature and politics. The idealized image it offered of dedicated and self-sacrificing intellectuals transforming society by means of...
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Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish MythA sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction Ireland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take...
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Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and AbkhaziansThe sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive...
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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940The legendary correspondence between the critic Walter Benjamin and the historian Gershom Scholem bears indispensable witness to the inner lives of two remarkable and enigmatic personalities. Benjamin, acknowledged today as on of the leading literary and social critics of his day, was known during...
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The Best American Essays 2009Edited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this "rich and thoughtful collection" (Publishers Weekly) offers the finest essays "judiciously selected from countless publications" (Chicago Tribune).Author: Mary Oliver, Robert AtwanPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 10/08/2009Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w...
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Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American WestCrazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the...
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Ncs: Measure for Measure 2edThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. For this...
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The OresteiaThe most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides. These three plays recount the murder of Agamemnon by his queen Clytemnestra on his return from Troy with the captive...
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The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the LinesAn original investigation into the reading strategies and uses of books by Jews in the Soviet era. In The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf, Marat Grinberg argues that in an environment where Judaism had been all but destroyed, and a public Jewish presence routinely delegitimized, reading...
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