Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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He That Should Come: A Nativity Play in One ActIn this first of her plays for religious broadcasting, a nativity play, Dorothy L. Sayers wanted to convince listeners of the truth that Christ was born into our deeply problematic world, in his case, in territory overrun by an army of occupation. Although framed...
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Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero!When postwar movie directors went looking for a gritty location to shoot their psychological crime thrillers, they found Bunker Hill, a neighborhood of fading Victorians, flophouses, tough bars, stairways and dark alleys in downtown Los Angeles. Novelist Raymond Chandler had already been there exploring...
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Elena Ferrante's Key Words"I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent."--ELENA FERRANTE, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng Huo...
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Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee MysteriesTony Hillerman is beloved for his novels of intrigue in the American Southwest. In Tony Hillerman's Navajoland, Laurance Linford takes readers on a journey through the Four Corners region to the haunts of Hillerman's characters. Offered in encyclopedic form, each entry gives the common...
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William Shakespeare's the TempestAlthough 'The Tempest' is commonly regarded as a romance, Harold Bloom argues that the author probably thought it a tragicomedy. This text explores Shakespeare's last great work from a number of critical perspectives.Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Chelsea House PublicationsPublished: 04/01/2011Pages: 181Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.05lbsSize:...
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2 Corinthians: A Handbook on the Greek TextThe Greek of 2 Corinthians is some of the most complex of any New Testament text, displaying Paul's full range of rhetorical strategies. Long's analysis of the soaring rhetoric locates Paul's letter within the first-century Mediterranean world, employing grammar and syntax to provide a...
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Not for Nothing: Glimpses Into a Jersey GirlhoodLiterary Nonfiction. Memoir. Essays. Italian Studies. NOT FOR NOTHING transported me. Curto's gritty specificity with coming-of-age memories is humourous, gripping, and thought-provoking. NOT FOR NOTHING takes on the beauty, pain, tenderness, cruelty, passion, and love that often coexist in a jumble of childhood and...
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Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid's LifeLiterary Nonfiction. Memoir. On these pages, fans of Michael Parenti's insightful political and historical writings are given a revealing picture of his early years as a youth in New York's East Harlem, along with some of the influences that helped shape his lifelong commitment...
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Peeking Under My SkirtFrom intimate peeks at marriage to ruminations on candlelight, to an expose of the mayhem surrounding the annual extended family beach trip, Peeking is both lyrical and light-hearted.Author: Stephanie HuntPublisher: Booksurge PublishingPublished: 01/16/2002Pages: 106Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.22dISBN: 9781591093510About the...
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The Two Sides of Love: The Secret to Valuing DifferencesFind the balance between tough love and tender love. In The Two Sides of Love, best-selling authors John Trent and Gary Smalley explain how to find a healthy balance between the protective, consistent, "hard side" of love and the tender, understanding, "soft side" of...
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Theater of Envy: William ShakespeareAuthor: Rene GirardPublisher: St. Augustine's PressPublished: 12/15/2004Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10dISBN: 9781587318603
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The Sorrow of BelgiumIn 1939, Louis Seynaeve, a ten-year-old Flemish student, is chiefly occupied with schoolboy adventures and lurid adolescent fantasies. Then the Nazis invade Belgium, and he grows up fast. Bewildered by his family--a stuffy father who welcomes the occupation and a flirtatious mother who works...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap BookA vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard.Author: Elbert HubbardPublisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyPublished: 12/19/1998Pages: 244Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.28h x 7.54w x 0.60dISBN: 9781565544468About the AuthorHubbard,...
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on PlotOne of the greatest literary minds of the twentieth century, Viktor Shklovsky writes the critical equivalent of what Ross Chambers calls "loiterature"--writing that roams, playfully digresses, moving freely between the literary work and the world. In Energy of Delusion, a masterpiece that Shklovsky worked...
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American ImaginationA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At...
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Sueño de una Noche de Verano (Spanish) EditionSue o de una noche de verano, est considerada uno de los grandes cl sicos de la literatura teatral mundial.Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/30/2017Pages: 62Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13dISBN: 9781547022533Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Poems - by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell; Including Introductory Essays by Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë"Poems - by Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell" is a collection of fantastic poetry written by the literary sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Bront . Published in 1846 under the pseudonyms Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne) Bell, it only sold three copies...
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The Monster Theory ReaderA collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning--across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time--from foundational texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world...
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Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago Chapter 17, Poems by Yuri ZhivagoTranslation of poems by Yuri Zhivago, the main character of the Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak's world- famous novel "Doctor Zhivago", which was turned into an Oscar-winning Hollywood movie with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie. The twenty five poems are part and parcel of...
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Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan PierBoth of Orwell's searing reportage accounts of poverty in the 1930s in one volume.Author: Will Jonson, George OrwellPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/23/2014Pages: 260Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.55dISBN: 9781502941268This title is not returnable
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