Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and NotesThe Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events, competitions, banquets, and festivals. These thirty-four...
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Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by PlautusStill funny after two thousand years, the Roman playwright Plautus wrote around 200 B.C.E., a period when Rome was fighting neighbors on all fronts, including North Africa and the Near East. These three plays--originally written for a wartime audience of refugees, POWs, soldiers and...
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Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry...
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Selected Short StoriesIt is universally acknowledged that Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was as much a master of the short story as of the full-length novel. This original collection, which features some of his most hard-to-find tales, will enchant longtime enthusiasts...
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Shakespeare IllustratedFrom the works of the English language's greatest playwright comes this stunning gallery of immortal scenes: Romeo and Juliet on the balcony, mad Ophelia wreathed in flowers, Macbeth's encounter with the witches, and other vignettes. More than 120 (85 in full-color) illustrations include the...
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Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of QuotationsIt is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.When in doubt, tell the truth.Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you...
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Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of FaithNegro spirituals were profoundly influenced both by the African origins of the singers and by the nature of slavery itself. Music permeated every part of African culture from birth to death, and continued to have a powerful, healing role among the people brought to...
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Introduction to German Poetry: A Dual-Language BookThe poems in this anthology represent a panorama of the main trends in the development of the poetry of the German-speaking people. Beginning with a minnesong of the early Middle Ages and a poem of the seventeenth century, the book then focuses on the...
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You Must Revise Your LifeStafford reflects on the writing process and on the influences on his artAuthor: William StaffordPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 11/28/1986Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.01h x 5.30w x 0.44dISBN: 9780472063710
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Lake Country: A Series of JourneysOne writer's quest to locate herself within the wet, wild, and diversely human cultural heritage that has shaped herAuthor: Kathleen StockingPublisher: University of Michigan RegionalPublished: 04/27/1994Pages: 246Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.08w x 0.80dISBN: 9780472065165Review Citation(s): Library Journal 05/15/1994 pg. 89Publishers Weekly 04/18/1994...
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The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital AgeWritten originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous...
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The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, OccultsIn The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media; hosts "strange meetings"...
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The Science of Stephen King: From Carrie to Cell, the Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Masters FictionAdvance Praise What a treasure house is this book! Robots, space aliens, Einstein, black holes, time travel--these themes, and much more, from Stephen King's amazing books are opened up like toy chests. It's tremendous fun, entirely educational, and a great tribute to King.--Peter Straub...
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Attention: Dispatches from a Land of DistractionA wide-ranging, rule-bending collection of nonfiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life."--Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED...
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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest WritingsEdited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books--the six installments of the Prejudices series, A Book of Burlesques, In Defense of Women, Notes on Democracy, Making a President, A Book of Calumny, Treatise on...
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How Poems Get MadeWhy does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exemplary poems, from Shakespeare through Blake, Dickinson,...
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Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New (Revised)"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describing the revision process." --Adrienne RichAuthor: Audre LordePublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 10/01/1992Pages: 224Binding Type:...
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Russia's Lost Literature of the AbsurdThese bizarre and wildly imaginative pieces, written in Soviet Russia forty years ago, are as vital and disturbing as the best of today's absurdist literature. Almost none of the works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky have been published before in any language.Author: Daniel...
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy TalesNew edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss...
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In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time RegainedTime Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw...
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