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  • A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by Shapiro, James
    A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
    What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year...
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  • PN Review 264 by McAuliffe, John
    PN Review 264
    The March-April 2022 issue. Major interview with American poet Carl Philips. Nuash Sabah, editor of Poetry Birmingham, in conversation. Frederic Raphael writes to Wittgenstein. Isobel Williams adds to her Shibari Catullus. John Clegg discovers Mrs Bleaney. New to PN Review this issue: Wendelin Wai...
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  • Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading in Search of Lost Time by Friedländer, Saul
    Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading in Search of Lost Time
    Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian revisits Marcel Proust's masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity--that of the novel's narrator and Proust's own. This engaging reexamination of In Search of...
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  • The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation by Hanson, Lenora
    The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation
    The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are...
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  • All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge by Anderson, Stephanie
    All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge
    All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American avant-garde poets have influenced and shaped poets and poetic...
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  • Wheel with a Single Spoke: And Other Poems by Stanescu, Nichita
    Wheel with a Single Spoke: And Other Poems
    A selection of the best known poems by the Nobel nominated, Herder Prize-winning poet.Author: Nichita StanescuPublisher: Archipelago BooksPublished: 07/13/2012Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9781935744153Award: Best Translated Book Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorNichita Stanescu (1933-1983) was the most beloved and...
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  • Surprising, Goofy Jokes about Holidays by Garstecki, Julia
    Surprising, Goofy Jokes about Holidays
    Holidays are times of amazing food and celebrating cheer that bring people together. They make for great jokes that readers will rush to share with their family and friends, too. Through an engaging design that brings the jokes to life with humorous illustrations, fun...
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  • Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature by Dauber, Jonathan
    Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature
    Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in their writings, such that casual readers will only understand the surface meaning of their texts while those with greater insight will grasp the...
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  • The Unwritten Book: An Investigation by Hunt, Samantha
    The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
    "One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature by Ojaide, Tanure
    Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature
    This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in...
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  • Actual Fictions: Literary Representation and Character Network Analysis by Smeets, Roel
    Actual Fictions: Literary Representation and Character Network Analysis
    This Element sheds a new light on the ubiquitous yet complex notion of mimesis. By systematically comparing the social dynamics of the Dutch population at a given time with the social dynamics of characters in Dutch literary fiction published in the same period, it...
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  • Deep Time: A Literary History by Heringman, Noah
    Deep Time: A Literary History
    How the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"--most often associated with geological epochs--began as a metaphorical language...
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  • Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Wendorf, Richard
    Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain
    This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the...
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  • Orwell and Empire by Kerr, Douglas
    Orwell and Empire
    Considers George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing. George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Orwell and Empire is a study of his writing about...
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  • Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil by Poellner, Peter
    Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil
    Value in Modernity examines a historical paradigm in ethics that has hitherto not been identified as such: existential modernism. Peter Poellner discusses the central claims of this paradigm through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler,...
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  • Trump, Tumult and Transcendence: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021 by Hardy, Henry O.
    Trump, Tumult and Transcendence: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021
    TRUMP, TUMULT AND TRANSCENDENCE: Relevant Rhyming Reflections 2020-2021 is a penetrating perspective of the Trump presidency set against the roller coaster upheaval of the Coronavirus pandemic, racial tension of the MAGA faithful arrayed against the Black Lives Matter movement, and the mercurial zeitgeist of...
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  • Theorie der Klassik by Wojcik, Paula
    Theorie der Klassik
    Das Buch stellt den Anspruch, Phänomene, die man als "Klassiker" bezeichnet, besser zu verstehen und zugleich tradierte Vorstellungen darüber, was als klassisch gilt oder zu gelten hat, zu korrigieren. Dazu wird "Klassik" nicht, wie in den historischen und ideologiekritischen Debatten üblich, als Epochenbegriff verstanden,...
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  • My Language Is a Jealous Lover by Bravi, Adrián N.
    My Language Is a Jealous Lover
    Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover...
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  • Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print by Rosenberg, Jessica
    Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print
    During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful...
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  • Shakespeare and the Actor by Potter, Lois
    Shakespeare and the Actor
    What is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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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?

A. You can find the best literary criticism books at online bookstores such as BooksDeli.com. These bookstores offer a wide selection of both classic and contemporary texts on literary criticism, making it easy to access essential readings and expand your knowledge.

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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