Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of StatementIntroducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement The Poetry of Search, with which the book opens, puts forward the suggestion that controversy about what kind of thing poetry ought...
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A Life Above WaterA Life Above Water is a cycle of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds and explores the boundaries between the two. The manuscript is concerned with personal ecologies and mythologies the ways that things are interconnected and the stories that we...
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Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and LondonFrom the bestselling author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, coming in March 2017, "a near-perfect essay collection, filled with insight, compassion, and intellect. (NPR)In both his internationally bestselling fiction and his wide-ranging journalism, Mohsin Hamid has earned...
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Letter to JimmyWritten on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou's ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin's life in context within the greater African diaspora.Author: Alain MabanckouPublisher: CatapultPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 178Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize:...
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The Death of Picasso: New and Selected WritingWhen Guy Davenport looks at the world, the world changes; sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. And no reader is the same after reading his or her first Davenport essay or story. He is a writer perfectly described by the term singular...
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Cat TownModernist poet Sakutarō Hagiwara's first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan. Two of its poems were removed on order of the Ministry of the Interior for "disturbing social customs." Along with the entirety...
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and FutureThe invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway...
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Book of MutterA fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childhood.--from Book of...
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The Handy Literature Answer Book: An Engaging Guide to Unraveling Symbols, Signs and Meanings in Great WorksGet the most out of reading with this an engaging and fun guide to the deeper meanings in great works of literature From the epic of Gilgamesh to Aristotle and Cicero, and from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to Wuthering Heights, War and...
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Conversations with Audre LordeAudre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of...
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without PrincipleHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and opponent of injustice. Civil Disobedience(1849), composed following Thoreau's imprisonment for refusing to pay...
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Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of GuadalupeGoddess of the Americas is a brilliant essay collection and an impassioned, unorthodox celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe: mother goddess, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who made her first appearance on American soil in 1531. Through a variety of forms...
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Social PoeticsSocial Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people's history of the poetry workshop from the founding director...
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Ivan Bunin: Collected Stories"The Gentleman from San Francisco" is easily the best known of Ivan Bunin's stories and has achieved the stature of a masterpiece. But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have...
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Environmental TheaterHere are the exercises which began as radical departures from standard actor training etiquette and which stand now as classic means through which the performer discovers his or her true power of transformation. This expanded edition offers a new generation of theater artists the...
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Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related LiteratureAuthor: Sarah Iles JohnstonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/01/1990Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.51dISBN: 9781555404277This title is not returnable
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Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional ParadoxLinda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such...
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Lady Audley's Secret"This intelligent edition offers a wonderful introduction not just to Lady Audley's Secret, but to the whole publishing phenomenon of sensation fiction." -- Kate Flint, Rutgers University Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 08/19/2003Pages: 510Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN:...
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Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish ReaderPaper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish. Author: Margaret CavendishPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 01/20/2000Pages: 332Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70dISBN: 9781551111735About the Author Sylvia Bowerbank holds a joint apointment in...
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The English Poetic Mind'The English Poetic Mind' (1932) is Williams' discussion of the source of the poetic impulse, creativity and drive behind three prominent English poets: Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth. The text is reflective of Williams' imaginative and critical approach to literature and his appreciation of poetry...
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