Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Recovering: A JournalMay Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we are forced...
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The Norton ShakespeareThe attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience at an affordable price in two ways--a hardcover volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital edition ideal for in-class use. Students can access the ebook from their computer,...
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The Fat Man and Infinity: And Other WritingsAntónio Lobo Antunes's sole ambition from the age of seven was to be a writer. Here, in The Fat Man and Infinity, the heir to Conrad and Faulkner (George Steiner) reflects on the fractured paradise of his childhood--the world of prim, hypocritical, class-riven Lisbon...
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Meditations on QuixoteFirst published in 1914, Meditations on Quixote was Ortega's first book. It has immensely grown in value with time, and since the 1930's, when Ortega himself began to refer back to it in his later writings, it has become more and more important among...
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Experience: A MemoirNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Fus[ing] humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth" (New York Times), one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son...
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They LoveIs a book the same book--or a reader the same reader--the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book...
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The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical ControversyThis critical edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest contains the play and 21 additional selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work providing you with more insight into the play's critical issues and cultural debates about literature itself.Author: William Shakespeare, James PhelanPublisher: Bedford...
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Soldier's HeartIncludes a New Afterword by the Author A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA USA Today Best Book of 2007A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2007 What does it mean to teach literature to a soldier? How does it prepare a young...
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Uncle John's Third Bathroom ReaderWe're back again, overflowing with great new material for a third volume of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. No more frantic searches at the last minute for that perfect magazine article. No agonizing choices between light reading and the serious stuff. Volume three has it...
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Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson wrote a "letter to the world" and left it lying in her drawer more than a century ago. This widely admired epistle was her poems, which were never conventionally published in book form during her lifetime. Since the posthumous discovery of her...
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Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance NovelsThe Sheik--E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino--kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While...
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Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis ReaderHonorable Mention, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction, 2006 Grover Lewis was one of the defining voices of the New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s. His wry, acutely observed, fluently written essays for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice set...
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Joyce and the Two IrelandsUniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the Irish Revival, a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish nationalism that began in the 1890s and continued into the early twentieth century. Yet many of the Revival's Protestant leaders, including W. B....
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Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and CultureRichard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the early 1990s and then returned each year until he became a resident in 2005. From an insider/outsider perspective, he writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people...
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The Song of Kieu: A New LamentAn essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic...and its perennial place in our species' efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim Allen's new translation offers clean fluidity while honouring the original's varied rhythms and jagged lyricism....
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The Little Devil and Other StoriesIn a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent boy who passes his days...
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Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of KnowingA masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial...
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The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's LifeWhen she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers...
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Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of MaterialityWe believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of...
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The Old Capital: A Novel of TaipeiChu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the thin line that separates...
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