Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about WritingLike Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the...
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A Broken Thing: Poets on the LineIn the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is...
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The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and MoreHenry David Thoreau saw nature as teacher and companion, and many of his philosophies guide the contemporary environmental movement. What Thoreau wrote about simplicity, materialism, technology, and our troubled relationship with nature is perhaps even more relevant to our lives today than it was...
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The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent"[A] superb tribute . . . [an] essential collection" of essays analyzing the works of the preeminent twentieth-century poet and voice of social justice (Booklist).Winner of the Central New York Book Award for NonfictionFinalist for the Chicago Review of Books AwardPoet, educator, and social...
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The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 2: 1975-1977Funky, Les, and the gang pun their way through Westview High Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. This second volume, which presents strips from 1975, 1976,...
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PoeticsThe writings of Greek philosopher ARISTOTLE (384BC-322BC)--student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great--are among the most influential on Western thought, and indeed upon Western civilization itself. From theology and logic to politics and even biology, there is no area of human knowledge that...
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Conversations with Ian McEwanConversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found...
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Poor Richard's AlmanackBenjamin Franklin's classic book is full of timeless, thought-provoking insights that are as valuable today as they were over two centuries ago. With more than 700 pithy proverbs, Franklin lays out the rules everyone should live by and offers advice on such subjects as...
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Shakespeare's Window Into the Soul: The Mystical Wisdom in Shakespeare's CharactersA study of the mystical, spiritual, and profound visionary wisdom contained in Shakespeare's plays - Reveals the significant mystical symbolism in ten of Shakespeare's later, more mature, works including Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Tempest - Shows the progress of Shakespeare's own spiritual development through...
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The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of MythCompelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean - Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece - Identifies the true geographic sites of...
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Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical ScholarshipAuthor: Teresa J. HornsbyPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 06/27/2011Pages: 372Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83dISBN: 9781589835528Review Citation(s): Reference and Research Bk News 12/01/2011 pg. 15This title is not returnable
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Ritual and Cult at UgaritAuthor: Dennis PardeePublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 07/01/2002Pages: 316Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.38w x 0.77dISBN: 9781589830264This title is not returnable
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La Traicion En La Amistad, 2nd EditionAuthor: Maria De Zayas y. SotomayorPublisher: European MasterpiecesPublished: 08/15/2007Pages: 140Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33dISBN: 9781589770478Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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Valor, Agravio y MujerAuthor: Ana Caro Mallen De Soto, Ana CaroPublisher: European MasterpiecesPublished: 04/16/2009Pages: 152Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35dISBN: 9781589770638Language: SpanishThis title is not returnable
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The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and KoryoKorea's history is divided into four periods: the Three Kingdoms of Koguryo (37 bc-ad 668), Shilla (57 bc-ad 668), and Paekche (18 bc-ad 660); Unified Shilla (668-935); Koryo (935-1392); and Choson (1392-1910). Kevin O'Rourke's The Book of Korean Poetry traces Korean poetry from the...
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The Poet's HandbookThis handbook teaches the basics of the modern poet's craft: diction, imagery, metrics, verse forms, symbolism.Author: Judson JeromePublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 01/01/1996Pages: 244Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.53w x 0.57dISBN: 9781582971360
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A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of RochesterA biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his...
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A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm XA Lie of Reinvention is a response to Manning Marable's biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. Marable's book was controversially acclaimed by some as his magna opus. At the same time, it was denounced and debated by others as a worthless read...
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The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction, and PropagandaThe dramatic story of a Jewish child's rescue at Buchenwald and its use as propaganda in both East and united Germany. At the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, communist prisoners organized resistance against the SS and even planned an uprising. They helped rescue a three-year-old...
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I RememberAn affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring pointillist autobiography by Georges Perec, a master of postmodern fiction. The text of this memoir-through-memories consists of 480 numbered statements, all beginning identically with "I remember" -- all limited to pieces of public knowledge, brand...
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