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A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present - M. A. R. Habib
This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of... ...more
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time - Matthew Arnold
Arnold believes that the ultimate function of humankind lies in exercising its creative powers. He delineates the function of criticism... ...more
The Romantic Poets: A Guide to Criticism
This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception... ...more
Master Players In A Fixed Game: An Extra-Literary History of Twentieth Century African-American Authors - Ralph D. Story
The literary expression of Afro-Americans has been scrutinized and criticized in exhaustive detail, yet historically perceived by many American and... ...more
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West - William R. Handley
In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western... ...more
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Literary Texts and the Greek Historian - Christopher Pelling
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts,... ...more
Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination - William Fitzgerald
This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made... ...more
The Americans of Asian American Literature - Rachel C. Lee
Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among... ...more
Textual Awareness: A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann - Dirk, Van Hulle
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which... ...more
Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien
Since the 1960 publication of her first novel, The Country Girls, award-winning Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been both celebrated... ...more
A History of the English Bible as Literature - David Norton
Revised and condensed from David Norton's acclaimed A History of the Bible as Literature, this book tells the story of... ...more
Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s - Keith A. Livers
Constructing the Stalinist Body brings together contemporary body theory with studies on Stalinist ideology and cultural mythology in order to... ...more
The Anatomy of Influence - Harold Bloom
"Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it," writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, "is in the first... ...more
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion... ...more
The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature - Marianne Noble
For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have... ...more
Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature - Stableford, Brian
This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature and media features the following pieces: "Slaves of... ...more
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Discourse - Sara Mills
A concise survey which will be invaluable to introductory students of literary theory, philosophy, linguistics, feminist studies and post-colonial studies.... ...more
Imaginary Communities - Phillip E. Wegner
""Imaginary Communities is a beautiful treatment of utopian narratives as the quintessential genre for figuring social space in the modern... ...more
The Cambridge Companion to Byron
Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction... ...more
And Even Now - Max Beerbohm
"I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While... ...more
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