Criticism & Theory Books


Art of Being Human, The (9th Edition) Best Price: $28.00 This review is for The Art of Being Human: The Humanities as a Technique for Living, 9th...	Keats Best Price: $311.32 This is a book for a student of Keats to explore fine details about his life, poetry, friends,...	The Journey to the West, Volume 2 Best Price: $20.96 This is part two of one of the four great written masterpieces of China, beautifully translated...	Candide (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $7.93 Review of Candide published in the Dialogike Society Journal by Daniel De-L'amlow,...	Autobiographies



Landscapes and Memories: An Intermittent Autobiography	Conjunctions 12 Best Price: $19.79	The First Wave: Women Poets in America, 1915-1945 Best Price: $12.98	SELECTED LETTERS 1917 THROUGH 1961 (Hudson River Editions) The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in...	COLLECTED POEMS REVISED EDITION



Poems of Thomas Hardy (Read Red) Best Price: $6.68 This work is a new selection of Hardy's love poems. Thomas Hardy is one of the sacred...	Classical Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.12 To the Ancients (mostly Greeks and Romans), the main literature to be talked of was Poetry, but...	Shakespeare: Coriolanus (Critical Studies, Penguin) This critical study examines Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" which is studied at both...	Invisible Man (Read Red) Best Price: $41.99 With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered...	Around the World in Eighty Days (Read Red) Best Price: $7.22 One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the...

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, 4th Edition Best Price: $14.96 This anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include 99 poets from 27 countries. The...	She	Common Sense	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	The Beautiful Cigar Girl Best Price: $26.37 I enjoyed this book. I loved reading about Poe. I liked how Stashower went back and forth from...

The Chester Mystery Cycle vol I Text (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) (Vol 1) Best Price: $30.95 This comprehensive and original philological study of the Chester cycle of biblical plays...	Aelfric's Catholic Homilies series II text (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) Best Price: $41.00	Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years (Proceedings of the British Academy) Best Price: $93.95 Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth...	Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem Best Price: $127.99 This book explores the "self-conscious poem" - that is, a poem concerned with poetry...	Dramatic Works: Volume 2 (Oxford English Texts) The Beggar's Opera; The Wife of Bath (1730); Achilles; The Distress'd Wife; The...

Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing (Clarendon Lectures) Best Price: $4.98 As a grad student in Folklore and Folklife, I discovered this book during a research project on...	The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 7: 1853-1855 Best Price: $295.00 This volume contains more than 1200 letters, a third of them never before published, together...	The Complete Poetical Works: Volume 3 (George Crabbe) Best Price: $317.99 This is the first collected edition of the verse for some eighty years. The editors use much...	Fabulae: Volume III: Helena, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus (Oxford Classical Texts) (Vol 3) (Greek Edition) Best Price: $45.87 In English, Euripides: Tragedies, Volume III: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes, Bacchae,...	Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis (Oxford-Warburg Studies) Best Price: $175.00 This volume is the first half of an intellectual biography of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the...

The Chester Mystery Cycle vol I Text (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) (Vol 1) Best Price: $30.95 This comprehensive and original philological study of the Chester cycle of biblical plays...	Aelfric's Catholic Homilies series II text (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) Best Price: $41.00	Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators over 700 years (Proceedings of the British Academy) Best Price: $93.95 Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth...	Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem Best Price: $127.99 This book explores the "self-conscious poem" - that is, a poem concerned with poetry...	Dramatic Works: Volume 2 (Oxford English Texts) The Beggar's Opera; The Wife of Bath (1730); Achilles; The Distress'd Wife; The...

Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American Women's Writing (Clarendon Lectures) Best Price: $4.98 As a grad student in Folklore and Folklife, I discovered this book during a research project on...	The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 7: 1853-1855 Best Price: $295.00 This volume contains more than 1200 letters, a third of them never before published, together...	The Complete Poetical Works: Volume 3 (George Crabbe) Best Price: $317.99 This is the first collected edition of the verse for some eighty years. The editors use much...	Fabulae: Volume III: Helena, Phoenissae, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia Aulidensis, Rhesus (Oxford Classical Texts) (Vol 3) (Greek Edition) Best Price: $45.87 In English, Euripides: Tragedies, Volume III: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes, Bacchae,...	Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume I: Textual Criticism and Exegesis (Oxford-Warburg Studies) Best Price: $175.00 This volume is the first half of an intellectual biography of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the...

The Real Tin Flower: Poems About the World at Nine	The Terrible Tiger. I read this book as a child. It was wonderful to imagine the terrible tiger gnashing his...	How to Interpret Poetry (ARCO's Concise Writing Guides) Best Price: $7.75 An update to the classic guide that will help you understand the most poetic of passages.	The Scottish Dog: An Anthology Best Price: $36.40	Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature Best Price: $17.03 For courses in Children's Literature. This is a fresh, new edition of one of the most...

Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time Best Price: $78.40 An extraordinary book of poetry/intuition by Jane Roberts, illustrated by her husband, artist...	The Tragedie of MacBeth Best Price: $13.39 The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "What is...	Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays (New Century Views) Best Price: $14.38	Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (2nd Edition) Best Price: $13.00 So far I have yet to find a better introduction to literary theory than Charles E....	English Poetry and Prose 1540-1674 (Penguin History of Literature, Volume 2) (v. 2) Best Price: $61.28 The essays in this volume are intended to give a modern reader a sense of the many contexts...

Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination Best Price: $13.00 When Vigen Guroian [veegun ga-ROY-un] set out to teach a class on children's literature to...	Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) Best Price: $91.25 As life-writing began to attract critical attention in the 1950s and 60s, theorists, critics,...	The Handbook of Culture and Psychology Best Price: $55.47 This book covered a range of issues and a variety of cultures. The fact that it is an edited...	Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion Best Price: $42.00 Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion presents twenty-eight original essays on the...	Jane Austen's Emma: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) Best Price: $97.95 Although Jane Austen famously referred to Emma as a heroine "whom no one but myself will...

Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information Best Price: $65.00 Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from anything else,...	Classical Mythology: with Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica) by Apollonius of Rhodes Morford and Lenardon's best-selling introduction to classical mythology is a comprehensive...	Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) Best Price: $1.95 Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit...	Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises: From Their ... Association Classical Resources Series) Ancient greek scholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is...	A Moment's Ornament: The Poetics of Nympholepsy in Ancient Greece Best Price: $63.19 From Hesiod's first person account of his encounters with the Muses on Mount Helikon to...

How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry Best Price: $8.81 A mentor of mine always used to say "There are two kinds of people in this...	Present Concerns Best Price: $191.94 Nineteen essays-on democratic values, threats to educational and spiritual fulfillment, literary...	Merrily comes our harvest in: Poems for Thanksgiving Best Price: $59.99 Contains 20 poems with Thanksgiving themes.	Thinking About Thinking: A Collection of Essays Best Price: $110.95	The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems Best Price: $5.88 I used this book as a last minute replacement in teaching a collegiate, first year poetry class...

King Arthur (Oxford Illustrated Classics Series) The Tales Of king Arthur is a great book. It is a action paked book. It gives from the begging...	The Essential Victor Hugo (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $26.75 'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting;...	The Oxford Book of Sonnets (Oxford Books of Verse) Best Price: $101.60 John Fuller is a good judge of words, also see his Auden volume. He captures depth and sequence...	The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $12.07 This is a pretty good new translation, although it does have some grammatical errors. So, have a...	The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction After the Invention of the News Best Price: $49.50 Rapid industrialization and new advances in technology marked the Victorian period as one of...

The New Wind Has Wings: Poems from Canada	Canadian Children's Books: A Critical Guide to Authors and Illustrators Best Price: $31.01 This book provides teachers, librarians, and other educators, parents and relatives, and...	The Devil Is a Travelling Man: Two Plays by W.O. Mitchell (Milestones in Canadian Literature) Best Price: $1.98 W.O. Mitchell jokingly called himself the great re-run king, but his retellings of age-old...	Rabindranath Tagore and Modern Sensibility This collection of essays records a common reader's changing perceptions to the literary...	The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759-1851) in India, Ireland, and England A surpassing interest in the first of anything is as old asAdam. Just as we are different from...

Sibawayhi (Makers of Islamic Civilization) Best Price: $5.12 This volume gives a short account of the background and life of Sibawayhi, the founder of Arabic...	Wordfall: Three Pakistani Poets - Kaleem Omar, Maki Kureishi, Taufiq Rafat (Three Crowns)	Frankenstein (Oxford Progressive English Readers, Grade 4) Best Price: $15.95	Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments (Early English Text Society Supplementary Series) Best Price: $24.94	The Kill (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $13.77 The Kill ( La Curï¿½e ) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty...

Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $6.23 Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep....	Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $94.10 What a sycophant and poseur! I have no doubt, after reading about half of these dialogues and...	George Herbert (The Oxford Poetry Library) Best Price: $51.09 This is a selection of the poetry of George Herbert (1593-1633), one of the masters of...	Rudyard Kipling (Oxford Authors) Best Price: $155.70 This is the first scholarly edition to bring together the best short stories and poems of...	Oriental Tales (Oxford World's Classics) The oriental tale, set in moonlit seraglios and peopled by mysterious veiled women, powerful...

Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?: More Puzzles in Classic Fiction (World's Classics) Best Price: $15.75 God, I wish I had the brains John Sutherland. Why the heck don't we think of these things...	Language Education This book concentrates on the significance of language in personal development and learning. ...	Collected Poems, 1916-1970 It baffles me why Conrad Aiken isn't on every poetry shelf. This is a wonderful volume,...	The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America Best Price: $39.95 Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--Langston...	Maine Poems Best Price: $46.21 I do not really know the work of Richard Eberhart. This is the first book of his I have read. I...

Entrepreneurs and Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico Best Price: $40.00 Based on six years of research, including interviews with leading Mexican entrepreneurial and...	The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Best Price: $15.99 Professor Gates' tome on the Signifying Monkey is a thoughtful and fascinating exposition on...	Double Agent: The Critic and Society Best Price: $32.76 In recent decades, an enormous gulf has opened up between academic critics addressing their...	Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity Best Price: $2.49 Once upon a time, when psychology and psychiatry were just beginning, there was a charlatan. He...	Christ and the Spirit: Spirit-Christology in Trinitarian Perspective Best Price: $105.88 This is a study of Spirit-Christology--a contemporary theological model of the relationship...

Framing in Discourse Best Price: $32.88 This is not a book for the general public. In fact, it is not a book at all. It is a collection...	A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners (Early American Women Writers) Best Price: $16.88 The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and...	"...the real war will never get in the books": Selections from Writers During the Civil War Best Price: $19.15 "These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded,...	Double Agent: The Critic and Society Best Price: $4.99 Double Agent is a watershed in the recent revival of interest in the role of the public critic...

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