Criticism & Theory

Republic. Book X / Plato -- Ion / Plato -- From Phaedrus / Plato -- From What Is Art? / Leo Tolstoy -- From Poetics / Aristotle -- The Art Of Poetry / Horac...

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of aban...

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and t...

Oxford Basics are short, easy-to-use books based on communicative methodology. They provide ideas for teachers and guidance on how to handle everyday classr...

The Rupaul's Drag Race Legends, Stars Of Unhhhh, And Expert Biological Women Share The Secrets Of Their Feminine Mystique In This Satirical Guide To Beauty ...

EVERYMAN'S POETRY LIBRARY: This new series of the world's greatest poetry features the hallmarks of Everyman Classics: top-quality production and reader-fri...

John Allen Paulos cleverly scrutinizes the mathematical structures of jokes, puns, paradoxes, spoonerisms, riddles, and other forms of humor, drawing exam...

this Pioneering Study Is The First To Show How Jews Have Been Seen Through Modern Ukrainian Literature. Myroslav Shkandrij Uses Evidence Found Within Th...

Dies The Victim, Dies The City -- Not A Social Viewpoint, Merely Addition -- A Dream Character In Dancing Pumps -- You Give Them Food And They Die -- Only S...

In this sustained interpretation, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, contains a coherent statement of mimetic art in ...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of ...

Drones Are In The Newspaper, On The Tv Screen, Swarming Through The Networks, And Soon, We're Told, They'll Be Delivering Our Shopping. But What Are Drones?...

"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."―James ...

Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades-a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In t...

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celeb...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion ...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

Winner of the 2018 City of Vancouver Book AwardFrom Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about hom...

"a great Gatsby For The End Of The Century." — the Baltimore Sun jay Mcinerney's First Novel, bright Lights, Big City, Helped Bring About A Revolution In ...

Annie Proulx's breathtaking story Brokeback Mountain has now been adapted to film by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. This handsome edition of the story, o...

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of ling...

From the brilliantly funny (and rightfully furious) creator of the viral Men Write Women Twitter account, A Tale of Two Titties is a satirical guide to writ...

Sir Winston Churchill was the greatest orator of his day, the greatest statesman of his age, and the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. This enchantin...

In these fresh, vibrant new translations of Chekhov's four greatest plays: Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard—the brilliant theatrica...

The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly...

includes More Than 35 Of Dickinson’s Best-loved Poems, Including “i’m Nobody, Who Are You?” And “i Started Early, Took My Dog.” “bolin’s Four-page Introdu...

In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of...

This Collection Presents Fifty Of The Most Essential Poems By One Of History's Greatest Poets In Dynamic New Translations, The Result Of An Unprecedented Co...

Between The Great Rivers Tigris And Euphrates Lies The Rich Alluvial Land Of Mesopotamia (now In Modern Iraq), Which Supported A Complex And Prosperous Soci...

Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race ...

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts ...

William Shakespeare, The Most Celebrated Poet In The English Language, Left Behind Nearly A Million Words Of Text, But His Biography Has Long Been A Thicket...

Why Study Signs? This Perennial Question Of Philosophy Is Answered In The 20th Century By The Science Of Semiotics. An Animal's Cry, Poetry, The Medical Sym...

There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into ...

David Sedaris Has Kept A Diary For Forty Years, Recording Everything That Has Captured His Attention -- Overheard Comments, Salacious Gossip, Soap Opera Plo...

This Accessible Introduction To Victorian Literature And Its Contexts From 1837-1901 Includes: An Overview Of The Historical, Cultural And Intellectual Back...

a Poem In Five Books, Of Circular Narrative Design, Titled With The Greek Name For Homer, Which Simultaneously Charts Two Currents Of History: The Visible...

Forbidden Knowledge Boldly Traces The Tragic Arc Of Western Literature And Culture As It Explores The Notion Of Forbidden Knowledge, From The Sexual Innocen...

First Published In 1926, A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage Is One Of The Most Celebrated Reference Books Of The Twentieth Century. Commonly Known As 'fow...

This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to bett...

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fe...

Provides A Modern Retelling, The Biblical Text, And Historical Background Of The Stories Behind Eve, Potiphar's Wife, Lot's Wife, Delilah, And Other Women P...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

A Disturbing Murder With Shocking Consequences Sets In Motion The New Installment Of Kellerman's #1 Bestselling Suspense Series Starring Psychologist Alex D...

grace Nichols Gives Us Images That Stare Us Straight In The Eye—images Of Joy, And Images That Challenge And Accuse. Her Fat Black Woman Is Brash, Rejoices ...

The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spani...

Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communiti...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jonathan Kellerman has been universally hailed as the master of psychological suspense, and the blockbuster new thriller feat...