Criticism & Theory

In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing s...

The Definitive Biography Of Dancer And Choreographer Martha Graham, One Of The Great American Artists Of The Twentieth Century-- Provided By Publisher.Categ...

America's Workers Have Been Singing, Reciting, Performing, Telling Stories, Writing, And Publishing For More Than Three Centuries. Ranging From Early Coloni...

The young W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood spent, between them, the years 1928 to 1933 in Berlin. It was a crucial stage in the development of the two ...

Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandon...

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than eve...

The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Studen...

The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Studen...

This anthology aims to enable the reader to gauge the achievement of principal authors of English literature by providing examples of their most characteris...

Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal ...

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John Updike's Seventeenth Novel Begins In 1910, And Traces God's Relation To Four Generations Of An American Family, Beginning With Clarence Wilmot, A Presb...

set In North Dakota At A Time In This Century When Indian Tribes Were Struggling To Keep What Little Remained Of Their Lands, tracks Is A Tale Of Passion ...

The inside story of how A League of Their Own--one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time--developed from an unheralded piece of American history...

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thi...

First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one boy's passage ...

In This Passionate, Deeply Personal Book, Adam Nicolson Explains Why Homer Matters-- To Him, To You, To The World--in A Text Full Of Twists, Turns And Surpr...

WITH BILL MAHER, ITS NEVER POLITICS AS USUAL! Conservatives know what they want and they never forget it. Except for the time Reagan went to the Vietnam M...

In Three Paperback Volumes, The Grene And Lattimore Editions Offer A Selection Of The Most Important And Characteristic Plays Of Aeschylus, Sophocles, And E...

The Disc Contains Two Original Signed Asl Narratives Based On The Deaf Experience. Bird Of A Different Feather By Ben Bahan Explores The Experiences Of A Di...

New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me.Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? ...

Difficult writing has its way of illuminating the part of the world that counts. One such difficult text is Gertrude Stein’s highly experimental Tender Bu...

What Happened To The Public Intellectuals That Used To Challenge And Inform Us? Who Is The Sartre Or De Beauvoir Of The Internet Age? General Intellects Arg...

From The Apparently Simple Adaptation Of A Text Into Film, Theatre Or A New Literary Work, To The More Complex Appropriation Of Style Or Meaning, It Is Argu...

join Professor Helen Vendler In Her Course Lecture On The Yeats Poem Among School Children. View Her Insightful And Passionate Analysis Along With A Conde...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, pai...

Song For A Raggy Boy -- Song For A Poor Boy -- Song For A Fly Boy. Patrick Galvin.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismCriticism &...

We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the ...

This student edition of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is based on the earlier so-called A-text of the play, with the B-text scenes included in an ap...

From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage- and its consequences, spanning three generations. They seemed li...

The Art Of Fact Is A Historical Treasury Tracing What Used To Be Called New Journalism Back To Such Pioneers As Defoe, Dickens, And Orwell, And To Crime Wri...

This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays inclu...

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and wr...

In the 1990s, American televison audiences witnessed an unprecedented rise in programming devoted explicitly to women. Cable networks such as Oxygen Media, ...

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Carolyne Larrington has gathered together a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and ...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Naomi Wolf, Facing The Beast Is A Devastating, Detailed Account Of Wrongthink, Deplatforming, And An Unexpected Polit...

On Themorning Of Christ's Nativity -- A Paraphrase On Psalm 114 -- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough -- The Passion -- On Time -- Upon The Circ...

As recent reports suggest, many fewer weddings are now taking place in church. For those that are not having the traditional wedding service, it can be a pr...

To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury ...

Both noted poets themselves, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia write of their subject with a humor, style, and verve that makes the joys of poetry accessible to a...

A Writer's Discipline -- English As She's Not Taught -- A Few Words On A Few Words -- Food For The Nrf -- Lincoln The Writer -- Poe As Proofreader -- The Bi...

William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped ...

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs celebrates the astonishing career of Leonard Cohen, revered around the world as one of the great visionaries, writ...

Benjamin Ivry's is the first study of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's sexuality in relation to his life, work and posterity. Focusing on Rimbaud's great po...

As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, in...

The book titled, Gems from Tozer, contains various selections from A.W. Tozer and provides an up front and pointedly direct snippet of Tozer's theology. The...

By Our Nig. Reprint. Originally Published: Boston : G.c. Rand & Avery, 1859. With A New Introd. / By Henry Louis Gates. Bibliography: P. Xxix-xxxiii.Cat...