Criticism & Theory

“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrume...

For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Roman...

One of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays—by William Stafford, Den...

The Moral Compass, The Inspiring And Instructive Companion Volume To The Book Of Virtues, Offers Many More Examples Of Good And Bad, Right And Wrong, In Gre...

Stephen Greenblatt Has Been At The Center Of A Major Shift In Literary Interpretation Toward A Critical Method That Situates Cultural Creation In History. S...

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms. The authors address key aspects ...

Stuart Gilbert's Friendship With James Joyce Began In Paris In 1927 After Gilbert Read Several Pages From A Forthcoming French Translation Of Ulysses In The...

James M. Lellard uses Lacan's psychoanalytic theories to provide interpretations of lierary works including The Scarlet Letter, to The Lighthouse, and other...

Worldly Philosopher Chronicles The Times And Writings Of Albert O. Hirschman, One Of The Twentieth Century's Most Original And Provocative Thinkers. In This...

Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophy

Can Poetry Matter? -- The Dilemma Of The Long Poem -- Notes On The New Formalism -- Strong Counsel (robinson Jeffers) -- The Loneliness Of Weldon Kees -- Th...

The Work of Poetry is organized into three parts. "Poetic Substance" explores the nature of poetry and the poet, with essays that cover the poet "being-and...

four Incisive, Elegant Essays On The Life And Work Wilde, Yeats, Joyce And Beckett By A Pre-eminent Critic Of Our Time. publishers Weekly in Four Library O...

despite The Reshifting Of Values That Has Affected Every Aspect Of Life In The 21st Century, William Shakespeare Still Stands As The Greatest Writer The E...

This book attempts to build a new assessment, demystifying traditional notions of assessment as a privatized technical apparatus and focusing on the role of...

Gathers two collections of Lennon's drawings, poems, and short stories that make use of wordplay and nonsensical phrasesCategories: Literature & Fiction...

Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the...

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...

A powerful political critique of postmodernism. Melancholic and introspective,ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. In this origin...

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'...

The Cambridge Companion To Henry David Thoreau Is An Accessible Guide To Reading And Understanding The Works Of Thoreau. Presenting Essays By A Distinguishe...

A Mesmerizing And Essential Biography Of The Modernist Poet Marianne Moore The Marianne Moore That Survives In The Popular Imagination Is Dignified, White-h...

William Burroughs Arrived In Mexico City In 1949, Having Slipped Out Of New Orleans While Awaiting Trial On Drug And Weapons Charges That Would Almost Certa...

The fieldtrip to the planetarium is foiled when the museum turns out to be closed, but Ms. Frizzle saves the day. The Magic School Bus turns into a spacesh...

This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion o...

mark Twain's Skeptical Assessment Of Free Will, And Determinism, Religious Belief, And The Nature Of Humanity. He Put Off Publishing It For 25 Years, And Th...

This new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to several aspects of one of t...

Becoming Everyone's Aunt, 1868-1900 -- Waxing Nostalgic, 1900-1930 -- Outwitting Poverty And War, 1930-1960 -- Celebrating Sisterhood And Passion Since 1960...

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

A bridge between the early life of Nin and the first volume of her Diary. In pages more candid than in the preceding diaries, Nin tells how she exorcised th...

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...

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