Literature - History and criticism
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$27.99 Read moreLearn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a si- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1465429883
- Language: English
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Literature for a Changing Planet
$31.58 Read moreWhy we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe
Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddl- Series: Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture #1
- Author: Puchner, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691213755
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984-2021
$23.95 Read more2022 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting e- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211629
- Language: English
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
$29.95 Read moreAn authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.
Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama a- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271823
- Language: English
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Last Letter to a Reader
$17.95 Read moreIn the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane – perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose – began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He
- Author: Murnane, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1913505421
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature – New and Expanded Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary crit- Series: Princeton Classics #1
- Author: Auerbach, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160228
- Language: English
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$21.99 Add to cartLearn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a sim… [more below]- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1465491015
- Language: English
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
$27.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James
- Author: Nafisi, Azar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0062947362
- Language: English
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
$15.99 Add to cartItalo Calvino’s brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvino’s own writing processes.
At the time of… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0544146670
- Language: English
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A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration
$30.00 Read more“An extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.” –James Wolcott in his introduction
An outstanding new collection, A HITCH- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1538757656
- Language: English
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Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary
$27.95 Add to cartAt the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline … [more below]
- Author: La Berge, Leigh Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1478019255
- Language: English
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Upstream: Selected Essays
$18.00 Add to cartOne of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year
The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “There’s hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn’t f- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29, 2019
- ISBN10: 0143130080
- Language: English
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
$18.99 Add to cartA selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century–as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter Benjamin’s life and phi
- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 1328470237
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids
$10.99 Add to cartThe go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101
In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author an
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0062200852
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Literatura (the Literature Book)
$27.99 Read moreGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Con un lenguaje claro, sencillos esquemas e ingeniosas ilustraciones, El libro de la literatura es el manual perfecto para introducirse en la historia de la lite- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1465478728
- Language: Spanish
