Literary Criticism

First published in 1951, Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States. In his introduction to this volume, Jack Salzman discusses the history of the...

Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth,...

New essays on Thomas Traherne challenge traditional critical readings of the poet. Thomas Traherne has all too often been defined and studied as a solitary thinker, "out of his time", and not as a participant in the complex intellectual currents of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452282315Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176g

The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found in...

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B...

From 1985 to 1995, Mark Gruenwald was the head writer for Captain America. During this decade, Gruenwald wrote some of the most essential stories in Captain America's history and guided the comic through an eventful period of both world history and...

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever...

Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645421825Author Intelligent EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint DexterityPublisher DexterityWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In a magnetic, irresistible narrative, Cixous reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential...

Describes the rivalry of two Spanish matadors, brothers-in-law, and their competition in one season of bullfights.Book InformationISBN 9780684837895Author Ernest HemingwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty-and sheer variety-leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033188Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 413g

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different...

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) is one of the twentieth century's great prose stylists and the author of a suite of devastating satires on modern English life, from his first unforgettably funny novel Decline and Fall, to his last work of fiction, "Basil Seal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187004Author David IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic, political, and social changes wrought by the industrial...

The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social structures or political struggles. The expression 'politics of literature' assumes that there is a specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614983613Author Dennis P QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612190907Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 175g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642329Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

Luminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156983655Author Northrop FryeFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,"...

In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, better known as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most dramatically vital and poetically rich account of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776120Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The...

The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural...

These two complementary lives of Cuthbert illuminate both the secular history of the golden age of Northumbria and the historic shift from Celtic to Roman ecclesiastical practice which took place after the Synod of Whitby. Cuthbert was very much in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645445626Author Sebastian BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010068Author Michael HamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks

In satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter. It exposes...

The Lyric Theory Reader collects major essays on the modern idea of lyric, made available here for the first time in one place. Representing a wide range of perspectives in Anglo-American literary criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,...

A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American...

More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism...

Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ...

The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History...

The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"-allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual...