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This text discusses what Northrop Frye sees as the four main approaches to criticism: the historical, ethical, archetypical and rhetorical. By ... More

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This new paperback edition is a reprint of a classic textbook by the late Walter Jackson Bate, noted literary scholar and two-time Pulitzer ... More

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Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's ... More

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"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time

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`Taken together, The Pleasure of the Text and S/Z force us to notice how much of the most interesting thought today is being carried forward in what ... More

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First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous ... More

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From reviews of the first edition?"Academic literary crticism continues to be dominated by 'theory' and the struggle between deconstructionist and ... More

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The theme of this collection is the excellence of Story, especially of the kind of story dear to C.S. Lewis - fantasy and science fiction, which he ... More

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Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with ... More

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With his customary wit and erudition, one of America's most celebrated and distinguished critics examines the response of literary Modernism to ... More

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The theme of this collection is the excellence of Story, especially of the kind of story dear to C.S. Lewis - fantasy and science fiction, which he ... More

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This title collects 19 essays by novelist Parks, many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books.

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Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. ... More

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Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; ... More

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"The Liberal Imagination" is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of ... More

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Otokar Brezina (1868-1929) was the most prominent Czech poet of his day. HIDDEN HISTORY, however, is not precisely poetry but a collection of poetic ... More

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How important were Sioux authors such as Charles Eastman in the opinion of the writer responsible for "Black Elk Speaks"? What will be the legacy of ... More

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From the perfectly organized island nation of Sir Thomas More's "Utopia" to the idealized mountain stronghold of Eldorado visited by the naive hero ... More

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In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned "middle ground" for reason--a rhetoric that can unite truths of ... More

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