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From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The ... More

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"A kind of autobiography in which one can see the evolution of a man who embraced not only literature but also the discipline and professionalism ... More

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An exciting investigation of the ways literary and cultural texts have not only shaped the difficult terms of the daughter-father relationship but ... More

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Writers of novels, plays, and poems use their imagination with an evident freedom; by contrast, makers of Christian doctrine seem to impose limits, ... More

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Argues for the complex and vital legacy of major modernist authors

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A selection of Ellmann's essays spanning 30 years of his career. He is also known for his biographies of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde.

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Her illustrious career as a poet (her most recent honor has been her election by her peers to the position of Chancellor of the American Academy of ... More

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Her illustrious career as a poet (her most recent honor has been her election by her peers to the position of Chancellor of the American Academy of ... More

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In 1977, Bennington College alumna Edith Barbour Andrews established the Ben Belitt Lectureships in gratitude to her teacher Ben Belitt and dedicated ... More

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This collection makes the case for literary criticism as an informed, aggressive, personal, and often humorous response to writers and writing. These ... More

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A selection of literary essays, written since 1972, and chosen from a wide-ranging body of criticism. It addresses in detail, the work of Dickens, ... More

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Contributing Authors Include A. L. Altenbernd, T. W. Baldwin, E. H. Davidson, And Many Others.

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The essays in this volume represent a collective questioning of the poststructuralist ascendancy, and of the assumptions involved therein, by a group ... More

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Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between ... More

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Robert Bechtold Heilman is one of the last survivors of a remarkable generation of American critics that included such literary giants as Cleanth ... More

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