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Irving Howe was a major intellectual presence: winner of the National Book Award for his best-selling history, World of Our Fathers; editor of ... More

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"The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity, is to an ... More

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Irving Howe was a major intellectual presence: winner of the National Book Award for his best-selling history, World of Our Fathers; editor of ... More

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Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his ... More

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From the author team of the discipline's most widely used literature anthology, this accessible and instructive guide introduces students to the ... More

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For the past fifty years literary studies and criticism have been dominated by formalist, structural and text-centered approaches. The editor of this ... More

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This book explores ways in which psychoanalytic theory can be put to work in the reading of literary texts. Using concepts such as the unconscious, ... More

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A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question, Why read a work ... More

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This 900-page survey of world literature, From Confucius' Day to Our Own (as the subtitle reads), was the last book written by Ford Madox Ford, one ... More

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This is the first anthology to bring together the key texts of African literary theory and criticism. Brings together key texts that are otherwise ... More

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Geoffery Hartman, one of the most distinguished literary scholars in America, has been a commentator on and participant in the literary-critical ... More

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Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of ... More

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One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and ... More

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Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances beyond the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian and then pan-European ... More

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"The writing is full of wisdom and subdued humor, and the book should be a stimulus and a guide to an appreciation of the arts".-New Yorker. "Without ... More

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