Books in category Literary Criticism

Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?

Author: Wayne L. Cowdrey, Arthur Vanick, Howard A. Davis
Publisher : Concordia Pub House
ISBN : 9780758605276
Authors determine that The Book of Mormon is an adaptation of an obscure historical novel. Read about their findings.

Free Within Ourselves

Author: Rudine Sims Bishop
Publisher : Greenwood Pub Group
ISBN : 9780313340932
African American children's literature is a vibrant but sometimes neglected form of expression. Its roots stretch back to the songs and folklore of the antebellum South, and it has often been shaped by social thinkers wishing to promote a healthy respect for the African American tradition. It has captured the issues and feelings of the civil rights movement, and it flourishes today in our multicul

The Lost Literature of Socialism

Author: George Watson
Publisher : Lutterworth Pr
ISBN : 9780718829865
Examines the foundation texts of socialism. The author asserts that socialism was a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be advantagous to the poor. Two chapters study Hitler`s claim that the whole of National Socialism was based on Marx.

C. S. Lewis

Author: Bruce Edwards
Publisher : Greenwood Pub Group
ISBN : 9780275991166
Examines the foundation texts of socialism. The author asserts that socialism was a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be advantagous to the poor. Two chapters study Hitler`s claim that the whole of National Socialism was based on Marx.

The Lost Literature of Socialism

Author: George Watson
Publisher : Lutterworth Pr
ISBN : 9780718829834
Examines the foundation texts of socialism. The author asserts that socialism was a conservative, nostalgic reaction to the radicalism of capitalism, and not always supposed to be advantagous to the poor. Two chapters study Hitler`s claim that the whole of National Socialism was based on Marx.

Defining the World

Author: Henry Hitchings
Publisher : St Martins Pr
ISBN : 9780312426200
Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, this volume tells the story of Samuel Johnson's endeavor to create an authoritative English dictionary. Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure--his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.

Naufragios Y Comentarios/ Shipwrecks and Commentaries (Paperback)

Author: Alvar Nunez C. De Vaca
Publisher : Espasa-Calpe
ISBN : 9788467017472
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What We Read (And What It Means)

Author: Lisa Adams, John Heath
Publisher : Sourcebooks Inc
ISBN : 9781402210549
Heath and Adams explore the nature of what we read and what it means for our current state of conversation in society. For every book lover, the authors uncover hidden gems that highlight the best of what books mean and how they inspire.

Organs Without Bodies

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9780415969215

The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film (Hitchcock, Fight Club), and psychoanalysis. Of Organs without Bodies Joan Copjec (Imagine There`s No Woman) has written: With all his ususal humor and invention, Zizek -

Mansfield Park

Author: Julia (AFT) Quinn, Carol Shields, Kathryn Sutherland, June Sturrock, Jane Stabler
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN : 9780141439808
'Is she queer?--Is she prudish?' These are not quotations from contenders in the brouhaha over Jane Austen's sexuality. They are questions the rakish Henry Crawford in'Mansfield Park' asks as he wonders about the nerdiest of all heroines, Fanny Price. The erotic charm that makes other women in that novel yield one after another to Henry's desire fails to make a dent on this mousy and withdrawn gir

J.R.R. Tolkien

Author: T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN : 9780618127641
This critical overview of Tolkien's most influential works, THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION, explores Tolkien's use and adaptation of myth and the derivation and consistency of his language, and makes a case that Tolkien does, in fact, deserve the honorific author of the century, a title which he is consistently awarded by readers the world over.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Author: Norman Page, Thomas Hardy, Craig Raine, Ian Gregor, Keith Wilson
Publisher : W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN : 9780393974980
Hardy`s novel begins with the famous scene in which Michael Henchard, a young farmer, gets drunk at a village fair and sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas. The consequences of this impulsive act are regrettable and far-reaching, and culminate in Henchard`s ruin and his death in obscurity as a lonely old man. Henchard is similar to the heroes of Greek tragedies who

Jane Eyre

Author: Joanna David, Cecil Ballantine, Richard Lauter, Sara Thomson, Emma Fielding
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN : 9780679783329
Charlotte Bronte's first novel, published in 1847, was based in part on the author's own days in a brutal boarding school where two of her sisters died of tuberculosis; her characterization of the place in her first published work was an act of revenge. The novel's heroine is a plain, impoverished, but spirited young governess who not only wins the heart of her employer--the jaded, Byronic Mr. Roc

The Triumph of the Thriller

Author: Patrick Anderson
Publisher : Random House Inc
ISBN : 9780345481238

J.R.R. Tolkien

Author: T. A. Shippey
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780618257591
This critical overview of Tolkien's most influential works, THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION, explores Tolkien's use and adaptation of myth and the derivation and consistency of his language, and makes a case that Tolkien does, in fact, deserve the honorific author of the century, a title which he is consistently awarded by readers the world over.

Resurrection

Author: Rosemary Edmonds, Louise Maude, Leo Tolstoy, Louise Shanks Maude, Vera Traill
Publisher : Viking Pr
ISBN : 9780140441840
A prostitute stands accused of murder. Prince Nekhlyudov serves on the jury at her trial. He recognizes her as the innocent young girl he once loved, seduced and abandoned. The story is compelling, the telling of it is as masterful and exuberant as only the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina could make it. But the setting of Resurrection is the underworld, and Tolstoy turns a highly critica

Resurrection

Author: Rosemary Edmonds, Louise Maude, Leo Tolstoy, Louise Shanks Maude, Vera Traill
Publisher : Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN : 9780192836427
Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy''s major novels, tells the story of a nobleman''s attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy''s vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a

The Psychopath's Bible

Author: Jack Willis, Christopher S. Hyatt, Nicholas Tharcher
Publisher : New Falcon Pubns
ISBN : 9781561841745
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By Night in Chile

Author: Chris Andrews, Roberto Bolano
Publisher : New Directions
ISBN : 9780811215473
Father Urrutia wanted to be a poet but ended up a Jesuit literary critic who hobnobs with the famous and the mighty. Then he is secretly recruited to teach the dictator Pinochet the history of Marxism. Roberto Bolaqo`s novel recounts all this in the priest`s deathbed confession--a searing attack on the corruption and horror embedded deeply in Chilean politics. Bolaqo, who died in 2003, is widely c

Genius

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN : 9780446691291
- Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, GENIUS (Warner, 10/02; 0-446-527173) hit the New York Times extended bestseller list, and has sold over 65,000 copies to date. It received widespread acclaim from Washington Post Book World and Publishers Weekly (starred review), among others.- Widely recognized as America's leading literary critic, Bloom teaches at Yale and NYU