Criticism & Theory Books


A Poetry Handbook Best Price: $8.03 I've been reading a lot of books on poetry, meter and writing and Mary Oliver is the best. She...	The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines (book alone) Best Price: $51.25 I found this book very useful and with an excellent range of topics and readings. Used in WRC...	Meditations (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.44 I bought this a couple of years ago and my copy is full of markings and is getting quite ragged...	The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition, Second Edition: One-Volume Hardcover Best Price: $42.99 Most students who have taken any college course on Shakespeare have purchased this book. I...	Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.29 I loved this book and Jane Austen's style, but this is not a literary review -- this review is...



The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms Best Price: $10.69 If you are looking for teaching on the mechanics of different forms this book is about fives...	The Heath Anthology Of American Literature: Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865, Volume B (Heath Anthology of American Literature) Best Price: $17.95 Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text since the...	Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.66 I could not finish listening to the terrible injustice Burt Reynolds did to this classic. It...	The Garden of Last Days: A Novel Best Price: $10.75 I disliked the first 150 pages of this book. Almost unreadable. Then it got better. I...	The Library at Night Best Price: $13.95 The Library At Night is the first book I have read by Alberto Manguel. I can say now, after...



The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms Best Price: $24.07 I bought this book to help me with a school project that involved identifying about fifty...	Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Best Price: $8.43 This book is not for everyone. It is extremely scary and disturbing. At the same time, it is a...	The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $1.99 I have read all or parts of several versions of The Aeneid, including the highly praised Robert...	The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey Best Price: $27.99 This broadly conceived and enlightening look at how Homer's Odyssey has resonated in the West...	Mythologies Best Price: $7.39 No one who can read French should read Barthes in English but if you must read him in...

Nausea Best Price: $8.02 Sartre's "Nausea" is a gripping, twitchy little novella confirming the ways one person...	Siddhartha Best Price: $4.12 I'm usually concerned about purchasing items on line, especially books. I can honestly say that...	Meditations in an Emergency Best Price: $6.83 The country is gray and brown and white and trees. Snows and skies of laughter always...	75 Readings Best Price: $23.82 This collections of essays pack loads of different styles and ideas. Diverse and rich, 75...	An Introduction to Poetry Best Price: $47.01 Much to like in this book; despite a lot of dreary examples of ancient poets writing drearily...

Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing Best Price: $38.00 I had to buy this book for a literature class, and it is chock full of everything from poetry to...	Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing Compact (4th Edition) Best Price: $51.12 It's an excellent anthology. Here are some of the writers, playwrights, authors, and others who...	Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Best Price: $18.41 This book was a supplemental text for my Graduate level Critical Theory class, and I thank my...	Classical Myth (5th Edition) Best Price: $64.99 Excellent text. Covers the classical gods and heros, primarily of the Greeks, with a appreciable...	The Great War and Modern Memory Best Price: $8.00 Another must-read for anyone interested in great literature. From the sublime to the mundane,...

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections Best Price: $7.49 The depth of Benjamin's pessimism has, I think, been underestimated. "The story is told...	Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics) Best Price: $11.27 i halfheartedly read HEMINGWAY's "TORTILLA FLAT" when i was in my late teens . but...	Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.51 this is the best book of plays that i have ever bought. Lysistrata is one of the best plays i've...	Poetics (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.16 I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Poetry appeals to human passions and...	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume D: The Romantic Period Best Price: $23.50 Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature ...

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Compact Edition (5th Edition) (Kennedy/Gioia Literature Series) Best Price: $61.56 The first review of this textbook is extremely misleading. This is THE most popular textbook in...	A Glossary of Literary Terms Best Price: $39.55 Abrams, accomplished scholar and critic, has created a monument for himself and the best, most...	Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.00 This was excellent. I didn't think I'd ever want to read Gulliver's Travels, the eighteenth...	Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $14.59 I took a course on /Paradise Lost/ this past semester. It's such a fruitful read. I get excited...	The Way to Rainy Mountain Best Price: $6.94 Mr. Momaday's voice in his collection of stories is priceless. He tells of the Kiowa's legends,...

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story Best Price: $17.79	Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics) Best Price: $39.80 This arguably pocket-sized book has an insane amount of literature rolled into one neat little...	Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense Best Price: $49.95 I had to buy this book for a class and have been impressed with how many writings it contains....	The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Activity Book 2: The Middle Ages: From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance, Revised ... the World: History for the Classical Child) Best Price: $21.81 This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide contains all you need to make history come...	Handbook to Literature, A (11th Edition) (Handbook to Literature) Best Price: $40.01 It appears to be a good book. I have not actually used it much, yet. It has tons of...

Greek Tragedies, Volume 1 (Greek Tragedies) Best Price: $6.00 There's no reason why these plays need to be randomly strewn throughout three different volumes....	Cane Best Price: $7.31 This is the most amazing book. I am so sad that Jean Toomer did not write any other fiction.	The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction Best Price: $35.90 You're probably buying this for a class in school, right? Well even if you drop out of the...	Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Best Price: $6.50 Short book by Tony Morrison based on her university lectures are three part mediatations on...	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (The Best American Series (TM)) Best Price: $3.74 Meh. The idea for Best American Nonrequired Reading is interesting: take a group of bright high...

Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises Best Price: $24.97 The author categorizes and provides exceedingly clear definitions of many literary terms. For...	Literary Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies) Best Price: $42.13 It is no easy task to cover the full spectrum of modern critical theory and do so in a...	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume E: The Victorian Age Best Price: $19.00 Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature ...	The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary Best Price: $20.00 Robert Alter has achieved well-earned fame for unpacking the Hebrew Bible as literature, with...	How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form Best Price: $8.00 "How to Read Novels Like a Professor" is the sequel to "How to Read...

Elements of Literature: Fifth Course : Literature of the United States With Literature of the Americas Best Price: $29.99 This is a very infomative book. It contains a collection of liturature I have not seen any...	The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.82 Not only is the book small, somewhere between a pack of smokes and a wallet only thinner, it...	Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s Best Price: $22.50 As with all the Library of America titles, this collection is superbly edited and presents the...	Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook) Best Price: $8.22 Imagination, the Lord of Universe say mystics, poets, artists and every rebel for freedom, is...	The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach Best Price: $7.97 Some of the exercises stimulate the muse, while others are a bit brief. The index at the back...

The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.00 This eddition of the book is not about the excellence of the story- but, rather a consise review...	Emma (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.00 Like most of Jane Austen's novels, the theme is around young women and how to obtain marriages...	Backpack Literature (2nd Edition) (Kennedy/Gioia Literature Series) Best Price: $46.99 I'm a student and this textbook was assigned for my intro to literature class. I was surprised...	A Room of One's Own (Annotated) Best Price: $8.80 This book is very short and it expresses brilliant logic that I have not seen for a while. ...

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