Criticism & Theory Books


The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition, One-Volume Paperback (Norton Anthology) Best Price: $49.86 A good book, but HEAVY, and the binding breaks easily if you have to carry it around.	Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $5.79 I'm a student of contemporary art, and I consider myself educated and well read, but I find even...	Notes on Blood Meridian (Southwestern Writers Collection) Best Price: $14.93 After seven or eight reads of BLOOD MERIDIAN, this was a must. The character background is worth...	Letters to Penthouse XV: Outrageous, Erotic, Orgasmic! Best Price: $3.88 These were sent to a friend of mine whom said he liked the book completely Highly recomends	On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) Best Price: $10.99 I read this book from two perspectives (1) is it useful for business? (2) Does it present some...



The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.00 this book is kinda boring and confusing. you really have to hang in there to get to the good...	The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $15.00 Far more qualified minds than mine have commented on Tyler's translation and how it compares to...	A Pocket Guide to Writing in History Best Price: $11.10 I am a History Professor at a small, Christian, liberal arts college on the outskirts of...	The Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics) Best Price: $3.49 Technically an excellent novel but, unlike the wonderful Barset chronicles, we read of dark...	The Air We Breathe: A Novel Best Price: $6.78 Andrea Barrett is a new writer for me, but not for thousands of others. Her book, Ship Fever,...



The Language of Argument Best Price: $41.86 This seller got my order to me very quickly. And he replied to my email about the product very...	The Catalans: A Novel Best Price: $7.75 An excellent early work by Patrick O'Brian. It was fascinating to see the developing author of...	The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (A Contract With God, A Life Force, Dropsie Avenue) Best Price: $17.67 So many reviews have been written on the actual stories collected in THE CONTRACT WITH GOD...	The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD] Best Price: $20.00 The condition was better than advetised. My father was delighted that the cd was there. Thanks...	Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again Best Price: $12.47 Martin shares his life as a "Boomer Freshman", complete with rekindling of adolescent...

A Guide for Using A Christmas Carol in the Classroom Best Price: $8.09 This guide is suitable for use with upper elementary to high school students. I adapted several...	Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman Best Price: $13.75 A note from Hank Wagner, co-author (with Christopher Golden and Stephen R. Bissette) of Prince...	The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen Best Price: $21.93 This is a fascinating. I read the "Annotated Alice in Wonderland" as a kid (which like...	The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.98 "When the telegram announcing my father's death arrived, I felt nothing except irritation...	Roughing It (Mark Twain Library) Best Price: $11.87 I had read strong reviews for this book, and bought it hoping for a good read. Perhaps this is...

James Joyce's Ulysses Best Price: $8.11 Four stars, not five, if only because I do agree somewhat that this study can be as complex as...	The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.98 One may not like Jack London as a person because of his strong socialist, and social darwinist,...	A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor (Modern Library) Best Price: $3.93 This was my first taste of Truman Capote away from Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I have to admit...	Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $7.87 Hofstader's capable translation of these extraordinary Heidegger essays makes this one of the...	Greek Grammar Best Price: $40.00 I never received this item. I ordered it over a month ago and no word on Amazon refunding my $40...

Borges: Selected Non-Fictions Best Price: $10.88 A must read. A great selection of non-fiction material. If you know and like Borges you know...	Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $5.81 Literary theory is a vastly forbidding topic for anyone to describe, especially in a modest...	Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.61 When I started reading Oliver Twist, it was an assignment for school and nothing more. However,...	Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $7.00 According to many critics, Tolstoy (1828 to 1910) is viewed as one of the greatest novelists of...	How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry Best Price: $4.79 While this book has a very academic tone, it is also obvious that the author has a genuine...

Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $7.10 The savings were beaucoup! This was a required reading book for school. The price was great, the...	The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Best Price: $4.76 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is set in the early 1800s in the Dutch farming community of Tarry...	Othello (Cliffs Complete) Best Price: $1.99 Save your money. This study edition of Shakespeare's Othello is attractively laid out, with...	Animal Farm (Cliffs Notes) Best Price: $2.21 This book is wild! It is moooooooving. My daughter needed this book for her class. I had her...	Orality and Literacy (New Accents) Best Price: $23.95 Back when I was in college, one of my professors recommended this book to me. Ten years later,...

The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.99 Although his merits are legion, it is most in the respect of "pure perception", that...	Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson Best Price: $5.21 Camille's ideas are very original. The book combines philosphy, psichology, mithology, art,...	The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays Best Price: $12.89 I'm an English major, and last year, in my third year of university (I'm 27, however), I...	Against Interpretation: And Other Essays Best Price: $8.29 America has very few independent intellectuals, that is, intellectuals free of academic...	Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses Best Price: $4.76 Mr. Dalrymple writes an incisive indictment of our modern society, of Europe in general, but...

The Way to Rainy Mountain Best Price: $4.99 Mr. Momaday's voice in his collection of stories is priceless. He tells of the Kiowa's legends,...	Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: The Western Tradition, Vol. 1: Literature of Western Culture Through the Renaissance Best Price: $56.99 This seventh edition has left out the poetry of John Donne, the great metaphysical poet. Big...	The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $6.50 Kafka's writing works at many levels. I am sure almost every school of Literary Criticism makes...	Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition Best Price: $18.74 Despite the title, this is NOT Ulysses annotated as it does not contain the text with...	The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) Best Price: $12.99 In the academic world there has been move to attempt to completely undermine the individual's...

David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.48 What a wonderful read. Times were tougher then but so were the people. Intriguing all the way...	My Life and Hard Times (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $5.44 Thurber's classic about growing up in Columbus, Ohio is laugh out loud funny, even 80 years...	Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library) Best Price: $8.60 not sure why a teacher would want to read 50 research papers on Death of a Salesman, but mine...	How to Read and Why Best Price: $4.95 ... we all know children in today's grade schools are moving farther away from books and a whole...	The Field of Cultural Production Best Price: $14.40 Bourdieu's analyses of class, taste and culture are seminal and serve as a framework for deeper...

Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs) Best Price: $20.98 Once in every 100 years a book is created which captures, both in written and spoken word, the...	The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $1.99 I ordered a copy of Aeneid of Virgil in good condition. The cover does not look exactly like the...	The Tale of Genji (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.38 "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu is recognized as the world's first true novel....	The Portable Beat Reader Best Price: $10.04 this book is like WOW KA-POW a sock in the gut a kick in the butt- on fly jeans that were ...	A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas, Deluxe Edition (Literary Classics) Best Price: $7.95 This is a wonderful edition of a Christmas classic. Combines the eloquent prose of Dickens with...

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