Literary Criticism - Page 21

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death

“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, acci...

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The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World

A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographersHow did the...

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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy

Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provoca...

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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education

How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought—one that demo...

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How Literatures Begin: A Global History

Literature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence...

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The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts

Winner, 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in Literature and Fine ArtsThe Neural Sublime brings recent w...

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Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI

In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical r...

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The Invention of Oscar Wilde

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Inven...

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John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion

John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of th...

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The Byzantine Sinbad

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher and The Fables of Syntipas, both...

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Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explo...

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Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense

Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary ga...

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Horror: A Very Short Introduction

Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, no...

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The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Pol...

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You Are What You Read: A Practical Guide to Reading Well

We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for...

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