Collection: Literary Criticism
Go beyond the story with our Literary Criticism collection your guide to understanding, analysing and appreciating literature on a deeper level.
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The Age of Confession/L'Âge de la confession
Neil Bissoondath
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Remember When
Fiona Phillips
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Supernatural Tales from Japan
Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki
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Literature As Exploration
Louise M. Rosenblatt
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Veils and Words
Farzaneh Milani
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Driving Women
Deborah Clarke
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A Companion to Terence
Antony Augoustakis
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Energy Humanities
Imre Szeman
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Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism
Nicholas Mason
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Reflections of War
Peter Deleuran
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Cather Studies, Volume 14
Cather Studies
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The Kinds of Poetry I Want
Charles Bernstein
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The Great Game
Amit Majmudar
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On the Margin
Aldous Huxley
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The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives
Elisa Bolchi
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The Nine Lives of Annie Besant
Clare Paterson
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Washington Is Burning
Andrew Cockburn
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Old Norse Folklore
Stephen A. Mitchell
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Poetry as Enchantment
Dana Gioia
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Inventaire de la Correspondance Littéraire de Grimm et Meister
Ulla Kölving
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The Irish Bildungsroman
Heidi Hansson
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Tradition and the Individual Talent
T. S. Eliot
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The Book of Sana'a
Kasinof
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Word, Woman and Place
Dermot McCarthy
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Mother Knows Best
Lindy Ryan
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Close-ups from Afar: Selected Short and Longer Essays on Social Uses of Photography
Sally Stein
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Understanding Octavia E. Butler
Kendra R. Parker
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Histories of Science
David Alff
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Good News Resounding
Rachel Toombs
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You Belong to ME and Other True Cases
Ann Rule
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Someone Like Me
Clem Bastow
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Transanything
Ever Jones
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The American Open Road
Jeffrey Alan Melton
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100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
Colin Salter
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The Year's Best Sports Writing 2025
Hanif Abdurraqib
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Banshee
Ailbhe Malone, Ailbhe Malone
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
Colm Tóibín
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Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
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Dublin
John Wyse Jackson
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Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture
Maja Horn
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Tender Is the Night" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities
Chris Messenger
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The Craft of Living
Cesare Pavese
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Distant Freedom
Jacques Ranciere
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Secretly Worth Billions
Jenny Lane, Joss Wood
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Rewriting the Orient
Yunfei Bai
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Literary Criticism
These insightful texts unpack the themes, techniques, and cultural impact behind the books we love, from ancient epics to contemporary fiction.
Explore essays, academic studies, and accessible guides on everything from postcolonial theory and feminism to narratology and genre analysis.
Whether you're a student, a scholar, or just a curious reader, you’ll find resources that sharpen your literary lens.
Ideal for book clubs, university courses, or solo deep-dives, our literary criticism books help you read between the lines.