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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Writing Women in Modern China
Amy Dooling
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Aristophanes and His Theatre of the Absurd
Paul Cartledge
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Wild Fictions
Amitav Ghosh
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The Hatred of Poetry
Ben Lerner
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The Harlequin Tea Set
Agatha Christie
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Central American Counterpoetics
Karina Alma
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The Folger Guide to Teaching Macbeth
Peggy O'Brien
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La Généalogie de la morale
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rosicrucian Manual
H. Spencer Lewis
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Mumbai Noir
Altaf Tyrewala
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Crime Time 2.5
Deirdre Beddoe, Leigh Verrill-Rhys
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Undelivered
Jeff Nussbaum
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Sexuality in the Field of Vision
Jacqueline Rose
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Minor Monuments
Ian Maleney
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Close To Spider Man
Ivan Coyote
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Charlotte Smith: Major Poetic Works
Charlotte Smith
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How to Read Now
Elaine Castillo
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Daily Rituals Women at Work
Mason Currey
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Joan Didion: The Last Interview
Joan Didion
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Foucault
Gilles Deleuze
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Literary Theory
Terry Eagleton
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Into the Melée
Francis Mulhern
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The Gentle Art of Murder
Earl F. Bargainnier
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God, the Flesh, and the Other
Emmanuel Falque
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Portrait of an Island on Fire
Ariel Saramandi
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The Importance of Being Different
Chris Foss
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The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
Jennifer Bain
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Persuasion
Jane Austen
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Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still
Samuel Beckett
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The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen
Penelope Hughes-Hallett
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The Theory of the Novel
Gyorgy Lukacs
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The Double Flame
Octavio Paz
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Desire and the Ascetic Ideal
Edward Upton
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Sidonius: Letters Book 5, Part 1
Giulia Marolla
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Miles P. Grier
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Difficult Reading
Jason R. Marley
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Manuscript Poetics
Francesco Marco Aresu
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Virginia Woolf and Classical Music
Emma Sutton
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Signs of Borges
Sylvia Molloy
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Chinese Thought in a Multi-cultural World
YUE Daiyun
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The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide
Robert Pinsky
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Sir Thomas Browne
Gavin Francis
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Ethics in the Arthurian Legend
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
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A Literature Without Qualities
Warner B. Berthoff
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200 Years of National Philologies
Christoph Strosetzki
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Gerald O'Donovan: A Life
John F. Ryan
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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.