Category - Literary Criticism
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming read...
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My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780300274141 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 08-08-2023 Pages: 112
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Novelist as a Vocation
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Your Bookseller Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami is as close to being Haruki Murakami (apologies to John Malkovich) as we’ll ...
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Seven Modes of Uncertainty
HardcoverOriginal price $64.00 - Original price $64.00Original price $64.00$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /Literature is rife with uncertainty. Literature is good for us. These two ideas about reading literature are often taken for granted. But what is t...
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Elements of Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Following his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the cr...
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Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible prin...
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Feel Free
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Notable BookFrom Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved author...
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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Charles Johnson--a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on lit...
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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fict...
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Letters to Gil
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE ...
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines (Revised Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster’s classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary b...
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The Common Reader: First Series
PaperbackOriginal price $10.06 - Original price $10.06Original price $10.06$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. The Common Reader, a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, was published in two series, the first in 1925 and t...
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Aspects of the Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /First published in 1927, E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" compiles a series of lectures given to Trinity College at the University of Cambrid...
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Aspects of the Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /E. M. Forster's guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classi...
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Aspects of the Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $6.00 - Original price $6.00Original price $6.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /E. M. Forster, one of England's most distinguished writers, delivered a series of lectures at Trinity College in 1927. The lectures were compiled i...
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Aspects of the Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Widely accepted as a pioneering work of literary criticism, Forster's Aspects of the Novel provides the critical readers with fundamental conceptua...
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For Now
PaperbackOriginal price $10.95 - Original price $10.95Original price $10.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, u...
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Editors' Choice Book and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022 So Far Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodrea...
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But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary works that s...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world...
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equ...
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Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems–a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines—illustr...
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How to Read Now: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship no...
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Franz Kafka: The Drawings
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings “The figures he drew s...
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