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Provides full-text to literature criticism from the series, Critical Insights and Critical Surveys of Long Fiction. Also includes biographies of some important writers.
A literary primary work is the actual poem, play, story, novel, or essay.
If a primary work is not available through the HACC LIbrary, you might be able to find the full text in Project Gutenberg:
Key Terms in Literary Theory
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The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
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A Dictionary of Critical Theory
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
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Beginning Theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory
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A Short Guide to Writing about Literature
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Literary Theory: the Basics
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Critical Theory Today
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Literary Theory: a Guide for the Perplexed
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How Literature Works: 50 Key Concepts
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How to Read Literature
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
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Modernism: a Very Short Introduction
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The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
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Disquiet on the Western Front : World War II and Postmodern Fiction
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The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism
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Critical Essays on American Postmodernism
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A History of Feminist Literary Criticism
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America
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Sexual-Textual Politics: feminist literary theory
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The Madwoman in the Attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination
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Within the Library of Congress (LC) Classification (or "Call Number") system, Most of the "P's" are literature titles. If you are interested in a detailed breakdown of how the print literature books are organized on the shelves, the LC CLassification for Literature PDF file will provide the details.
The life of Arthur Miller, who despite his disillusionment, strove to illuminate a path to a better way.
. A succinct introduction to one of the most dynamic and diverse world literatures, this Very Short Introduction traces the rich history of Japanese literature from its beginnings over a millennium ago to the present day.
The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty.
A new critical biography of medieval England's most famous poet.
Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighbourhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
This volume about the novel discusses the work from numerous points of view, employing biographical, historical, cultural, mythic, and aesthetic approaches, among others.
This work aims to remove some of the distorted myths about Dickinson in order to clear a path to her poetry.
In The Writer's Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut's life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Roston probes Vonnegut's work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel, as well as original interviews with the writer's family, friends, scholars, psychologists, and other novelists including Karl Marlantes, Kevin Powers, and Tim O'Brien.
In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems.
The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.
Thadious M. Davis begins with Walker's biography and her formative experiences in the South and then presents ways of accessing and reading Walker's complex, interconnected, and sociopolitically invested career in writing fiction, poetry, critical essays, and meditations.
Eminent Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin probes controversies, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him.
