The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
10 best books like The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends (David H. Richter): Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, A Handbook to Literature, Anatomy of Criticism, Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published, Literary Theory: An Anthology, Western Philosophy: An Anthology, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003, Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, The Newly Born Woman
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0553212818 |
The Taming of the Shrew
Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty...
| Author | William Harmon |
| ISBN | 0130127310 |
It is a handy book that can be read for pleasure. However, the publisher really doesn't need to update it every 3 years to force poor students to buy the new editions. In this 10th edition the editor admitted there was little substantial he could add. In fact, he mentioned his children suggested three new...
| Author | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0691069999 |
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...
What can I say? This is a must-have book for anyone who wants ALL their lit theory bases covered. This collection culls short stories and excerpts from novels and culminates with a section on postmodernist theory itself. My favorites so far are the stories from Walter Abish, David Foster Wallace, Ishmael...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Published
| Author | Sheree Bykofsky |
| ISBN | 1615641270 |
As an aspiring novelist, this book didn't do much for me. I could tell by the second chapter that it was really more oriented toward the non-fiction book writer. Example: I skipped chapters 7 and 8 all together because they specifically had the word "Nonfiction" in the chapter heading.
That...
| Author | Julie Rivkin |
| ISBN | 1405106964 |
This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International Studies
A definitive collection of classic statements in criticism and new theoretical...
| Author | John Cottingham |
| ISBN | 0631186271 |
From ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today, Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition.
In 100 substantial and carefully chosen extracts, the volume covers all the main branches of philosophy...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
| Author | Richard Dawkins |
| ISBN | 0618178929 |
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundred of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Jonathan Culler |
| ISBN | 0192801597 |
Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. But Barthes was a man who disliked orthodoxies. His shifting positions and theoretical interests...
| Author | Hélène Cixous |
| ISBN | 0816614660 |
Published in France as Le jeune née in 1975, and found here in its first English translation, The Newly Born Woman is a landmark text of the modern feminist movement. In it, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément put forward the concept of écriture feminine, exploring the ways women’s sexuality...
| Author | Jacques Derrida |
| ISBN | 0226142779 |
We have here a kind of shibboleth, a secret formula such as can be uttered only in a certain way in a certain language.
As the Poet sang, "God said to Abraham, kill me a son. . ." Grant us then, a huddle of actors on our moral boards. We know of Abe and Isaac. Their plight is understood. Enter the dark...
| Author | Lois Tyson |
| ISBN | 0415974100 |
Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor...
Literature and the Writing Process [with New MyLiteratureLab Access Card Package]
| Author | Elizabeth McMahan |
| ISBN | 0321851005 |
One of the better English texts books I've managed to get a hold of over my academic life. This book, though dull in appearence is really good. Not only does it have a superb collection of literature that I will be reading now that I have this from my storage but it also teaches you not only how to write literary...
| Author | Patricia Bizzell |
| ISBN | 0312148399 |
As anthologies go, this one isn't here to fuck around. The binding is horrifyingly stubborn, the pages are Bible-thin, and the text is tiny and in two columns. Despite a maybe unavoidable Western bias, Bizzell and Herzburg cover an admirably comprehensive swath of the rhetorical field, with generous...
| Author | John C. Polkinghorne |
| ISBN | 0300121156 |
Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne contends in his latest thought-provoking book. From his unique perspective as both theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, Polkinghorne considers aspects of quantum...
If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the “law of love”—the twofold love of God and one’s neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Jacobs pursues this challenging task by alternating largely theoretical, theological...
A History of Christian Thought Volume I: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon
| Author | Justo L. González |
| ISBN | 0687171822 |
In his series on the history of Christian thought, Justo Gonzales divides his story into three volumes. In volume 1, Gonzales examines the early church, from its Judaic roots to the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451). Volume 2 picks up the story with Augustine, continuing to the Reformation, and Volume 3...
Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, Second Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory.
The...
Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, wrote such famed works as Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and On Grammatology, has made important contributions to both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and indeed has challenged some of the unquestioned assumptions of our...
| Author | Christopher Butler |
| ISBN | 0192804413 |
Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroom...
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing
| Author | Joseph Gibaldi |
| ISBN | 0873526996 |
Since its publication in 1985, the MLA STYLE MANUAL has been the standard guide for graduate students, teachers & scholars in the humanities & for professional writers in many fields. Extensively reorganized & revised, the eagerly awaited 2nd edition contains new sections & updated...
| Author | Stephen Mumford |
| ISBN | 0199657122 |
Metaphysics is traditionally one of the four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is an area that continues to attract and fascinate many people, even though it is generally thought to be highly complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical...
Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Catriona Kelly |
| ISBN | 0192801449 |
Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have...
| Author | Gary Gutting |
| ISBN | 0192805576 |
Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France, over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving to understand the deep concepts of identity, knowledge, and power.
From aesthetics to the penal...
| Author | Phyllis Mindell |
| ISBN | 0735202222 |
There were many good strategies presented that made perfect sense; the use of action verbs, eliminating hedges and tags. However, I did not accept Dr. Mindell’s overall ideology and found a few things unsettling:
1. Dr. Mindell’s goal is to empower women –and I applaud her for that....
