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  • William Faulkner

    Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond

    by Cleanth Brooks ...
    In this companion volume to William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country, Cleanth Brooks takes an in-depth look at Faulkner's early poetry and prose as well as his five non-Yoknapatawpha novels -- Soldiers Pay, Mosquitoes, Pylon, The Wild Palms, and A Fable. Brooks also offers relevant clarification of some of his earlier interpretations of Faulkner that have been challenged -- most notably in the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fundamentals Of Good Writing - A Handbook Of Modern Rhetoric

    by Cleanth Brooks ...
    There is no easy way to learn to write', is the opening line of this clear and effective guide for writers wishing to learn the basics of writing whether it is fiction, poetry, news articles or essays. This book including answers to some general problems faced by prospective writers, a section on the kinds of discourse you should wish to achieve and on the exposition. Many of the earliest books, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Close Reading

    The Reader

    by John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, Kenneth Burke ...
    An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays provide an overview of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism, including works of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Shaping Joy

    Studies in the Writer's Craft

    by Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism that has been developed to deal with it. Most of the essays concern poets and novelists of the twentieth century, but there are also discussions of nineteenth-century American writers such as Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, and of traditional English poets such as Wordsworth, Milton, ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Neo-Classical Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • On The Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner

    by Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    It seems appropriate, if not inevitable, that one of our best critics should be the foremost authority on one of our best novelists. Cleanth Brooks, the author of three seminal studies of William Faulkner, has been a serious student of that master craftsman's fiction for more than four decades. In this new collection, Brooks considers many of the important characteristics of Faulkner's work. He ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Modern Poetry and the Tradition

    by Cleanth Brooks ...
    This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development.Originally published in 1939.A UNC Press ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Romantic Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Classical Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literary Criticism: A Short History

    Modern Criticism

    by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., Cleanth Brooks ...
    Series series Literary Criticism
    First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world.Divided into four volumes, each book adopts a fair and objective position in the presentation of various critical positions, and each critical theory is considered not only in competition with other critical ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $38.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

    by Chris Baldick ...
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