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  • John le Carré

    by Eric Homberger ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction
    Since the heyday of Ian Fleming’s fantasy superspy James Bond, the novels of John le Carré have held up to readers across the world a sombre, fascinating picture of decline, deception and ethical ambiguity. In this study, originally published in 1986, the first to include an interpretation of A Perfect Spy, Eric Homberger argues that within the tradition of the spy thriller of John Buchan and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Objectivist Nexus

    Essays in Cultural Poetics

    by Eric Homberger, Alan Golding, Charles Altieri, Yves di Manno, Charles Bernstein, John Seed, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Nichols, Robert Franciosi, Andrew Crozier, Stephen Fredman, Ming-Qian Ma, Professor Peter Middleton, Professor Burton Hatlen ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ezra Pound

    Edited by Eric Homberger ...
    This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Ferber ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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    $7.99 USD

  • The Western Canon

    The Books and School of the Ages

    by Harold Bloom ...
    The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHarold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a "heroically brave, formidably learned" defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives of the Poets

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistIn this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pleasing Myself

    From Beowulf to Philip Roth

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Sir Frank Kermode is acknowledged as one of the greatest critics of our time, renowned for the wit humanity and good sense of his writing. Pleasing Myself brings together the very best of his shorter pieces, on topics ranging from Donne and Yeats to modern art and money. ... Read more

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  • Selected Essays

    1917–1932

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    37 essays in an expanded edition of the author's major volume of criticism.What defines the relationship between the poet and the past, and what is the true function of criticism?The Impersonal Theory of Poetry: Eliot’s argument that poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from personality, separating the artist who creates from the man who suffers.The Objective Correlative: His ... Read more

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  • Pieces of My Mind

    Essays and Criticism 1958–2002

    by Frank Kermode ...
    A career-spanning collection of thought-provoking analyses from the renowned literary critic.Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'.Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful and doomed Dorian Gray, as the flamboyant aesthete and the demonised homosexual. This volume ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Tragedy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Adrian Poole ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and journalists over the last two and a half millennia? Why do we still read, re-write, and stage these ... Read more

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  • Selected Literary Essays

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling, from "The literary impact of the authorized version" to "Psycho-analysis and literary criticism," to Shakespeare and Bunyan, and Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the ... Read more

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