Section: Literary Criticism

'The "Scandal" of Marxism' and Other Writings on Politics

Roland Barthes

A Brief Introduction to Arabic Erotic Literature

Nadia Al-Bagdadi

A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay's Jamaican Poetry of Rebellion

Winston James and Claude McKay

A History of Horror

Wheeler Winston Dixon

A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008

Adrienne Rich

A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X

Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs

A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press Reference Library)

Greil Marcus (editor) and Werner Sollors (editor)

A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present

Fredric Jameson

A Writer's Diary

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gary Saul Morson, and Kenneth Lantz

Aesthetic Theory (Theory & History of Literature)

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Aesthetics and Politics

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, and György Lukács

Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile

Marc Robinson

An Introduction to Octavio Paz

Alberto Ruy Sanchez

Anarchism Is Not Enough

Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding, and Lisa Samuels

Annotations to Finnegans Wake

Roland McHugh

Antonio Machado's Writings and the Spanish Civil War (Liverpool University Press - Hispanic Studies TRAC)

James Whiston

Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions

Fredric Jameson

Arena Two: Noir Fiction (Arena Journal)

Stuart Christie and Michael Moorcock (contributor)

Art and Revolution: Writings on Literature, Politics, and Culture

Leon Trotsky and Paul N. Siegel

Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction In America

John Cheng

Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space

De Witt Douglas Kilgore

Beginnings: Intention and Method

Edward W. Said

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Bennett

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life

Anne Lamott

Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation

Thabiti Lewis

Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic

Madhu Dubey

Black Women Writers at Work

Claudia Tate (Editor) and Tillie Olsen (Foreword)

Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn : Re-imagining the American Dream

Elaine Mensh

Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere

Morna McDermott McNulty

Borges at Eighty: Conversations

Jorge Luis Borges

Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar (Russian Literature Series)

Viktor Shklovsky and Shushan Avagyan

Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement

Toni Morrison

Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

Hsu-Tung Chang and Xudong Zhang

Chronicles of a Liquid Society

Umberto Eco

Class War: A Literary History

Mark Steven

Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora Series and Everywomen Series)

Gloria T. Hull and Gloria Hull

Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

Carol Fadda-Conrey

Conversations

Jorge Luis Borges and Osvaldo Ferrari

Conversations With Octavia Butler

Conseula Francis and Octavia E. Butler

Critical Dictionary of Mexican Literature (1955-2010) (Scholarly Series)

Christopher Dom\xednguez Michael and Lisa Dillman

Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory, New Edition

Terry Eagleton

Cry Out and Write: A Feminine Poetics of Revelation

Edward Peter Nolan

Dawn to the West

Donald Keene

De literatura, de música

Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera

Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers Series)

Michel Foucault, John Ashbery, and James Faubion

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-century French Literature

Lisa Downing

Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989

Melissa Walker

Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work

Horace Porter

E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives

Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland

Early African-American Print Culture

Lara Langer Cohen

Edward Said: Criticism and Society

Abdirahman A. Hussein

Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare: A Marxist Study

Victor Kiernan

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Christopher Bram

Emperor of the Earth

Czeslaw Milosz

Essays on Thomas Mann

György Lukács

Essential E.P. Thompson

E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Thompson

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature

William J. Maxwell

Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist, New Edition

Fredric Jameson

Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism

Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl

Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others

Terry Eagleton

Fins De Siecle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society)

Elaine Scarry (editor)

Food for Thought (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society)

Louis Marin and Mette Hjort

Francois Rabelais: Critical Assessments

Jean-Claude Carron

Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Elena Ferrante

From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger

John Berger

From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe

Peter Y. Paik

Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years

Ilan Stavans

Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film

Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Maureen Ngozi Eke

German Realists in the Nineteenth Century

György Lukács

Ghanaian popular fiction: "thrilling discoveries in conjugal life" & other tales

Stephanie Newell

Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

Avery F. Gordon

Gide's Bent: Sexuality Politics Writing (Ideologies of Desire)

Michael Lucey

Gorky

Henri Troyat

Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky (Russian Literature and Thought Series)

Maxim Gorky and Donald Fanger

Great Latin American Novel

Carlos Fuentes

Guillotined: Being a Summary Broadside Against the Corruption of the English Language

Alexander Cockburn

H. P. Lovecraft & The Black Magickal Tradition: The Master of Horror's Influence on Modern Occultism

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Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne And the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class And the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer

Loren Goldner

Heterologies: Discourse on the Other (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 17)

Michel De Certeau

History and Ideology in Proust

Michael Sprinker

Home And Exile

Chinua Achebe

How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

La Marr Jurelle Bruce

How to Read Literature

Terry Eagleton

Humanism and Democratic Criticism (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)

Akeel Bilgrami and Edward W. Said

Image-Music-Text

Roland Barthes

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Margaret Atwood

Journey Through Utopia: A Critical Examination of Imagined Worlds in Western Literature

Marie Louise Berneri and Kim Stanley Robinson

Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature

Drew Daniel

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 30)

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities

Javon Johnson (Author)

Late Marxism: Adorno: Or, The Persistence of the Dialectic (Radical Thinkers)

Fredric Jameson

Latin Americanism

Roman De LA Campa

leo tolstoy resident and stranger

richard f. gustafson

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Ted Morgan

Literary Theory For Beginners

Mary Klages (Author)

Literary Theory: An Introduction

Terry Eagleton

Literature and Revolution

Leon Trotsky and William Keach

Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

Julio Cortázar

Little Patuxent Review

Little Patuxent Review

London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction

Michael Moorcock, Allan Kausch, and Iain Sinclair

Lukacs Reappraised

Agnes Heller

Mariners, Renegades & Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live in (Reencounters With Colonialism--New Perspectives on the Americas)

C. L. R. James and Donald E. Pease

Marxism and Form

Fredric Jameson

Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics)

Dwight MacDonald, John Summers, and Louis Menand

Materialist Shakespeare: A History

Ivo Kamps

Mimesis

Valery Podoroga

Mimesis : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Erich Auerbach, Willard R. Trask, and Edward W. Said (Foreword)

Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction

Margaret Killjoy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Moorcock, and Ursula K. Le Guin

Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature

Terry Eagleton and Edward W. Said

Norton Anthology of English Literature: Major Authors Edition

Stephen Greenblatt

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q)

Jacob Press and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

On Literature

Umberto Eco and Martin McLaughlin

On the Inconvenience of Other People

Lauren Berlant

Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970

Jane Auer Bowles and Millicent Dillon

Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature

Darryl Pinckney

Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University

Andy Hines

Pale Fire: A Novel

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Pathetic Literature

Eileen Myles (Editor)

Permission to SPEAK: Journey to the Center of an Art Form

Taalam Acey

Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women

Margit Stange

Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity

Biodun Jeyifo

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots

William Wallace Cook

Poets Ranked by Beard Weight: The Commemorative Edition

Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Mahendra Singh, Jack Passion, and Gilbert Alter-Gilbert

Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions Series)

Fredric Jameson

Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Theory & History of Literature)

Mikhail Bakhtin

Proust and Signs

Gilles Deleuze

Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race (Race and American Culture)

Claudia Tate

Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Reader

Sue Vice and Susan Vice

Quixote: The Novel and the World

Ilan Stavans

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Race in American Science Fiction

Isiah Lavender

Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

Fredric Jameson

Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores

Hans Weyandt and Ann Patchett

Reading With Clarice Lispector (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 73)

Helene Cixous

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Susan Sontag (Author) and David Rieff (Author)

Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (Early Classics of Science Fiction)

Mark Bould and China Miéville

Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

S/Z: An Essay

Roland Barthes, Richard Miller, and Richard Howard

Sappho and the Virgin Mary

Ruth Vanita

Sartre and Fiction

Gary Cox

Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance : The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama

Tejumola Olaniyan

Searching for Sycorax

Kinitra D. Brooks (Author)

Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America

Matthew J. Costello

Shakespeare in Swahililand

Edward Wilson-Lee PhD

Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers

Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Shelley and Revolutionary Ireland

Paul O'Brien

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino

So All Is Not Lost: The Poetics of Print in Nuevomxicano Communities, 1834-1958 (Paso Por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage)

A. Gabriel Melendez

South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature

Margaret Eby

Speaking Truths

Valerie Chepp

Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International (Routledge Classics)

Jacques Derrida

Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction

André M. Carrington

Spoken Word: A Cultural History

Joshua Bennett

Stanzas in Meditation: The Corrected Edition

Gertrude Stein, Susannah Hollister, Emily Setina, and Joan Retallack

Starry Speculative Corpse: Horror of Philosophy

Eugene Thacker

Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany

Bill Campbell, Nalo Hopkinson, Nisi Shawl, and Michael Swanwick

Studies in Classic American Literature

D. H. Lawrence

Studies in European Realism

György Lukács

Take That Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War

Mark Fertig

The Annotated Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, William Giraldi, and Kevin J. Hayes

The Antiracist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonizethe Creative Classroom

Felicia Rose Chavez

The Asian American Literary Review

The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Julie E. Moody-Freeman and Sandra Jackson

The Book

Stéphane Mallarmé

The Book About Xu Bing's Book from the Ground

Bing Xu (contributor) and Mathieu Borysevicz (editor)

The Case for Books

Robert Darnton

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature

Joseph S. M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering As the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Alice Walker

The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction

Patricia S. Warrick

The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry

Maria Damon

The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death

Abdul R. JanMohamed

The Economy of Literary Form: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850

Lee Erickson

The Event of Literature

Terry Eagleton

The Function of Criticism (Radical Thinkers) (Radical Thinkers)

Terry Eagleton

The Gathering Storm: Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays : a Marxist Analysis

Paul N. Siegel

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From "Kubla Khan" to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Russ Kick

The Great Reversal: Politics and Art in Solzhenitsyn

Paul N. Siegel

The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

Guerrilla Girls

The Hundreds

Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart

The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986 : Situations of Theory

Fredric Jameson

The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)

Eileen Myles

The Irish Literary Tradition

John Ellis Caerwyn Williams and Patrick K. Ford

The Literary Heritage of the Arabs: The Andalusian Age to Modern Times

Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey

The Mrs. Dalloway Reader

Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose, and Mark Hussey

The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature and Society in the Modern Age

Jonah Raskin and Bruce Robbins

The New Tolkien Companion

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The Old Man and the Wolves : A Novel

Julia Kristeva and Barbara Bray

The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat

Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant

The Origin of German Tragic Drama: (Radical Thinkers)

Walter Benjamin

The Pleasure of the Text

Roland Barthes and Richard Miller

The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

The Poetics of Gender

Nancy K. Miller

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act

Fredric Jameson

The Practice of Diaspora : Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism

Brent Hayes Edwards

The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale Studies in English)

Caleb Smith

The Prison-House of Language

Fredric Jameson

The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading

John P. Muller and William J. Richardson

The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954

Walter B. Rideout

The Relevance of the Radical: Simone Weil 100 Years Later

A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone

The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation

Roland Barthes and Richard Howard

The Romantics

E. P. Thompson

The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South

Trudier Harris

The Semiotic Challenge

Roland Barthes

The Sister's Arts: The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Diane Filby Gillespie

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Courtney Thorsson

The Sociology of Literature

Diana Laurenson and Alan Swingewood

The Spirit of Utopia

Ernst Bloch

The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue

Terry Eagleton and Matthew Beaumont

The Theory of the Novel

György Lukács

The Toni Morrison Book Club

Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Consumption

Katy Kelleher

The Underbelly (Outspoken Authors)

Gary Phillips

The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

William Goldbloom Bloch

The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man

Warren Montag

The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays

Ernst Bloch, Jack Zipes, and Frank Mecklenburg

The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks As Conscience and Change Agent

Georgia Popoff

The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe

Ann Morgan

The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire

Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingstone, and Harry Zohn

Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

Sianne Ngai

Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach

Michael McKeon

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction

Joanna Russ

Treatise on Style/Traite Du Style (French Modernist Library)

Louis Aragon

Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865

Marlene Daut

Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece

Declan Kiberd

Understanding "Les Fleurs Du Mal: Critical Readings

William J. Thompson

Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature

Elliot Murphy

Unpacking my library: Architects and Their Books

Jo Steffens and Walter Benjamin (Contributor)

Untimely Thoughts : Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918 (Russian Literature and Thought Series)

Maxim Gorky and Herman Ermolaev

Vampyres

Christopher Frayling

Victims and Heroes: Racial Violence in the African American Novel

Jerry H. Bryant and University of Massachusetts Press

Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

Terry Eagleton

Weapons of Criticism: Marxism in America and the Literary Tradition

Norman Rudich (editor)

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Gabriel Josipovici

What If This Were Enough?: Essays

Heather Havrilesky

What Was African American Literature? (W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

Kenneth W. Warren

What Would Cervantes Do?: Navigating Post-Truth with Spanish Baroque Literature

David Castillo and William Egginton

Who Speaks for Margaret Garner?

Mark Reinhardt

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

David Karashima

Wild Women In the Whirlwind

Joanne Braxton

William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an

Michael Muhammad Knight

Wizardry and Wild Romance : A Study of Epic Fantasy

Michael Moorcock

Women’s Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories

Tarez Samra Graban

Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (Wounds of Passion)

bell hooks

Writing Degree Zero

Roland Barthes, Annette Lavers, Colin Smith, and Susan Sontag

Writing with Caca

Luis Felipe Fabre and JD Plueker (translator)

Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Yuval Taylor