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The Norton Anthology of Poetry
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
Pleasing poetry
+ Awesome!
+ YES YOU CAN AFFORD IT, it's worth it!
+ Classis anthology of English language poetry
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Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition (Viking Critical Library)
James Joyce
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996
The Lessons of Life in Dublin
+ Dubliners
+ A Sense of Place, A State of Mind
+ good start on Joyce
+ Not just "An Original," but "THE Original"
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Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices
University of Minnesota Press, 1994
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Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Don Gifford
University of California Press, 1982
Great Joyce Notes
This book provides excellent and clear references to otherwise obscure persons, locales, Irish slang, and turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th) Dublin culture that are so integral to the Joyce stories. Well worth the purchase.
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If on a winter's night a traveler
Italo Calvino
Harvest Books, 1982
Italo Calvino's Masterpiece
+ "I read, therefore it (the world) writes"
+ If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
+ Entertaining and Ingenious
+ Creative and Complex
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Philadelphia Fire
John Edgar Wideman
Vintage, 1991
About the last 30 pages earn this book five stars
+ Not what you may have expected
I had to read Philadelphia Fire for a writing class and, after delving into the book, I found that it was written in that love it or hate it "stream of conciousness" style. The person of the narrator switches from character to character and other people in the story seem to appear without any ...
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Jonathan Culler
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
Something To Be Said for Clarity
+ easy to comprehend
This is a classic of clarity and simplicity, a model of its kind, to be compared with the famous Shrunk text on writing. One of the features of theory is the unreadable quality of the prose produced by most of its practitioners. The jargon has made literary no longer attractive. We once read for ...
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Moby Dick (Oxford World's Classics)
Herman Melville
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Bloody Battle in Affghanistan! Grand contested election for the Presidency of the United States!
+ a challenge to read and understand; requires some pondering...
+ Get back to the Pequad please!
+ Hey! You Can't Be Ishmael Again! It's My Turn to Be Ishmael!
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Vintage, 1995
Completely Unique
+ The invisibility of man
+ A classic..
+ Underappreciated work of genius
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Exploring Language (9th Edition)
Longman Publishing Group, 2000
A Textbook I Actually Enjoyed!
+ Great essay book
+ terrific!
I used this book, coupled with some dry, boring, pretentious linguistics book, in my Anthropology class "Language and Culture." Goshgarian did a wonderful job putting it together. It would be a great tool for any student of sociolinguistics. Some of the books for sociolinguistics have forgotten who ...
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Jane Eyre (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Charlotte Bronte
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996
I could not put this book down!
+ This Particular Version
+ Touching
+ Please Skip Erica Jong's Intro!
+ None Like It
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Dracula (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Bram Stoker
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001
An old fashioned tale that doesn't offend
+ AN ACTUAL REVIEW OF THIS NAXOS AUDIO DRAMATIZATION
+ There is more than meets the eye
Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was first published in 1897, and as one reads this work, it is overwhelmingly apparent that it was written during a time when morals and virtues were held in a much higher regard than they are today.
The book is comprised primarily of various journal entries from six ...
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Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Lois Tyson
Garland Publishing, 1998
Buy This One
+ Solid Book for Those Who Seek Hidden Wisdom from Texts
+ Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, Second Edition
+ excellent seller
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Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate ...
Jeremy Hawthorn
A Hodder Arnold Publication, 1996
Cunning Passages explores the implications that literary debates have for our attempts to understand both reports of historical events such as Hiroshima or the Nazi holocaust, and also fictional and poetic works whose relation to historical actuality is more complex and indirect.
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A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Lorraine Hansberry
Vintage, 1995
A literary nust-read.
+ good play
+ IT'S GREAT
+ Excellent Content
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