books released in 2009 in Literary Criticism & Theory

Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and ...

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A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 ...

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One-Way Street And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin

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In the Company of Rilke: Why a 20th-century visionary poet speaks so eloquently to 21st-century readers yearning for inw by Stephanie Dowrick

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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to Remembrance of Things Past by Patrick Alexander

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired and entertaining novels of the past century. There is no other guide like this; a ...

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Why Poetry Matters by Parini Jay Ph.D.

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How Fiction Works by James Wood

A deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books)

Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of ...

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Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut

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