 | Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens
Buy new: $10.23 / Used from: $6.18 best intro to literary theory
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 | The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Buy new: $61.50 / Used from: $30.00 amazing anthology of literary theory; very comprehensive with excellent introductions. THE CRITICAL TRADITION by Richter is another very good anthology of lit. crit.
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 | The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Penguin Dictionary) by J. A. Cuddon
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.28 essential reference, and best of its kind. Want to know what a trochee is? catachresis? Look here. Also includes brief essays on the major literary theories, genres, and periods.
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 | Ulysses (Gabler Edition) by James Joyce
Buy new: $14.25 / Used from: $6.00 Right up there with the Bible. A virtual encyclopedia of modernism.
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 | The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamires
Buy new: $28.76 / Used from: $16.78 best available guide to Ulysses; a "must-have" for first time readers.
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 | Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Editions) by John Milton
Buy used from: $0.54 great reading edition of the influential monument of english literature, with good footnotes
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 | The Complete Works of Shakespeare by David Bevington
Buy new: $87.31 / Used from: $11.50 By far the best complete shakespeare. Excellent footnotes, introductions, and background essays.
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 | Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $17.25 / Used from: $0.74 Chaucer's masterpiece in original middle english. complete and easily accessible footnotes and glosses. great reading edition
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 | ESV Classic Reference Bible, Hardcover, Black Letter Text
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $4.24 Good translation, retains language and rhythms of classic KJV, while modernized for easy comprehension and accuracy. Includes extensive cross references, and a concordance in back
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 | The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Major Authors Edition (Packaged with Media Companion) by M. H. Abrams
Buy used from: $2.30 If you're an english major, you probably have the major literary anthologies already; if not, this is a convenient one-volume edition. Review as preparation for GRE subject test
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 | The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 1
Buy new: $53.30 / Used from: $42.00 classics of western literature
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 | The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Shorter Version
Buy used from: $1.99 decent one-volume anthology of american literature
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 | The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 2
Buy new: $51.35 / Used from: $42.00 more classics
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 | The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M.M. Bakhtin
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.50 Bakhtin's seminal theory of literature and modernity: the dialogic and polyphonic; essential work on modern novel. Fascinating.
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 | Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure by René Girard
Buy new: $20.63 / Used from: $8.66 Girard's seminal theory of mimetic desire applied to classic novels; very accessible yet stimulating
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 | Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard
Buy new: $25.68 / Used from: $21.50 Girard's second great discovery: his theory of scapegoating, expanded into a comprehensive anthropological theory of culture and its origin
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 | Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $13.95 the classic work of deconstruction that influenced a whole generation of English professors, for better or worse
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 | Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach
Buy new: $15.41 / Used from: $10.78 classic work, must read. Fascinating close readings of classic works of world literature. Auerbach's theory of the sources and development of literary "realism."
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 | Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $7.94 very influential and thought provoking
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 | The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett by Wolfgang Iser
Buy new: $24.30 / Used from: $9.90 Reader-Response theory: Iser is one of the greatest modern theorists. Includes interpretations of great English novels. Applied theory: Iser's interpretations of Joyce and Beckett are among the best
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 | The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
Buy new: $24.30 / Used from: $16.20 Iser's seminal and influential theory of "gaps" in literature; a purely theoretical work, in contrast to the applied theory of The Implied Reader, above.
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 | The Longman Standard History of Philosophy by Daniel Kolak
Buy new: $70.67 / Used from: $54.92 Good selection of philosophy texts with commentary, including introductions, bibliography, and connections between philosophers; for example how Hegel reacts to Kant
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 | The English Language: A Historical introduction (Canto) by Charles Barber
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 | Language: Readings in Language and Culture by Virginia Clark
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 | A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker
Buy new: $22.50 / Used from: $0.01 Make sure your grammar is correct; Great reference for all grammar and documentation questions; Slim and easy to use; Spiral bound
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