Criticism Books

Essays Presented to Charles Williams

Essays Presented to Charles Williams

"In this book the reader is offered the work of one professional author, two dons, a solicitor, a friar, and a retired army officer; if he feels disposed to...

tags: theology, reference, writing, essays, language, religion, science fiction fantasy, nonfiction, history, criticism, literary criticism

The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis

The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis

by Alister McGrath

Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis' death, The Intellectual World of C. S. LewisThe Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister...

tags: theology, writing, christianity, essays, religion, biography, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism, literary criticism

Selected Literary Essays

Selected Literary Essays

This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis' most important literary essays, written between 1932 and...

tags: writing, essays, classics, nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

Robert Browning

Robert Browning

by G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton declares that it is fashionable to boast that one cannot understand Browning but he reveals in this fascinating literary biography how Browning...

tags: biography, nonfiction, poetry, history, criticism, literary criticism

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

by G.K. Chesterton

The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.

tags: historical, biography, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism

Platitudes Undone: A Facsimile Edition of Holbrook Jackson's "Platitudes in the Making" with Original Handwritten Responses by G.K. Chesterton

Platitudes Undone: A Facsimile Edition of Holbrook Jackson's "Platitudes in the Making" with Original Handwritten Responses by G.K. Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

In 1955, in a used bookstore in San Francisco, Dr. Alfred Kessler, an avid collector of the works of G. K. Chesterton, uncovered a rare treasure - Chesterton's...

tags: humor, philosophy, nonfiction, criticism, literary criticism

A Dish of Orts

by George MacDonald

Schoppe, the satiric chorus of Jean Paul's romance of Titan, makes his appearance at a certain masked ball, carrying in front of him a glass case, in which the...

tags: writing, academic, grad school, essays, christianity, religion, criticism, literary criticism

Spenser's Images of Life

Spenser's Images of Life

This 1967 book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from...

tags: nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

Literary Impact of the Authorized Version

Literary Impact of the Authorized Version

tags: theology, religion, nonfiction, criticism, literary criticism

Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook

Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook

Critical Teory and PracticeCritical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader...

tags: nonfiction, criticism, literary criticism

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