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Literary Criticisms

Below is a small sample of the literature criticism books available to you from the Gordon Library. Looking for books helps you to find not only original texts, but also to find collections of critical essays about these texts. You can search for more books using the WPI Library Search box to the right, or the one on the library home page. Enter the name of your author or their work, and the term "criticism." These keywords should return a number of results. To narrow your results to just books, click on Resource Type on the left column on your search results page, and then select the Books filter:

States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780226815541
Publication Date: 2022
States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel The Plague as a palimpsest of our own pandemic life, its account of the psychology and politics of quarantine uncannily relevant to our time.
American Literary Criticism since The 1930s by Vincent B. Leitch
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0415778182
Publication Date: 2009
This text provides a critical history of American literary theory and practice, discussing the impact of major schools and movements, examines the social and cultural background to literary research, considering the role of key theories and practices, provides profiles of major figures and influential texts, and outlining the connections among theorists.
American Literature from 1945 Through Today by Adam Augustyn (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781615301331
Publication Date: 2010
Embracing works from previously marginalized groups like African Americans and women and ushering in new genres, contemporary American literature has progressively begun to mirror the American population in diversity and versatility. In this volume, readers are invited to think critically about the social issues and ideas that are as much a part of modern American life as they are of modern American literature.
Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community by Jessica Berman
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780521805896
Publication Date: 2001
This text describes how modernist fiction engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality and shared voice, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality.
The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction by Jesse Matz
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781405100496
Publication Date: 2004
This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form. Examines the main strands of twentieth-century fiction, including post-war, post-imperial and multicultural fiction.