Literature and Criticism from the University of Chicago Press
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Odd Affinities
The English Actor
The Greek Tragedies
The Human Voice
Pinocchio
Enchanted Wales
Way Makers
The Folklore of Wales
Paper Jane
Reading Together
Writings on Translation
Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow
The Kinds of Poetry I Want
The Pensive Citadel
On Both Sides of the Tracks
The Likeness of Things Unlike
Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child
The Complete Notebooks
Travels in the Americas
In the Face of Death We Are Equal
Novel Ecologies
Verified
Horror and Comics
Something Speaks to Me
Is There God after Prince?
Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories
Losing the Plot
Open House
God’s Scrivener
Inventing the Alphabet
The Lost Princess
D. H. Lawrence
In Poe’s Wake
Figuring Jerusalem
The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition
Great Writers and the Cats who Owned Them
The World in a Phrase
Getting It Published, Fourth Edition
On Revision
Wild Fictions
Dylan Thomas
Glorious Bodies
Cultural Capital
On Close Reading
Professing Criticism
In the Future of Yesterday
Theater after Film
John Donne’s Physics
Zombies in Contemporary Culture
Action without Hope
Richard Aldington
The Odyssey
Zora Neale Hurston
Environmental Futures
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A First-Class Fool
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways
Throw Yourself Away
Melville’s Billy Budd at 100
Pragmatics of Democracy
Joke Farming
Seeing Baya
States of Plague
Katherine Mansfield
The Librarian’s Atlas
Lifespan Narratives
The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook
Criticism and Truth
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens
The First Line
Wittgenstein
Émile Zola
The Burden of Rhyme
The Barthes Fantastic
Fictions of God
Novels by Aliens
The Blue Period
Pen Names
My Poetics
Networks of Improvement
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
Reasons and Feelings
Amphion
The Second Printing Revolution
Introducing Medieval Animal Names
Christopher Isherwood
Letters around a Garden
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Literary Cats
Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos
Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print
Undertale
A Will for the Machine
Boccaccio
Reading Hegel
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Othello
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Atlas’s Bones
Slips of the Mind
Antigone
Oedipus the King, Second Edition
Jane Austen in 41 Objects
On James Baldwin
Write Cut Rewrite
Tradecraft
Realism after the Individual
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Frantz Fanon
Reading Robert Walser
Return to My Trees
Beyond Individualism
The English Actor
The Greek Tragedies
The Human Voice
Pinocchio
Enchanted Wales
Way Makers
The Folklore of Wales
Paper Jane
Reading Together
Writings on Translation
Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow
The Kinds of Poetry I Want
The Pensive Citadel
On Both Sides of the Tracks
The Likeness of Things Unlike
Shakespeare’s Once and Future Child
The Complete Notebooks
Travels in the Americas
In the Face of Death We Are Equal
Novel Ecologies
Verified
Horror and Comics
Something Speaks to Me
Is There God after Prince?
Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories
Losing the Plot
Open House
God’s Scrivener
Inventing the Alphabet
The Lost Princess
D. H. Lawrence
In Poe’s Wake
Figuring Jerusalem
The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition
Great Writers and the Cats who Owned Them
The World in a Phrase
Getting It Published, Fourth Edition
On Revision
Wild Fictions
Dylan Thomas
Glorious Bodies
Cultural Capital
On Close Reading
Professing Criticism
In the Future of Yesterday
Theater after Film
John Donne’s Physics
Zombies in Contemporary Culture
Action without Hope
Richard Aldington
The Odyssey
Zora Neale Hurston
Environmental Futures
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A First-Class Fool
Mariners, Renegades and Castaways
Throw Yourself Away
Melville’s Billy Budd at 100
Pragmatics of Democracy
Joke Farming
Seeing Baya
States of Plague
Katherine Mansfield
The Librarian’s Atlas
Lifespan Narratives
The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook
Criticism and Truth
Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens
The First Line
Wittgenstein
Émile Zola
The Burden of Rhyme
The Barthes Fantastic
Fictions of God
Novels by Aliens
The Blue Period
Pen Names
My Poetics
Networks of Improvement
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
Reasons and Feelings
Amphion
The Second Printing Revolution
Introducing Medieval Animal Names
Christopher Isherwood
Letters around a Garden
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Literary Cats
Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos
Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print
Undertale
A Will for the Machine
Boccaccio
Reading Hegel
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2
All’s Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Othello
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Atlas’s Bones
Slips of the Mind
Antigone
Oedipus the King, Second Edition
Jane Austen in 41 Objects
On James Baldwin
Write Cut Rewrite
Tradecraft
Realism after the Individual
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Frantz Fanon
Reading Robert Walser
Return to My Trees
Beyond Individualism