Literary Criticism

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REF 822.3 SHA Shakespeare for Students
REF 822.3 SHA Shakespeare's Characters for Students
REF 822.3 SHA Shakespearean Criticism
REF 809 COO Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature
REF 822.3 SHA Shakespeare's World and Work
REF 909.07 MID The Middle Ages
REF 940.2 REN Renaissance and Reformation
REF 920 KNI Middle Ages
REF 809 CLA Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
REF 809 WOR World Literature Criticism
REF 820.9 BRI British Writers
REF 809 HOW Characters in 20th Century Literature
REF 809 CON Contemporary Literature Criticism
REF 809 EUR European Writers
REF 810.9 AME American Writers
REF 810 AME American Writers Classics
810.7 SAT Satire
920 LIT Lterary Lifelines
808.83 BRO Literary Topics, Vol. 5: Magic Realism
809 MAD Literary Topics, Vol. 9: Chinese American Writers
808.83 BRO Literary Topics, Vol. 8: Existential Fiction
822 REA Readings on The Importance of Being Earnest
822.8 WIL The Importance of Being Earnest and other Plays
823 JAN Jane Austen
823 REA Readings on Pride and Prejudice
829 REA Readings on Beowulf
829 STR Understanding Beowulf
821 REA Readings on The Canterbury Tales
809 REN Renaissance Literature
821 WOR Selected Poetry of Williams Wordsworth
821 WIL William Wordsworth
811 REA REadings on Walt Whitman
821 ENG English Romantic Poetry
820.9 KIN The Romantics
821 JOH John Keats
821.7 PER Percy Bysshe Shelley
823 GEO Bloom's Guides: 1984
828 BRU Student Companion to George Orwell
813 AMY Amy Tan
813 LES Understanding Zora N. Hursoton's Their Eyes Were Watching God
823 TEA Understanding Jane Eyre
823 THA Student Companion to Charlotte & Emily Bronte
792 FOR Shakespeare's Globe
822.3 CAH The Plays of Shakespeare, a Thematic Guide
792.9 ODE Shakespearean Characterization
822.3 FAL A Theatregoer's Guide to Shakespear's Themes
822 ELI Elizabethan Drama
822.3 BEL Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism
809.1 BLO How to Read and Why

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