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Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader - Paperback

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by Laura Backes (Author)Get Your Child Hooked on Books Reading can become a favorite part of any child's life--even children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluctant reader on the path to becoming an enthusiastic reader. Inside are 125 books that are certain to ignite your child's interest in reading. You'll find a variety of titles with real kid appeal--the best of the best for children of all reading levels. These books will captiv...

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton - Paperback

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by Emily J. Orlando (Editor)Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studi...

Archetypes from Underground: : Notes on the Dostoevskian Self - Paperback

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by Lonny Harrison (Author)Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky's stories and novels and argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of his works. In this interdisciplinary study, Harrison analyzes selected texts in light of fresh research in Dostoevsky studies, cultural history, comparative mythology, and depth psychology. He argues that one of Dostoevsky's chief concerns is the crisis of m...

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science - Hardcover

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by Renée Bergland (Author)A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started to grow apart, and...

Monster Girl Encyclopedia II - Hardcover

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by Kenkou Cross (Author)The second volume of the ultimate guide to monster girls that took fandom by storm--for Mature fans only! The definitive source guide for the sexy monster girl genre! Told from the perspective of a wandering scholar of monsters, this tantalizing tome includes 100 gorgeous full-color illustrations of seductively dangerous monster girls. Replete with fascinating lore, elaborate bios, and intricate descriptions, this book has everything you ever wanted to know about mons...

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen - Paperback

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by Suzanne Scanlon (Author)A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad--and doing both at once. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother--feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain--she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover f...

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by Renee Gladman (Author), Danielle Dutton (Introduction by)A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time. Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing--somewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophy--that Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like Calamities and My Lesbian Novel. TOAF is a recuperative song...

The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth: The Stories of the Mischievous Kappa, Trickster K - Hardcover

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by Thersa Matsuura (Author), Michelle Wang (Illustrator)Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan. Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: a fascinating journey through Japan's folklore through profiles of the legendary creatures and beings who continue to live on in pop culture today. From the sly ...

Shakespeare and Comics: Negotiating Cultural Value - Hardcover

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by Jim Casey (Editor), Brandon Christopher (Editor)From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to manga, from independent to mainstream comics, texts explored inclu...

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by Vanessa R. Sasson (Author)By combining the spirit of fiction with the fabulism of Indian mythology and in-depth academic research, Vanessa R. Sasson shares the evocative story of the Buddha from the perspective of a forgotten woman: Yasodhara, the Buddha's wife. Although often marginalized, Yasodhara's narrative here comes to life. Written with a strong feminist voice, we encounter Yasodhara as a fiercely independent, passionate and resilient individual. We witness her joys and sorrows, he...

Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play - Hardcover

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by Noam Reisner (Author) Number of Pages: 292 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 27, 2024

The Draw of the Alps: Alpine Summits and Borderlands in Modern German-Speaking Culture - Hardcover

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by Richard McClelland (Editor) The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as ...

C. S. Lewis on Literature: An Introduction to His Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Theory - Paperback

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by Marcus Paul (Author)C. S. Lewis began his teaching career one hundred years ago at University College, Oxford in 1924, moving to Magdalen College in 1925. In the following 38 years, Lewis published eight books of literary criticism, literary history, and theory - plus dozens of literary essays. As with his fiction and popular religious writing, Lewis's scholarship is brim-full of profound insights about our common humanity, the books we enjoy, and our fascinating world. C.S. Lewis on Liter...

Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart - Hardcover

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by Robert Frost (Author), Jay Parini (Author)Celebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems--with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language During a public reading Robert Frost was once asked why he so frequently recited his poems from memory. With typical wit, he replied: "If they won't stick to me, I won't stick to them." Remarkably among the modern poets, his ...

Rethinking Lyric Communities - Paperback

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by Irene Fantappi? (Editor), Francesco Giusti (Editor), Laura Scuriatti (Editor) Number of Pages: 318 Dimensions: 0.71 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2024

A Fever in the Heart: Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume III - Paperback

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by Ann Rule (Author)From #1 New York Times bestselling author and "undisputed master crime writer" (John Saul, New York Times bestselling author), a chilling tale of obsession, manipulation, and murder in small-town Washington. In A Fever in the Heart, lives are ended and families torn apart due to one man's burning desire to get the woman of his dreams back. Based on twenty years of in-depth research, this is a powerful true crime story that delves into a twisted and deadly love triangle tha...

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by Dolly Jørgensen (Author)Examines the role of the pig in medieval society in material and textual sources. The pig was a common sight in the Middle Ages. They might be eating under an oak tree, or out in a field. They might be in the street, with the swineherd close behind at their heels. They might be dismembered, for sale by a butcher. They might be represented on misericords, in a church or cathedral, dancing, playing the bagpipes, or suckling people. Pigs were in all these places. But w...

Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art - Hardcover

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by Rabih Alameddine (Author)A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literature's leading lights In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition. He reveals how a political dimension enlarges a work of art rather than making it less beautiful or reducing it to a polemic, as we are so often...

Literature Against Fundamentalism - Paperback

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by Tabish Khair (Author)Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature enables us to think are distinctive and necessary, because of the relationships between its material ('language') and its subject matter ('reality'). Although present in oral literature, these relationships ar...

Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair - Hardcover

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by Christian Wiman (Author)Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism, theology, and searing memoir...

Cú Chulainn's Death: A Critical Edition of Brislech Mór Maige Murthemni - Paperback

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by Bettina Kimpton (Author)The death tale of the early medieval Irish warrior hero Cú Chulainn features a taut narrative interwoven with stunningly complex poetry. This revised critical edition with introduction, text, translation, textual notes, and glossary provides linguistic, literary, and metrical analyses of the tale, as well as a brief discussion of early Irish poetics. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 29, 2024

Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings - Paperback

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by Ghassan Kanafani (Author), Louis Brehony (Editor), Tahrir Hamdi (Editor)"No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani" Mohammed El-Kurd, poet, writer and journalist, author of Rifqa"I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a moral role in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine" Ilan Papp?, historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"As relevant today as he was in the 1960s and 1970s" Ghassan Abu Sittah, award-winning surgeon, ...

Encounters with Inscriptions - Paperback

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by Kristin Czarnecki (Author)When Kristin Czarnecki lost both her parents within nine months, she sought solace in books, but not just any books.In Encounters with Inscriptions, Czarnecki writes about the books inscribed and given to her by her parents over the years-an array of novels, short stories, poetry, nature writing, cultural criticism, and a cookbook. As she explores each book, Czarnecki focuses not only on loss but also on the complexities of childhood, on family and friendship, and...

The Paschal Meal: an Arrangement of the Last Supper as an Historical Drama - Paperback

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by Grailville Community College (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be...

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by Raymond Williams (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repr...

The Bathroom Door: a Farce in One Act - Hardcover

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by Gertrude E. Jennings (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, ...

The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living - Paperback

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by Adela Pinch (Author)We tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside? The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up close, but by engineering environments in which we feel constrained from acting. By excavating the history of the rise of experience as an important category of Victorian intellectual life, this boo...

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by Ed Rossbach (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduce...

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by Alice Dailey (Author)A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.Back Jacket"A daughter fractured by the lies of a dying mother; a scholar drawn to the literary history of death; a mother in debt to stories that won't die: Alice Dailey's lush and haunting memoir immerses readers in the lessons and limits of knowing grief. Brilliantly experimental in form, Mother of Stories pierces the divide betw...

Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life - Hardcover

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by Michael Nott (Author)A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippie mentality (and drug use) o...

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography - Paperback

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by Alberto Manguel (Author)A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer's work No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name are foundations of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey--with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Odysseus and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant...

Atlas of Tolkien Deluxe Edition - Hardcover

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by David Day (Author)Full-color maps and illustrations from every reach of Middle-earth make this an essential guide to exploring Tolkien's world. Full-color maps and illustrations are accompanied by vivid descriptions of all the fantastical places and creatures of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands. Fans of The Lord of the Rings will find this atlas from best-selling author and Tolkien scholar David Day to be a helpful tool in navigating the path from the Shire to Mount Doom, with many stops...