Literary Criticism

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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...

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry - Paperback

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by Martha Amore (Editor), Lucian Childs (Editor)Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures o...

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...

The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts - Paperback

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by Catriona McAra (Author)Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right, critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her. It explores the work of a remar...

Trump and Hitler: A Comparative Study in Lying - Hardcover

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by Henk de Berg (Author)This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists. It explores their populist self-staging and rhetorical strategies and explains how they connected with their respective audiences. It also analyses the two men's character, work ethic, and management style. In addition, the book addresses seemingly peripheral issues like the reasons behind Hitler's toothbrush moustache and Trump's hairstyle. By demystifying Hitler and Trump, the author throws new lig...

Literature and History in Carlos Fuentes: Imperfect Creations - Hardcover

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by Roberto S?nchez Ben?tez (Author)Literature and History in Carlos Fuentes: Imperfect Creations analyzes the work of Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012), one of the most widely recognized Mexican novelists. A lucid awareness of national and Ibero-American cultural and historical problems, his reflections on history, culture, politics, the international order, education, have contributed to its enrichment. This book is divided into five chapters that cover the path of the discussions on: a) the identi...

Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography - Hardcover

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by Joseph Luzzi (Author)The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death. His poema sacro, sacred poem, profoundly influenced Renaissance writers and artists such as Giovanni Boccaccio and Sandro Botticelli and was venerated by modern crit...

The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading - Hardcover

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by Andrew Pettegree (Author)A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath--one ranks among humanity's greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughou...

The Great War and Modern Memory - Paperback

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by Paul Fussell (Author)Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, an...

Constitutional Innovation and Same-Sex Desire in d'Annunzio's Fiume, 1919-1920 - Hardcover

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by Aleardo Zanghellini (Author)Drawing on novel archival evidence that sheds light on Anglo-Italian diplomatic relations and the French-Italian contest for power in the Adriatic, this book recounts the story of decadent poet Gabriele D'Annunzio's occupation of Fiume. Determining the fate of this Italian enclave in coastal Croatia had proved impossible at the Paris Peace Conference. In September 1919, D'Annunzio and his 'legionnaires' installed themselves in Fiume in a bid to embarrass Italy i...

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by Velleius Paterculus (Author), A. J. Woodman (Editor), A. J. Woodman (Translator)A Roman commander's comprehensive history of Rome.The histories of Velleius Paterculus chronicle the story of Rome and Roman culture from the fall of Troy to AD 30. Although his work's title, proem, and opening chapters are lost along with the narrative from Romulus to the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC, Velleius provides much valuable information, especially about the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BC-AD 37), ...

Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture - Paperback

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by Khadijah Queen (Author)Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human feeling and behavior, and explores language-based solutions to common cultural conflicts that are often rooted in harmful assumptions. Instead of operating from a base of un...

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination - Paperback

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by Sandra M. Gilbert (Author), Susan Gubar (Author), Lisa Appignanesi (Introduction by)"A feminist classic."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review "A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing ...

The Philosophy of Translation - Hardcover

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by Damion Searls (Author)A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners Avoiding theoretical debates and clich?d metaphors, award-winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what translation really is and what translators actually do. As the translator of sixty books from multiple languages, Searls has spent decades grappling with words on the most granular level: nouns and verbs, accents on people's n...

The Savage Detectives Reread - Paperback

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by David Kurnick (Author)The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolaño's novel has also been called an exercise in 1970s nostalgia, an escapist fantasy of a romanticized Latin America, and a publicity event propped up by the myth of the bad-boy artist. David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Bolaño's life and work have...

Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Hardcover

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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author) This collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any library. A compilation of Edgar Allan Poe's well-known works, this classic leather-bound edition is perfect as a keepsake. It includes some of his timeless masterpieces namely ' Annabel Lee', ' The Raven', ' To Helen', ' MS. Found in a Bottle', ' The Fall of the House of Usher', ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue', ' The Tel...

A House of Seven Windows: Short Stories - Paperback

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by Kadya Molodowsky (Author), Leah Schoolnik (Translator)A House with Seven Windows by Kadya Molodowsky is the famed Yiddish poet's only collection of short stories. Written in simple prose, these stories are subtle portraits--tragic-comic, bittersweet, always generous spirited--of ordinary people: Jews in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and Jews struggling to adjust to life in America. A traditional-minded husband is defeated by his wife who wants only the latest fashion. A community leader'...

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by Jilali El Koudia (Author), Jilali El Koudia (Translator), Roger Allen (Translator)Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savoured, studied or simply treasured. Varied genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to European co...

So Much Secret Labor: James Wright and Translation - Paperback

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by Anne Wright (Author), Saundra Rose Maley (Author), Jeffrey Katz (Author)How a passion for translation fueled the development of a great American poetSo Much Secret Labor is a window into the work of the great American poet, James Wright (1927-1980), whose love of languages and quest for the "true imagination" helped transform American poetry. The book draws on memoir, archival research, interviews, letters, and previous unpublished journal excerpts, presenting a scrupulous and intimate rea...

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Wolfgang Clemen (Editor)Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare's most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies, resulting in a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce.... This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare serie...

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by Annie Dillard (Author)"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. . . . Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear. . . . A rare and precious book." -- Frederick Buechner, New York Times Book ReviewFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a book a...

Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition - Hardcover

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), M. D. Herter Norton (Translator), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by)This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husband, William Warder Norton, f...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Paperback

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by Maya Angelou (Author), Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut me...

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary - Hardcover

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by Hana Videen (Author)An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called "a marvelous book" Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old English word for "animal" itself, deor (pr...

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by Jane Austen (Author), John Mullan (Editor)'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her s...

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by Hamid Ismailov (Author), Shelley Fairwaether-Vega (Translator)The intricate new novel from the winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 'Life in exile! May it be cursed. Once you have become a stranger, a stranger you shall remain; you may endeavour to make friends, but the task is a difficult one, full end to end with uncertainty.' In the latest thrilling multi-stranded epic from the award-winning author of The Devils' Dance, an Uzbek writer in exile traces the fate of the medieval polymath Av...

Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary - Paperback

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by David Crystal (Author), Ben Crystal (Author)The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical dictionary of all the words and meanings students of Shakespeare need to know. Every word has an example sentence selected from the twelve most studied plays including Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry V. Usage notes and theatre notes provide additional background to Shakespearean times and the perform...

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Miya Kazuki (Author), You Shiina (Illustrator), Quof (Translator)Divine rituals and a ditter rematch! As snow falls around Ahrensbach's castle, Ferdinand, soon to be married to the duchy's next archduchess, receives a concerning letter. Not only has Rozemyne been summoned by the royal family once again, but she is also being taken to the underground archive hidden beneath the Royal Academy's library. Even in her third year at the school, she's proving to be a constant source of headaches--...

Adapting Stephen King: Volume 2, Night Shift from Short Stories to Screenplays - Paperback

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by Joseph Maddrey (Author)Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author. His earliest short stories, collected in the Night Shift anthology, have been adapted into hit features including Creepshow, Children of the Corn, Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive, Graveyard Shift, Sometimes They Come Back, and The Mangler. Through his "Dollar Baby" program, King licensed several Night Shift stories to aspiring filmmakers for just one dollar each,...

Bold, Badass, and Bookish: Women Writers Who Made History - Paperback

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by Duopress Labs (Author)A homage to feminist icons in the literary world.The perfect gift for any book lover, this innovative format features a collection of beautifully illustrated book-puns and literary quotes alongside 25 detachable bookmarks that are the ideal companion for the next great read.Quotes, bios, fun facts, and illustrations of bold, visionary female writers fill each page. An Audre Lorde quote--"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then ...

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by Boeton (Author)Berserk is a manga which stands out for its rich, twisted and dark universe. It is a clever alchemy between the stories of Elric of Melnibone, Hieronymus Bosch's paintings and Gustave Dore's engravings. This book reviews Berserk's story and all aspects of Kentaro Miura's life, the manga's author. It also deciphers the work's entire dark fantasy world. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.7 x 6.6 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2021

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork - Paperback

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by Joseph Campbell (Author), Henry Morton Robinson (Author), Edmund L. Epstein (Editor)In this edition of Campbell & Robinson's seminal decoding of Joyce's masterpiece, the authors analyse the novel page by page, stripping the layers of obscurity & offering interpretations through footnotes & bracketed commentary.Author BiographyJoseph Campbell is widely credited with bringing mythology to a mass audience. His works, including "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," the four volume "The...