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...

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by Julían Delgado Lopera (Editor)Published in a bilingual English and Spanish edition. Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Anthology. 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Winner for LGBT Nonfiction. CUÉNTAMELO! began as a cover story for SF Weekly, and, eventually in 2014 with local grant support, Lopera was able to self publish. The first edition of 300 books sold out within a week. We're pleased to bring this title back into circulation. In addition to beautiful black ...

Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color - Paperback

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by Gloria Anzaldua (Editor)Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. African American Studies. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present c...

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by Mahmoud Darwish (Author), John Berger (Introduction by), John Berger (Translator)"The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world."-Adam Shatz, The New York Times Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. His poems display a brillian...

A Chance Meeting: American Encounters - Paperback

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by Rachel Cohen (Author), Rachel Cohen (Afterword by), Vijay Seshadri (Foreword by)Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture--from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp--now includes a new afterword by the author. Rachel Cohen's A Chance Meeting is a dazzling group portrait that offers a striking new vision of the making and remaking of the American m...

Steal Away: Selected and New Poems - Paperback

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by C. D. Wright (Author)Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new retablos and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright--with her Southern accent and cinematic eye--couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.from Our DustYou didn't know my weariness, error, incapacity...

Fictions of Evidence: Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middle Ages - Paperback

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by Jamie K. Taylor (Author)Throughout the Middle Ages, witnessing was a crucial way religious and legal "truths" were understood and produced. Religious and secular officials alike harnessed the power of testimony to assert doctrinal, political, or legal responsibilities. Swearing an oath, testifying in court, and signing a deposition were common ways to shape and discipline both devotional and legal communities. In Fictions of Evidence: Witnessing, Literature, and Community in the Late Middl...

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip - Hardcover

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by Alex Beringer (Author)Lost Literacies is the first full-length study of US comic strips from the period prior to the rise of Sunday newspaper comics. Where current histories assume that nineteenth-century US comics consisted solely of single-panel political cartoons or simple "proto-comics," Lost Literacies introduces readers to an ambitious group of artists and editors who were intent on experimenting with the storytelling possibilities of the sequential strip, resulting in playful comics...

Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature - Paperback

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by Mitchum Huehls (Author)Can form be political? Do specific aesthetic and literary forms necessarily point us toward a progressive or reactionary politics? Artists, authors, and critics like to imagine so, but what happens when they lose control of the politics of their forms? In Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature, Mitchum Huehls argues that art's interest in revolution did not end with the twentieth century, as some critics would have it, but rather t...

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by Marcel Proust (Author), Richard Howard (Introduction by), C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins. For this authoritative English-la...

Shakespeare and Textual Theory - Hardcover

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by Suzanne Gossett (Author), Evelyn Gajowski (Editor)There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since Shakespeare's lifetime. An essential resource for the history of Shakespeare on the page, Shakespeare and Textual Theory traces the explanatory underpinnings of these changes through the centuries. After providing an introduction to early modern...

Kahlil Gibran: Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) - Hardcover

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by Kahlil Gibran (Author) And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." From social issues to human concerns; from the tragedy and power of love to the longings of the soul; from good and evil to crime and punishment; from happiness and sorrow to life and death; from inner beauty to dreams and mysticism; Kahlil Gibran's poems, parables, aphorisms and stories are a source of timeless wisdom. This collectable hardbound Deluxe edition is...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author - Paperback

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by Edward Albee (Author)A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play--winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. "Twelve times a week," answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a s...

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Paperback

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by Amitav Ghosh (Author)Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant...

Kojiki: The Birth of Japan: The Japanese Creation Myth Illustrated - Hardcover

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by Kazumi Wilds (Author)Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth--told here for the very first time in illustrated form. In the beginning there was nothing--a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first sparks of life into these islands. The 1300 year-old Kojiki myth traces the beginnings of the Japanese people, following the rise of the Japanese islands from their humble origins as a lump of clay to a great nation ...

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by Nader Elhefnawy (Author)Just what inspired the original James Bond novels? How did the books lay the foundations for the classic Bond films of the '60s-and how did the films break with the books? Afterward, how did Everything or Nothing productions manage to keep the audience coming back for a half century? What really changed in the reboot-and what stayed the same? And where do the later Bond novels of writers like John Gardner and William Boyd fit in?JAMES BOND'S EVOLUTION: FROM CASINO R...

Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism - Hardcover

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by Randall Fuller (Author)A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the great questions" of special importance to women: "What are we born to do? How shall we do it?" The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group biography of remarkable thinkers and artists who played pathbreaking ro...

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by George Orwell (Author)A selection of George Orwell's politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pionee...

The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story - Paperback

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by Andrew Neiderman (Author)"The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books" (The Wall Street Journal) in this compelling celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews--featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more. Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South du...

The Postcolonial Studies Reader - Paperback

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by Bill Ashcroft (Editor), Gareth Griffiths (Editor), Helen Tiffin (Editor)The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 extracts from key works in the field.Leading, as well as lesser-known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalisation. As in the first two edi...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma - Paperback

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by Colin Davis (Editor), Hanna Meretoja (Editor)Over 40 essays from top thinkers in the field demonstrate the range and vitality of trauma studies as it has been used to further the understanding of literature and other cultural forms across the world. Author BiographyColin Davis is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experi...

The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities - Paperback

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by Paul Crawford (Editor), Brian Brown (Editor), Andrea Charise (Editor)The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and communities of practice globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and political force to contributions across a range of ...

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction - Paperback

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by Janice Allan (Editor), Jesper Gulddal (Editor), Stewart King (Editor)The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends.The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by...

Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians - Paperback

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by John Colarusso (Editor), John Colarusso (Translator), John Colarusso (Notes by)The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread. In ninety-two straightforward tales populated by extraordinary characters and exploits, by giants who humble haughty Narts, by horse...

The Music of the Gothic: 1789-1820 - Paperback

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by Emma McEvoy (Author)Music plays an essential role in Gothic in the years 1789-1820, but it signifies very differently at the end of the period compared with the beginning. In the 1790s, the music of Gothic novels and plays is not Gothic music; it is celebratory, calming or transcendent rather than scary. By 1820, the music of Gothic is more likely to provoke shock, discomfort and unease. Melodrama brings about this change. Its ascendancy had long-lasting effects on the music of the Gothic ...

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus - Paperback

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by Sophocles (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and po...

Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār - Hardcover

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by Cyrus Ali Zargar (Author)A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets. Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 01, 2024

Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Hardcover

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by Edith Hamilton (Author), Jim Tierney (Artist)This deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-bordered pages. Since its original publication in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For nearly 80 years, readers have chosen Mythology: Timeless Tales...

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by Anthony Trollope (Author), Francis O'Gorman (Editor)Trollope singled out Orley Farm for its successful combination of realistic and sensational effects which he felt to be the highest achievement of the novelist. It was greatly admired by his contemporaries, including George Eliot and G. H. Lewes. The novel centers on a case of forgery and the anguish, guilt, and pathos of the central character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged martial crisis, and the moving love and loss...