Literary Criticism

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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman Revised - Hardcover

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by Ada Langworthy Collier (Author)Old rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam and Eve were. This is a lyrical telling of that legend and what happens to Lilith as she encounters various demons outside the garden and what she says and does to Adam and Eve once they too are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Now in larger print Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Oct...

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by Elaine Castillo (Author)"How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories." "A book that doesn't seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up." (The New York Times Book Review) Offering "its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity we're all too often spoon-fed into order to res...

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...

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by Snorri Sturluson (Author)"The Prose Edda," a timeless compilation of Old Norse tales and poetic theories meticulously crafted by Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Offering a treasury of myths, legends, and insights into Viking Age beliefs, this cornerstone of Norse literature unveils the rich tapestry of gods, giants, and heroes that populate the ancient Nordic cosmos. From the thunderous exploits of Thor to the cunning wisdom of Odin, each story resonates with the ec...

Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö Ni' Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery - Hardcover

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by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey (Author)Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future generations. In Reading the Wampum...

Literary Allusion in Harry Potter - Paperback

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by Beatrice Groves (Author)Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling's series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter's narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition and its allusiveness provides insight into Rowling's fictional world. Each chapter of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter consists of an in-depth discussion of the intersection between Harry Pott...

Letting Go Is All We have to Hold Onto: Mind-Altering Jokes - Paperback

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by Gregg E. Eisenberg (Author)All humor is philosophy. But Austrian linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein went further: "An entire treatise of philosophy could be written that consists entirely of jokes." Author Evan Hodkins similarly said: "The next religion will consist of an expansive catalog of humor." And Mexican poet Cesar Cruz added: "All art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable."And now, dear reader, you have stumbled upon a very curious but very relatable collection of al...

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by Robert Frost (Author), J. J. Lankes (Illustrator)First published in 1923, "New Hampshire" by famed American poet Robert Frost, is one of the most beautiful and famous collection of poems in American literature. The book contains many of Frost's most well-known and beloved poems, such as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", "Fire and Ice", and "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things". Frost won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes for "New Hampshire" and he ...

A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of Its Haunting Tales - Paperback

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by William M. Cullen (Author)A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of its Haunting Tales is a rich and detailed account of a nearly bygone mining town that once flourished in the backwoods of Ohio's southeastern region. It flourished during Ohio's golden age of railroad expansion and founded by a man with a dream. Then, as Moonville slowly drifted into Ohio's collective history its paranormal activity picked up, adding to Ohio's already rich and colorful collection of haunting tales. ...

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by Jeffro Johnson (Author)APPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It is a deep intellectual dive into the literature of SF/F's past that will fascinate any serious role-playing gamer or fan of classic science fiction and fantasy. Author Jeffro Johnson, ...

Writings on Art and Poetical Theory - Paperback

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by Fernando Pessoa (Author), Nuno Ribeiro (Editor), Cláudia Souza (Editor)Writings on Art and Poetical Theory contains a selection of Fernando Pessoa's writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in English. In Pessoa's oeuvre one finds not only literary and fictional works but also a multiplicity of theoretical texts on the most diverse subjects concerning artistic movements, literature, and writers.In this book, we witness Pessoa explore, through var...

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by Justin Wiggins (Author)Tír na nÓg is a collection of poems, stories, and essays about writers from Ireland, Scotland, England and America. The book was inspired by C. S .Lewis, George MacDonald, Seamus Heaney, John O' Donohue, and Jon Foreman; other writers, the ancient Irish myth of Tír na nÓg, sehnsucht, the healing power of music, literature, and art, the mountains of North Carolina, and a life changing trip to Ireland, Scotland, and England. "Tír na nÓg, Wiggins tells us, evokes the se...

Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention - Paperback

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by David Shields (Author)NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the "collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump," and above all as a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discourse-a dissection of the polit...

Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland - Paperback

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by Ewa Stańczyk (Author)Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland, scholar Ewa Stańczyk explores how illustrators conceived of Jewish people in satirical drawing and reflected on the burning political questions of the day. Incorporating ...

Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide to All the Books - Hardcover

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by Erika Berlin (Author)Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's guide to the Gilmore Girls universe and all 339 books referenced in the series. For fans of Gilmore Girls, one of the most dedicated ways to tap into the psyche of Rory Gilmore is committing to one Herculean task: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. Over the c...

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...

Dining with Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Cookbook

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Report copyright infringementby Julia C. Rosenblatt (Author), Fredric H. Sonnenschmidt (Author)A recipe book offering full menus from four Sherlock Holmes dinners and recounting a history of the dinners and of the Firehouse Breakfast which has become a tradition with the Culinary Institute of America. All the recipes are served with a little relevant history and research. Number of Pages: 287 Dimensions: 0.74 x 10.08 x 7.02 IN Illustrated: Yes ...

Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts - Paperback

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by George Bernard Shaw (Author), Nicholas Grene (Introduction by), Dan H. Laurence (Editor)Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin ClassicShaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--"an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers"--for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. From the outset the play was a ...

The Making of Middle-Earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings - Hardcover

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by Christopher A. Snyder (Author)This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, films, games, and shows. This book, originally published in 2013 and richly illustrated with photographs and artwork, was the first to connect all the threads of influence on Tolkien that infused his creation of Middle-eart...

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Complete Guide to All Fourteen of the Languages Tolkien Invented - Paperback

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by Atanielle Annyn Rowland (Author)This is the book on all of Tolkien's invented languages, spoken by hobbits, elves, and men of Middle-earth -- a dicitonary of fourteen languages, an English-Elvish glossary, all the runes and alphabets, and material on Tolkien the linguist. Number of Pages: 207 Dimensions: 0.48 x 7.15 x 4.55 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 28, 1980

The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Leland S. Person (Editor)This Second Norton Critical Edition also includes: - Revised and expanded explanatory footnotes, a new preface, and a note on the text by Leland S. Person. - Key passages from Hawthorne's notebooks and letters that suggest the close relationship between his private and public writings - Seven new critical essays by Brook Thomas, Michael Ryan, Thomas R. Mitchell, Jay Grossman, Jamie Barlowe, John Ronan, and John F. Birk. - A Chronology...

Jane Austen's Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Williams (Author), Jessica Roux (Illustrator)An elegantly illustrated celebration of Jane Austen's life and literature as told through the flowers, plants, and landscapes that inspired her. Through explorations of the botanical inspirations and symbolism in Austen's work and personal life, as well as historical information about the gardens and landscapes of the Regency Era, Jane Austen's Garden will transport readers back in time to the lush English land...

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human - Paperback

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by Harold Bloom (Author)"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly ...

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend - Hardcover

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by Rebecca Romney (Author)From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen--and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves. Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen's books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the ...

Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A. A. Milne and the Creation of Winnie-The-Pooh

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Report copyright infringementby Gyles Brandreth (Author)For the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Winnie-the-Pooh," Gyles Brandreth chronicles the writing of this beloved classic and the life of its creator, A. A. Milne. Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear tells the remarkable story of A A Milne, a playwright, a bestselling crime writer, poet, polemicist, humorist, and the man who created Winnie-the-Pooh. Gyles Brandreth explores "Winnie-the-Pooh," a bear beloved by millions: his genesis, his ...

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by Mark Fisher (Author)A noted cultural critic unearths the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century culture through a wide range of literature, film, and music references--from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pu...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author)"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf is a seminal work of feminism and literary criticism that explores the complex relationship between gender inequality and the ability of women writers to create and thrive. Drawing from lectures she delivered at women's colleges at Cambridge University, Woolf argues that for a woman to write fiction, she must have economic independence and a space of her own, hence the title by advocating for a phys...

Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery - Paperback

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by Jared Hickman (Author)How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike? How did Prometheus come to represent a notion of civilizational progress through revolution--scientific, political, and spiritual--and thereby to center nothing less than a myth of modernity itself ? The answer Black Prometheus gives is that certain features of the myth--its geographical asso...

Out of Context: The Uses of Modernist Fiction - Paperback

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by Michaela Bronstein (Author)How do novels travel through time? How might they endure in a changing world and reach the readers of an unknowable future? Modernist writers were eager to think of their books as reaching audiences they could not yet imagine. In recent years however, scholars of modernism have focused on pinning them down: putting these books in their context and these authors in their place. By looking to the future, scholars fear that looking to the future will make literature...

How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice - Paperback

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by Pat Schneider (Author)"When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait." With that insight, Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their lives and deepest questions through writing. In seventeen concise thematic chapters that include meditations on topics such as fear, freedom, tradition in writing and in religions, forgiveness, joy, social justice, and death, How the Light Gets In gracefully guides readers th...