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...

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...

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...

Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Kalaidjian (Author)Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity's response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold? Does exposure to a source of dread spur people to action or lull them into fatalism and complacency? Andrew Kalaidjian takes up these and other vital questions in Spectacle Earth, a lively and wide-ranging consideration of media engagement, passivity, and virtual environments i...

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Report copyright infringementby Grazia Deledda (Author)""Nostalghia"" by Grazia Deledda is a compelling novel set against the striking backdrop of Sardinia, where the protagonist, Elias Portolu, navigates a complex tapestry of emotions and societal pressures. Central to the narrative is Elias's profound emotional journey, characterized by intense love and longing. His feelings are deeply intertwined with the traditions and cultural fabric of Sardinia, where Catholicism holds significant sway ...

Practicing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies

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Report copyright infringementby Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez (Editor), Ulla Stackmann (Editor)The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challen...

The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom (1837)

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Report copyright infringementby St John Chrysostom (Author), F. W. Hohler (Translator)The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom is a collection of writings by the early Christian theologian and bishop, St. John Chrysostom. Originally written in the late 4th century, these six books explore the nature and responsibilities of the priesthood, offering guidance and advice to those who have been called to serve in this role.In these books, Chrysostom emphasizes the importance of humil...

Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Books and Bindings

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Hobson (Author)This book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic "cabinet" of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full Catalogue is provided for the first time. Books commissioned by Jean Grolier, "the Prince of Bibliophiles", have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. This book contains valuable informati...

A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas A. Basbanes (Author)In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authori...

S. John Chrysostom On The Priesthood: In Six Books (1866)

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Report copyright infringementby John Chrysostom (Author), Benjamin Harris Cowper (Translator)S. John Chrysostom On The Priesthood: In Six Books is a book written by John Chrysostom, a renowned Christian theologian and bishop of Constantinople in the 4th century. The book is a comprehensive guide to the duties and responsibilities of the priesthood, and is divided into six books. In the first book, Chrysostom discusses the qualifications required to become a priest, including the importance of...

William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy S. Murphy (Author), Matthew Sangster (Editor), Dimitra Fimi (Editor)The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novels and stories upon which his posthumous reputation rests, his non-fantastic writing, identifiable literary influences, and the historical contexts in which he wrote. Focusing extensively upon major works such as The House on the Borderland (1...

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde - Paperback

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by Audre Lorde (Author), Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by)Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems--selected and introduced by one of our most pow...

Live Artefacts: Literature in a Cognitive Environment - Hardcover

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by Terence Cave (Author)Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses from ethical reflection, perception from imagination, logic from desire. Above all, they demonstrate the essential fluidity and mobility of human cognition, its adaptive inventiveness. If we are astonished...

Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age - Hardcover

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by Vincent P. Pecora (Author)European culture after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was no stranger to ancient beliefs in an organic, religiously sanctioned, and aesthetically pleasing relationship to the land. The many resonances of this relationship form a more or less coherent whole, in which the supposed cosmopolitanism of the modern age is belied by a deep commitment to regional, nationalist, and civilizational attachments, including a justifying theological armature, much of which is...

Where Was It Before the Dream?: Time Loops and Interpretation

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Wargo (Author)This is a book about a mind-bending new way of interpreting imaginative literature. Writers often draw on dreams for their inspiration, and those dreams are often precognitive, foreshadowing upheavals in the writer's future. It means that literature may often be prophetic, and that standard critical approaches focused solely on an author's prior influences or present life context are inadequate to fully understand the miracle of literary crea...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Carmien (Author)The Cherryh Odyssey brings together a dozen essays about respected science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. Fellow author and academic Edward Carmien has gathered top voices in the field to discuss the literary life and career of Cherryh, including Burton Raffel, Jane Fancher, Janice Bogstad, Betsy Wollheim, and many others. A substantial bibliography rounds out this collection. The Cherryh Odyssey is a text fans of the author wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Charliediana (Author) Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.49 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 13, 2025

Fall and Ascent: Individuation in the Malazan Book of the Fallen

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Woods (Author)Carl Jung's concept of individuation helps us understand the journey of life from birth to death and the psychological growth that ensues across the lifespan, and through each of life's stages. This analysis of Steven Erikson's ten-book fantasy series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, explores how Erikson has applied the notion of individuation to his characters throughout the story, depicting and working through the individuation journey a...

Other Lives & Other Worlds: Philosophy and Modern Fictions

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen R. L. Clark (Author)Stephen Clark's philosophical work has always been inspired by images and arguments drawn from science fiction, as well as by the long Platonic tradition of philosophy. In these papers (written between 1983 and 2023) on the writings of Kipling, Orwell, Lovecraft, Tolkien, and others, the recurring theme is an examination of the apparent conflict between the world as we are compelled to think it and our need for faith in the reality o...

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Zoë Bossiere (Editor), Dinty W. Moore (Editor) Number of Pages: 276 Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 17, 2020

Critique of Fantasy, Vol. 3: The Block of Fame

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence a. Rickels (Author)In The Block of Fame, Edmund Bergler, like the thirteenth fairy in the "Sleeping Beauty," uninvited because there wasn't an extra place setting, crashes the psychoanalytic poetics of daydreaming with a curse. He charges that the overview, according to which art making rarefies daydreaming and delivers omnipotence, overlooks the underlying defense contract. We are hooked to creativity, because it offers the best defense against acknow...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexei Panshin (Author)Following my Nose is Hugo and Nebulaauthor and critic Alexei Panshin's very personal journey into literary analysisand his own reflections. Panshin discusses his own journey as wellas works that influenced his own writing and on science fiction in general.Authors like A.E. van Vogt, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Caroll) and others haveshaped both the genre as well as Panshin's own art. This work also discusses a broader critiqueof the genre an...

Gothic Grotesques: Essays on Fantastic Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Stableford (Author)This find collection of essays by master science fiction, fantasy, and horror author Brian Stableford covers horror fiction, Gothic rock music, science fiction, and fantasy, by a master critic and fiction writer. Complete with index. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 20, 2024

Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel

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Report copyright infringementby Paul J. Nahin (Author)From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, time travel has long been a favorite topic and plot device in tales of science fiction and fantasy. But as any true SF fan knows, astounding stories about traversing alternate universes and swimming the tides of time demand plausible science. That's just what Paul J. Nahin's guide provides.An engineer, physicist, and published science fiction writer, Nahin is uniquely qualified to expla...

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape - Hardcover

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by Joe Pera (Author), Joe Bennett (Illustrator)A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!The cozy comedy of Joe Pera meets the darkly playful illustrations of Joe Bennett in A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape, a funny, warm, and sincere guide to regaining calm and confidence when you're hiding in the bathroom. "Nothing says 'class' to your dinner guests more than a Joe Pera book next to the can." --Seth Meyers Joe Pera goes to the bathroom a lot. And his friend,...

Jack Vance: Seven Articles on His Work and Travels

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Andre-Driussi (Author)Seven previously published pieces pertaining to the science fiction of American author Jack Vance, and his voyages around the world. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2017

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by William Blake (Author), Alicia Ostriker (Editor)One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake was also an artist, mystic, and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience--which juxtapose poems such as "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," and "The Blossom" and "The Sick Rose"--to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of phi...

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Report copyright infringementby Sherryl Vint (Author)Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and...