Literary Criticism

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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 studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti,...

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess - Hardcover

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by Becca Rothfeld (Author)A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged of ugliness, excess, and provocation. Our embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished. We see it in our homes, where we bring in Marie Kondo to rid them of the...

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World - Paperback

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by Pádraig Ó. Tuama (Author)In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives.Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Bet...

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by Emily Dickinson (Author), Brenda Hillman (Editor)Emily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery have had a profound effect on twentieth-century literature. Over a hundred of Dickinson's best poems are collected here. These unique and gemlike lyrics are pure distillations of profound feeling and great intellect. They contain a world of imagination, observation, and precisely articulated spiritual and emotional experience. As editor Brenda Hillman says, this small and succinct collection can serve as a guidebook to readers who are exp...

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 modern thinkers challenged the old orthodoxies, offering thrilling new perspectives that suddenly felt radical--and too dangerous for women. Natural Magic intertwines the stories of these two luminar...

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

The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine - Paperback

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by Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Author)After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote about the coming "renaissance of American Negro literature," beginning what is now known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Crisis Reader is a collection of poems, short stories, plays, and essays from this great literary period and includes, in addition to four previously unpublished poems by James Weldon Johnson, work by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset,...

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by Vladimir F. Markov (Author)"Forty years after its original publication, Vladimir Markov's Russian Futurism: A History remains the classic in its field. Its learned account of Russian avant-garde poetics with respect to various forms and genres-poems, plays, artist's books, manifestos-is still the first I turn to when I want to review the critical information about Futurist manifestos or Khlebnikov's long poems and stories, or the collaborations of Goncharova and Kruchenykh. Meticulous and thorough, Markov's book, in this new edition, will be indispensable for students of the avant-garde." - Marjorie Perloff, Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities, Stanford University, Scholar-i...

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise - Hardcover

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by Olivia Laing (Author)In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.But the story of the garden doesn't always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It's also a place of rebel outposts and communa...

Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 - Paperback

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by John Leonard (Author), E. L. Doctorow (Introduction by)John Leonard was a lion of American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. Reading for My Life is a monumental collection of Leonard's most significant writings--spanning five decades--from his earliest columns for the Harvard Crimson to his final essays for the New York Review of Books. Definitive reviews of Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth, among others, display Leonard's encyclopedic knowledge of literature and make this book a landmark achievement from one of America's most beloved and influential criti...

Spectral Realms No. 20: Winter 2024 - Paperback

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by S. T. Joshi (Editor), John Shirley (Author), Kyla Lee Ward (Author)Hippocampus Press is proud to commemorate ten years of our acclaimed journal of weird poetry, Spectral Realms, with the publication of the twentieth issue.As before, it contains a diverse array of poetry by today's leading versifiers in the realm of horror and the supernatural-John Shirley, Scott J. Couturier, Frank Coffman, Manuel Pérez-Campos, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Leigh Blackmore, Ann K. Schwader, and a host of others. Maxwell I. Gold and Jay Sturner contribute provocative prose poems, while a cadre of poets pen tributes to Dylan Thomas (Carl E. Reed's Echoing Dylan Thomas"), Robert W. Chambers (David J. Kopaska-Merkel...

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by Ali Smith (Author)Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne's College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted--literally--by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a meditation on art and storytelling, a book about love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith's ...

The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and Her Contemporaries Face the Debacle - Paperback

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by Christine Ann Evans (Author)The fall of France in June 1940, La Débâcle, posed a challenge to France's understanding of itself. Could the existing "sacred" narrative of French history established by the Third Republic hold in the face of the defeat of France's military and political systems, both built upon its foundations? The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and her Contemporaries Face the Debacle focuses on assessments of the Debacle and places Simone Weil's writings of 1938 to 1943 within this continuum. This study recreates the debate in those fraught years to posit a "horizon of expectations" within which to place and better appreciate Simone Weil's...

Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again - Paperback

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by Wallis C. III Baxter (Author)In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet the author presents Phillis Wheatley as a preacher and theologian committed to transforming her world through her poetry. The result is a prophetic message of hope for the oppressed and corrective instruction for the institutional power structures.Author BiographyReverend Wallis C. Baxter IIIserves as Senior Pastor of the Second Baptist Church Southwest in District Heights, MD. Number of Pages: 154 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 36 - Hardcover

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by S. P. Cerasano (Editor), Edward Gieskes (Other), Heather Anne Hirschfeld (Other)Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and early performance history, but of topics relating to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.Author BiographyS. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at C...

Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions - Hardcover

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by Daniel Cooper Alarcón (Author)By examining non-fiction travel narratives and travel fictions in relationship to each other, Daniel Cooper Alarc?n highlights the sophisticated ways that both types of writing have anticipated ideas central to critical studies of travel, tourism, and migration.Author BiographyDaniel Cooper Alarcón is associate professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN

Human-Plant Entanglement and Vegetal Agency in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath - Hardcover

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by Dilek Bulut Sarikaya (Author)This book investigates the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath under the theoretical guidance of critical plant studies to disclose these two poets' botanical awareness of the vegetal agency and their attentiveness to the ethical standing of plants in human life. Author BiographyDilek Bulut Sarıkaya is associate professor of English literature at Cappadocia University. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN

Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 - Paperback

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by Nicole C. Dittmer (Author)Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed "monstrous" women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.Author BiographyNicole C. Dittmer is lecturer at The College of New Jersey and proofreader/editorial board member at Studies in Gothic Fiction. Number of Pages: 238 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN

The Elements of English: A Glossary of Basic Terms for Literature, Composition, and Grammar - Paperback

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by Stan Malless (Author), Jeff McQuain (Author)Here is a dictionary of basic terms for literature, composition, and grammar that every American, no matter their age, needs to know.Author BiographyStan Malless has taught literature, composition and grammar at both grade school and collegiate levels. His poetry has appeared in Antietam Review, The Antigonish Review and Lyrical Iowa. He lives in Des Moines with his wife. Jeff McQuain has a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from The American University, where he has also taught college composition. He was a longtime research associate for the "on Language" column in The New York Times and he is the author of the syndicated newspaper feature "Our Lang...

Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature - Paperback

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by Latoya Jefferson-James (Editor), Tajanae Barnes (Contribution by), Regis Fox (Contribution by)Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences.Author BiographyLaToya Jefferson-James is assistant professor of composition and world literature at Mississippi Valley State University. Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN

The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces - Hardcover

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by Meghan P. Nolan (Editor), Rebecca Martin (Editor)This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process.Author BiographyMeghan P. Nolan, MFA, MA, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Honors program at SUNY Rockland Community College. She is a multigenre writer, who focuses on (Neo-)Victorian and Modern literature/crime writing and fragmented perceptions of self-hood through ...

Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin - Paperback

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by Barbara Everett (Author)Widely regarded as one of England's most sensitive readers of poetry, Barbara Everett here examines the poetry of Donne, Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Pope, Keats, Browning, Eliot, Auden, and Philip Larkin. The implicit argument of these essays is designed to show the way each poet remains an individual--idiosyncratic, odd, rich--while interacting with the conditions of a particular historical context. To this difficult task Everett brings an extraordinary ability to read closely and an intimate knowledge of the period. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.75 x 8.48 x 5.8 IN

Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics - Hardcover

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by Gavin F. Hurley (Author)Identifying an important subgenre of horror literature, this book argues that Catholic horror fiction works distinctively to inspire the philosophical, theological, and spiritual imaginations of readers from all backgrounds and faith traditions. Hurley analyzes four novels that are foundational to the genre of Catholic horror: J.K. Huysmans's L?-Bas (1891), Robert Hugh Benson's The Light Invisible (1903) and A Mirror of Shalott (1907), and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (1971). Putting these texts in conversation with the classical liberal arts, the book shows how Catholic horror fiction coheres in a commitment to dialectical thinking that aims both to reso...

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by Michael R. Paradiso-Michau (Editor)This original collection investigates how Mary Shelley's 200-year-old novel is the product of creolization--the intentional conglomeration of scientific, mythological, political, and social discourses. The book traces how the story has creolized itself into life and culture as a new mythology and political statement for each generation. Author BiographyMichael R. Paradiso-Michau is lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Editor of Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political, Paradiso-Michau has published in Continental Philosophy Review; Ethics; Listening: Journal of Communication Ethi...

Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 - Hardcover

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by Geoffrey Hill (Author), Kenneth Haynes (Editor)Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.Author BiographyGeoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than thirty years in England, first at Leeds an...

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by Caryl Phillips (Author)"I go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies." Alvin and Errol can't picture much of a future for themselves. They're young, Black and living in England in the 1980s, with an entire country and political system set against them. Instead they focus firmly on their past - the sunny Caribbean and heroic father they left behind when their mother brought them to England twenty years ago. But when Alvin returns home from his grandfather's funeral a new version of their past emerges, and the two brothers are caught in a desperate struggle to unearth the...

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by Claire Dederer (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?"A lively, personal exploration of how one might think about the art of those who do bad things" --Vanity Fair - "[Dederer] breaks new ground, making a complex cultural conversation feel brand new." --Ada Calhoun, author of Also a Poet From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, Monster...

Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue (Fifth Revised Edition) - Paperback

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by S. T. Joshi (Author), David E. Schultz (Author)H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This fifth revised edition provides comprehensive information on 1129 books owned by Lovecraft.These books focus chiefly on four key areas that Lovecraft found particularly fascinating: ancient literature and history; the history and antiquities of New England; astronomy, chemistry, and other sciences; and, of course, the literature of weird fiction. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz have supplied full publication information, tables of contents for many titles, data on Lovecraft's discus...

An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer .. - Paperback

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by Robert 1717?-1771 Wood (Created by)In this classic work, Robert Wood challenges the prevailing view of Homer as a primitive and uneducated bard and presents him as a learned poet, deeply engaged with the literary and cultural traditions of his time. Drawing on extensive scholarship and a close reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Wood offers a comprehensive picture of Homer's life, art, and legacy.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 ...

La Celestina: Tragicomedia De Calisto Y Melibea: Texto De Veintiún Actos Según La Edición De Valencia, 1514, Comparado Con El Primit - Paperback

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by Fernando De Rojas (Author)Esta edición única de La Celestina incluye comparaciones de tres versiones diferentes, convirtiéndola en una obra esencial para el estudio de la literatura española. La trama sigue a los amantes Calisto y Melibea mientras navegan por el amor, la lujuria y la muerte en un estilo que marcará el comienzo del teatro moderno en España.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 corpo...

Interpretations In Shakespeare S Sonnets - Paperback

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by Hilton Landry (Created by)This insightful analysis of Shakespeare's sonnets provides new perspectives on these famous poems. The author explores the themes of love, mortality, and creativity that run through the sonnets, and considers the various interpretations that have been offered over the centuries. Landry's clear and engaging style makes this book perfect for scholars and casual readers alike.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 ...

Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities - Hardcover

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by Daniel A. Finch-Race (Editor), Emiliano Guaraldo (Editor), Marco Malvestio (Editor)This volume explores Italian science fiction from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering literary texts, films, music and visual works by figures as diverse as Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Peter Kolosimo, Primo Levi, Antonio Margheriti, Gilda Musa and Roberto Vacca. It broadens the horizons of both Italian studies and the environmental humanities by addressing a long-neglected genre, and expands our understanding of relations between the ecological, the imaginary and the sociopolitical. The chapters draw on a variety of methodological frameworks, including animal studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminis...