Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby George Saintsbury (Author)As Shakespere is by far the greatest of all writers, ancient or modern, so he has been the subject of commentorial folly to an extent, which dwarfs the expense of that folly on any other single subject... [T]here is always the danger either that some mischievous notions may be left undisturbed by the neglect to notice them, or that the critic himself may be presumed to be ignorant of the foolishness of his predecessors. These inconveni...

Mark! My Words (How to Discover the Joy of Music, the Delight of Language, and the Pride of Achievement in the Age of Trash Talk and MTV)

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Evans (Author)Classical music, jazz, film scores, and the masterpieces of musical theater are in danger of fading into an undeserved oblivion. This crisis extends not only to music, but also to an ignorance of good books, art, theater, and films. This crisis is exacerbated by our vanishing history, a decline in language, and a pervasive celebrity culture. If this problem is not solved, our nation's cultural and artistic heritage will be irretrievably lost....

The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937

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Report copyright infringementby Martha H. Patterson (Author), Henry Louis Gates (Author)An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the "New Negro," charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory range of id...

Ninja: The Shinobi and the Birth of Espionage, Disguise, Sabotage and Psychological Warfare in the Land of the Rising Sun.

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Report copyright infringementby Mayumi Nakagaki (Author), Ziggy Quinete (Author), Satoshi Watanabe (Illustrator)Unlock the secrets of Japan's legendary Shinobis with this beautifully illustrated Ninja: Japan's Shadow Warrior Unveiled. Dive into the hidden world of the ninja and explore the reality behind the myths, the warriors behind the legends, and the ancient practices concealed in darkness. From their mysterious origins during Japan's turbulent feudal era to their rise as master spies, s...

Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Spicer (Author), Kevin Killian (Editor), Kelly Holt (Editor)Collected correspondence showcases the dazzling intelligence of an iconic American writerThe more than 300 letters collected in Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared are a crucial component of Jack Spicer's unique oeuvre, and they radiate with the brilliance, ferocity, and vulnerability that characterizes his poetry. Spicer writes tenderly to lovers and friends in self-reflective series that recall th...

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Report copyright infringementby Shige (Cj) Suzuki (Author), Ronald Stewart (Author)A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: - The history of Japanese comics, from influences in early visual culture to ...

Tuscan Spaces: Literary Constructions of Space

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Report copyright infringementby Silvia M. Ross (Author)An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu.Ross uses the works of writers such...

Richard Stanyhurst: Translation Of The First Four Books Of The Aeneis Of P. Virgilius Maro (1880)

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author), Edward Arber (Editor)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. ...

Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Hanna (Author)Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history. This is a fundamental difficulty for study, particularly for those beginning the investigation of texts in manuscript. There are two conventional ways of approaching this difficulty: explaining the series of processes by which a manuscript book is constructed and explaining how to constru...

The End of Your Life Book Club: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Will Schwalbe (Author)A profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love between a mother and her son--and about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others. "A graceful, affecting testament to a mother and a life well lived." --Entertainment Weekly, Grade ADuring her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were read...

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...

Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett - Hardcover

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by Penelope Hughes-Hallett (Author)A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This handsome celebration of Austen's letters is illustrated with portraits, facsimile letters, topographical engravings and fashion plates, all helping to bring to life the world Jane Austen ...

Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles - Paperback

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by Sarah Baechle (Editor), Carissa M. Harris (Editor), Elizaveta Strakhov (Editor)Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints' lives, and the works of major ...

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by Nicholas R. Jones (Author)There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes's works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author's compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes's cultural purview and literary corpus.In this unflinching critique, Jones charts important new method...

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Report copyright infringementby Lori Kaiser (Author), Lori Kaiser (Illustrator)Author Lori Kaiser has written another story from the Xavier Series. Izzy the Icky Iguana is a story about the importance of cleanliness, especially when trying to build relationships. The Xavier Series is a collection of 26 books focusing on keystone characteristics perfect for young children. Come experience each adventure with your child! Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8.5 x 5.5...

Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance - Paperback

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by Elliott H. King (Editor), Abigail Susik (Editor)Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues that surrealism was more than an avant-garde art movement; it was a living current of anti-authoritarian resistance.Featuring perspectives ...

If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Hahn (Author)How does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translating the world's most beloved playwright, Daniel Hahn guides us through the magic of bringing the Bard to a global audience. "For those who care deeply about language, and about Shakespeare. . . this will be a treasured book." --James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare "A deliciously fresh reading of S...

Kol Isha: A Reader's Theater Ritual for Yom Kippur

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie S. Sherman (Author)The voices of Jewish women have always been here.Now they are heard.Kol Isha: The Women Speak is a ritual book of Jewish women's voices-foremothers and prophets, rebels and seekers, leaders and future daughters.Designed to be read aloud or shared in community, this sacred text includes the full Kol Isha ritual, a Yom Kippur adaptation, and practical guidance for presentation.When women speak, something in the world shifts. ...

Spirits Finely Touched: The Testing of Value and Integrity in Four Shakespearean Plays

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Skulsky (Author)Armed with a fresh analysis of Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in four plays--Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello--the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive. From Skulsky's study, the four plays emerge as insidiously telling exercises in challenging our wor...

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Report copyright infringementby David Laurance Chambers (Author)""The Metre of Macbeth: Its Relation to Shakespeare's Earlier and Later Work"" by David Laurance Chambers is an academic study that explores the unique metre and verse structure used in William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. The book analyzes the iambic pentameter and other rhythmic patterns used in the play, comparing them to Shakespeare's earlier and later works. Chambers argues that the metre of Macbeth is distinct from Shakespe...

The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality

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Report copyright infringementby Ling Hon Lam (Author)Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the idea of emotion as space, which the Chinese call "emotion-realm" (qingjing). Lam trace...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan C. Dessen (Author)With emphasis on the distinctive effects possible on the Elizabethan stage and the evidence concerning stagecraft found in the late morality plays, Dessen focuses on theatrical techniques not readily apparent to the eye of the modern reader. He stresses that, to appreciate the richness of Elizabethan drama, the modern reader must bring to the text the interpretive skills of the critic, the theatrical point of view of the director, and the...

Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller

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Report copyright infringementby Nilgun Anadolu-Okur (Author)The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests ...

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by Jacqueline Susann (Author)The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design - introduction by Simon Doonan - never-before-seen archival material - an essay from Jackie, "My Book Is Not Dirty " At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City tryi...

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Report copyright infringementby Boika Sokolova (Author), Kirilka Stavreva (Author)Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva's second edition of the stage history of The Merchant of Venice interweaves into the chronology of James Bulman's first edition richly contextualised chapters on Max Reinhardt, Peter Zadek, and the first production of the play in Mandatory Palestine, directed by Leopold Jessner. While the focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across Europe and the USA, and on film, th...

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Created by)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust" stands as a monumental achievement in German literature and a cornerstone of Western literary tradition. This edition presents both Part I and Part II of the epic dramatic poem, allowing readers to fully immerse themselves in the tragic journey of Heinrich Faust. Driven by insatiable curiosity and a thirst for knowledge, Faust makes a pact with Mephistopheles, the devil, embarking on a ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), James Anthony (Author)JULIUS CAESAR: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare's 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it's easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard's lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phrase, each befuddling reference. N...

Graphic Medicine Manifesto: Tenth-Anniversary Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Mk Czerwiec (Author), Ian Williams (Author), Susan Merrill Squier (Author)A decade ago, Graphic Medicine Manifesto established a bold new framework for understanding the intersection of comics and healthcare. It was a call to action--an invitation to rethink the ways we engage with medicine, illness, disability, and caregiving through the power of visual storytelling. Now, ten years later, this landmark volume returns in a special anniversary edition that expan...

Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Allen Paton (Author)Paton explores and deconstructs the symbolism and mythology of fairy legends within Arthurian romance literature. Thoroughly researched and intelligently written, this book is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the literary and mythological traditions that make up this fascinating body of literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we kno...

The Portable Dorothy Parker: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback

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by Dorothy Parker (Author), Marion Meade (Introduction by), Seth (Illustrator)The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. In this new twenty-first-century edition, devoted admirers will be sure to find their favorite verse and stories. But a variety of fresh material has also been added to create a fuller, more authentic picture of her life's work. At the heart of he...

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by Jalal Al-Din Rumi (Author), Jawid Mojaddedi (Author)'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion -Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.' This is the first ever translation of the entirety of Book Five of Rumi's magnum opus, The Masnavi, into English. Prior to this verse translation in heroic couplets, translations were either of selected passages or in lineated prose with passages deemed too salaci...

Seneca's Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond - Hardcover

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by Chiara Graf (Author)What is the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger? Scholarship on Seneca has often historically treated emotion as an obstacle to moral progress in his thought--an inherently treacherous aspect of human experience which must be eradicated via reason. However, a growing body of scholarly work has come to recognize that Seneca made room for emotions in his philosophy, framing such sensations as fear and shame as ethical...