Literary Criticism

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The Oxford Companion to the Brontes: Anniversary Edition - Hardcover

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by Christine Alexander (Author), Margaret Smith (Author)This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontes commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Bronte's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontes - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father, and their brother Branwell. Expanded entries surveying the Brontes' lives and works are supplemented by entries on friends and acquaintances, pets...

Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter

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Report copyright infringementby J. Brian O'Roark (Author)Magic can't fix bad economics--discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking Economics of the Wizarding World! The world of Harry Potter is filled with magic, mystery, and adventure, but beneath the surface lies an economy struggling in the dark ages. Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter reveals why the wizarding world,...

Am I Overthinking This?: Over-Answering Life's Questions in 101 Charts - Hardcover

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by Michelle Rial (Author)A book of questions with answers and over-answers: Did I screw up? How do I achieve work-life balance? Do I have too many plants? Michelle Rial delivers a playful take on the little dilemmas that loom large in the mind of every adult through artful charts and funny, insightful questions. Recommended in Refinery29's The Perfect Book for Every Person in Your Life This Holiday Season and Real Simple editors' What We Love lists! In this book of questions--Which wine sho...

The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image

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Report copyright infringementby Lorenzo Servitje (Editor), Sherryl Vint (Editor), Steven C. Schlozman (Foreword by)The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video games, and many other forms of media. As a metaphor, zombies may represent political notions, such as the return of the repressed violence of colonialism, or the embodiment of a culture obsessed with consumerism. Increasingly, they are und...

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by Nikolai Gogol (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent mo...

Comics and the Global South: Methodologies from and Within Majority Worlds

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Aramburú (Editor), Dibyadyuti Roy (Editor), Joe Sutliff Sanders (Editor)Comics, graphic novels and webtoons are exploding in popularity across the world, with extraordinary artistic achievements emerging from the Global South and Majority World(s). Because most of the critical and methodological tools in English-language comics scholarship come from the Global North, such approaches are often imperfectly designed to illuminate Global South/Global Majorit...

Fitzgerald and the War Between the Sexes: Essays - Paperback

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by Scott Donaldson (Author)A collection of five essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald by the biographer and critic Scott Donaldson (1928-2020).Author Biography Scott Donaldson (1928-2020) was Louise G. T. Cooley Professor of English Emeritus at the College of William and Mary. Among his books are Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald; Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days; Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship; the award-winning Archibald MacLeish: An American Life; and...

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge - Paperback

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by Richard Ovenden (Author)A Wolfson History Prize FinalistA New Statesman Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year "Timely and authoritative...I enjoyed it immensely."--Philip Pullman "If you care about books, and if you believe we must all stand up to the destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage, this is a brilliant read--both powerful and prescient."--Elif Shafak Libraries have been attacked since ancient times but they have been especially threatened in the modern era, throug...

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Report copyright infringementby Vahé Baladouni (Author), John Gery (Author)Hmayeak Shems: A Poet of Pure Spirit presents the life and writings of Armenian poet Hmayeak Shems (1896-1952). The Armenian Genocide of 1915 devastated Shems, who lost his family and home. For eight years he wandered in exile, his voice extinguished by anguish. Yet from debilitating isolation, Shems found a lyrical mastery of Armenian identity and modern spirit. Incontrovertibly shaped by his people's tragic history, ...

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Bicks (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A fascinating, first-of-its-kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King--all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives "A treat for fans of Stephen King."--Paul Tremblay"A master class in craft--and a peek behind the curtain."--Stephen Graham Jones"Illuminating and original."--Amy Tan"It will be tr...

The Red Thread: Twenty Years of Nyrb Classics: A Selection - Paperback

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by Edwin Frank (Editor)To celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series.In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of the celebrated NYRB Classics series, now twenty years old. The collection brings together twenty-five pieces drawn from the more than five hundred books that have come ...

What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures

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Report copyright infringementby Amos Oz (Author)Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in English for the first time, painting an illuminating an...

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Report copyright infringementby William R. Handley (Author)Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U.S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet unknown future under climate catastrophe. Examining an eclectic but interrelated and interdisciplinary range of photographs, films, and novels of the West; Western historiography; geological science; Tony Kushner's Angels in America; ...

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by Sandra Ruiz (Author)In Left Turns in Brown Study Sandra Ruiz offers a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Drawing on Black and Brown activism and theory, Ruiz interweaves poetry, memoir, lyrical essay, and vignettes to examine study as an emancipatory practice. Proposing "brown study" as key for understanding how Brownness harbors loss and suffering along with the possibility for more abundant ways of living, Ruiz invites readers to turn left into t...

Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings - Paperback

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by Ghassan Kanafani (Author), Louis Brehony (Editor), Tahrir Hamdi (Editor)"No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani" Mohammed El-Kurd, poet, writer and journalist, author of Rifqa"I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a moral role in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine" Ilan Papp?, historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"As relevant today as he was in the 1960s and 1970s" Ghassan Abu Sittah, award-winning surgeon, ...

What Happened to Icarus: Encountering the Unfathomable in a World in Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore Richards (Author)I want to know what happened to Icarus after his wings melted away, when he fell into the fathomless sea. This is where the story begins.Ours is undeniably a world on fire. The seas are rising, forests burn, geopolitical strife accelerates, and our inner lives are increasingly unmoored, in collapse. Many of us no longer know our place in this world. Like Icarus, we are in free fall.Tracing the author's travels through some of the most ...

Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women

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Report copyright infringementby Helen M. Buss (Editor) Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do...especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women's personal lives but also of their desire to repossess important parts of our culture, in which women's stories have not mattered. Beginning with her own motivations for writing memoirs, Hele...

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by Inc Peter Pauper Press (Created by)A collection of Ben Franklin's timeless maxims, rules, and aphorisms. Number of Pages: 77 Dimensions: 0.79 x 9.1 x 6.02 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 01, 1983

Goth Parenting: The Dark Joys of Raising Baby Bats - Hardcover

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by Casey Gilly (Author), Robin Robinson (Illustrator)From the cradle bars to pre-preteen goo goo mucks, Goth Parenting is an illustrated humor book with heart for families who do things a little differently. Your local mall goths and graveyard lurkers experience the same milestones of parenthood as anyone else. Goths just do it with a little extra style and more Edgar Allan Poe references. Goth Parenting takes you from a baby bat's very earliest days through age seven, illustrating parents' m...

Faith, Love and Australia: The Conservative Case for Same-Sex Marriage

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Ritchie (Author)With a final vote on same-sex marriage expected within months, Faith, Love and Australia is a timely book that puts the definitive case for same-sex marriage. Written by Tony Abbott's chief prime ministerial speechwriter, it argues that same-sex marriage reflects a fulfilment of conservative values rather than a rejection of them. "Allowing same-sex couples to marry is not just a matter of law. It's also a matter of heart and soul. It refle...

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Report copyright infringementby John T. Fitzgerald (Editor) Number of Pages: 348 Dimensions: 0.78 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1997

A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration - Hardcover

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by Christopher Hitchens (Author), James Wolcott (Introduction by)"An extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned." --James Wolcott in his introduction An outstanding new collection, A HITCH IN TIME is a must have for Hitchens completists and the perfect starting point for understanding one of the most brilliant essayists of all time. Anthologized here for the first time, A HITCH IN TIME is a choice selection of Chris...

The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective - Hardcover

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by Andrew Lycett (Author)Questing was Sherlock Holmes's business. He famously adopted the latest forensic techniques, channelled the Victorian passion for enquiry, kept abreast of the key scientific breakthroughs of his age, and conducted his investigations in an enigmatic and stylised manner. And the brains behind it all was, of course, the great Arthur Conan Doyle. In this deep dive into the contemporary world of Holmes and Conan Doyle, biographer Andrew Lycett explores all that encompasse...

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by Kenzaburo Oe (Author), John Nathan (Translator)Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting pictur...

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth A. Jordao (Editor), Elysse Poetis (Author)Elysse wrote this inspirational, dramatic, yet humorous book on behalf of all those childless individuals who are struggling with infertility. Due to her own infertility pain, the author understands. She wrote short stories and examples about places of treatment, the need for trust and persistence. This easy to read book is highly recommended for families in similar situations.Author BiographyPlease note: Auth...

Much ADO about Nothing: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Author BiographyWILLIAM SHAKESPEA...

Questioning History: 16 Essential Questions That Will Deepen Your Understanding of the Past

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Regenbogen (Author)Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, history has been perceived as the academic study of the past. Unfortunately, it has generally been taught as a litany of rigid, boring facts intended to be accepted rather than questioned. This has been reinforced for decades by weighty textbooks that overwhelm the reader with mind-numbing details presented in a chronological sequence. The end result is that students see little relevance of what they ...

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Report copyright infringementby A. Sawyer (Editor), P. Wright (Editor)Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.Author BiographyBRIAN ATTEBERY Professor of English, Idaho State University, USA ...

The Suffering Canon: How We Learned to Mistake Pain for Profundity-And What It's Costing Us

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Report copyright infringementby C. Davert (Author)YOU WERE RIGHT TO FEEL EMPTY AFTER THAT "MASTERPIECE."Why does "serious" art so often leave us drained instead of nourished? What if that hollow feeling isn't a personal failing, but the symptom of a cultural system designed to equate pain with profundity?Welcome to the Cathedral of Suffering.We have been trained, from our first children's movie to our final graduate seminar, that the only stories worth taking seriously are stories of trauma, ...

My Mother Said I Never Should GCSE Student Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Keatley (Author), Sophie Bush (Introduction by), Matthew Nichols (Editor)Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key Stage 4. Whether for use in the classroom or independent study, these editions offer a fully comprehensive and lightly glossed play text with accompanying notes specifically directed towa...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Munroe (Author), Evelyn Gajowski (Editor), Rebecca Laroche (Author)Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both material and cultural, but it also investigates how this relationship is inherently entangled with questions of gender equity and social justice. Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory engaging...

If I Were A Racist: Exploring racism in music teaching

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Holder (Author)This short book will challenge you to think deeply about your own beliefs about music and music education and will help you chart a path toward a more inclusive and richer musical experience for yourself and your students. - Philip EwellIf I were a racist, I'd know that, Even though the notes may be black, The spaces would remain white.'If I Were A Racist' is a thought-provoking examination of racism within music education. Delving into th...