Literary Criticism

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A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardcover

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by Camille Peri (Author)"A love story, an adventure story, two literary biographies in one; A Wilder Shore is these things and more--and it's very, very good." --Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Women Behind the Door The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silv...

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by Annie Dillard (Author)"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." -- Chicago TribuneFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer's life.In these short essays, Annie Dillard--the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood--illuminates ...

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by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Nicholas Daly (Author), Darryl Jones (Author)"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life." In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the eccentric figure who is his...

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms - Paperback

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by Chris Baldick (Author)The bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troublesome literary terms, from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. Now expanded and in its fourth edition, it includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction. It in...

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by Rita Dove (Author)A collection of poetry by Rita Dove. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1986 Award: Pulitzer Prize (1987)

Complicity in Fin-De-Siècle Literature - Hardcover

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by Helen Craske (Author)Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature examines late-nineteenth century French understandings of literature as a morally collusive medium, which implicates readers, writers, and critics in risqué or illicit ideas and behaviour. It considers definitions of complicity from the period's evolving legal statutes, critical debates about literary 'bad influence', and modern theories of reader response, in order to achieve a deeper understanding of how cultural production of t...

The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis - Hardcover

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by Alan Jacobs (Author)By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. A war won by technological superiority merely laid the groundwork for a post-war society governed by technocrats. These Christian intellectuals-Jacques Maritain, ...

The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted - Hardcover

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by Julene Abad del Vecchio (Author)The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several new readings of the Achilleid in relation to its literary inheritance, its gender dynamics, and its generic tensions. This volume delves beneath the surface of a story that ostensibly deals wit...

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by Larrington (Author)"She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish." After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandicmythological and h...

The Puritan Literary Tradition - Hardcover

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by Johanna Harris (Editor), Alison Searle (Editor)What is meant by the puritan literary tradition, and when did the idea of puritan literature, as distinct from puritan beliefs and practices, come into being? This volume addresses these questions by bringing together new research on a wide range of established and emerging literary subjects that help to articulate the puritan literary tradition, including: political polemic and the performing arts; conversion and new-world narratives; individ...

Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections - Hardcover

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by Lorna Hardwick (Author), Stephen Harrison (Author), Elizabeth VanDiver (Author)Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied at school, where...

The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois - Hardcover

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by Christina Zwarg (Author)Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and cultural-historical theories of trauma, discovering a virtual dialogue between three central U. S. writers and Sigmund Freud concerning the traumatic response of slavery's perp...

Novel Takes: Essays on Literature - Paperback

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by Greg Johnson (Author)There's a lot of truth in fiction.In Novel Takes, Greg Johnson explores racial, ethnic, and political themes in such works as Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints, Frank Herbert's Dune series, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, Michel Houellebecq's Submission and Annihilation, Tito Perdue's Morning Crafts, The Node, and Reuben, Chuck Palahniuk's Adjustment Da...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Stothard (Author)A biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines "Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividly bringing to life its poetry and its poets."--Mary Beard Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youthful ideals and a realist's recognition of the dictatorial w...

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets - Hardcover

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by John S. Garrison (Author)The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative. Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the ea...

Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness - Hardcover

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by Mark Aldridge (Author), Agatha Christie (Created by), Lucy Foley (Foreword by) A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple. In Agatha Christie's Marple: Expert on Wickedness, 'Agathologist' Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead's most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple's appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond.Drawing on a range of material, ...

The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga - Paperback

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by Kimi Rito (Author)While manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium's international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of manga's erotic world a genre known internationally simply as - hentai. What are the origins of hentai? How has it evolved from the days of ukiyo-e to today's modern comics and animation. Who are the people making hentai? And who are the people reading these works? And what is...

Complete Aeschylus, Volume 1: The Oresteia - Paperback

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by Aeschylus (Author), Peter Burian (Editor), Alan Shapiro (Editor)Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great founda...

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction - Paperback

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by Mark Bould (Editor), Andrew Butler (Editor), Adam Roberts (Editor)The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history - an integrated chronological narrative of the genre's deve...

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by George Orwell (Author)A selection of George Orwell's politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pionee...

Classics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Mary Beard (Author), John Henderson (Author)We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality? This introduction to the classics begins with a visit to the British Museum to view the frieze which once decorated the Apollo Temple a Bassa...

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Lesser (Author)What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories--stories that value caretaking, cha...

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by Amy Tan (Author)"The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational." --Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan's beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Net...

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by August Wilson (Author)The revival of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks, and John David Washington is now on Broadway! Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Co...

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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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by Nick Hornby (Author), Daniel Gumbiner (Editor)In this new anthology of his columns for The Believer, Nick Hornby delves into the latest escapades from his reading life. Spanning the magazine's Las Vegas era, these consistently hilarious dispatches touch on numerous subjects, including epic cattle drives, chess prodigies, and Arsenal's 1976 thrashing of West Ham. From his tub-side lectern, Hornby catalogues everything he reads--the good, the great, and the could-not-finish--with the charact...

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by Sophocles (Author), Herbert Golder (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator)Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals.Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the t...

Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson - Paperback

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by Benedetta Zavatta (Author)Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson played a fundamental role in shaping Nietzsche's philosophical ideas on individualism, perfectionism, and the pursuit of virtue, as well as his critiques of social conditioning, religious dogmatism, and anti-natural morality. With Individuality and Beyond, Benedetta Zavatta offers the first philosophical interpretation of ...

Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures - Paperback

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by Mary Ruefle (Author)This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act--the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle's work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play...

The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick - Hardcover

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by Marie Benedict (Author), Victoria Christopher Murray (Author)Over one million copies sold! The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! "Historical fiction at its best!"* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting...

Universal Stenography: Or Chinese Shorthand (1902) - Paperback

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by Julia a. Barrett (Author)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. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x 8.5 I...

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by James Arbuckle (Author)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. Number of Pages: 24 Dimensions: 0.06 x 11 x 8.5 IN...