Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Lopez (Editor)Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarmé at the Sorbonne before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. Subsequent collections include Some Times (Anvil) and Comparisons & Conversions ...

More Words: Gael Turnbull on Poets & Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Gael Turnbull (Author), Jill Turnbull (Editor), Hamish Whyte (Editor)This volume brings together a number of hard-to-find reviews, essays, memoirs and journal pieces by Gael Turnbull, a central figure in the interaction between American and British poetry in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and also publisher of the excellent small press, Migrant. Shearsman published his Collected Poems, 'There are words...' in 2006, and this companion volume fills out the picture of an...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Colls (Author)George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites? George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various movies and murals, too many misquotations, two adjectives, at least half a dozen fictions, and most recently 'a dead metaphor' with plenty more accola...

Rhapsody Lane - A Selection of Works by Flower City Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Rena Flannigan (Editor), Konrad Brinck (Editor), Bala V. Menon (Editor)'Rhapsody, in its literal sense, means an ecstatic/effusive expression of feeling. In this collection, the reader will find a wide range of expressions. From short stories to memoirs to creative non-fiction and some poetry, this volume brings together many voices who found themselves through the Creative Writing Group of Flower City Centre in Brampton, Ontario. The fascinating collection spa...

Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography Of Edward Dahlberg

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Dahlberg (Author)""Because I Was Flesh"" is the autobiography of Edward Dahlberg, a prolific American writer who wrote extensively on literature, art, and society. In this book, Dahlberg recounts his life story, from his difficult childhood in rural Kansas to his experiences as a struggling writer in New York City, and his eventual rise to prominence in the literary world. Through a series of vivid and often poignant anecdotes, Dahlberg offers a candid a...

E. T. A. Hoffmann's Other World: The Romantic Author and His New Mythology

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Negus (Author)In this study of the imaginary universe of Germany's most famous author of fantasy, Kenneth Negus attempts to establish the coherency and fathom the depth of the "other world" manifested in Hoffmann's many tales. Proceeding mainly from Der Goldene Topf, Hoffmann's most fully developed mystical work, Negus shows how the figures, themes, and motifs Hoffmann established permeate his tales, forming a basic overall structure that embodies creat...

Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Brady (Author)What are the paradoxes of the writing life, especially for a writer who represents the work of other writers? Philip Brady, poet at Youngstown State University and publisher at Etruscan Press, begins Phantom Signs pondering this question from his dual perspective as a professional writer and small-press publisher. This book emerges from the tension between these modes of being in the world: the writer's dark; the editor's light. With humor...

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Report copyright infringementby Annette Zakuta (Compiled by)Leo Zakuta: Reminiscences, Rants, and Raves is a compilation of written work, personal and professional, by and about Leo Zakuta. Number of Pages: 428 Dimensions: 0.87 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 24, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby H. Mack Mack Horton (Translator)The author, Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532)-the preeminent linked-verse (renga) poet of his time-provides in his journal a vivid portrayal of cultural life in the capital and the provinces, together with descriptions of battles and great warrior families, the dangers of travel through war-torn countryside, and the plight of the poor.Front JacketThe Journal of Socho is one of the most individual self-portraits in the literary history ...

The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming

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Report copyright infringementby Angela Pelster (Author)"The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written--vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on."--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This YearFrom the celebrated author of Limber, a luminous collection of essays about crisis, hope, and the decision to resist or embrace evolution--a book about time, for our time.Crisis is an agent of evolution, and Angela Pelster knows...

Wordsworth's Theory Of Poetic Diction: A Study Of The Historical And Personal Background Of The Lyrical Ballads

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Report copyright infringementby Marjorie Latta Barstow (Author)Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction: A Study of the Historical and Personal Background of the Lyrical Ballads is a book written by Marjorie Latta Barstow. This book is a comprehensive study of the theory of poetic diction as proposed by the renowned English poet William Wordsworth. The book delves into the historical and personal background of Wordsworth's famous work, the Lyrical Ballads, and examines the various elements that ...

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Report copyright infringementby C. K. (Charles Kenne Scott-Moncrieff (Author)"Marcel Proust: An English Tribute" by C. K. Scott Moncrieff offers a fascinating exploration of one of the 20th century's most influential literary figures. This volume provides critical insight into the works of Marcel Proust, delving into the nuances of his writing and offering a biographical perspective on the man behind "In Search of Lost Time." A significant contribution to French literature studies, this book,...

Plutarch's Sertorius: A Historical Commentary

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Report copyright infringementby C. F. Konrad (Author)C. F. Konrad provides the first book-length commentary on Plutarch's Life of Sertorius, the work that has shaped most modern interpretations of the man and his career. Quintus Sertorius (126-73 B.C.) was a political and military leader during the period of turmoil that ended with the Roman Republic's disintegration just thirty years after his death. A major figure on the losing side in the first civil war (87-82 B.C.), he went to Spain to c...

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by Cambridge School Classics Project (Author)A classic anthology for GCSE. The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Tacitus, and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate. Glosses and other explanations are provided opposite each of the texts, and the writing is illustrated throughout by paintings and photographs of artifacts and places in the Roman world. For the student, there is a complete vocabulary at the end of the book, and, for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Guignery (Author)Conversations with Ben Okri collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The reader is given access to the various phases of Okri's life and career, beginning with his childhood (b. 1959) and upbringing in Nigeria and the publication of his early short stories and novels. The interviews also explore the tremendous success of The Famished Road (for...

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature - Paperback

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by José Ortega Y. Gasset (Author)A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist Jos Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." The essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, grappled with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to the public. Many embraced the essay as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Flora Veit-Wild (Author)Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature. How shall I tell our story? I hear your voice ringing in mine. I struggle to disentangle a dense tapestry of memories. One thread will be caught up in another. Early images will embrace lat...

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Report copyright infringementby Louis Bertrand (Author), Vincent O'Sullivan (Translator)Author BiographyLouis Bertrand (1866-1941) was a French novelist, historian and essayist. Number of Pages: 404 Dimensions: 0.83 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 08, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen J. Burn (Editor)Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays to a book about transfinite mathematics to vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes (A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster), short story collections (Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion), or his novels (Infinite Jest, The B...

Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories - Paperback

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by Charlotte Artese (Editor)An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest plays Shakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales. The Merchant of Venice, for example, draws from "A Pound of Flesh," while King Lear begins in the same way as "Love Like Salt," with a king asking his three daughters how much they love him, then banishing the youngest when...

Ghostly Landscapes: Film, Photography, and the Aesthetics of Haunting in Contemporary Spanish Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia M. Keller (Author)In Ghostly Landscapes, Patricia M. Keller analyses the aesthetics of haunting and the relationship between ideology and image production by revisiting twentieth-century Spanish history through the camera's lens. Through its vision she demonstrates how the traumatic losses of the Spanish Civil War and their systematic denial and burial during the fascist dictatorship have constituted fertile territory for the expressions of loss, uncan...

Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Johannes D. Kaminski (Editor)Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or happily reproduces. But once this intimate, arousing and, often, disturbing dialogue transitions into another language, culture or medium, it must reposition itself within new conventions. How does this happen in practice?Examining erotic literature from multiple angles, this vo...

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick M. Keener (Editor), Susan E. Lorsch (Editor)A major task confronting today's scholars is the reclamation from near oblivion of a multitude of works of art, literature, music, scholarship, and other creative enterprises by eighteenth-century women. This fascinating collection provides a multifaceted approach to understanding the roles played by women as both creators of and subjects within works of art in the eighteenth century. A series of initial ess...

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Report copyright infringementby Vernon Lee (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life (1909) is a collection of essays by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the Italian Renaissance, Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life follows in the footsteps of Walter Pater, a pioneering art historian of Victorian England. A principled feminist and committed pacifist, Lee was virtually blacklisted...

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Report copyright infringementby Cedric D. Reverand (Editor), Barbara Benedict (Contribution by), Brian Corman (Contribution by)The book reviews the varied cultural accomplishments during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714), including scholarly essays on Anne, her patronage of the arts, coin collecting, poetry, poetical miscellanies, drama, hymns, music, and architecture.Author BiographyCedric D. Reverand, II is George Duke Humphrey Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Wyomi...

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Report copyright infringementby Euripides (Created by), Arthur Woollgar Verrall (Created by)This edition of Euripides' "Medea" provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars alike. Edited with an insightful introduction and detailed notes by A.W. Verrall, it delves into the complexities of one of Greek tragedy's most compelling and disturbing figures. "Medea" explores themes of betrayal, revenge, and the clash between reason and passion. Euripides' masterful storytelling and prof...

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Moore (Author)Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls 'invisible architecture'. Resisting narratives of the nineteenth-century as progressing from concealment to transparency, he instead argues for a dynamic interaction between these tendencies. Across two parts, this book addresses a range of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Stuart-Smith (Author)Through marvelously attentive case studies of a handful of works, some canonical, others obscure, Mark Stuart-Smith provides the most thorough exploration so far of Juan Muñoz's mesmerizing and haunted world. He inhabits the works, analyzing their mechanisms, materialities and drama, while at the same time connecting them to histories of politics, art and thought of great urgency to Muñoz and no less urgency now. This book has much to ...

What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems - Paperback

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by Serhiy Zhadan (Author), Virlana Tkacz (Translator), Wanda Phipps (Translator)An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation "This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan's poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinching witness to the turbulent social and political travails of his nation. With an acerbic tone that will seem familiar to admirers of Franz Wright or Charles Bukowski, ...

Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Luis Aldama (Author), Patrick Colm Hogan (Author)In recent years, few areas of research have advanced as rapidly as cognitive science, the study of the human mind and brain. A fundamentally interdisciplinary field, cognitive science has both inspired and been advanced by work in the arts and humanities. In Conversations on Cognitive Cultural Studies: Literature, Language, and Aesthetics, Frederick Luis Aldama and Patrick Colm Hogan, two of the most p...

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Report copyright infringementby Helena Kelly (Author)A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be read, revealing, as well, how subversive and daring--how truly radical--a writer she was. In this fascinating, revelatory work, Helena Kelly--dazzling Jane Austen authority--looks past the grand houses, the pretty young women, past the demure dra...

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by Virginia Woolf (Author), Urmila Seshagiri (Editor)'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conve...