Literary Criticism

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The Encyclopedia of Epic Myths and Legends: Extraordinary and Mesmerizing Stories That Will Boggle Your Mind - Paperback

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by Arie Kaplan (Author)In this unique exploration of world mythology, discover how ancient tales across cultures have influenced today's pop culture, from Beyonc? to Game of Thrones. Fun and engaging, The Encyclopedia of Epic Myths and Legends details the influences of classical stories on contemporary popular culture. Without these myths, passed down through the generations over three millennia, many of the stories we enjoy in our current media wouldn't exist! Along with colorful illustrat...

The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Young (Author)Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials. Runner up for The Folklore Society's 2022 Katherine Briggs Award for most distinguished contribution to folklore studies. The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Against the odds it survives today, both in place-names and in fa...

Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author

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Report copyright infringementby Willard M. Oliver (Author) Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, including Westerns, sports stories (boxing), adventures, supernatural horror, and even humor. Howard also created many other popular characters such as King Kull, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Wilson (Author)Shakespeare and Astrology: From A Student's Point of View is a book written by William Wilson that explores the connection between astrology and the works of William Shakespeare. The author, who is a student of astrology, delves into the astrological references and symbolism hidden within Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The book is divided into two parts, the first being an introduction to astrology and its history, and the second part a...

Ancient Myths, Ancient Wisdom: Recovering humanity's forgotten inheritance through Celestial Mythology

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Report copyright infringementby David Warner Mathisen (Author)The world's ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories, from virtually every culture on every inhabited contient -- and all the islands -- can be shown to be founded upon a common system of celestial metaphor, embodying the heavenly cycles of the sun, the moon, the visible planets, and especially the stars and constellations. This common, world-wide system underlies the characters and episodes found in what are commonly called th...

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by James Joyce (Author)The Gabler edition of Ulysses, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions. Almost as soon as Ulysses first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, type...

The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk

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Report copyright infringementby Lally Macbeth (Author)A fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as "folk." By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more difficult to resurrect. But folk culture is all around us; sitting in our churches, swinging from our pubs and dancing through our streets, patiently waiting to be discovered, appreciated, saved and cherished. In The Lost Folk, Lally MacBeth is o...

The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London: Conception, Design, Interpretation

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Report copyright infringementby Stephan Jaeger (Editor), James Bulgin (Editor)In October 2021, Imperial War Museums (IWM) opened its new Holocaust Galleries in its London branch, replacing its first Holocaust Exhibition (from 2000) that had become a landmark in British Holocaust memory. Because of its comprehensive nature and intricate scenography, the new Holocaust Galleries are at the centre of almost all recent major narrative, political, and ethical debates about Holocaust representation ...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Clark (Editor), Masashi Suzuki (Editor)This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romantic...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Bucknell (Author)A stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity. The story of Christopher Isherwood's life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and spiritual illumination. Isherwood--the author of Goodbye to Berlin, which inspired Cabaret, and A Single Man--was born the heir to a crumbling English estate. He died an icon of g...

Unmasking The Humourist: Alexander Gordon's Lost Essays of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina

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Report copyright infringementby Brent L. Kendrick (Author) Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2025

Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Marlene Kadar (Editor)Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.Author BiographyMarlene Kadar is Canada Research Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Humanities Division and at the Robarts Centre of Canadian Studies, York University. Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.04 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 21, 1992 ...

Anne Bradstreet in Context: The Life and Work of a Colonial American Poet

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Beebe (Author) The collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America by Anne Bradstreet--the first book of poetry published by a permanent resident of colonial America--appeared in 1650 thanks to the support of Bradstreet's brother-in-law. By this time, she had immigrated to New England with her husband; given birth to seven of her eight children; settled on her fifth and final homestead; and gained access to a network of influential Puritan leaders via...

E.D.E.N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Homestead (Editor), Pamela Washington (Editor)The prolific nineteenth-century writer E. D. E. N. Southworth enjoyed enormous public success in her day--she published nearly fifty novels during her career--but that very popularity, combined with her gender, led to her almost complete neglect by the critical establishment before the emergence of academic feminism. Even now, most scholarship on Southworth focuses on her most famous novel, The Hidden Hand. ...

Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

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Report copyright infringementby Lionel Trilling (Author), Adam Kirsch (Editor)A great critic's quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been call...

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Panofsky (Author)Adele Wiseman was a seminal figure in Canadian letters. Always independent and wilful, she charted her own literary career, based on her unfailing belief in her artistic vision. In The Force of Vocation, the first book on Wiseman's writing life, Ruth Panofsky presents Wiseman as a writer who doggedly and ambitiously perfected her craft, sought a wide audience for her work, and refused to compromise her work for marketability. Based on prev...

The Conscience of the Autobiographer: Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Autobiography

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Report copyright infringementby J. Barbour (Author)This book argues that the writing of autobiography raises crucial issues of conscience as an author tries to know, assess, and represent character. Individual chapters explore such issues as the nature of truthfulness, characterization, the virtues, shame, and the religious dimensions of conscience.Author BiographyJOHN D. BARBOUR is Associate Professor of Religion a St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he has taught since 1982. He ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy J. Peterson (Editor)"The responsibilities of being an Indian writer are enormous. Even more so than any other group of people because we have so much more to protect." Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) gained national attention upon release of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection of poems and stories, in 1992, when a critic for the New York Times Book Review called him "one of the major lyric voices of our time." More recently, in 2007, Alexie won a ...

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Biles (Editor), Sylvia Whitman (Introduction by), Adam Biles (Author)An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our timeShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop ...

Searching for Ezra: - a ragbag of frustrations

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Glover (Author)Has it been a battle to the death between two poets? Michael Glover has had a lifelong love-hate relationship with Ezra Pound, and has for many years wrestled with the idea of a book. In the 1980s he met Olga Rudge, Pound's companion, and corresponded with their daughter, Mary von Rachewiltz, the Italian translator of his Cantos - this book has indeed taken years to bring to publication. Be careful though - this rag-bag gathering of musin...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry K. Miller (Editor)Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood of the 1970s, his work appeared in dozens of publications in Britain, France and the USA. At once evoking the film culture of his own times and anticipating our digital age in which technology allows everyone to create their own 'moving image...

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Kernan (Author)The long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, was an original member of the so called New York School of poetry. Opening...

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....

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Report copyright infringementby Evelyn McDonnell (Author)**INDIE BESTSELLER**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions - B&N Best Books of 2023 - "Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace ... McDonnell's portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive, and clarifying." -- Booklist, starred reviewAn intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Fontenot (Author)Ken Fontenot's The Forests of Autumn celebrates a life lived in poetry. Exploring his Cajun heritage, his struggles with existential angst, as well as his love of classical music, philosophy, the German language, and other writers, Fontenot's poems are "not so much a creation as a discovery." A true original who likes "to be me often rather than sometimes," Fontenot "empoem(s)" us with tenderness, wit, and the mystery of the everyday. -Grac...

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Report copyright infringementby Kemeshia Randle Swanson (Author)Jesmyn Ward (b. 1977) is arguably one of today's most important authors. Although often compared to William Faulkner, Ward and her writings have done anything but live in that shadow since the 2008 debut of her first novel Where the Line Bleeds. She has produced four novels and a memoir that are equally harrowing and heartening, and she is the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Belinda Jack (Author)The author of classic novels including Indiana and Lélia, George Sand is perhaps better known for her unconventional life. Belinda Jack unravels the many facets of this writer who counted among her friends and lovers everyone from Chopin and Liszt to Dostoyevsky and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sand defied convention by writing novels; but the fact that she was a cigar-smoking cross-dresser who took male and female lovers, declared marriage ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Wachtel (Author)A poet, scholar, philosopher, religious thinker, translator, and teacher, Viacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949) was one of the most extraordinary figures of Russia's tumultuous twentieth century. As a young scholar, he worked with European luminaries, studying ancient history with Theodor Mommsen and Sanskrit with Ferdinand de Saussure. Upon returning to Russia in 1905, Ivanov emerged as a major poet and theorist of Russian Symbolism. The Wednes...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Besant (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902) is a posthumously published autobiography by Walter Besant. Although he is more widely known for his works of fiction and book-length studies of the city of London, Besant was also a gifted autobiographer whose unique sense of self and rich memories make for an entertaining, informative read. "I am supposing that [man] has the choice offered him, together with an ou...

Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal: Wilde's Career at the Eighty Club (1887-1895)

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Wright (Author), Paul Kinsella (Author)This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of his attitude to Irish nationalism and British politics, and help us interpret political allusions in his writings. Wright and Kinsella tell the intriguing story of Wilde's eight-year membership of the Eighty Club, whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Franklin (Author)The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a classic American history biography, political biography the traditional name for the unfinished autobiography of Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.Franklin'...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Trollope (Author)A biographical and critical study of one "English Literary Great" by another. In this biographical sketch of the great 19th century English novelist and poet, who the author knew personally for some years, Trollope writes: "He passed through the course of mingled failure and success which, though the literary aspirant may suffer, is probably better for the writer and for the writings than unclouded early glory." Thackeray's writings wer...