Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia Tate (Editor)"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." --Claudia Tate, from the introduction Long out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Til...

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Report copyright infringementby Ayşegül Savaş (Author)A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşegül Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. "In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out." A...

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author)Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere's Fan, his first...

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Report copyright infringementby António Lobo Antunes (Author)"One of Portugal's pre-eminent writers" has once again proved himself a master of the surreal, creating both a circus-like dream and a mournful eulogy for the lost ideals of post-revolutionary Lisbon. (New York Times)."One of these days I'll beach right here, devoured by fish like a dead whale," muses Rui S., portly thirty-three-year-old political historian and hero of the latest dazzling novel by António Lobo Antunes. Little do we ...

As You Like It: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English

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Report copyright infringementby 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 Auth...

She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Goldsmith (Author), Henry Fielding (Author), David Garrick (Author)This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the social and cultural mores of the time. Fielding's The Modern Husband, written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. In Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance ...

Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose

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Report copyright infringementby Leo Stein (Author)Leo Stein (1872-1947) was an influential art collector and critic. It has been Stein's ironic fate to be referred to as "Gertrude's brother," ironic as for many years he was her mentor and counsellor. Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose is a model of lucidity, wisdom and classical simplicity. It ranges over a wide field of thought and criticism. Leo Stein's judgements on art and literature are crisp, perceptive and original. His approach...

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Report copyright infringementby C. Day Lewis (Author), Virgil (Author)This translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Virgil's epic poem, 'The Aeneid'. Number of Pages: 450 Dimensions: 1.18 x 7.8 x 5.16 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Tayeb Salih (Author), Laila Lalami (Introduction by), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator)After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood--the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa takes the young man into h...

Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts

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Report copyright infringementby Running Press (Translator), Running Press (Editor)Baffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare's most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sections for quick retrieval when a stinging retort is demanded. Become the master of your own villainy with creative insults that will show those rogues and ruffians who's in charge! Number of Pages: 176 ...

Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Iles Johnston (Author) Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9.04 x 6.05 IN Publication Date: April 21, 2003

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Report copyright infringementby Mallanaga Vatsyayana (Author), Wendy Doniger (Author), Sudhir Kakar (Author)The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also, of course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from e...

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

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Report copyright infringementby Vladimir Nabokov (Author)From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. - "Scintillating ... One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." --The New York Times Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adole...

Shakespeare's Comedies: A Very Short Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Bart Van Es (Author)From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross dressing, but how representative are these of the ...

Ancient Greek II: A 21st-Century Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Philip S. Peek (Author)In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity.The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 550 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammati...

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Contesting the Climate Unthinkable: Latin American Cultural Responses to a Warming World

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Report copyright infringementby Azucena Castro (Editor), Gianfranco Selgas (Editor), Ken Benson (Editor)Examining Latin American cultural works that rethink environmental change and natural catastrophesThis volume explores Latin American cultural works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reflect environmental changes brought on by colonization, capitalism, and resource exploitation. Contributors examine films, novels, photographs, and videos from the Caribbean, the Southern Con...

Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene

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Report copyright infringementby Nicolás Campisi (Editor), Lucas Mertehikian (Editor)How writers, artists, and curators are taking creative new approaches to the discipline of natural historyOffering a fresh perspective on the Latin American climate crisis through the lens of natural history and its institutions, Imagining a New Natural History presents essays that analyze how books, artworks, and contemporary museum practices reconceive approaches to the discipline that cast humans and nature...

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The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in

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Report copyright infringementby Fleming Rutledge (Author)J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings has long been acknowledged as the gold standard for fantasy fiction, and the recent Oscar-winning movie trilogy has brought forth a whole new generation of fans. Many Tolkien enthusiasts, however, are not aware of the profoundly religious dimension of the great Ring saga. In The Battle for Middle-earth Fleming Rutledge employs a distinctive technique to uncover the theological currents that lie just...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Shaham (Author), Dalya Bilu (Translator)The Rosendorf Quartet is both a deft portrait of the complexities and contradictions that have gone to make up the state of Israel and a stunning tribute to the curative powers of music, in whose realm dissonance, politics, and personal anguish dissolve into art, transcending human conflict and national boundaries. Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 0.83 x 8.61 x 5.54 IN Publica...

The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin R. Foster (Editor)This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece. Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations. Eleven illustrations. Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite narrative traditions along with "The Gilgamesh Letter," a parody of the epic enjoyed by Mesopotamian schoolc...

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Author)In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.52 x 6.35 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: September ...

Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Grand (Author) This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and reflecting an amalgam of influences. The book covers in detail the iconic superhero comic book creators and their unique contributions in their quest for realism, inclu...

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Report copyright infringementby Natsume Soseki (Author), William F. Sibley (Translator), Pico Iyer (Introduction by)An NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to ...

The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands

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Report copyright infringementby Huw Lewis-Jones (Editor), Philip Pullman (Prologue by)It's one of the first things we discover as children, reading and drawing: Maps have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on wondrous travels. Put a map at the start of a book, and we know an adventure is going to follow. Displaying this truth with beautiful full-color illustrations, The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dave Oliphant (Author)"Written with knowledge and sympathy, the poem contains a delightful tangle of details. Lyndon Johnson, Elisabet Ney, Peter Flawn, Custer, O. Henry, and Joseph Jones (the sage of Waller Creek)--public figures and personal friends interact in the city of Oliphant's imagination....A lengthy proem, set at the grave of Stephen F. Austin in the State Cemetery, contains a brilliant passage about Austin in prison.... The oblique narration is kept...

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Report copyright infringementby Patti Smith (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Riveting, elegant, humorous--this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones" (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids. Following a run of new year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Sant...

The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 49

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Report copyright infringementby Markus Wessendorf (Editor), Ira Avneri (Guest Editor), Micha Braun (Guest Editor)The Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly forum for the study of Brecht's life and work and of topics relevant to him. Volume 49 features the proceedings of the 17th IBS Symposium, which took place at the universities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem in December 2022 under the motto "Bertolt Brecht in Dar...

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

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Report copyright infringementby Grady Hendrix (Author)From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and '80s. Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot ...

Myths and Legends: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins and Meanings

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Wilkinson (Author)Explore global mythology with this comprehensive visual guide Discover the world's greatest myths and legends - from Greek mythology to Norse mythology - in this comprehensive guide. What did Japanese mythology say about the beginning of the Universe? How did Oedipus become the classic tragic hero in Greek mythology? Who brought about the origin of death in Maori mythology? Combining vivid retellings of famous legends with over 1,000 il...

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Febos (Author)National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNational BestsellerLambda Literary Award FinalistNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys "Irreverent and original." -New York Times"Magisterial." -The New Yorker"An intoxicating writer." -The Atlantic"A cla...