Literary Criticism

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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Hussey (Author)The first book in the 'Biography of a novel' series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividnes...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Bowlby (Author)Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century--and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific social milieux. Travelling through the varieties of Zola's styles and settings, realistic and comic and tragic and critical, from shopping to mining to the fertility business, t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Culler (Author) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.98 x 7.08 IN Publication Date: July 15, 1986

You're Telling My Kids They Can't Read This Book?: Our Hundred-Year Children's-Literature Revolution and How We'll Keep Fighting to Support Our Famili

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Laties (Author)When a colleague's bookstore closes due to book-banning, Andrew Laties is assigned the task of explaining how children's-book creators brought thousands of diverse books into schools and homes over the past several decades, and how today's reactionary backlash can be resisted. Revealing the perspectives of authors, publishers, educators, librarians, parents, students, and booksellers, Laties urges readers to join the battle against book-ba...

The Literary and Human Legacy of Clara Sereni

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Report copyright infringementby Giulia Po DeLisle (Editor), Susan Briziarelli (Editor)Clara Sereni lived an extraordinary life in extraordinary times. Born in Rome in 1946, she grew up in a prominent family of Jewish intellectuals whose influential role in Italian politics and in the anti-fascist resistance could not but inform Sereni's own future social and political engagement. Coming of age during the turbulent Sixties, Sereni embraced the struggle for women's rights, social justice, and p...

Twelve Years a Slave (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)

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Report copyright infringementby Solomon Northup (Author) Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket One moment, you're free, living your life-and the next, you're chained, sold, and stripped of everything you hold dear. This is the chilling fate of a free African American man who finds himself betrayed and thrust into the horrors of slavery. As he fights to endure the brutality and dehumanization of plantation life, his resilience and hope become a beacon of strength. Through vivid, u...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Allen Tucker (Editor) One of the most prolific African American authors of his time, John A. Williams (1925-2015) made his mark as a journalist, educator, and writer. Having worked for Newsweek, Ebony, and Jet magazines, Williams went on to write twelve novels and numerous works of nonfiction. A vital link between the Black Arts movement and the previous era, Williams crafted works of fiction that relied on historical research as much as his own finely ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Van Griethuysen (Author)At the heart of this book written by the renowned American actor, Ted van Griethuysen, is a fundamental idea: Shakespeare is only what he says and how he says it. How he says it, of course, is poetry, and what poetry is, why we need it, is central to an actor's study of Shakespeare. An actor must do two things at once (1) honor the poetry, and (2) sound like a human being talking. At the same time. It is for directors and theatre des...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Trollope (Author)Anthony Trollope's "Thackeray" offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray, one of the giants of Victorian English Literature. More than just a biography, this volume provides insightful literary criticism of Thackeray's novels and explores his impact on the literary landscape. Trollope, himself a celebrated novelist, brings a unique perspective to the subject, examining Thackeray's contributions w...

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Mairs (Author)Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times). She has won acclaim for her autobiographical writing on themes from living with depression to renewing a marriage, from sex to religion. In Voice Lessons, Mairs's subjects are literary, but...

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus - Paperback

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by Sophocles (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and po...

Jules Verne - The Biography: Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke

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Report copyright infringementby William Butcher (Author)Jules Verne (1828-1905) is one of the world's most translated and published writers. With Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, and Around the World in Eighty Days, the Frenchman has reshaped modern writing. He dominates the box office and pervades our life and culture.But behind all the success lay a complex man: a plagiarist, a social misfit, then a provincial recluse. Now at last comes an authorit...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Aarons (Editor), Gustavo S. Canales (Editor)A fresh and engaging international tribute to Bernard Malamud, a major American Jewish novelist in the postwar era of the twentieth century.Author BiographyVictoria Aarons holds the position of O. R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature in the English Department at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewis...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Jill Levine (Author)In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine - winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation - establishes a new way of writing about a translator's life. Levine is a living legend in the translation world who credits her good fortune as a young translator to being in the right place at the right time: beginning in the era of the Cuban revolution, with growing interest in Latin America and its writers, and unfo...

Attending Others: A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Volck (Author)Becoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called "patients." Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's a curriculum where the best teachers are children and their mothers, the classrooms are Central American villages and desert landscapes, and the e...

The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman

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Report copyright infringementby Taylor Lewandowski (Author), Lynne Tillman (With), Andrew Durbin (Introduction by)Candid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is a must have for any fan. A breakthrough for the legendary underground icon, who speaks about her life as a writer and her work in a stunning and candid conversation with writer and critic Taylor Lewandowski. A book length interview with Lynne Tillman, beloved icon of u...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Nott (Author)A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker).Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippi...

Revelations - Short Stories of Memorable Moments

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Report copyright infringementby Zenobia Orimoloye (Author)Synopsis: The stories paint vivid portraits of main characters, both male and female none of whom are stereotypical. Some stories are very universal female experiences (The Good Life and Trainee) and others depict life through the eyes of children (Respect, Uncle Blood, Iron Lady, Hairdom and Ozzie.Autobiography: I write depicting life's experiences through short stories. I've written 51 short stories, 3 short plays and over 50 poems. ...

A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Goldhill (Author)"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind." So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm-the prime minister once wondered whether she was "the clever...

The Third Solitude: A Memoir Against History

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Libman (Author)"A frank love letter to modern Jewish life." - MERVE EMRE, contributing writer, The New YorkerAn intimate memoir in essays seeking familial history and personal memory against the backdrop of the lost world of North American Jewry.What is the past? How can we let it speak on its own terms, without forcing it into the categories of history? In The Third Solitude, Benjamin Libman gathers and weaves the threads of multiple pasts - of his co...

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Report copyright infringementby Vincent O'Sullivan (Author), Lesley F. Gray (Introduction by)"Mr. O'Sullivan, an authentic personal acquaintance of Wilde in those days, with no special affection for him nor any reason for whitewashing him, gives the first sane and credible description of him."-George Bernard ShawThis book offers a series of intimate portraits of Oscar Wilde's later life as witnessed by the Irish-American writer Vincent O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan had known Wilde as a celebrated me...

After Poland: A Memoir Because of Primo Levi

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl Chaffin (Author)Scholar, writer, and poet Cheryl Chaffin travels to Poland to contemplate the ethical implications of Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi's deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, and to reflect on the meaning of human experience in the twenty-first century. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 19, 2018

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Bolin (Author)"This book re-framed my entire adolescence. I highly recommend you read it." -- LING MAFrom the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls ("stylish and inspired"--New York Times Book Review), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and steady creep of cults and cult-think into our daily lives.In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is rem...

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson

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Report copyright infringementby Robert DeMaria (Author), Daniel Hitchens (Author)Samuel Johnson is a towering figure of eighteenth-century literature. As well as the celebrated Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson was the leading literary critic of his time, and a celebrated author who contributed to almost every genre from poetry to political pamphleteering. At the same time, an enduring legend developed around him, culminating in James Boswell's classic biography. This book offers a ...

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Elie (Author)WINNER OF THE PEN/MARTHA ALBRAND AWARD FOR FIRST NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; and Walker Percy a doctor in Louisiana who had quit medicine in order to writ...

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Report copyright infringementby Brannon Costello (Author)From his roots in underground comics to his high-profile runs on mainstream characters, Rick Veitch (b. 1951) has carved out a career unlike anyone else's. Collecting thirteen interviews--including three published here for the first time--Conversations with Rick Veitch offers a wealth of insight not only into the development of Veitch's graphic innovations and metaphysical explorations, but also into the upheavals and transformations of...

Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Belletto (Author)Black Surrealist. Poet. Collage artist. Jazz trumpeter. Painter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003) was all of these things, and yet none of these labels adequately capture the beauty and complexity of his life and work.The proportions of Ted Joans's life are legendary. Born in Cairo, Illinois in 1928, as a young man he distinguishe...

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Report copyright infringementby Thornton M. Hinkle (Author), Charles B. Wilby (Author), Karl Langenbeck (Author)The Literary Club of Cincinnati (1890) is a book written by Thornton M. Hinkle that explores the history and activities of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, a prominent literary society in Ohio during the 19th century. The book provides a detailed account of the club's formation, membership, and activities, including its regular meetings, lectures, and debates on various literary and...

Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Report copyright infringementby Pramod K. Nayar (Author)Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide moves on to Edward Said's articulation into a critical approach ...