Literary Criticism

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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 ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Quincy Former Ow Adams (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work...

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman; Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby William Tecumseh Sherman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Paperback

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by Nikolai Gogol (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry . . . I still haven't recovered." More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning te...

No Race, No Country: The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Mutnick (Author)No Race, No Country presents a major reconsideration of the breakthrough African American author Richard Wright's work and life. It challenges standard evaluations of his reputation as an autodidact, his late novels, his travel books, and his political commitments after he left the Communist Party USA. Deborah Mutnick engages a wide range of Wright's work throughout his career, providing a nuanced perspective on his complicated gender po...

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Hugo (Author), A. (Am?d?e) Baillot (Author)Victor Hugo's "William Shakespeare" offers a compelling biographical exploration of the life and legacy of the iconic English dramatist. More than a simple biography, this work delves into the profound impact Shakespeare and his works have had on literature and culture. Hugo, a literary giant in his own right, brings a unique perspective to his subject, examining Shakespeare's influence with insightful literary ...

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Report copyright infringementby Halide Edib Adivar (Author), Halide Adivar Edib (Author)A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Adivar Edib (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, whilst she and her second husband Dr. Adnan were in exile in London and Paris having fallen out of favor with Mustafa Kemal's one-...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Thomas Inge (Editor)Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him. His newspaper feature The Spirit (1940-1952) introduced the now-common splash page to the comic book, as well as dramatic angles and lighting effects that were influen...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Milazzo (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates (Author)These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work, her concepts of literature, her methods of writing, and many other topics.Throughout this anthology, Oates discusses how her writing paints ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rayford Jr. Campbell (Author)With so many life challenges, you learn to adapt to the difficulties. There are always some life-changing decisions that you make that tend to be your priority. It doesn't give you an instant realization of the mistakes you are yet to make but later gives you a lesson that one must never forget all of their lives.This is the story of Rayford Campbell Jr., An autobiography of his life-long journey and epic family history. This book c...

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Report copyright infringementby Marie Fratoni (Author)Inspiring women form the integral threads in the vast and intricate tapestry of life. Each thread is woven with purpose, strength, and resilience, contributing to the creation of a world rich in opportunity and possibility. These remarkable women do not simply navigate through life; they carve paths where none existed before, breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations.Through unwavering determination and an unshakable comm...

The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Defanti (Author)The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece, which Alfred Kazin called "A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence, and power." According to Sir Herbert Read: "A great achievement. The magnificent portrait of the author's mother is as relentless, as detailed, as loving as a late Rembrandt."Consigned to the Jewish Orphan Home in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Leech (Author)This is a look at many pursuits, travels, and activities I've undergone during my more than a few years in this world. It's a memoir with lots of fun details about my experiences in the U. S. and many other countries I've visited. Especially memorable were the people I got to know along the way, and the several I continue to stay in touch with decades later. Those who read this might find they - relate readily to many of their own adventures.T...

Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

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Report copyright infringementby Zachary Leader (Author)The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century--an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's reputation. Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century." Frank Kermode thought the book would "fix Joyce's image for a generation," a predic...

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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Report copyright infringementby Olivia Laing (Author)In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground...

Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Conrad (Author)A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's imagination and the world he created. See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters to reveal his strange, hilarious but obsessive personal character and the audacity of a mind that set out, as he said, to rearrange the universe. Peter Conrad's bold rediscovery of Dickens suggests that he alone rivals Shakespeare and in some wa...

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

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Report copyright infringementby Rachelle Bergstein (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER This "lively and important portrait of a true literary revolutionary" (Los Angeles Times) explores Judy Blume's life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic--and controversial--young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber. Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades and sold tens of millions of copies. But why were people so drawn ...

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Report copyright infringementby Marco Santagata (Author), Emlyn Eisenach (Translator)A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian. Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the history of humanism, literature, and poetry. In this book, Dante's award-winning biographer, Marco Santagata, takes up the moving life and legacy of Boccaccio--...

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Report copyright infringementby Jake Zawlacki (Editor)Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane's polarizing character. Beginning with his earliest days on Spider-Man to the months before the hotly anticipated release of Spawn and ending with his writing ventures decades later, the interviews offer compelli...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul F. Brown (Author)One of the most gifted of America's writers, James Rufus Agee (1909-1955), spent a third of his short life in Tennessee, yet no biographical treatment until this one has so fully explored his roots in the state. In Rufus, Paul F. Brown draws deeply on a trove of journals, letters, interviews, and contemporaneous newspaper accounts, to produce a captivating portrait of Agee's boyhood.Brown meticulously delineates Agee's family history, his ...

Chaim Potok: Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Walden (Editor)Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. This collection aims to widen the lens through which we read Chaim Potok and to establish him as an authentic American writer who created un...

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Report copyright infringementby David Biespiel (Author)"Biespiel's supple memoir of becoming a poet will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing and feel the power and, sometimes, the emptiness of the act of writing poetry." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel's moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape a life. Exploring the original source of his creative impulse--a great-grandfa...

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Report copyright infringementby David Medina (Author)Relying on historical and literary evidence hidden in plain sight, Shakespeare's Greatest Love tells the true, uncensored love story of William Shakespeare and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton."Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate." --Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, written for and about Southampton. Leaving behind a wife and three young children in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare moved to L...

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Report copyright infringementby Natasha Trethewey (Author)An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey "Trethewey doesn't just explore the reasons why she writes. She also offers a compassionate argument for why we must all be the authors of our own stories."--Shannon Carlin, Time "Searching and intimate, this impresses."--Publishers Weekly In a shotgun house in Gulfport, Mi...

Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny Bond (Author), Chris Sheedy (Author)The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations Before Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara ?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all lovers of language and literature, it reveals in short, pithy chapters, the lives, loves, motivations, and quirky, fascinating ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charlotte Lee (Editor) Number of Pages: 438 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 23, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Cremins (Author)Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says, "Shazam!," he becomes Captain Marvel, the World's Mightiest Mortal, one of the most popular comic book characters of the 1940s. This book tells the story of that hero and the writers and artists who created his magical adventures. The saga of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Proal D. Heartwell (Author)In Beauty It Is Finished: Reflections on the Life and Work of Oliver La Farge is a hybrid biography of an American author best known for his novel Laughing Boy, winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A member of a prominent American family, La Farge's canon of 24 books is equally divided between fiction and nonfiction, and most of his work examines Native American life and culture. In Beauty It Is Finished is divided into four...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Bernhard (Author)Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, Gathering Evidence is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers. Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he contracted p...

Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade

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Report copyright infringementby Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Author)The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure Mark Twain's Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self-aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward ...

Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Brooks (Author)In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age. In 1904, after two decades of living and travelling abroad, Henry James returned to the United States to discover a world drastically different from the one he had left behind. Suddenly, the future of the world seemed to be in his na...