Literary Criticism

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Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew James Driscoll (Editor), Elena Pierazzo (Editor)This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions--and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress of computer tec...

The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga

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Report copyright infringementby Kimi Rito (Author)While manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium's international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of manga's erotic world a genre known internationally simply as - hentai. What are the origins of hentai? How has it evolved from the days of ukiyo-e to today's modern comics and animation. Who are the people making hentai? And who are the people rea...

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Report copyright infringementby Ursula K. Le Guin (Author), Donna J. Haraway (Introduction by), Lee Bul (Illustrator)In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings ...

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Report copyright infringementby Salvador SeBasco (Author)The King dares his Town's People that if one of them can get to where he is at, at the top of the castle, and do it before the sun goes down, he will give that person his prize-winning dog named Lily. Will someone win the prize dog, Lily? Salvador SeBasco's picture Book says volumes about character development and striving as a talent. The biggest problems in life are solved ONE STEP AT A TIME! Who taught you this lesson when you were...

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Lesser (Author)What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories--storie...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Rhodes (Author)For most of us poetry is a form of noise that poets make because they can. Like birds, poets are more active in the spring. Like dogs, poets growl if you get too close to their easy chairs, but respond well to any show of affection. Poets are not even-tempered creatures, but are nicer after a few drinks. They expect too much of their wives and too little of their children. I am at liberty to tell you all this because I am a special bree...

Forbidden Love: A Collection of Love Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Calvo (Author)"Walter Calvo's Forbidden Love offers a refreshing and hopeful view of love as seen through the prism of beauty and youth. It's inspiring to hear his millennium generation voice speak so softly and sweetly in the physical, emotional and spiritual revelation of love." Denise W. Cabrera Executive Editor The Frederick News-Post ".and a little child shall lead them. If you are looking for love, young Mr. Calvo, has lead us to love through his w...

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Report copyright infringementby Adelaide S. McLeod (Author)"From award-winning Boise author, Adelaide McLeod, comes a rollicking look at life in the west, past and present. Told with Scottish verve and humor, these enchanting essays offer a glimpse into a life fully lived. McLeod's elegant writing offers the clear voice of a masterful storyteller with a questioning mind and a sympathetic heart." -Dennis Held, Editor and author of Betting on the Night "In vignette-like style, Adelaide McLeod h...

Bea's Random Buzzings: Sweet and Thorny: A Poetry Collection

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Report copyright infringementby Beatrice Diamond (Author)"Beatrice Diamond's immortal verse can bring the oppressors to tears." -Joshua Meander, well-known poet and editor/publisher of Nomad's Choir "Beatrice Diamond's poetry springs from the mind and heart-a fountain, filled with human emotion and compassion toward the subject. It moves with an upfront honesty and beauty upon the page." -Evie Ivy, renowned poet and author of two chapbooks and anthologies This selection of poems by Beatrice D...

Writing Visions of Hope: Teaching Twentieth-Century American Literature and Research

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Report copyright infringementby Richard C. Raymond (Author)This book narrates a writing-centered approach to teaching twentieth-century American literature, focusing on hope in an age of despair. It details teaching strategies, student interactions, and literary research, exploring themes of liberty and hope through American and Balkans narratives. It concludes with student and professor responses. This nine-chapter book narrates a writing-centered approach to the teaching of literature and l...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Benjamin (Author), Stanley Mitchell (Introduction by), Anna Bostock (Translator)A collection of essays of political philosophy by the renowned mid 20th-century critical theorist and literary critic The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Germany, Benjamin and Brecht, both independently minded Marxis...

The Tempest: 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 Au...

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Hyesoon (Author), Don Mee Choi (Translator) *Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea's violent contem...

...and Then You Die of Dysentery: Lessons in Adulting from the Oregon Trail

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Reeves (Author), Jude Buffum (Illustrator)A quirky, nostalgic send-up to the Oregon Trail computer game, featuring snarky and hard-earned life lessons from the trail. Pack your wagons, find your ride-or-(literally) die friends, and roll up to Matt's General Store with a sack of cash--it's time to hit the Oregon Trail, twenty-first-century style! ...And Then You Die of Dysentery is the perfect send-up to the sometimes frustrating, always entertaining, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Dionne Brand (Author)One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards. Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not. In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of nonfiction since her classic A Map to the Door of No R...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan A. Crane (Author)The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we feel as if "nothing is the way it was"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines "Nothing" as something we have known and can remember. "Nothing" has been a ...

Twelfth Night: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English

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Hamlet: An Eighteenth-Century French Adaptation

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Report copyright infringementby Jean-François Ducis (Author), Joseph Harris (Editor)The premiere of Jean-François Ducis's Hamlet in 1769 marked Shakespeare's first faltering steps onto the French stage. Within a couple of generations, his play had itself been translated so widely that it was better known than Shakespeare's across most of Europe; it has thus aptly been called 'one of the most important Hamlets of all time'. Ducis, who spoke no English, takes copious liberties with his Shakespe...

101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written: An Erotic Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers

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Report copyright infringementby Barnaby Conrad (Author)Making the provocative purposeful, this analysis spotlights the most exciting--or potentially embarrassing--story element: the obligatory sex scene. This sensibly suggestive guide demonstrates how to advance plots and reveal truths about characters through their romantic tableaus. Each scene is accompanied by insight into its authors' intentions, how they accomplished them, and their thoughts on romance, love, and sex. The featured passag...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Tatar (Author)Author BiographyMaria Tatar es profesora de Lengua y Literatura Germánicas y de Folclore y Mitología en la Universidad de Harvard. Es miembro de la Society of Fellows de dicha universidad. Autora de numerosos libros sobre folclore, estudios culturales germánicos y literatura infantil, también ha escrito para The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic y Slate, y es invitada habitual en la NPR y la BBC. Fue merecedora del premio NAAC...

Maidens or Monsters?: Tales of Amazons, Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Manuscripts

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Report copyright infringementby Chantry Westwell (Author) An illustrated collection of exceptional female figures in myth and legendIn the Middle Ages, some of the most popular and well-loved stories were about female saints, classical heroines, and the female protagonists of romance cycles. The portrayal of these characters conformed to societal attitudes toward women, which changed with the prevailing views of the times. Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the British Librar...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Thomas (Author)The Victorian Mind's Eye: Reading Literature in an Age of Illustration The Victorians lived in an age of illustration. In a matter of decades, words and images had become enmeshed and entangled, printed alongside each other in a spectacular array of printed forms. The exponential growth of illustration not only radically changed literature, but also changed the way that literature was read. This book offers a major conceptualisation of the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Merlin Holland (Author)The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2026Written by Oscar Wilde's only grandson, After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy."Fascinating...A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution to Wildeana."--Stephen Fry, actor and authorOscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris, his reputation in tatters, exhausted by scandal and prison life. While the details of his life in the li...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Wallace (Author), Jason Fry (Author)Navigate the Star Wars universe as you never have before with this fully illustrated, full-color guide that maps the entire galaxy. You know the planets-from Alderaan and Corellia to Tatooine and Zonama Sekot-and the star systems, from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim. But now, for the first time, you can pinpoint their locations and chart the travels of your favorite characters through the vast reaches of space. Star W...

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Amitav Ghosh (Author)In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg's Cu...

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Report copyright infringementby Slavoj Zizek (Author)To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social...

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author), John Sloan (Editor)Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. Admired by George Orwell and W. B. Yeats, the stories include poignant fairy-tales such as "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant," the extravagant comedy of "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost," and the daring narrative experiments of "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Wild...

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Report copyright infringementby John Carey (Author)A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New York Times Book Review What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language mad...

The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Dylan Foster (Author), Shinonome Kijin (Illustrator)Significantly expanded and updated--a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water sprites, to shape-shifting kitsune foxes and long-tongued ...

Milton Berle's Private Joke File: Over 10,000 of His Best Gags, Anecdotes, and One-Liners

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Report copyright infringementby Milton Berle (Author)One of the legends of show biz delves into his personal treasury of jokes ("The most comprehensive storehouse of 20th-century humor in the world"--Los Angeles Magazine) to present the most astounding array of one-liners, anecdotes, quips, and gags ever published. Line drawings.Front JacketOne of the legends of show biz delves into his personal treasury of jokes ("The most comprehensive storehouse of 20th-century humor in the world"--Los Ang...

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel V. Lemley (Editor) Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, more widely known as the First Folio, contains thirty-six of the thirty-eight plays attributed in whole or in part to Shakespeare. Published in 1623, it has been the object of continued scholarly focus, while three subsequent folio printings--occurring in 1632, 1663/64, and 1685--are often considered mere derivatives of the First. This volume endeavors to correct and give n...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian C. Storey (Author), Arlene Allan (Author)This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on 'lost' playwrights Examines ...