Literary Criticism

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Valerius Flaccus and Imperial Latin Epic

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Stover (Author)This is the first book-length study of the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid), and Claudian (De Raptu Proserpinae). It sheds new light on the importance of Valerius' poem and enhances our understanding of the intertextual richness of imperial Latin epic. The readings offered in this book provide new evidence to support the view that Valerius' Argonautica preda...

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Bloom (Author)"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dr...

Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Reynolds (Author)The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been dismissed as nothing more than rhetorical flourishes. Paired with the common misconception that paper would have been too valuable to 'waste' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these tropes have been read as scatological flights of fancy. Waste Paper in E...

My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Randal Maurice Jelks (Author)"An engaging, introspective view of poet Langston Hughes and curates a compelling narrative of Hughes as an activist, advocate, and champion of justice through his poetry." --Library Journal "By resisting a sanitized version of Hughes, My America presents him as a radical thinker who, at the risk of criticism and scorn, demanded better of our country." --BookPage Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poe...

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost

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Report copyright infringementby Orlando Reade (Author)A highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton's epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator and the revolutionary lives that were influenced by it. What in Me Is Dark tells the unlikely story of how Milton's epic poem came to haunt political struggles over the past four centuries, including the many different, unexpected, often contra...

The Fun of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian Ross (Editor), David Remnick (Introduction by), E. B. White (Author)William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way. The Fun of It is the first ant...

Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers

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Report copyright infringementby Bob Eckstein (Author), Garrison Keillor (Foreword by)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved New Yorker cartoonist comes a collection of paintings and stories from some of the world's most cherished bookstores. This collection of 75 evocative paintings and colorful anecdotes invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. The book features an incredible roster of great boo...

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Report copyright infringementby Demetri Martin (Author)New York Times bestselling author of This Is a Book and Point Your Face at This, Demetri Martin returns with another laugh-out-loud collection of hilarious drawings. If It's Not Funny It's Art Packed with hundreds of new illustrations and one-liners, If It's Not Funny It's Art is a peek into the ingenious mind of author/comedian/filmmaker Demetri Martin. Exploring the meaning of art, life, death, ennui and the elegant fart joke with a sen...

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Report copyright infringementby Sister Miriam Joseph (Author)First published in 1947, Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language is a landmark study that reveals how deeply William Shakespeare's artistry was shaped by the classical disciplines of grammar, logic, and rhetoric-the "trivium" of Renaissance education.Sister Miriam Joseph, a distinguished scholar of English and the classics, demonstrates with clarity and precision how Shakespeare absorbed the techniques of formal rhetoric and trans...

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author), Harriet E. Smith (Editor), Benjamin Griffin (Editor)Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature. "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."--New York Times "His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "I've struck i...

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Alighieri (Author), John D. Sinclair (Author)An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which serve as brilliant examples of genuine literary criticism.Back JacketMr...

John Milton's Paradise Lost: A SneakerBlossom Paraphrase

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Pelissier (Adapted by), Annika Pelissier (Cover Design by)Experience the epic tale of the fall of man in a whole new way with John Milton's Paradise Lost: A SneakerBlossom Paraphrase. In this modern retelling, follow the rebellion of Satan against God, the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve, and the ultimate destruction and salvation that will come to earth.John Milton's Paradise Lost: A SneakerBlossom Paraphrase is a faithful retelling of John Milton's 1...

CONTOURS OF CONFLICT THE MAKING & REMAKING OF SRI LANKA - Democracy at Gunpoint: Sri Lanka's Struggle for Stability (1948-2024)

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Report copyright infringementby Tuan Branudeen Kamiss (Author)Contours of Conflict: The Making & Remaking of Sri Lanka - Democracy at Gunpoint (1948-2024) by Tuan B. Kamiss is a powerful, personal, and panoramic chronicle of Sri Lanka's tumultuous political journey from independence to contemporary struggles. More than a conventional history book, it is a testimony part memoir, part exposé that blends lived experience with critical analysis to unearth the complex intersections of democrac...

The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art Instruction

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly J. Stern (Author)The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted to the teaching of art all contributed to very public and sometimes contentious debates about art pedagogy. Surveying a range of instructional scenarios-from the schoolroom to the Royal Academy - The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art...

Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880

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Report copyright infringementby Stefan Schöberlein (Author)In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the brain. The years between 1800 and 1880 are often described as the emergence of modern neuroscience, with new areas of the brain being discovered and named. Naming was quickly followed by a drive to hypothesize functioning, a process that suggested thinking itself may be a mere physiological act. In Writing the Brain, Stef...

The Lion and the Fox: The Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby Wyndham Lewis (Author)"The Lion and the Fox" is a profound and unconventional study of Shakespearean drama through the lens of political and moral philosophy. Written by the influential modernist critic Wyndham Lewis, this work explores the dual nature of the Shakespearean hero, contrasting the noble, often doomed Lion with the cunning and strategic Fox. Lewis delves into the influence of Machiavellian thought on the Elizabethan stage, examining how the tension...

Queer Shakespeare: Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment

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Report copyright infringementby Goran Stanivukovic (Editor)The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this open access second edition features revisions to the original chapters and an additional 5 new chapters. The plays and poems of Shakespeare overflow with sexual and erotic discourses, languages, and representations concerning eroticism and sex, and they display forms of embod...

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (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 important en...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Gordon Craig (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 impo...

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney J. Oates (Author)"In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to understand many aspects of nature which had hitherto been shrouded in complete mystery. The creative literary activity of this epoch likewise betokens on the part of the Greeks an increasingly higher level of self-understanding and self-consciousness, in the best sen...

New Game Plus After Defeating the Last Boss, Vol. 2 (Light Novel): All These Beautiful, Problematic Girls in the First Town Have Gotten Really Attache

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Report copyright infringementby Falmaro (Artist), Touwa Akatsuki (Author), Kamishiro Taishi (Translator)BEAUTIES FROM MIGHT'S PAST AND PRESENT CLASH! Touwa Akatsuki Illustration by Falmaro Touwa Akatsuki Illustration by Falmaro 2 Might has gone from being a legendary level-99 Thief to a young level-1 Sage. Reborn in the First Town, he's formed a party with three beautiful young women and started his second life as an adventurer...but after he defeated not one but two demons, people are alread...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author)"Flush" by Virginia Woolf, is the biography of a red cocker spaniel that was owned by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Woolf's inspiration was her own cocker spaniel, Pinker. Woolf had read the letters and poems that Browning had written about her dog, Flush. Woolf decided that he would be an interesting subject for a biography and although it is narrated in the third person, the book is written mainly from the perspective of the ...

Heimskringla: The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

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Report copyright infringementby Snorri Sturluson (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 importa...

Children of the Dead end the Autobiography of a Navvy

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick Macgill (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 importan...

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Report copyright infringementby Holbrook Jackson (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 importa...

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Report copyright infringementby Paget Jackson Toynbee (Author)History of the Letters of Dante From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day by Paget Jackson Toynbee offers a detailed account of the historical reception and study of Dante Alighieri's letters. Beginning with the earliest known references in the fourteenth century, the book traces the evolution of scholarly interest in Dante's correspondence through subsequent centuries. Toynbee meticulously examines the discovery, preservation...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Terrone (Author)Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Italian Studies. I love this collection of essays by Maria Terrone, an exceptionally talented woman of Italian American ancestry who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with maternal roots firmly established, as she shows us, in Sicily's long history. Subtly crafted, witty, honest, it brings to life a New York one instantly recognizes. Her New York is an international city, ranging from the factories of Long Is...

Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark

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Report copyright infringementby James Bailey (Author)"A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer."--Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentieth-century British author of beloved novels such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of Slender Means "She was, if you believe what you read in the papers: a genius, a survivor, a bad mother, a fickle friend, a closeted lesbian, a tyr...

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Powell Ahmadi (Author)Here's the story of a Black American language and culture professor who is too ashamed to admit she is terrified of moving to post-revolutionary Iran with her husband. Nevertheless, she packs up her life in Columbus, Ohio, and ventures off to her husband's homeland with him and their one-year-old daughter in 1992.In her first two weeks, the "morality police" stop her for wearing stockings that aren't black enough, and she is herded ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Parthé (Author)Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812-1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution and an inspiration to dissidents fighting authoritarianism and imperialism ever since. Kathleen Parthé has selected the most significant epistolary material from over a dozen volumes, interweaving letters with...

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 11

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author), Benjamin Griffin (Editor), Harriet E. Smith (Editor)Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature. "Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us."--New York Times "His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Mark Twain's c...

Memory and Emotion: Basque Women's Stories, Constructing Meaning from Memory

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Report copyright infringementby Larraitz Ariznabarreta (Editor), Nere Lete (Editor)Memory and Emotion: Basque Women's Stories denounces the silence to which women -- particularly those who withdraw from adopting a male-dominated discourse -- have been subject. This is a collection about women whose stories were long silenced or disregarded: diasporic and exiled women, activists, militant scholars, avant-garde writers, and forerunners of women's rights. The researchers and contributors to this...