Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby John Zheng (Editor)Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival of rhyme, meter, and narrative through New Formalism; walloping t...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author)Walden (first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.[Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two y...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Raleigh (Author)Robert Louis Stevenson, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author)"When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can." ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain is an American classic that takes you on an exciting journey of Tom Sawyer in Southern America before the abolition of slavery in America. The novel depicts the youthful adventures...

A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Nield (Author)For many years I have been an assiduous reader of novels and tales in which the historical element appeared, supplementing my own reading in this direction by a careful study of all that I could find in the way of Criticism on such works and their writers. Only in this way could I venture on a selection involving a survey of several thousand volumes With the above understanding, I can say that no book has been inserted without some reaso...

Walden-ish: A Woman's Adaptation of Henry David Thoreau's

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Report copyright infringementby Krimsey Lilleth (Author), Henry David Thoreau (Author)AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, REINVIGORATEDIn 1854, Henry David Thoreau published his famous work, Walden, an experiment in simple living. Thoreau recounts his experiences living alone in a small self-built cabin near Walden Pond, reflecting on the virtue of self-reliance and the pursuit of a meaningful life. He challenges readers to question societal norms and reconnect with the natural world, our home. Walden remai...

Colors of the Concepts: Philosophers on Paintings

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Author)This monograph explores the relationship between philosophy and painting, showing how thinkers such as Hegel and Merleau-Ponty developed their key concepts through direct engagement with specific artworks. Unlike traditional surveys that often treat philosophical ideas as abstract, Colors of the Concepts: Philosophers on Paintings emphasises how these ideas were shaped by concrete encounters with visual art. Each chapter discusses ho...

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Report copyright infringementby Eike Exner (Author)A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more. This book is the first to tell the history of comics in Japan as a single, continuous story, focusing on manga as multipanel cartoons that show stories rather than narrate them. Eike Exne...

Continental Crosscurrents: British Criticism and European Art 1810-1910

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Report copyright infringementby Barrie Bullen (Author), J. B. Bullen (Author)Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offer...

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Report copyright infringementby Seán Fitton (Author)For many people Dionysos is an obscure Greek god of wine and theatre. For others he is so much more. The Dionysian Spirit examines, in an easy and accessible form, the essence of what Dionysos is all about, both as a deity and as a cultural and social force. It looks at the relation of Dionysos with his opposite number Apollo. The twin gifts of Apollos and Dionysos are ekstasis (ecstasy) and entheos (enthusiasm) and have informed and enliven...

Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium: Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text

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Report copyright infringementby M. Hatzaki (Author)A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world.Author BiographyMYRTO HATZAKI was born in Athens in 1977. She studied History of Art at Warwick Uni...

The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film

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Report copyright infringementby Keith McDonald (Author), Wayne Johnson (Author)This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. These dark and sinister undertones often exist in Western narratives to draw attention to the ever-present issue of death and its haunting resonance which characters encounter. This book examines this through key historic moments in Western film and its contemporary incarnations. The book detects imposing correlations...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Crane (Author)Flowers From Shakespeare��s Garden: A Posy From The Plays (1906) is a beautifully illustrated book by Walter Crane that celebrates the use of flowers in William Shakespeare��s plays. The book features a collection of quotes from Shakespeare��s works that reference various flowers, accompanied by Crane��s stunning illustrations of the flowers themselves. Each page is a work of art, with intricate drawings and delicate wat...

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Report copyright infringementby Lili Anolik (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this "vivid, engrossing" (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) revealing the mutual attractions--and antagonisms--of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. Could you write what you write if you...

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Report copyright infringementby Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Author), Ellen Frothingham (Author)Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's "Laocoon: An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry, with remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art" remains a cornerstone of aesthetics and art criticism. Lessing masterfully explores the boundaries between poetry and the visual arts, using the iconic Laocoön group sculpture as a central point of reference. This influential work delves into ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce Carol Oates (Author)Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Times Book Review.Oates states in her preface, "In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but n...

To Find Dawn's Moon: Details and dimensions of The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

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Report copyright infringementby Gregory Stephenson (Author)TO FIND DAWN'S MOON: A commentary on backgrounds and contexts, motifs, meanings and afterlives of Jack Kerouac's classic novel, The Dharma Bums. Close reading of imagery, a look at Dharma Bums merchandise and activities. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 04, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Velvet Rose (Author)Welcome to the dirty adventures of Velvet Rose. Smut Tales is a sexy, raunchy, and often funny memoir. This unapologetically bold collection of 15 real-life erotic short stories will inspire you to explore, embrace and reflect on your own sexuality, blending humour with sensuality in a way that's both entertaining and empowering. This is to all of the women out there who have been smut shamed!To the women who don't know their worth.The women...

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 98/1: The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Field (Editor), Luke Walker (Editor)This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British and European reception of Blake's work from the late nineteenth century to the present day, with a particular focus on the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: J...

Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India

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Report copyright infringementby Kamala Joyce Platt (Author)This book is an interdisciplinary comparative investigation of activist, artistic, literary, and academic discourse--expressive work promoting ecological justice, ending racism, and representing self and community through virtual realism--a cultural poetics of environmental justice. Research fixed on women's work intervenes in patriarchal assumptions. Focus on marginalized areas in India and a U.S. movement led by people of color, d...

A Joy for Ever (and Its Price in the Market) - Two Lectures on the Political Economy of Art

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author)Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors. Number of Pages: 136 Dimensions: 0.32 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2008

Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick McKelvey (Author)Winner, 2025 C.L.R. James Award, awarded by the Working-Class Studies Association Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Music and the Performing ArtsA cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aest...

Shakespeare's Afterlife in the Royal Collection: Dynasty, Ideology, and National Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Barnden (Author), Gordon McMullan (Author), Kate Retford (Author)This unique collection of essays and images explores a series of objects in the Royal Collection as a means of assessing the interrelated histories of the British royal family and the Shakespearean afterlife across four centuries. Between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth, Shakespeare became entrenched as the English national poet. Over the same period, the monar...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Bacon (Other), Carl H. Sederholm (Volume Editor), Kristopher Woofter (Volume Editor)Weird works unsettle, decentering humanity on a cosmic scale and, at other times, breaking down the human barriers erected around race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring a comprehensive editors' introduction to the Weird as a mode engaging with forms of knowledge, transcendence, and resistance, this collection offers a broad-reaching discussion of Weird fiction, film...

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Report copyright infringementby Binod Dawadi (Author)Synopsis This is a very much beautiful book about stories, articles, poems, book reviews, interviews, haikus etc. This book is filled with full of knowledge. You can read the multiple genres in this beautiful book. Literature is making me artist. As well as from becoming an artist I have created such beautiful things for my readers. You can know about my life too. How I become writer and artist you can know from this book. I have created ...

Eye of Prey: Subversions of the Postmodern

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert H. Blau (Author)Herbert Blau here reflects on performance as it moved from the theatricalized activism of the sixties into the theoretical activism of the eighties. The essays theorize rather than formulate an ideological program. Blau takes risks at the speculative edge of thought. The Eye of Prey is comprised of diverse subject matter: love and mourning, play and aging, radical feminist and homosexual discourse, the politics of representation, comedy ...

The Politics and Sociology of Silent Comedy Films: Early American Cinema, 1895-1915

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Report copyright infringementby Richard W. Waterman (Author)Comedies were among the first films ever made, and comedy played a critical and often overlooked role in the early development of cinema. This original book holistically examines the political and sociological dimensions of silent comedy films and the motion picture industry at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Waterman takes a unique social science approach to the cinematic ecosystem and its development during this era, studying...

The Art of Mercy in Middle-earth: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien's Legendarium

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Report copyright infringementby Miriam Ellis (Author)J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium provides twenty-first century readers with a much-needed haven from the busy world around them. In his mercy, Tolkien generously balances scenes of high drama with unforgettable pauses for the refreshment of both characters and readers. His work remains true to the themes of "recovery, escape, and consolation" described in his seminal lecture and essay, "On Fairy-Stories."This book offers a visual portal to thes...

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Spectacle Earth: Media for Planetary Change

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Kalaidjian (Author)Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity's response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold? Does exposure to a source of dread spur people to action or lull them into fatalism and complacency? Andrew Kalaidjian takes up these and other vital questions in Spectacle Earth, a lively and wide-ranging consideration of media engagement, passivity, and virtual environments i...

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Report copyright infringementby Grazia Deledda (Author)""Nostalghia"" by Grazia Deledda is a compelling novel set against the striking backdrop of Sardinia, where the protagonist, Elias Portolu, navigates a complex tapestry of emotions and societal pressures. Central to the narrative is Elias's profound emotional journey, characterized by intense love and longing. His feelings are deeply intertwined with the traditions and cultural fabric of Sardinia, where Catholicism holds significant sway ...

Practicing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies

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Report copyright infringementby Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez (Editor), Ulla Stackmann (Editor)The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies and thus challen...