Literary Criticism

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The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom (1837)

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Report copyright infringementby St John Chrysostom (Author), F. W. Hohler (Translator)The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom is a collection of writings by the early Christian theologian and bishop, St. John Chrysostom. Originally written in the late 4th century, these six books explore the nature and responsibilities of the priesthood, offering guidance and advice to those who have been called to serve in this role.In these books, Chrysostom emphasizes the importance of humil...

Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Books and Bindings

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Hobson (Author)This book studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic "cabinet" of fine books. Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full Catalogue is provided for the first time. Books commissioned by Jean Grolier, "the Prince of Bibliophiles", have long been famous. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet and historian, a Greek scholar and Arabist. This book contains valuable informati...

A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas A. Basbanes (Author)In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him "the leading authori...

S. John Chrysostom On The Priesthood: In Six Books (1866)

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Report copyright infringementby John Chrysostom (Author), Benjamin Harris Cowper (Translator)S. John Chrysostom On The Priesthood: In Six Books is a book written by John Chrysostom, a renowned Christian theologian and bishop of Constantinople in the 4th century. The book is a comprehensive guide to the duties and responsibilities of the priesthood, and is divided into six books. In the first book, Chrysostom discusses the qualifications required to become a priest, including the importance of...

William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy S. Murphy (Author), Matthew Sangster (Editor), Dimitra Fimi (Editor)The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novels and stories upon which his posthumous reputation rests, his non-fantastic writing, identifiable literary influences, and the historical contexts in which he wrote. Focusing extensively upon major works such as The House on the Borderland (1...

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde - Paperback

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by Audre Lorde (Author), Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by)Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems--selected and introduced by one of our most pow...

Live Artefacts: Literature in a Cognitive Environment - Hardcover

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by Terence Cave (Author)Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses from ethical reflection, perception from imagination, logic from desire. Above all, they demonstrate the essential fluidity and mobility of human cognition, its adaptive inventiveness. If we are astonished...

Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age - Hardcover

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by Vincent P. Pecora (Author)European culture after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was no stranger to ancient beliefs in an organic, religiously sanctioned, and aesthetically pleasing relationship to the land. The many resonances of this relationship form a more or less coherent whole, in which the supposed cosmopolitanism of the modern age is belied by a deep commitment to regional, nationalist, and civilizational attachments, including a justifying theological armature, much of which is...

Where Was It Before the Dream?: Time Loops and Interpretation

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Wargo (Author)This is a book about a mind-bending new way of interpreting imaginative literature. Writers often draw on dreams for their inspiration, and those dreams are often precognitive, foreshadowing upheavals in the writer's future. It means that literature may often be prophetic, and that standard critical approaches focused solely on an author's prior influences or present life context are inadequate to fully understand the miracle of literary crea...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Carmien (Author)The Cherryh Odyssey brings together a dozen essays about respected science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. Fellow author and academic Edward Carmien has gathered top voices in the field to discuss the literary life and career of Cherryh, including Burton Raffel, Jane Fancher, Janice Bogstad, Betsy Wollheim, and many others. A substantial bibliography rounds out this collection. The Cherryh Odyssey is a text fans of the author wi...

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Report copyright infringementby Charliediana (Author) Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.49 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 13, 2025

Fall and Ascent: Individuation in the Malazan Book of the Fallen

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Woods (Author)Carl Jung's concept of individuation helps us understand the journey of life from birth to death and the psychological growth that ensues across the lifespan, and through each of life's stages. This analysis of Steven Erikson's ten-book fantasy series, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, explores how Erikson has applied the notion of individuation to his characters throughout the story, depicting and working through the individuation journey a...

Other Lives & Other Worlds: Philosophy and Modern Fictions

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen R. L. Clark (Author)Stephen Clark's philosophical work has always been inspired by images and arguments drawn from science fiction, as well as by the long Platonic tradition of philosophy. In these papers (written between 1983 and 2023) on the writings of Kipling, Orwell, Lovecraft, Tolkien, and others, the recurring theme is an examination of the apparent conflict between the world as we are compelled to think it and our need for faith in the reality o...

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Zoë Bossiere (Editor), Dinty W. Moore (Editor) Number of Pages: 276 Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 17, 2020

Critique of Fantasy, Vol. 3: The Block of Fame

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Report copyright infringementby Laurence a. Rickels (Author)In The Block of Fame, Edmund Bergler, like the thirteenth fairy in the "Sleeping Beauty," uninvited because there wasn't an extra place setting, crashes the psychoanalytic poetics of daydreaming with a curse. He charges that the overview, according to which art making rarefies daydreaming and delivers omnipotence, overlooks the underlying defense contract. We are hooked to creativity, because it offers the best defense against acknow...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexei Panshin (Author)Following my Nose is Hugo and Nebulaauthor and critic Alexei Panshin's very personal journey into literary analysisand his own reflections. Panshin discusses his own journey as wellas works that influenced his own writing and on science fiction in general.Authors like A.E. van Vogt, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Caroll) and others haveshaped both the genre as well as Panshin's own art. This work also discusses a broader critiqueof the genre an...

Gothic Grotesques: Essays on Fantastic Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Stableford (Author)This find collection of essays by master science fiction, fantasy, and horror author Brian Stableford covers horror fiction, Gothic rock music, science fiction, and fantasy, by a master critic and fiction writer. Complete with index. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 20, 2024

Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel

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Report copyright infringementby Paul J. Nahin (Author)From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, time travel has long been a favorite topic and plot device in tales of science fiction and fantasy. But as any true SF fan knows, astounding stories about traversing alternate universes and swimming the tides of time demand plausible science. That's just what Paul J. Nahin's guide provides.An engineer, physicist, and published science fiction writer, Nahin is uniquely qualified to expla...

Jack Vance: Seven Articles on His Work and Travels

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Andre-Driussi (Author)Seven previously published pieces pertaining to the science fiction of American author Jack Vance, and his voyages around the world. Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Sherryl Vint (Author)Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and...

Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Wright (Author) Number of Pages: 253 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9.12 x 6.16 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2003

The Cross, the Plow and the Skyline: Science Fiction and Fantasy and the Ecological Imagination (Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest J. Yanarella (Author)The apocalyptic, pastoral, and urban traditions have fundamentally shaped Western history and influenced American religion, culture, and politics. This book argues that these traditions have not only been decisive in giving form and substance to classic and modern American literature, but have been appropriated by contemporary science fiction. As a loosely connected set of cultural narratives, the Cross, the Plow, and the Skyline hav...

The Future of the Space Program: Discussions with 22 Science-Fiction Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey M. Elliot (Editor), Octavia E. Butler (Author), Roger Zelazny (Author)The editor posed two questions regarding the future of the space program, and large corporations and society, to 22 science fiction writers: Poul Anderson, Mildred Downey Broxon, Octavia E. Butler, C. J. Cherryh, Gordon R. Dickson, Raymond Z. Gallun, James Gunn, Isidore Haiblum, James P. Hogan, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Richard A. Lupoff, Larry Niven, Charles Sheffield, Robert Silverberg,...

The Generation Starship in Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001

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Report copyright infringementby Simone Caroti (Author) This critical history explores the concept of the multi-generational interstellar space voyage in science fiction between 1934, the year of its appearance, into the 21st century. It defines and analyzes what became known as the "generation starship" idea and examines the science and technology behind it, also charting the ways in which generation starships manifest themselves in various SF scenarios. It then traces the history of the gene...

The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance: A Critical Text of the 1897 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices

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Report copyright infringementby H. G. Wells (Author) H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue--"So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"--has posed challenges to scholars. How to understand it? Does it speak strictly to the scientific elements of the novel? Or is it a part of the work's political underpinnings? The 1897 New York first edition (the first edition to incorporate the...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent. The range of subjects is wide--from Prince to Carolee Schneemann...

Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It

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Report copyright infringementby Lennard J. Davis (Author)For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things, Lennard J. Davis labels this genre "poornography" distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle ...

The «Doppelgaenger» in Our Time: Visions of Alterity in Literature, Visual Culture, and New Media

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Mathews (Editor), Dawn Ades (Editor), Alia Soliman (Author) Alia Soliman's re-assessment of the motif of the doppelgänger moves it comprehensively into the twenty-first century and adds new dimensions to the figure. Here, through incisive readings, the double is brought to perspectives on ageing, the crisis of masculinity and, crucially, our digital condition. Soliman's book prompts vital questions about the literary, cultural and social work the double...

Irish Folk Custom and Belief: Nósanna agus Piseoga na nGael

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Report copyright infringementby Seán Ó. Súilleabháin (Author)Irish Folk Customs and Belief is a fascinating introduction to Irish folk customs and beliefs. Discover the defining folklore as the oral traditions of the Irish people, including their popular beliefs, customs, tales, songs, proverbs and more. These traditions are passed down over long periods of time within often isolated communities. A great folklorist and chronologist, Ó Súilleabháin threads the dichotomy between the ancient roo...

The Semiotics of Performances: An Introduction to the Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory of the Performing Arts

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Bouissac (Author)What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them with a clear method for untangling the multimodal complexity of performance from the spectator's point of view. Presenting live performances as two-way communicatio...

Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity

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Report copyright infringementby Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad (Author)This is the first book to offer a systematic account of the concept of opacity in the aesthetic field. Engaging with works by Ernie Gehr, John Akomfrah, Matt Saunders, David Lynch, Trevor Paglen, Zach Blas, and Low, the study considers the cultural, epistemological, and ethical values of images and sounds that are fuzzy, indeterminate, distorted, degraded, or otherwise indistinct. Rethinking Art and Visual Culture shows how opa...

Anglo-Saxon Crucifixion Iconography and the Art of the Monastic Revival

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Catherine Raw (Author)This book provides a major study of the drawings, paintings and carvings of the crucifixion from tenth- and eleventh-century England, placing these works of art within the context of the tenth-century monastic revival. The drawings and paintings of the crucifixion are discussed in relation to the literature, theology, liturgy and devotional practices of the late Anglo-Saxon period in order to reveal the richness and subtlety of rel...