Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Fernando Pessoa (Author), Nuno Ribeiro (Editor), Cláudia Souza (Editor)Writings on Art and Poetical Theory contains a selection of Fernando Pessoa's writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in English. In Pessoa's oeuvre one finds not only literary and fictional works but also a multiplicity of theoretical texts on the most diverse subjects concerning artistic movements, literature, and writers.In this book, we witnes...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author)"If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations."-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) Civil Disobedience (1849) was originally delivered as impassioned lectures denouncing government, especially with respect to slavery and the Mexican-American Wa...

Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor Dobson (Author)Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and Egyptology The first monograph study to bring literature into conversation with Egyptological cultureIncorporates a number of archival primary sources which have, until now, escaped critical attentionAnalyses canonical literature alongside works by lesser-known authors Combines literary criticism with book history, the histor...

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Wiggins (Author)Tír na nÓg is a collection of poems, stories, and essays about writers from Ireland, Scotland, England and America. The book was inspired by C. S .Lewis, George MacDonald, Seamus Heaney, John O' Donohue, and Jon Foreman; other writers, the ancient Irish myth of Tír na nÓg, sehnsucht, the healing power of music, literature, and art, the mountains of North Carolina, and a life changing trip to Ireland, Scotland, and England. "Tír na nÓg, Wi...

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Report copyright infringementby David Shields (Author)NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the "collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump," and above all as a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discou...

Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland

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Report copyright infringementby Ewa Stańczyk (Author)Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland, scholar Ewa Stańczyk explores how illustrators conceived of Jewish people in satirical drawing and reflected on the burning political questio...

Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide to All the Books

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Report copyright infringementby Erika Berlin (Author)Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's guide to the Gilmore Girls universe and all 339 books referenced in the series. For fans of Gilmore Girls, one of the most dedicated ways to tap into the psyche of Rory Gilmore is committing to one Herculean task: The Rory Gilmore ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jerome Klinkowitz (Author)Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have made Vonnegut's works possible.Front Jack...

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Amore (Editor)Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventur...

Body, Gender, Senses: Subversive Expressions in Early Modern Art and Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Carin Franzén (Editor), Johanna Vernqvist (Editor)The body, touch and its sensations are present, sometimes viewed in contradictory ways, both expressed, visualized, and rejected, in early modern art and literature. In seven essays moving from the 16th to the mid-18th century, and from Italy and Spain to France and Sweden, this volume explores strategies used by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists in order to create subversive expressions of the...

A Companion to the Literature of German Expressionism

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Report copyright infringementby Neil H. Donahue (Editor), Barbara D. Wright (Contribution by), Ernst Schuerer (Contribution by)New essays examining the complex period of rich artistic ferment that was German literary Expressionism. More than any other avant-garde movement, German Expressionism captures the aesthetic revolution of 20th-century modernity in all its contrasts and conflicts. In continuous eruptions from 1905 to 1925, Expressionism upset reigningpractices in the arts, most vividly...

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Orlando (Editor)Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability stud...

The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts

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Report copyright infringementby Catriona McAra (Author)Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right, critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her. It...

Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey

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Report copyright infringementby Evan Dalton Smith (Author)Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tra...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Higgins (Author)Meditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine. Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the church only to pursue a deeper communion with a presence he felt at the heart of the universe. He called this illimitable presence many names, but he...

A Companion to Ricoeur's the Symbolism of Evil

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Davidson (Contribution by), Colby Dickinson (Contribution by), Daniel Frey (Contribution by)The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur's early trilogy on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the question of evil in its actuality. What is the nature of the will that has succumbed to evil? The question of evil res...

Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Anderton (Contribution by), Emily Chester (Contribution by), Stuart Christie (Contribution by)Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing...

Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction: Hu Feng and Lu Ling

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Report copyright infringementby Xiaoping Wang (Author)The questions of subjectivity and the literary style of realism, as manifested in Hu Feng's theoretical writings and Lu Ling's fictional writings, occupy a unique position in modern China. By looking more closely into the theoretical and fictional texts and the social-historical subtext, and through a re-examination of the issue of subjectivity and individualism, this book argues that individualism should not be treated as an ahistorical v...

Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Libera (Author), Ashley Nicole Black (Foreword by), Chelsea Devantez (Foreword by)A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great comedy can feel ineffable--and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that "either you are funny, or you aren't," Libera breaks the magic of comedy down into an innovative theory and practical toolkit. Developed over the course of thirty years as a director for The Second City and pr...

Clothed Villainy: Acting White in Early Modern Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Paris (Author)Examines how centuries-old stagecraft shaped modern racial politics--and why the performance of whiteness still commands the spotlight.From Shakespearean blackface to the alt-right's khaki-clad protests, Clothed Villainy: Acting White in in Early Modern Drama by Jamie Paris confronts the uncomfortable truths of racial performance across centuries. Paris argues that whiteness is not a fixed identity but a precarious and performative construct...

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Report copyright infringementby Ovid (Author), Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature -- classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid -- is revealed anew.Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story to display a dazzling ...

The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Kreeft (Author)To learn more about J.R.R. Tolkien visit Wh ile nothing can equal or replace the adventure in reading Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, Peter Kreeft says that the journey into its underlying philosophy can be another exhilarating adventure. Thus, Kreeft takes the reader on a voyage of discovery into the philosophical bones of Middle earth. He organizes the philosophical themes in The Lord of the Rings into 50 categories, accompan...

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Report copyright infringementby John Trevena (Author)This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we 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 and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.48 x ...

The Long Journey Home: Parables and Wisdom from the Little Prince

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Report copyright infringementby Robert R. Fuggi (Author) The Little Prince is cloaked in imagery and concepts that are not apparent at first blush. Originally written in French, Le Petit Prince was published in 1943 and has transcended time and place to become one of the all-time great literary works. Young readers have enjoyed the journeys and encounters of the title character-and the book has also captured the imagination of adults. In The Long Journey Home, author and theologian Robert F. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edith Wharton (Author)The book "" Coming Home 1916 "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we 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 and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 36 ...

A Study Of The Plots Of Twenty Plays Of Lope De Vega

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Report copyright infringementby Abel Cantu (Author)This book is a detailed examination of the plots of twenty plays by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. With in-depth analyses of each play and insightful commentary on its themes and characters, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the theater of the Golden Age of Spain.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...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Urmila Seshagiri (Editor)Virginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fiction--published in its final, revised form for the first time A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical "cottage of one's own," battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf draft...

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Report copyright infringementby Pearson Education (Author), Anonymous (Author), Sarah Anderson (Author)From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Beowulf, edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextual materials on the early medieval age.Back JacketFrom Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, "Beowulf, " edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextu...

Nature Wisdom: Mystical Writers of the Big Sur-Monterey Coast

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Report copyright infringementby Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick (Author) Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.48 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 03, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Allan Poe (Author)Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 17, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Dabundo (Author) Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the context of literary history and criticism; explores her fiction; and features an encyclopedic, readable resource on the people, places and things of relevance to Austen the person and writer. Details on family members, beaux, friends, national affairs, church and state politics, themes, tropes,...

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Report copyright infringementby Smith (Author), Wiggin (Author)The book "" The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we 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 and hence the text is clear and readable. ...