Literary Criticism

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by Amy Hackney Blackwell (Author), Christopher W. Blackwell (Author)Discover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to this wild collection of creatures, humans, and deities, you've found it! Mythology For Dummies delivers the straight goods on history's most popular myths, helping you make sen...

Twelfth Night: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Editions - Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Shakespeare everyone can understand--now in new DELUXE editions! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, these popular guides make Shakespeare accessible to everyone. They introduce Shakespeare's world, significant plot points, and the key players. And now they feature expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter, along with links to bonus co...

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Report copyright infringementby Mohsen Elbelasy (Author) Number of Pages: 614 Dimensions: 1.24 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 27, 2025

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by Coulter H. George (Author)What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing readers to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic tra...

Beyond The Page: The World of Stephen King

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Report copyright infringementby Gew Humanities Group (Author)Stephen King is considered one of the most prolific modern writers. He has captured generations of readers' imaginations with his intricate plots, captivating characters, and nuanced exploration of the human condition.He was born in Portland, Maine on 21 September 1947. He is now regarded as a literary icon, but overcame great personal challenges, including poverty and addiction, before reaching those heights. He is often referred t...

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Report copyright infringementby Allison Ensor (Author)Mark Twain enthusiasts will welcome this study of the great writer's attitude toward the Bible-and of the influence of Holy Writ upon both the man and the artist. While the theological beliefs of Twain have been well documented, Mr. Ensor's study is the first to consider only his familiarity with the Bible and the extensive use of it in his writings. The Bible elicited by turns pious, skeptical, comical, and even hostile reactions in Twain...

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Report copyright infringementby John Vernon (Author)In this "heartwarming tale of brotherly love" (WALL STREET JOURNAL), John Vernon "lifts us high, confronting basic questions about the nature of existence itself and the peculiar objects that sustain this transient life" (Jay Parini). When his reclusive brother Paul died, Vernon came face to face with a life he had never suspected. He found his brother's house in a state of squalid disrepair: piled high with a lifetime of trash, littered wit...

The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons, and the Wordsworths in 1802

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Report copyright infringementby John Worthen (Author)"A Night or two after a worse Rogue there came, The head of the Gang, one Wordsworth by name . . ."--Coleridge, A Soliloquy of the full Moon, April 1802Over a dramatic six-month period in 1802, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, and the two Hutchinson sisters Sara and Mary formed a close-knit group whose members saw or wrote to one another constantly. Coleridge, whose marriage was collapsing, was in love with ...

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by Mathias Clasen (Author)From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is the drive to be frightened, and why is it so perennially popular? Why Horror Seduces addresses these questions through evolutionary social sciences. Explaining the functional seduction of horror entertainment, this book...

In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture - Paperback

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by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Author)The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that haveburst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as eve...

Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary - Hardcover

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Anita Barrows (Translator), Joanna Macy (Translator)A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom on further issues including gender, soli...

Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Johannes D. Kaminski (Editor)Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or happily reproduces. But once this intimate, arousing and, often, disturbing dialogue transitions into another language, culture or medium, it must reposition itself within new conventions. How does this happen in practice?Examining erotic literature from multiple angles, this vo...

Graphic Medicine Manifesto: Tenth-Anniversary Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Mk Czerwiec (Author), Ian Williams (Author), Susan Merrill Squier (Author)A decade ago, Graphic Medicine Manifesto established a bold new framework for understanding the intersection of comics and healthcare. It was a call to action--an invitation to rethink the ways we engage with medicine, illness, disability, and caregiving through the power of visual storytelling. Now, ten years later, this landmark volume returns in a special anniversary edition that expan...

Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives

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Report copyright infringementby David Herman (Editor)Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal environments and human-animal relationships to shed new light on comics and graphic novels in which animal agents play a significant role. At th...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters - Paperback

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by Annie Dillard (Author)"A collection of meditations like polished stones -- painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." -- Kirkus ReviewsHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.Veering away from the long, meditative studies of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard explore...

The Routledge Introduction to American Comics

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew J. Kunka (Author), Rachel R. Miller (Author)This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the U.S. in all of its forms: political cartoons and newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, minicomics, and webcomics. Author BiographyAndrew J. Kunka is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Sumter. He received his PhD in Twentieth-Century British Literature from Purdue University and a MA in B...

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by Christopher Marlowe (Author), Sylvan Barnet (Editor), Sylvan Barnet (Introduction by)The classic Elizabethan play, with new material From the Elizabethan period's second-biggest dramatist comes the story of Faustus, a brilliant scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for limitless knowledge and powerful black magic.Author BiographyChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare's birth. Like Shakespeare, he was of a prosperous middle-class famil...

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Complete Guide to All Fourteen of the Languages Tolkien Invented - Paperback

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by Atanielle Annyn Rowland (Author)This is the book on all of Tolkien's invented languages, spoken by hobbits, elves, and men of Middle-earth -- a dicitonary of fourteen languages, an English-Elvish glossary, all the runes and alphabets, and material on Tolkien the linguist. Number of Pages: 207 Dimensions: 0.48 x 7.15 x 4.55 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 28, 1980

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by Mark Twain (Author), Elizabeth Frank (Introduction by), Mark Dawidziak (Afterword by)The celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."* In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. Roughing It is the ...

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by Mahmoud Darwish (Author), Catherine Cobham (Translator)This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish's last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwish's musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Throughout this personal collection, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing and of...

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories) - Paperback

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by Pu Songling (Author), Herbert A. Giles (Translator), Victoria Cass (Foreword by)Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaida...

Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius) - Paperback

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by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Michael Grant (Translator), Michael Grant (Introduction by)Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literat...

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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), David McDuff (Translator), David McDuff (Introduction by)'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy. The four years he spent there, startlingly re-created in The House of the Dead, were the most agonizing of his life. In this fictionalized account he recounts his soul-destroying incarceration through the cool, detached tone...

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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), Jane Kentish (Translator), Jane Kentish (Introduction by)Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man, who exploits her and drives the family to poverty. But when she is rescued by an aristocratic family, the abuse against Netochka's delicate psyche continues in a more subtle w...

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Report copyright infringementby Rei Ayatsuki (Author), Riichu (Artist), Gekidan Inu Curry Doroinu (Artist)THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOMEA week has passed since Kaguya fell unconscious. She's comatose, trapped within the psyche of a hero, and her condition continues to decline when news of the Director's death breaks. It isn't long before another hero appears, sparking a new battle for Charon. But Kaguya taught them that heroes can be saved--something that is not so easy to forget. Where did these...

Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O'Connor's Narrative Art - Paperback

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by Damian Ference (Author), Thomas Joseph White (Foreword by) Flannery O'Connor is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Her novels and short stories--shockingly violent, absurdly comic, spiritually potent--continue to entertain, beguile, and transform readers of all backgrounds to this day. For many encountering them for the first time, O'Connor's stories of backwoods prophets and outcasts feel strangely nihilistic and dark. Others familiar with her letters and essays apprec...

The Story's Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Aarons (Editor), Leela Corman (Interviewee)Back JacketThis comprehensive collection considers Jewish women graphic novelists and the richly figured ways in which Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how graphic narratives can capture the complexities of identity through the juxtapositions of word and image. Often preoccupied with memory--of loss, of personal and collective ...

Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Hoberek (Author)Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It was not only aesthetically groundbreaking but also anticipated future developments in politics, literature, and intellectual property. Demonstrating a keen eye for historical detail, Considering Watchmen gives readers a new appreciation of just how radical Moore and Gibbons's blend of gritty realism and formal experiment...

I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 2 (Novel)

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Report copyright infringementby Izumi Okido (Author), Jyun Hayase (Artist), Sarah Moon (Translator)A villainess doesn't need a Prince Charming! Dreams do come true! Reborn as the otome-game character Alicia Williams, I started down the path of becoming the greatest villainess in history, and I've been putting in some serious work for the past two years! Now, after a long absence, I return to school, and a swath of rumors welcomes me like a red carpet...So that means I'm doing a great job, rig...

Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan's Lost Generation

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Report copyright infringementby Mimi Okabe (Author)Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The bo...

On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the Us - Paperback

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by James Larue (Author)"An insightful and humorous look into the complex issues of censorship, Jamie LaRue's book is at times intellectually and emotionally challenging--like all of the best books should be." --R. Alan Brooks, Comics Creator and Professor, Professor of Graphic Narrative, Regis University In America today, more books are being banned than ever before. This censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities. In On...

Menendez: Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Captain General of the Ocean Sea

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Manucy (Author)Everyone knows of Columbus and Ponce de Leon, but the name of Menendez is not as familiar. Yet Pedro Menendez de Aviles might truly be called one of the founding fathers of America, for he was the founder of the nation's oldest city--St. Augustine. This book is the first to be written about Menendez. It is based on scholarly research, but it is not just a work for the scholar. It was written for the education and enjoyment of any reader wh...