Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Johnson (Author)Discover the lives and legacies of English poets in this collection of biographical sketches by Samuel Johnson. "Lives of Poets: Addison, etc." offers insightful portrayals of prominent figures from the 18th century. A cornerstone of literary biography and English literary criticism, this volume presents Johnson's unique perspectives on the poets and their works. Delve into the historical context and personal narratives that shaped their ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Drake (Author)"It would be nice to think that this comprehensive and thought provoking biography will do something to give Teasdale a permanent, if small, niche in the history of American poetry. She is a good poet, if not a great one--much better than her splashy contemporaries Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg. . . . Teasdale herself could not have wished for a better biographer than William Drake." --Katha Pollitt, The New York Times Book Review ...

The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume II, 1836-1849

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Report copyright infringementby William Cullen Bryant (Editor), Thomas G. Voss (Editor)The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought t...

Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Steinmeyer (Author)The acclaimed author of The Last Greatest Magician in the World sleuths out literature's iconic vampire, uncovering the source material--from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman--behind Bram Stoker's lord of the undead. Praise for Who Was Dracula? "A fantastic, well-documented story." --Library Journal (starred review) "[A] well-researched and entertaining take on Dracula's origin story." --Publishers ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Alexander (Author), Unknown (Author)Through historical and bibliographical research, and through analysis of Shakespeare's work, the author places Shakespeare among the supreme artists of the world. In the first two chapters he examines the facts about Shakespeare's career as a dramatist and summarizes the unfavorable judgments created by his early biographers. In subsequent chapters Professor Alexander establishes an order among the plays that reveals a ...

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by Ayşeg?l Savaş (Author)A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşeg?l Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. "In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out." A friend lends a book that sug...

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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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Report copyright infringementby George V. Tudhope (Author)The book ""Emblems Regarding Francis Bacon's Life Used To Transmit Secret Information"" by George V. Tudhope is a detailed exploration of the use of emblems as a means of transmitting secret information during the life of Francis Bacon. The author delves into the history and significance of emblems, which were highly popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and were often used as a form of visual communication. The book spec...

Editing, Performance, Texts: New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Jacqueline Jenkins (Author), Julie Sanders (Author)The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.Author BiographyChristie Carson, Royal Holloway University of London, UK Richard Allen...

A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation

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Report copyright infringementby Nina Levine (Editor), David Lee Miller (Editor)Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early culture. In this volume a distinguished group of scholars gathers to celebrate the work of Harry Berger, Jr. To "celebr...

Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art from Ibsen to Bergman

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Report copyright infringementby Arnold Weinstein (Author)Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. Here readers will gain new perspectives on canonical giants such as S ren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, ...

Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture

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Report copyright infringementby J. Twyning (Author)An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. Analyzing texts in relation to cultural artefacts, each chapter demonstrates the self-conscious production of English consciousness as its most enduring history.Author BiographyJOHN TWYNING is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Schopenhauer (Author)The World As Will And Idea: Containing Four Books V1 is a philosophical work by renowned German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The book is divided into four parts or books, each of which explores different aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy. In the first book, Schopenhauer introduces his central concept of the will, which he argues is the fundamental force that drives all of human behavior and existence. He argues that the will i...

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places - Paperback

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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author)"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind -- strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.In scrupulously distilled prose, Pathemata offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in r...

Hell Is Dark with No Flowers, Vol. 2 (Light Novel) - Paperback

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by Yoru Michio (Author), Taylor Engel (Translator)A letter hinting at an impending murder and dismemberment is delivered to Shiroshi's door, and he and Seiji set out to investigate. They find themselves venturing to a remote island dominated by a towering Baroque mansion, where all manner of surprises await them -- including a beautiful living doll and a young boy who calls himself Shiroshi's brother! Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: January 21, 2025

Pineapple Anthology of Florida Writers - Paperback

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by James C. Clark (Editor)A collection of writings about Florida by those who lived or traveled here. Includes William Bartram, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zane Grey, and James Patterson.Next in series > >See all of the books in this series Number of Pages: 350 Dimensions: 0.47 x 8.94 x 6.02 IN Publication Date: September 06, 2014

The Devil Finds Work: An Essay - Paperback

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by James Baldwin (Author)From "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness. Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering a look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions,...

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present - Paperback

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by Phillip Lopate (Author)For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to off...

Exploring Early Modern Sexualities: The Desires of King James VI & I

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Report copyright infringementby Jason O'Toole (Author)How might we understand early modern sexuality prior to contemporary interpretations of sexuality? What does the sex life of James VI and I tell us about the history of sexuality?Jason O'Toole explores the network of intimacy which structured itself around King James VI and I, his wife Anna of Denmark and James' prominent as well as ancillary favourites to provide answers to these questions. O'Toole presents a cultural and literary history...

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

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition - Paperback

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by Erich Auerbach (Author), Edward W. Said (Author), Willard R. Trask (Translator)More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said ...

Dead White Guys: A Father, His Daughter and the Great Books of the Western World

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Burriesci (Author)Dead White Guys is a timely defense of the great books, arriving in the middle of a national debate about the fate of these books in high schools and universities around the country. Burriesci shows how the great books can enrich our lives as individuals, as citizens, and in our careers. Extending the argument first made by Anna Quinndlen's on the act of reading itself, How Reading Changed My Life," ("It is like the rubbing of two sticks ...

Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature - Hardcover

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by David Anthony (Author)This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others. But this figure also plays an important role in the sometimes sensational work of canonical writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman. Whatever the medium, this character, a...

The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis - Hardcover

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by Melissa J. Homestead (Author)A groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process What would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? In this groundbreaking book on Cather's relationship with her life partner, author Melissa J. Homestead counters the established portrayal of Cather as a solitary genius and reassesses the role that Lewis, who has so far been rendered largely in...

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field - Paperback

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by Tara L. Masih (Editor)With its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION meets the growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of the re-emerging genre popularly known as flash fiction. The book's introduction provides, for the first time, a comprehensive history of the short short story, from its early roots and hitherto unknown early publications and appearances, to its current state and practice....

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem - Paperback

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by Shira Wolosky (Author)In The Art of Poetry, Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling introduction to an art whose emphasis on verbal music, wordplay, and dodging the merely literal makes it at once the most beguiling and most challenging of literary forms. A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms and voice. In fourteen engaging, beautifully ...

Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts - Paperback

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by George Bernard Shaw (Author), Nicholas Grene (Introduction by), Dan H. Laurence (Editor)Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin ClassicShaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle--"an east-end dona with an apron and three orange and red ostrich feathers"--for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, with whom he had a passionate but unconsummated affair. From the outset the play was a ...

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World - Paperback

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by Pádraig Ó. Tuama (Author)In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives....

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Parker (Author)This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. First published in 2014 and now available in paperback, it was critically lauded and declared the definitive life of this great artist and writer. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich...

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 - Hardcover

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by Katrin Ettenhuber (Author)The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic. The nature and functions of logic have been largely misunderstood in literary criticism of the period, where it is often seen as sterile and formalistic: either an overcomplex remnant of Medieval philosophy superseded by rhetoric, or part of a Ramist pedagogy so stripped back that ...

Music, Mind, and Language in Chinese Poetry and Performance: The Voice Extended - Hardcover

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by Casey Schoenberger (Author)"Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words"--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extends the reach of a sentiment beyond the individual, and musicality extends the reach of poetic language, not only across a room, but across geography and generations. The "extended mind thesis" (EMT) views minds as extending beyond individual nervous systems to include material and social environments. Music, Mind, and...