Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Dylan Trigg (Author)What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked by phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg's The Thing redefines phenomenology as a species of realism, which he terms unhuman phenomenology. Far from being the vehicle of a ...

Notes On Chinese Literature: With Introductory Remarks On The Progressive Advancement Of The Art (1902)

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Wylie (Author)""Notes on Chinese Literature"" is a comprehensive study of the literature of China, written by Alexander Wylie and first published in 1902. The book is divided into two parts, with the first part providing an overview of the history and development of Chinese literature, as well as an analysis of the major genres and themes. The second part of the book is a collection of translations of selected Chinese works, including poetry, drama, a...

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (Light Novel) Vol. 17 - Paperback

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by Rifujin Na Magonote (Author), Shirotaka (Illustrator)THE PRINCESS AND HER KNIGHT Rudeus plunges into the political fray, enacting Orsted's plan to put Ariel on the throne of the Asura Kingdom. Though fortune seems to favor them at first, the crafty Man God has one last card up his sleeve⁠--a dangerous foe they must face before the new monarch can assume her crown. Worse yet, there may be a traitor in their midst!Author BiographyRifujin na Magonote is a Japanese writer best known as the aut...

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Symons (Author)""From Toulouse Lautrec to Rodin with Some Personal Impressions"" is a book written by Arthur Symons, a British writer and critic. The book is a collection of essays and personal reflections on the lives and works of some of the most prominent artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Auguste Rodin. Symons provides a comprehensive overview of the artistic movements of the time, such as Impre...

Re-Presentations of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portrayals in Fiction, Drama, Music, and Film

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Dallape Matson (Author)This book examines the treatment of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work in twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, drama, music, and film, specifically since 1950. The author uses these genres to examine how text, music, performance, and visual images work as a system of representation. In this book, the author strives to clarify the many Dante Gabriel Rossettis, using thirteen of the thirty easily identifiable roles in this syst...

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Report copyright infringementby Nikolay Punin (Author)Nikolay Punin (1888-1953) was the most articulate Russian/Soviet art critic of the 1920s. He strongly advocated Constructivism, an avant-garde impulse that favored mechanomorphic abstraction and proclaimed a movement to bring art into the center of popular life. In the United States, he is perhaps best remembered for his love affair with Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the first English...

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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...

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by Karen Wynn Fonstad (Author)Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated -- nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised -- the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in THE SILMARILLION, ...

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World - Paperback

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by Verlyn Flieger (Editor)J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of stories, it provides information alluded to in Tolkien's better known works and, in doing so, turns The Lord of the Rings into much more than a sequel to The Hobbit, making...

The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

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Report copyright infringementby Richard de Bury (Author), E. C. Thomas (Translator)[A]ll who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books... The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune with books is lead to detest all manner of vice. The demon, who derives his name from knowledge, is most effectually defeated by the knowledge of books, and throug...

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Report copyright infringementby Swami Vijnanananda (Author)The Sri Mad Devi Bhagavatam: Books One Through Twelve V2 is a spiritual book written by Swami Vijnanananda. It is a comprehensive guide to the Hindu goddess Devi, also known as Shakti, and her various forms and incarnations. The book is divided into twelve parts, each of which explores a different aspect of Devi's teachings and mythology. The first book introduces the reader to Devi and her role in Hinduism, while the subsequent books...

Pausanias's Description Of Greece V4: Commentary On Books 6-8 (1913)

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Report copyright infringementby Pausanias (Author), James George Frazer (Translator)Pausanias's Description of Greece V4: Commentary on Books 6-8 is a book that provides a detailed analysis of the ancient Greek world as described by the Greek geographer and traveler, Pausanias. The book is a commentary on Books 6-8 of Pausanias's original work, which explores the regions of Elis, Achaia, and Arcadia in Greece.The book includes a comprehensive introduction that provides an overview of Pausania...

Richard Stanyhurst: Translation Of The First Four Books Of The Aeneis Of P. Virgilius Maro (1880)

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Author), Edward Arber (Editor)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. ...

A Companion To Euclid: Being A Help To The Understanding And Remembering Of The First Four Books (1837)

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Report copyright infringementby A. Graduate (Author)A Companion to Euclid: Being a Help to the Understanding and Remembering of the First Four Books is a book written by an anonymous author who identifies themselves only as ""A Graduate."" Originally published in 1837, this book is intended as a guide to help readers better understand and remember the principles and concepts presented in the first four books of Euclid's Elements, a classic work of mathematics and geometry.The book is divided ...

Two Note Books Of Thomas Carlyle: From 23rd March, 1822, To 16th May, 1832 (1898)

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Eliot Norton (Editor)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Nu...

The Six Books on the Priesthood of St. John Chrysostom (1837)

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Report copyright infringementby John Chrysostom St John Chrysostom (Author), St John Chrysostom (Author), F. W. Hohler (Translator)The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom is a collection of writings by St. John Chrysostom, a prominent early Christian theologian and bishop of Constantinople. Originally written in Greek in the 4th century, this book has been translated into English and published in 1837. The book is divided into six sections, each focused on different aspects of ...

Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima: A Description Of Works Relating To America Published Between 1492 And 1551 (1866)

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Harrisse (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number o...

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck - Hardcover

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by Dionne Brand (Author)One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not. In Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Dionne Brand's first major book of nonfiction since her classic A Map to the Door of No Return, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and what remains in the wr...

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by Kate Baer (Author)An Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerA Goop Book Club Pick"If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of JoA stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend."When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed." So ends Kate Baer's remarkable poem "Thi...

Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature - Paperback

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by Sarah Iles Johnston (Author) Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9.04 x 6.05 IN Publication Date: April 21, 2003

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by Pliny the Younger (Author), P. G. Walsh (Translator)In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and interests of a senator and leading imperial official whose friends include the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Pliny's letters cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political...

Shakespeare: The World as Stage - Paperback

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by Bill Bryson (Author)Bill Bryson's bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship--updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged aro...

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by Martin Heidegger (Author)Poetry, Language, Thought collects Martin Heidegger's pivotal writings on art, its role in human life and culture, and its relationship to thinking and truth. Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opens up appreciation of Heidegger beyond the study of philosophy to the reaches of poetry and our fundamental relationship to the world. Featuring "The Origin of the Work of Art," a milestone in Heidegger's canon, this ...

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by Annie Dillard (Author)"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. . . . Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear. . . . A rare and precious book." -- Frederick Buechner, New York Times Book ReviewFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a book a...

Demosthenes: Selected Speeches - Paperback

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by Demosthenes (Author), Robin Waterfield (Author), Chris Carey (Author)'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately involved in the political events of his day. As well as showing a master orator at work, his speeches are a prime source for the history of the period, when Athens was engaged in a doomed struggle against the rising power of Maced...

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by Walter Scott (Author), Jane Stevenson (Author), Peter Davidson (Author)Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extrem...

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by Jane Austen (Author), John Mullan (Editor)'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her s...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925 - Hardcover

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by Ernest Hemingway (Author), Sandra Spanier (Editor), Albert J. Defazio III (Editor)The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Do...

Othello: No Fear Shakespeare Side-By-Side Plain English - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author)Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday language A complete list of characters, with descriptions Plenty of helpful commentary Author BiographyWILLIAM SHAKES...

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by Larrington (Author)"She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish." After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandicmythological and h...

Doing It with the Cosmos: Henry Miller's Big Sur Struggle for Love Beyond Sex

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Report copyright infringementby Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick (Author) Number of Pages: 220 Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 01, 2001

How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice - Paperback

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by Thomas C. Foster (Author)The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With Ho...