Literary Criticism

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The New York Public Library's Books of the Century - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Diefendorf (Editor), Diana Bryan (Illustrator)What are the books that helped shape and define the last hundred years? This was the question put to the librarians of The New York Public Library as part of the Library's 100th anniversary celebration. Which books had influenced the course of events for good or ill? Which interpreted new worlds? Or delighted millions of readers? Their answers to these questions formed "Books of the Century," a highly popular exhibit during the Librar...

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by John Lennard (Author)This volume is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at different poems, to build up sustained analytical readings. The second edition--fully revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website--confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English.Author Biog...

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert - Paperback

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by Robert S. Hatten (Author)"Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning challenged and expanded." --Patrick McCrelessThis book continues to devel...

Milton's Theatrical Epic: The Invention and Design of Paradise Lost - Hardcover

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by John G. Demaray (Author)No detailed description available for "Milton's Theatrical Epic". Number of Pages: 179 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: February 19, 2014

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by Kate Ellis (Author)The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywood's 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an anthology of its source material. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 17, 2024

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by Mary Trotter (Author)Through analysis of both major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. By looking at her subject as a performance rather than a literary phenomenon, Trotter captures how Irish theatre has actively reflected and shaped deba...

Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth - Paperback

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by Marjorie Burns (Author)J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) is increasingly recognized as the most influential writer of the twentieth century. Sales of his books remain exceptionally high, and Middle-earth fan clubs flourish around the world. The massive success of the film versions made of The Lord of the Rings, and released between 2001 and 2003, have only added to his popularity. Throughout his life, Tolkien was acutely aware of the power of myth in shaping society; so much so, that one of his e...

Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 - Hardcover

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by Noah Berlatsky (Author)William Marston was an unusual man--a psychologist, a soft-porn pulp novelist, more than a bit of a carny, and the (self-declared) inventor of the lie detector. He was also the creator of Wonder Woman, the comic that he used to express two of his greatest passions: feminism and women in bondage. Comics expert Noah Berlatsky takes us on a wild ride through the Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s, vividly illustrating how Marston's many quirks and contradictions, along wi...

Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores - Paperback

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by Shachar Pinsker (Editor), Adriana X. Jacobs (Translator), Yosefa Raz (Translator)Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman--who died in 2011 at the age of 101--was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant--who is still living and occasionally publishing--wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work is virtually unknown today, even to those familiar with Hebrew literature in America. In Women's Hebrew Poetry on ...

Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston - Paperback

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by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author)Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs's decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal great-grandfather of this volume's editor, Matt Cohen. The trove of correspondence Cohen discovered unexpectedly during a visit home includes hundreds of...

Arundhati Roy's the God of Small Things - Paperback

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by Julie Mullaney (Author)This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.Author BiographyJul...

Chinese Visual Poetry: The Path of a Picturesque Literature - Hardcover

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by Tan Hanwei (Author)A pioneer in the study of Chinese Visual Poetry---which has never been recognized as a poetic genre yet remain dynamic and active up to now, Dr. Tan explores the chronological development of Chinese visual poetry in all its forms, chiefly including the earliest inscription fossils in prehistoric times, various types of Chinese calligraphy, hidden verse as displayed in the headwords of a common poem or doggerel, Chinese couplets, paper-cutting, Peking Opera masks, and poe...

The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio - Paperback

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by Guyda Armstrong (Editor), Rhiannon Daniels (Editor), Stephen J. Milner (Editor)Incorporating the most recent research by scholars in Italy, the UK, Ireland and North America, this collection of essays foregrounds Boccaccio's significance as a pre-eminent scholar and mediator of the classical and vernacular traditions, whose innovative textual practices confirm him as a figure of equal standing to Petrarch and Dante. Situating Boccaccio and his works in their cultural contexts, the Companio...

Essays in Medieval Chinese Literature and Cultural History - Paperback

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by Paul W. Kroll (Author)This is one of a pair of volumes by Paul Kroll (the companion volume deals with medieval Taoism and the poetry of Li Po). Collecting eleven essays by this leading scholar of Chinese poetry, the volume presents a selection of studies devoted to the medieval period, centering especially on the T'ang dynasty. It opens with the author's famous articles on the dancing horses of T'ang, on the emperor HsÃ1/4an Tsung's abandonment of his capital and forced execution of his pr...

Queer Expectations: A Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry - Paperback

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by Zohar Weiman-Kelman (Author)Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future. In Queer Expectations, Zohar Weiman-Kelman shows how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories, developing "queer expectancy" as a conceptual tool for understanding how literary texts can both invoke and resist what came before. Bringing together Jewish women's poetry from the late nineteenth ce...

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by John McKinnell (Author), Donata Kick (Editor), John Shafer (Editor)Essays on Eddic Poetry presents a selection of important articles on Old Norse literature by noted medievalist John McKinnell. While McKinnell's work addresses many of the perennial issues in the study of Old Norse, this collection has a special focus on the interplay between heathen and Christian world-views in the poems.Among the texts examined are H?vam?l, which includes an elegantly cynical poem about ??inn's sexual int...

The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem - Paperback

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by G-Ph Ballin (Editor), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Author)The Song of Hiawatha is an epic poem in free verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and is symbolic of American literature of Indian inspiration of the nineteenth century. The poem, which evokes the life of an Indian named Hiawatha, draws its references from the legends and stories of the North American Indian tribes, especially those of the Ojibwa of Northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, Algic Researches and History, Condition ...

Review of Contemporary Fiction - Paperback

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by Gert Jonke (Author), Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Emily Holmes Coleman (Author)Now in its twenty-fifth year, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has long been one of the most important journals covering contemporary, literature. Through essays, excerpts, interviews, and an extensive book review section, the Review is dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, and some of the most influential authors of the twentieth century have been featured in its pages. Number of Page...

Inventing Comics: A New Translation of Rodolphe Töpffer's Reflections on Graphic Storytelling, Media Rhetorics, and Aesthetic Practice - Hardcover

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by Rodolphe Töpffer (Author), Sergio C. Figueiredo (Editor)In English and FrenchIn recent years, graphic novels have gained a renewed interest from a host of scholars in a diverse range of fields, including rhetoric and writing, media studies, literary studies, visual communication, graphic arts, and art history. While many of these studies reference Rodolphe Töpffer as the inventor (or, "father") of the genre, his scholarly work addressing the theoretical foundation and significance of graph...

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by Tuyen Do (Author)The Nguyen family are nursing deep wounds and secrets. Escaping war-torn Vietnam has left scars that no one is willing to talk about. As the family gradually integrates into their new life in Britain, the youngest daughter Mai turns to photography, her camera becoming a conduit through which she navigates her dual identity as a second generation immigrant and chronicles her community's experiences.Author BiographyTuyen Do is an actor and writer. She was part of the Royal C...

Ezra Pound's Green World: Nature, Landscape and Language - Hardcover

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by Walter Baumann (Editor), Caterina Ricciardi (Editor)This book brings to the fore much new work on this key area of Pound's endeavours and interests, and on the social, political, and philosophical implications of his works. They also deal with his interests in Chinese virtues, Egyptian hieroglyphs and autobiographical myths, where he combined his appreciation of both the Green World and the arts. Number of Pages: 1 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 03, 2018

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by Catherine E. Paul (Author)Fascist Directive reveals changes in Ezra Pound's prose writing resulting from his excitement over Mussolini's use of Italian cultural heritage to build and promote the modern Fascist state. Drawing on unpublished archival material and untranslated periodical contributions, Catherine E. Paul delves into the vexing work of perhaps the most famous, certainly the most notorious, American in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s, providing fresh understanding of Fascist deploy...

El sabueso de Los Baskerville - Paperback

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by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)El sabueso de Los Baskerville Arthur Conan Doyle Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: August 10, 2016

After Poland: A Memoir Because of Primo Levi - Paperback

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by Cheryl Chaffin (Author)In If This Is a Man, Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi wrote an ethical treatise on how to regain humanity after atrocity. His need to write developed at Auschwitz. Upon return to Italy in late 1945, he began to compose his first testimonial work. In After Poland, a story written as both a biography and a memoir, scholar Cheryl Chaffin travels to Poland because of her love for Levi's writing and his story. As a student in Italy in the 1980s, Chaffin first discovered L...

Words: Essays on Writing, Reading, and Life - Paperback

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by Jessica McCann (Author)"A book is a box of words, until someone opens it." Ursula K. Le GuinJessica McCann has woven together a collection of personal essays and writing tips that offer a unique glimpse into her writing journey and process. She is an award-winning historical novelist and has worked as a professional freelance writer and editor for magazines, universities, corporations, and nonprofits for more than thirty years. In Words, McCann shares her passion for books, as well as rese...

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by Beatrice Gruendler (Author)The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. Ho...

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by Jeffrey Rice (Author)In typical academic circles, texts must be critiqued, mined for the obfuscated meanings they hide, and shown to reveal larger, broader meanings than what are initially evident. To engage in this type of writing is to perform an authentic version of scholarship. But what if a scholar chooses instead to write without critique? What if they write about travelling, their children, food, grocery shopping, frozen garlic bread, sandwiches, condiments, falafel, yoga, and momen...

The Art of the Book Review, Part III: Just as my feet allow me to walk in this world my books (Sefarim) allow me to walk in higher worlds still

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by David B. Levy (Author)The Art of the Book Review "Just as my feet allow me to walk in this world my books (Sefarim) allow me to walk in higher worlds still" (GRA) Part III a small selection of a subset of book, film, database, and web reviews. Number of Pages: 688 Dimensions: 1.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 27, 2020

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by Mieke Bal (Author)Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Written as a companion to Mieke Bal's international classic Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, in which the examples focus almost exclusively on literary studies, this new book offers more elaborate analyses of visual media, especially visual art and film. Read independently or in parallel with its companion, Narratology in ...

A History of African American Poetry - Paperback

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by Lauri Ramey (Author)Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop. Number of Pages: 281 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2021

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