Literary Criticism

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In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig

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Report copyright infringementby Rüdiger Görner (Author)A refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. In the Future of Yesterday delves into Stefan Zweig's considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition. His privileged social background saw him embrace European culture and cosmopolitanism. A world traveler from the outset, he liked to uproot himself, but whether he stayed in London, New York, or, eventually, in Brazil, his lit...

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

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Report copyright infringementby 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 ...

Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare

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Report copyright infringementby John Sutherland (Author)'Triggering'. When and where did the usageoriginate? No one is sure. There is, however, clear connection with thepsychiatric term 'trauma trigger' - stimuli which can detonate unhealed wounds. The concept of triggering took off infeminist magazines and social media 'chat' around 2010. Around 2013/14 it moved, wholesale, into higher education. In May 2014, the New York Times reportedthat at scores of institutions student bodies were dem...

Poéticas de José María Lima. Tradición y sorpresa

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Report copyright infringementby Áurea María Sotomayor (Author)José María Lima (1934-2009), Puerto Rico, es una de las figuras claves de la poesía puertorriqueña y latinoamericana en el siglo XX. Matemático, ajedrecista, dibujante y poeta, inaugura un espacio poético inquietantemente revolucionario. Este volumen contiene diez entradas ensayísticas a su arte poético y a su personalidad de outsider, así como una excelente muestra de su obra poética y un índice cronológico de su poesía.Participan...

Gilberto Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Lund (Editor)'Por que ler Freyre hoje em día? As respostas a esta pergunta sao necessariamente múltiplas e contraditórias. Urnas delas concluem que seria melhor fazer essa leitura de Freyre a nossa última. Outras apontam novas dir oes para levar adiante sua obra. O nosso objetivo ao organizar este volume foi instigar novos ensaios que nao representassem simplesmente julgamentos sobre a obra de Freyre, mas, antes, interpreta(6es significativas.'Extraído d...

Pantheon: An Illustrated Handbook to the Greek Gods & Goddesses

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Lawrence (Author), Flora Kirk (Illustrator)A beautifully illustrated handbook, profiling more than 50 characters from Greek Mythology "I love Caroline Lawrence and so should you." - Natalie Haynes "Huge fun!" - Tom Holland Get to know the ancient Greek gods and goddesses...and find out why their stories are still so enthralling today. Discover how to identify each god, demigod, hero or monster from the ancient Greek world through their attributes a...

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Report copyright infringementby George O'Brien (Author)The increased visibility of the Irish novel in recent years has been one of the outstanding developments in contemporary Irish literature. This development has coincided with a period of significant change in Ireland as a whole. The Irish Novel 1960-2010 is the first book to study how the novel has been involved in discussing the seeds of change and the response to change as it evolved. The result is a wide-ranging survey, accessible and ...

Staring Down the Tiger: Stories of Hmong American Women

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Report copyright infringementby Pa Der Vang (Editor)Tsov tom, or tiger bite--an insult in Hmong culture--means you were stupid enough to approach a tiger and get bitten. In this remarkable new book, Hmong American women reclaim that phrase, showing in prose and poetry that they are strong enough and brave enough to stare down the tiger. Contributors celebrate the power of bonds between daughter and mother, sister and sister, and grandmother and granddaughter. Only after climbing a mountain i...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Corbyn (Editor), Len McCluskey (Author)Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour's election slogan "For the many, not the few." That slogan, inspired by Shelley's famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, points to something else the two have in common: a lifelong enthusiasm for p...

Plums or Nuts: Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Amik Smallwood (Author), Michael Migizi Sullivan (Retold by)A master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty-five stories--often bawdy, full of mischief and misbehavior--in Ojibwe and English. Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teachings Amik strove to pass along to his students, he cherished most the humor of his Ojibwe people. In this bilingual collection, Amik tells of his many adventures and those of others he knew. Learnin...

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Report copyright infringementby Werner Kofler (Author), Lauren K. Wolfe (Translator)Installed behind his desk with notebook, ashtray, whiskey, and "several typewriters of various calibers," Werner Kofler embarks on a tour not through space but through literature, and through his abortive attempts at producing a work he can call his own. "Art must destroy reality," he trumpets, yet, in the spirit of his "beloved Beckett," each failed attempt at the writing desk only drives the effort endlessly...

Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present

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Report copyright infringementby Frances Wood (Author)Great Books of China invites readers to discover--or rediscover--some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it offers much insight into Chinese life. The long continuity of Chinese culture means that texts created more than two thousand years ago are still part of the education and background of today's China. Great Books of China introduces outstandin...

A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics

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Report copyright infringementby Piero Boitani (Author), Ann Goldstein (Translator)Boitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and fluidity of identity and matter, their examination of the power and position of women in society, and their enduring trea...

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Volume 6

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Edward Waldo Emerson (Author)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 the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we...

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Report copyright infringementby N. S. Boone (Author)The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980, Jorie Graham has challenged readers with her bold, innovative, and capacious poetry. In the collections that followed, she expanded the scope of the lyric form through her maximalist poetics, her provocative ethical imagination, and, in later years, her environmentalist vision. Graham was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Dream o...

Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish)

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Report copyright infringement Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2022

Review of Contemporary Fiction: Summer 2007: Special Fiction Issue

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Report copyright infringementby John O'Brien (Editor)The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2007

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Report copyright infringementby Sina Queyras (Author)SHORTLISTED FOR THE QWF MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONTHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mindThirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they'd turned in an essay on Virginia Woolf.Queyras returns to that contentious first en...

A Study of Japanese Animation as Translation: A Descriptive Analysis of Hayao Miyazaki and Other Anime Dubbed into English

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Report copyright infringementby Reito Adachi (Author)Despite the growing popularity and influence of Japanese animation in America and other parts of the world, the importance of anime studies as audio-visual translation has not been well-recognized academically. In order to throw new light on this problem, the author attempts to clarify distinctive characteristics of English dubs of Japanese animated films between the 1980s and the 2000s, including Hayao Miyazaki's, in descriptive ways: thro...

Dostoevsky's Conception of Man: Its Impact on Philosophical Anthropology

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Report copyright infringementby Peter McGuire Wolf (Author)Dostoevsky's novels have contributed to a conception of man that reverberates in the conclusions of prominent twentieth-century philosophical anthropologists. Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus, among others, have admitted that the works of Dostoevsky had an influence on the manner in which they learned to conceive of human nature and the world in which humans live. Our aim in this...

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Report copyright infringementby Regelind Farn (Author)Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness" (1899) is taught and read all over the world. Everywhere, novelists and travel writers respond to it in their own creative work. I discuss 30 responses, or rewritings, from Africa, India, the Caribbean, Australia, Europe and the US. Their perspectives include those of groups who identify with Conrad's Europeans and groups who feel close to his Africans, and increasingly those of groups who situat...

Merely Being There Is Not Enough: Women's Roles in Autobiographical Texts by Female Beat Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Heike Mlakar (Author)Despite the advent of second wave feminism in the late 1960s, it took more than twenty years before feminist literary criticism started to pay attention to the complex role of women Beat writers. Merely Being There Is Not Enough theorizes the memoirs of Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, and Brenda Frazer, and analyzes their contributions to the Beat movement. Among the writings of female Beat authors, the memoir has become the mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Alonza Knowles (Author), Knowles Alonza Knowles (Author)Poems of inspiration in real life. Poems that will effect the way you look at the world today. This book of poetry should be a must read for anyone living in the twenty first century and beyond. Number of Pages: 68 Dimensions: 0.16 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 22, 2008

To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Eichelberger (Editor)With over 350 complete or excerpted letters, most previously unpublished, To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell forms an epistolary narrative of Welty's writing life and her nearly fifty-year friendship with Frank Lyell, a friend from Jackson, Mississippi. Also included in the text are extensive annotations to explain the letters' myriad, often telegraphic cultural references. Early letters show both corres...

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Van Duyne (Author)Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination--the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne--a superfan and scholar--radically reimagines the last years of Plath's life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy. Drawing from decades of study on Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, the chi...

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor Spencer-Regan (Author)This book features a collection of essays on some of the key poets of post-war America, written by leading scholars in the field. All the essays have been newly commissioned to take account of the diverse movements in American poetry since 1945, and also to reflect, retrospectively, on some of the major talents that have shaped its development. In the aftermath of the Second World War, American poets took stock of their own tumultu...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca West (Author)Rebecca West's "Henry James" offers a penetrating examination of one of the most significant figures in English literature. This insightful work delves into the life and writings of Henry James, the celebrated American expatriate writer, providing readers with a critical appreciation of his profound impact on 20th-century literary landscape. West's analysis illuminates James's contributions to the novel form and his enduring influence on su...

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Mason Bradbury (Author)In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer's last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer's contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.In order to understand Chaucer's use of proverbs and their reception by premodern readers, we must set aside ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Fuller (Author)Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and intellectual currents of an age of revolutionary change, it is experimental, writerly, and individually expressive. Above all it is creative in response to the difficulties of understanding aesthetic experience in new ways, and in setting those ...

Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Benjamin Bricker (Author)Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to regulate the press. In response, satirists and their booksellers devised a range of evasions. Writers increasingly capitalized on forms of verbal ambiguity, includi...

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Report copyright infringementby Kent Cartwright (Author)Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies orchestrate ongoing encounters between the rational and the mysterious, between doubt and fascination, with feelings moved by elements of enchantment that also seem a little ri...

Persuasion After Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism

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Report copyright infringementby Yasmin Solomonescu (Editor), Stefan H. Uhlig (Editor)While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attention to how values that were once bound up with rhetoric were rearticulated after its demise. This volume explores how persuasion ceased to be the seemingly self-evident objective of rhetoric and became, instead, a variable and substantive focus for discussion in its...