Literary Criticism

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Romeo and Juliet: 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 this new EXPANDED edition of ROMEO AND JULIET! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter. The expanded sections include: Five Key Questions: Five frequently asked questions ab...

Maidens or Monsters?: Tales of Amazons, Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Manuscripts - Hardcover

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by Chantry Westwell (Author) An illustrated collection of exceptional female figures in myth and legendIn the Middle Ages, some of the most popular and well-loved stories were about female saints, classical heroines, and the female protagonists of romance cycles. The portrayal of these characters conformed to societal attitudes toward women, which changed with the prevailing views of the times. Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the British Library's unrivaled Medieval, Renai...

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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...

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - Hardcover

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by Emily Dickinson (Author)Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women--to encourage, challenge, and inspire.One of American's most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection of her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and feminists of today.Continue your journey in the Women's Voices serie...

Take My Coxcomb: Shakespeare's Clown-Servants from Late Feudal to Proto-Capitalist Economies in Early Modern England - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby G. Neasman Everett G. Neasman (Author)With the early growth of monarchal absolutism in England, professional acting troupes established themselves. These dramatists of a 'new secular seriousness' act in the shadow of waning Catholic cycle plays controlled by the church. By Shakespeare's time, professional acting troupes are forces of economic production. Specifically, "Take My Coxcomb" analyzes the ways in which the clowns affect three aspects of Shakespeare's...

Strange Novel Worlds: Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline-Isabelle Caron (Editor), Kristin Noone (Editor) Since the publication of the first James Blish novelizations of Star Trek episodes in 1967, close to 900 tie-in novels, anthologies, and omnibus editions have been published. Star Trek tie-in novels have had a significant influence on Western popular culture. The works of beloved science fiction authors have shaped the way fans understand Star Trek and its universe, and many stand as near equal builders o...

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance Along the Us-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Elena Belmonte (Author)In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production. Belmonte examines literature, art, and film produced by artists living on both sides of the border to explore how they portray this violence and how they use their art to acti...

Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits - Hardcover

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by Jason Allen-Paisant (Author)Aimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between 'spirit, ' 'poetry, ' and 'knowing'. These explications, setting Césaire's work in relation to a rigorously accounted for set of influences, reframe how we understand his writings, enhancing their philosophical, rath...

The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling - Paperback

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by Charles Johnson (Author)From Charles Johnson--a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on literature and race--comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage is a modern classic, revered...

John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, C. 1400 - Hardcover

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by Emily Steiner (Author)What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author of the fourteenth century. Trevisa (d. 1402) made a career of translating big informational texts from Latin into English prose. These included Ranulph Higden's Polychronicon, an enormous universal history, Bartholomaeus Anglicus's well-known natural encyclopedia De proprietatibus rerum, and Giles of ...

Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga - Hardcover

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by Hirohiko Araki (Author)Learn how to create manga from Hirohiko Araki--creator of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and a master of the medium! Hirohiko Araki is the author of one of the longest-running and most beloved manga of all time, the epic fan favorite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. According to him, manga is the ultimate synthesis of all forms of art, and in this book he reveals the secrets behind how to make the magic happen using concrete examples from his own work. Read all about his "golden ...

Hamlet: 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 study guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable for students. This No Fear Shakespeare guide contains: The complete text of Hamlet, the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language A complete list of characters with descriptions Plenty of help...

The Making of Middle-Earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings - Hardcover

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by Christopher A. Snyder (Author)This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, films, games, and shows. This book, originally published in 2013 and richly illustrated with photographs and artwork, was the first to connect all the threads of influence on Tolkien that infused his creation of Middle-eart...

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Report copyright infringementby Elías Zerolo (Author)Una colección de diversos escritos y documentos históricos del escritor y político español, Elías Zerolo.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 corporat...

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Report copyright infringementby Rudyard Kipling (Author), Nathan Haskell Dole (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 conc...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry James (Author)The book "" Gabrielle de Bergerac, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 62 ...

The Amores; or, Amours (Book-II) - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ovid (Author)The Amores; or, Amours (Book-II), is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are...

Romeo and Juliet: 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 Shakespeare 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 Biogra...

Creation Story of the Yorubas - Paperback

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by Festus Wale Ogunbitan (Author)Prologue The Yorubas are one of the ethnic groups of the people of South West of Nigeria. Yorubas are very rich in stories about religion and culture. Among these is the famous story of creation of earth by Oduduwa, and the creation of humans by Orishanla. The story narrates the meaning and existence of God and the universe. The almighty God is known in Yoruba language as Olodumare, Olorun, Obangiji, Eleduwa, Eleburuke, Babaluaiye and many other connotations g...

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination - Paperback

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by Toni Morrison (Author)An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and promises to change the way we read American literature--from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the...

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard - Hardcover

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by Joan Didion (Author), John Leonard (Introduction by)Edward Gibbon's classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 box sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers. Easily the most famous historical chronicle in English, Gibbon's account of Roman decline remains a remarkably fresh and vital contribution to the subject more than two centuries after its first publication. A landmar...

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by Sophocles (Author), Carl Phillips (Translator), Diskin Clay (Introduction by)Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume inc...

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by Halldor Laxness (Author)From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. - "A strange story, vibrant and alive.... There is a rare beauty in its telling." --Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is ...

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by Elisa Gabbert (Author)Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Cultural Criticism. In THE WORD PRETTY Elisa Gabbert brings together humor and observational intelligence to create a roving and curious series of lyrical essays on writing, reading, and living. Combining elements of criticism, meditation, and personal essay, this book reveals a poet's attention turned to subjects from translation to aphorism, from unreliable memory to beauty and the male gaze. Number of Pages: 158 Dimensi...

New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families - Paperback

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by Colm Toibin (Author)Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín provides "a fascinating exploration of writers and their families" (Entertainment Weekly) and "an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires" (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work.Colm Tóibín--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the intriguing, often twisted f...

As You Like It: 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 SHAKESPEA...

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse - Paperback

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by Thomas C. Foster (Author)From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles.No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree--a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history--and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerf...

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art - Paperback

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by Scott McCloud (Author)"You must read this book." --Neil GaimanThe bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hid...

Stray Birds: Translated From Bengali To English By The Author - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Rabindranath Tagore (Author)Stray Birds: Translated From Bengali To English By The Author This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-cr...

El chivo de Vargas Llosa: Una lectura politica - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Pedro Conde Sturla (Author)ROMPAN FILAS, VIVA EL JEFE Esta serie de art culos sobre "La fiesta del chivo" de Mario Vargas Llosa comenz a publicarse en el suplemento sabatino Cultura del peri dico El Siglo, despu s de haber sido rechazada por otros medios de prensa. A la altura de la cuarta entrega ("Los cortesanos de Vargas Llosa"), la libertad de prensa se resinti , censur la edici n y dio por terminada la publicaci n de la serie. La libertad de prensa en l...

The Women In Dante's Divine Comedy: Gender Equality - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Ruggeri Colaiaco (Author)Dante's Divine Comedy ranks among the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Reading the poem for gender reveals a subversive dimension that has not been sufficiently examined. Dante gives eight women prominence, transgressing gender roles and challenging medieval patriarchy. These women have structural, pedagogical and psychological significance in the Divine Comedy. At each stage of his journey from darkness to light, the pi...

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by Martha Gellhorn (Author)Martha Gellhorn was a fearless war correspondent for nearly fifty years and a leading journalistic voice of her generation. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-eighties, her candid reporting reflected her deep empathy for people no matter their political ideology, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, ge...