Literary Criticism

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by LIV Albert (Author), Sara Richard (Illustrator)Finally sort out who's who in Greek mythology--from gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everyone in between Greek mythology continues to appear in popular movies and books today but have you ever wondered about where these characters started out? Discover the origins of your favorite characters from Greek mythology with this collection of profiles to tell you who's who in classical lore In Greek Mythology, you will discover the backstorie...

Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences - Hardcover

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by Bev Vincent (Author)Take an intimate tour through the life and works of Stephen King, made vivid with rare photos and ephemera from King's personal collection. Even if you are a die-hard fan, you will find something new in this beautifully packaged Stephen King reference that you will return to again and again. Timed to celebrate Stephen King's 75th birthday on September 21, 2022, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences reveals the inspiration behind the prol...

If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems - Paperback

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by Vera Pavlova (Author), Steven Seymour (Translator)Now in paperback, the widely acclaimed collection of one hundred poems of extraordinarily elegant simplicity by one of the best-selling poets in Russia, whose presence on the American poetry scene is increasingly strong. Pavlova writes about love (both sexual love and the love that reaches beyond sex); about motherhood; about the memories of childhood that continue to feed us; about our lives as passionate souls abroad in the world. Sensit...

Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author), Sparknotes (Author), Matt Wiegle (Illustrator)NOW IN COLOR! Read Romeo and Juliet in graphic-novel form--with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel--now with fully-colored illustrations--brings the tragic star-crossed lovers to life. The illustrations are distinctively offbeat and sure to appeal to today's teens. The graphic novel also includes an illustrated cast of characters and a helpful plot summary.A...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author)Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es el relato de unos meses en la vida de este ni o que vive en una ciudad peque a del suroeste de Estados Unidos a orillas del Mississippi. Criado por su t a Polly, que lo quiere de coraz n, pero que lo somete a una disciplina que a l se le hace absurda y desagradable. Tom contempla el mundo de una manera muy diferente a como lo hacen los adultos con los que tiene que convivir. Precisamente porque existe ese dista...

The Slave Sublime: The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Stacy J. Lettman (Author)In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity. Jamaica is known for having one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, a fact that Lettman links to remnants of the plantation era--namely the economic disp...

Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Irvin J. Hunt (Author)This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces "cooperatives," local challenges to global capital, where pe...

Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Elissa Zellinger (Author)In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth century. In the nineteenth-century United States, both liberalism and lyric sought self-definition by practicing techniques of exclusion. Liberalism was a political philosophy whose supposed universals were limited to white men and created by om...

The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Josh Doty (Author)The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect how Americans were beginning to see the body's constituent parts as interconnected. From the transcendentalists' idealized concept of self to the rise of Darwinian theory after the Civil War, the era and its writers redefined the human body as both deeply reactive and malleable. Josh Doty explores a...

That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Julia S. Charles (Author)In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves--a place she terms that middle world--and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles cre...

Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Aneeka Ayanna Henderson (Author)In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man. Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as "good" or "bad" for African Americans, Henderson critically examines popular and infl...

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by James Baldwin (Author), Edward P. Jones (Foreword by)In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction. Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collecte...

Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers - Paperback

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by Sarah Iles Johnston (Author)An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths "This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."--Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series "Move over, Edith Hamilton! Sarah Iles Johnston has hit the magical refresh button on Greek myths."--Maria Tatar, author of The Heroine with 1001 Faces Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront wh...

The Story of the Stone, Volume I: The Golden Days, Chapters 1-26 - Paperback

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by Cao Xueqin (Author), David Hawkes (Translator), David Hawkes (Introduction by)The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, The Story of the Stone charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family. This novel re-creates the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life that would otherwise be lost and infuses it with affirming Buddhist belief. For more than...

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by Patti Smith (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Riveting, elegant, humorous--this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones" (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids. Following a run of new year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a ...

The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories - Paperback

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by Theodore W. Goossen (Author)This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current w...

Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures - Hardcover

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by Tom Sapsford (Author)Performing the Kinaidos is the first book-length study to explore the figure of the kinaidos (Latin, cinaedus), a type of person noted in ancient literature for his effeminacy and untoward sexual behaviour. By exploring the presence of this unmanly man in a wide range of textual sources (Plato, Aeschines, Plautus, Catullus, Martial, Juvenal, documentary papyri, and dedicatory inscriptions) and across numerous locations (classical Greece, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Roman ...

Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 - Hardcover

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by Colleen Taylor (Author)Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs...

The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature - Hardcover

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by Philip Knox (Author)The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England, leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland Europe. This book examines its decisive effect on English literature of the fourteenth century, and new literary experiments it provoked from writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, and the author of Si...

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by Marilynne Robinson (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its ...

Foreign Voices: Lessons from Colonial Era Literature about Rendering Multilingual Dialogue - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard Botes Kruger (Author) Number of Pages: 380 Dimensions: 0.85 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 13, 2013

Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres - Paperback

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by Marcela Sulak (Editor), Jacqueline Kolosov (Editor)Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Cultural Studies. When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight hybrid genres--including lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, pr...

Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Karolina Watroba (Author)This groundbreaking study of Franz Kafka's legacy--to be published during the centenary of his death in 2024--explores Kafka's life and influence in an entirely new and dynamic way. In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts an...

The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lucy Montgomery (Author), Carolyn Strom Collins (Editor)Published for the first time ever, the first draft of The Blue Castle exactly as L. M. Montgomery originally wrote it, with critical context from a leading Montgomery scholar. Available for the first time ever, the original draft of Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle is presented with scribbled notes, character name changes, additions and deletions, and other pre-publication changes, offering fascinati...

Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Nick Carbò (Editor), Eileen R. Tabios (Editor)Fiction. Asian American Studies. As the first international anthology of Filipina writers published in the United States, BABAYLAN reflects the complex history of a people whose roots have stretched to both sides of the globe. The voices represented in this collection offer a broad and varied perspective on the Filipina writer whose diasporic existence is a living, breathing bridge, not only between countries but al...

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Helene Carol Weldt-Basson (Author)Though the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) were later recognized by reparations and truth commissions, the difficult emotions suffered by the victims and their families were often pushed into the background or out of the national conversation entirely. In response, novelists began writing memory of feelings experienced during the dictatorship into their books. In The Chilean Dictatorship No...

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Report copyright infringementby Josephine Miles (Author)A collection of essays that explores the art and craft of poetry, delving into questions of form, structure, and meaning. With a focus on the works of modern poets such as William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost, Miles offers insightful commentary that will enrich any reader's understanding and appreciation of this rich literary form.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base...

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Report copyright infringementby William Cowper (Author)This book is a long narrative poem that tells the story of the author's struggle with depression and his eventual recovery. It is a deeply personal and moving work, filled with vivid descriptions of nature and contemplative reflections on life. It is a classic of English poetry.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 ...

ATUNIS GALAXY ANTHOLOGY 2024 World Poetry: Demer Press - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Hannie Rouweler (Author), Agron Shele (Author), And International Poets (Author)ATUNIS GALAXY ANTHOLOGY - 2024 ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY WORLD POETRY ATUNIS POETRY LEADERSHIP STAFF: Editor in Chief: Agron Shele https: //atunispoetry.com Deputy Editor in Chief: Hannie Rouweler Alicja Kuberska Sunita Paul Deputy Editor in Chief: Alisa Velaj Susana Roberts Editor: Pavol Janik & Dr. Claudia Piccinno Responsible for Literary Information: Merita Paparisto Respons...

The First Geeks: Ray Bradbury, Forrest J Ackerman, Ray Harryhausen and the Founding of Science Fiction Fandom - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Orty Ortwein (Author) The writer Ray Bradbury, science fiction expert Forry Ackerman, and special effects genius Ray Harryhausen are world-famous for their careers involving tales of the imagination. Before anyone had heard of them, they were friends as teens and college-aged boys enjoying all that 1930s L.A. had to offer: getting celebrity autographs, watching blockbuster movies, and haunting dozens of bookstores. As members of the Los Angeles chapter of the S...

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Report copyright infringementby Nellie Bly (Author) Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2023

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos Antonio Carrasco (Author)El prestigioso intelectual, escritor y diplomático boliviano Carlos Antonio Carrasco F. nos brinda la traducción de su obra "LOS CUBANOS EN ANGOLA (1975-990)" (Bases para el estudio de una guerra olvidada), cuyo título original en francés es de "L'intervention étrangère dans la guerre angolaise: l'expérience cubaine" (INALCO, París, 1996). El título en francés es más explícito acerca del contenido de su libro actual.A través de s...