Literary Criticism

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The Patriot (Piccolo Mondo Antico) - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Antonio Fogazzaro (Author), Mary Prichard Agnetti (Author)The Patriot (Piccolo Mondo Antico) by Antonio Fogazzaro has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made ...

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Gerard Manley Hopkins (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 concur, that this work is im...

What We Live For, What We Die for: Selected Poems - Paperback

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by Serhiy Zhadan (Author), Virlana Tkacz (Translator), Wanda Phipps (Translator)An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation "This collection of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan's poems will likely cement his reputation as the unflinching witness to the turbulent social and political travails of his nation. With an acerbic tone that will seem familiar to admirers of Franz Wright or Charles Bukowski, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Fox B. Holden (Author)This book 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: 22 Dimensions: 0.05 x ...

The Boy With the U. S. Survey - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Rolt-Wheeler (Author)This book 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: 186 Dimensions:...

Interferencias del archivo: Cortes estéticos y políticos en cine y literatura: Argentina y Chile - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Uta Felten (Other), Wolfgang Bongers (Author)Los nueve ensayos de este libro analizan textos y films argentinos y chilenos de las últimas décadas, caracterizadas por dictaduras, postdictaduras, y democracias neoliberales. El énfasis estás puesto en las relaciones entre (an)archivo, (anti)memoria, cine, literatura y política.Author BiographyWolfgang Bongers es Profesor Asociado en la Facultad de Letras, Universidad Católica de Chile. Realizó sus estudios y su Do...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotion. Read and share them with the one you love.Author BiographyWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote thirty-seven plays. King Lear and Macbeth are among his finest and most popular. They are, perhaps, the most frequently produced works on the planet. Number of Pages: ...

Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jesus Montaño (Author), Regan Postma-Montaño (Author)This important study affirms that Latinx children and young adults are uniquely positioned to change the world. Using Gloria Anzaldúa's theories of conocimiento as a critical lens, the authors examine several literary works including Side by Side / Lado a lado; They Call Me Güero; Land of the Cranes; Efrén Divided; and Gabi, a Girl in Pieces. Using these texts and others, Montaño and Postma-Montaño demonstrat...

El Feliz Ingenio Neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía Y Prosa - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Anna M. Nogar (Editor), A. Gabriel Meléndez (Editor)Winner of the 2022 International Latino Book Award: Bronze Medal for Fiction Translation, Spanish to EnglishEl feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesía y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author. Journalist and author Felipe M. Chacón, part of a distinguished and active family of nuevomexic...

If You Don't Do Politics, Politics Will Do You...: A guide to navigating office politics effectively and ethically. (And yes, it is possible.) - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Niven Postma (Author)Most people try to avoid office politics at all costs, seeing them as unpleasant, unfair, unethical and an unnecessary distraction from their 'real work'. If You Don't Do Politics, Politics Will Do You will open your eyes to the fundamentals you didn't know you need to know. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 01, 2020

The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Turco (Author)Now in its fifth edition, The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics continues to be the go-to reference and guide for students, teachers, and critics. A companion for poets from novice to master, The Book of Forms has been called "the poet's bible" for more than fifty years. Filled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco's engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that...

Fray Angélico Chávez: Poet, Priest, and Artist - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen McCracken (Editor)New Mexico's first Franciscan priest, Fray Angélico Cheavez (1910-1996) is known as a prolific historian, a literary and artistic figure, and an intellectual who played a vital role in Santa Fe's community of writers. The original essays collected here explore his wide-ranging cultural production: fiction, poetry, architectural restoration, journalism, genealogy, translation, and painting and drawing. Several essays discuss his approach ...

In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby N. Scott Momaday (Author)"In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by [N. Scott] Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poem...

Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Cristina Soriano (Author)Winner of the 2019 Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American HistoryThis is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Spanish colonial governments tried to keep revolution out of their provinces. But, as Cristina Soriano shows, hand-copied samizdat materials from the Caribbean floode...

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Report copyright infringementby Tanaya Winder (Author)Tanaya Winder's Words Like Love sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. As an accomplished poet, Winder traverses the darkness in a quest to learn more about the most complex of subjects. With beauty and ease, she explores emotion and thought through the poems featured in this debut collection. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2021

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Martina Dockter (Author)From the time I can remember, I have had a spiritual connectionwith the paranormal. Th is is my story; the daunting, the taunting, and the haunting. Or maybe I should say this is their story, "LIVING WITH THE DEAD"Mary Martina Dockter is a prolifi c writer, who has writtenand published six other books; including five poetry books, "Evanesce, Enter the Labyrinth, Pillars of Creation andTerrestrial" plus a volume of children's poetry,...

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by Eileen Myles (Author)In this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work "A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait."--Kirkus Reviews "[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--National Public Radio "This is signature Myles: the unconventional syntax, the jazzy rhythms, the total commitment to writing in the heat of the moment, not edited or modula...

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Whitman (Author)One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him. "Song of Myself", a portion of Whitman's monumental poetry collection "Leaves of Grass", is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most ac...

Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Abby L. Goode (Author)In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and the enduring partnership between racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals in the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation slavery. In response, they imagined agrotopias--sustainable societies ...

Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Brooks (Author)As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this innovative book employs major contemporary texts by both African Ame...

Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Amy King (Author)In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions of relationships between women living within the plantation system to confront its legacy in the present. The vestiges of these relation...

The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Blackwood (Author)Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In The Portrait's Subject, Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces came to signal expressions of human depth during this era in paintings, photographs, and illustrations, as well as in literary and cultural representations of portrai...

Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab'awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Gloria Elizabeth Chacón (Author)Latin America's Indigenous writers have long labored under the limits of colonialism, but in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, they have constructed a literary corpus that moves them beyond those parameters. Gloria E. Chacon considers the growing number of contemporary Indigenous writers who turn to Maya and Zapotec languages alongside Spanish translations of their work to challenge the tyranny of monolingualism and ...

Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Cecelia Tichi (Author)Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political advance of America. In this major reinterpretatio...

Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Cushman (Author), Gary W. Gallagher (Foreword by)War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman considers the C...

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Walkiewicz (Author)The formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and visual culture. Assessing these texts and archives, Kathryn Walkiewicz theorizes the logics of federalism and states' rights in the production of US empire, reveali...

America Is the Prison: Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Bernstein (Author)In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance," shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George ...

Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Georgann Eubanks (Author)Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place ...

In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir - Paperback

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by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (Author)Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for independence and Kenyan sovereignty gripped his country. While he enjoyed scouting trips and chess tournaments, his family home was razed to the ground and his brother, a member of the insurgency, was captured by the British and taken to a concentration camp. But Ngũgĩ could not...

Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures - Paperback

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by John Granger (Author)Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal to people of all ages but in its connection to the greater world of classic literature. Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures explores the ...

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Report copyright infringementby James Clarence Mangan (Author)This volume includes a selection of James Clarence Mangan's finest poetry, including his famous 'Dark Rosaleen'. The poems express a deep love of Ireland and its culture, as well as Mangan's struggle with poverty and addiction.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 p...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Marshall (Author)From the World Fantasy Award-winning author Helen Marshall comes a collection of critical writing focused on the evolution of writing, horror, and the weird tale. Within this volume you'll find an interrogation of the radical poetics of M. John Harrison's Worldbuilding, deep dives into the works of Stephen King and Kelly Link, and a meditation on the need for new and evolving language to describe weird times. You'll also find Marshall's e...