Literary Criticism

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Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump: Images from Literature and Visual Arts - Paperback

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by Barbara Brodman (Editor), James E. Doan (Editor), Dan M. R. Abitz (Contribution by)Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump focuses on utopias and dystopias that either prefigure or suggest alternatives to the rise of individuals such as Donald J. Trump and the changing conditions of America we now see around us. These topical studies provide compelling reading for both the general reader and the specialist.Author BiographyBarbara Brodman is professor emerita in the Department of History an...

Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era - Hardcover

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by Elena Rakhimova-Sommers (Editor), Elena Sommers (Contribution by), Charles Byrd (Contribution by)Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era and Online seeks to answer: how do we balance analysis of Lolita's brilliant language and aesthetic complexity with due attention to its troubling content? Innovative assignments, creative-writing exercises, and new interpretations give readers an opportunity to engage with and reimagine the novel. Author BiographyEléna Rakhimova-Sommers is principal ...

Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal: If Oscar Wilde Ate People - Paperback

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by Geoff Klock (Author)This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-art's sake movement in today's popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those of social justice by examining Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, among other works of popular culture.Author BiographyGeoff Klock is associate professor in the English Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College at the City University of New York. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions:...

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism - Paperback

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by Dan Hassler-Forest (Author)From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics.Author BiographyDan Hassler-Forest is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. Number of Pages: 246 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 ...

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment - Paperback

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by Brian Michael Norton (Author)This book examines the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed, as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment's ethical legacy.Author BiographyBrian Michael Norton is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at California State U...

Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation - Paperback

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by John Tytell (Author)Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs-their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post-World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study examines their attempt to redefine a complacent society's notion of sanity and normalcy and to reinvent their own lives through jazz, drugs, and law-breaking, acts that ultimately led to new forms of expression. A fascinati...

Using Authentic Assessment in Information Literacy Programs: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies - Paperback

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by Jennifer S. Ferguson (Author)Using Authentic Assessment in Information Literacy Programs: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies offers teaching librarians practical resources and approaches that will help implement authentic assessment in any instructional setting, from one-shot instruction sessions or for-credit courses, in person or online.Author BiographyJennifer S. Ferguson is the Team Lead, Arts and Humanities, at the Tisch Library of Tufts University, providing innovative and proactive l...

Melchior Wankowicz: Poland's Master of the Written Word - Paperback

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by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm (Author)This book examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work "The Battle of Monte Cassino". Melchior Wankowicz was famous for creating his theory of reportage. This book offers a critical examination of Wankowicz's work informed by her experiences as his private secretary.Author BiographyDr. Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm is an independent scholar, author of many books, and recipient of numerous literary award...

Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History - Hardcover

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by James Rovira (Editor), Cassandra Falke (Contribution by), Philip Goldstein (Contribution by)Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. It explores the relationship between democracies that are perpetually in crisis and the seemingly unlimited freedom of our reading practices.Author BiographyJames Rovira is owner of Bright Futures Educational Consulting and founding pre...

Identities on the Move: Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities - Paperback

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by Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego (Editor), Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz (Editor), María José Coperías Aguilar (Contribution by)Identities on the Move questions the postmodernist concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of identity and difference, addressing post-positivist interpretations of key identity markers such as sex, gender, race, and agency.Author BiographySilvia Castro Borrego is lecturer of English and North American literature and culture at the University of Málaga. M...

Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers: Relational Science, Ethnographic Collaboration, and Tribal Community - Paperback

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by Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez (Author)This book focuses on the pioneering collaborative work between Native women storytellers and women ethnographers/editors. In this review of the intersubjectively relational methodologies of these women, we see that the most exemplary ethnographies are integrally grounded in and of value to the tribal communities of the Native women storytellers.Author BiographySusan Berry Brill de Ramírez is Caterpillar Professor of English at Bradley University. Number...

Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing - Paperback

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by Robert Bernasconi (Author)Explores in the context of Heidegger's thought and unpacks a number of questions and challenges. Author BiographyRobert L. Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and for his work on the concept of race. He has also written on the history of philosophy. His books include How to Read Sartre (2007), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993...

Roth's Wars: A Career in Conflict - Hardcover

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by James D. Bloom (Author)Roth's Wars is an inquiry into how Roth cast himself throughout his fiction as a war writer, a teller of soldier stories, in relation to Roth's and his narrators' subsidiary performances as sportswriters, crime reporters, polemicists, pundits, and movie fans.Author BiographyJames D. Bloom is professor of English at Muhlenberg College. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 15, 2022

Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad - Paperback

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by Vincenzo Sanguineti (Author), Donatella Marazziti (Foreword by)In Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad, Vincenzo Sanguineti examines the psychological complexities of Homer through the Iliad.Author BiographyVincenzo Sanguineti is practicing psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: August 24, 2022

Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales - Hardcover

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by Allyssa McCabe (Editor), Minjeong Kim (Editor), Chien-Ju Chang (Contribution by)Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales is a multidisciplinary examination of folktales that are unfamiliar to Western audiences. Examining folktales from countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea, the contributors consider various aspects: including identity issues, morals, collectivism, violence, scatological references, language socialization, representation of Buddhis...

Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited - Paperback

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by Asma Abbas (Author)Another Love explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and non fascist politics and aesthetics.Author BiographyAsma Abbas is associate professor of politics and philosophy at Bard College at Simon's Rock. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2022

Mixed-Race Identity in the American South: Roots, Memory, and Family Secrets - Paperback

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by Julia Sattler (Author)This study examines mixed-race identity and heritage in the American South. The author analyzes the "memoir of the search" literary genre and contextualizes texts in relation to contemporary negotiations of family history and national memory.Author BiographyJulia Sattler is assistant professor of American studies at TU Dortmund University. Number of Pages: 236 Dimensions: 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 05, 2023

Mao Zedong as Poet and Revolutionary Leader: Social and Historical Perspectives - Hardcover

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by Chunhou Zhang (Author), Edwin C. Vaughan (Author)Mao Zedong was not only a great strategist and politician but also a poet, a philosopher, and calligrapher. As early as the 1940s Mao's poetry was earning critical and popular acclaim. Mao Zedong as Poet and Revolutionary Leader makes all of Mao's extant poems available here for the first time in English. This comprehensive collection offers a unique portrait of Mao's contribution to modern China and his later frustration as he witnessed the...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology - Paperback

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by Daniel J. Mahoney (Author)In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political condition of modern man through an exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work. Mahoney demonstrates the tremendous, yet often unappreciated, impact of Sozhenitsyn's writing on twentieth century thinking through an examination of the writer's profoundly important critique of communist totalitarianism in a judicious and original mix of western and Russian, Christian and...

Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought - Paperback

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by James F. Pontuso (Author), Daniel J. Mahoney (Foreword by)In this new paperback edition of Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought author James F. Pontuso showcases the titanic thought that understood Marxism to be a vain and ultimately merciless effort to fulfill the Enlightenment dream of fully conquering and exploiting nature in order to establish a perfect and just society on earth.Author BiographyJames F. Pontuso is Elliot Professor of Political Science at Hamp...

An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism - Paperback

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by Karolin Mirzakhan (Author)An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to comprehend them fully.Author BiographyKarolin Mirzakhan is a lecturer of philosophy at Kennesaw State University. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 17, 2022

The Latinx Urban Condition: Trauma, Memory, and Desire in Latinx Urban Literature and Culture - Paperback

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by Crescencio Lopez-Gonzalez (Author)The Latinx Urban Condition brings together interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960s to the present. The manuscript focuses on analyzing the works of Latinx authors who write about the city.Author BiographyCrescencio López-González is associate professor of Latinx Studies at Utah State University. Number of Pages: 1...

Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text - Hardcover

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by Brad Baumgartner (Author)Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text examines the nature of modern mystical writing and explains the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy, and apophatic mysticism.Author BiographyBrad Baumgartner is assistant teaching professor of English at Penn State University. Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 17, 2020

Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture: Challenging Cultural and Literary Conventions - Paperback

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by Mara E. Reisman (Author)This book offers a critical analysis of British author Fay Weldon's major novels from 1967 to the present and addresses how Weldon's fiction engages with controversial moral and social issues. It provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between Weldon's fiction and contemporary feminist, cultural, and literary movements in Britain.Author BiographyMara E. Reisman is associate professor of British literature and women's literature at Northern Arizona Unive...

Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature: Crash and Burn - Paperback

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by Jennifer Travis (Author)This book reads nineteenth-century American literature in the context of emerging technologies, laws, and industries. By engaging ideas about risk and vulnerability, literature showed a shift in America's cultural ethos from lauding autonomy and mastery to promoting a sympathetic state and encouraging new forms of cultural recompense.Author BiographyJennifer Travis is associate professor of English at St. John's University. Number of Pages: 186 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9 ...

Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology - Hardcover

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by Douglas Estes (Editor), Miguel Jr. Benitez (Contribution by), Mark Brians (Contribution by)J.R.R. Tolkien and his works have impacted many areas of thought and culture, including theology. In Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology, an international group of scholars discuss numerous themes related to living out theology in our world today.Author BiographyDouglas Estes (PhD, University of Nottingham) currently teaches at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. Number of Pages: 292 Dimensio...

Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh - Hardcover

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by Vincent L. Wimbush (Editor), Richard Manly Adams Jr. (Foreword by), Cécile Coquet-Mokoko (Contribution by)This book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 14, 2023

Scriptures, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians - Hardcover

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by A. Andrew Das (Editor), B. J. Oropeza (Editor), David E. Garland (Afterword by)Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians advances the interpretation of 2 Corinthians and Philippians by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to, or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures. Identification of allusions is at the forefront, as are questions about the Torah, God's righteousness, reconciliation, new creation, new covenant, Christology, lament language, cultic metaphors, canon...

How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary Context - Paperback

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by Eric Clouston (Author)In How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary Context, Eric Clouston brings a new approach to the interpretation of Acts by treating it as a persuasive narrative.Author BiographyEric Clouston is a priest in the Church of England and teaches theology internationally. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 15, 2022

The Supporting Cast of the Bible: Reading on Behalf of the Multitude - Paperback

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by Gina Hens-Piazza (Author)Focusing on supporting characters in the Old Testament, Gina Hens-Piazza argues against the caste system of the biblical narratives and provides insight into the many and different "others" who make up the anonymous multitude in the biblical world.Author BiographyGina Hens-Piazza is professor of biblical studies in the Joseph S. Alemany Endowed Chair at Santa Clara University's Jesuit School of Theology, and professor of biblical studies at the Graduate Theological...

Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation - Hardcover

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by Heather Macumber (Author)Strange hybrid and liminal creatures populate the pages of the book of Revelation but only some are called monsters. Heather Macumber challenges traditional binary descriptors of good and evil to argue that all cosmic beings are monstrous, whether they originate in heaven or the abyss.Author BiographyHeather Macumber is associate professor of biblical studies at Providence University College in Manitoba, Canada. Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publ...

Thomas Pynchon's Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism - Hardcover

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by Keita Hatooka (Author)Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon's Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon's texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; the alligator purse in Bleeding Edge; dolphins in the Miami Seaquarium in The Crying of Lot 49; dodoes, pigs, and octopuses in Gravity's Rainbow; Bigfoot and Godzilla in Vinel...