Literary Criticism

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by Walt Whitman (Author), Malcolm Cowley (Editor), Malcolm Cowley (Introduction by)"I am large, I contain multitudes" A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but m...

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by Kenkou Cross (Author)The ultimate guide to monster girls that took fandom by storm--for Mature fans only! Monster Girl Encyclopedia Volume 1 is the first in a series of highly detailed illustrated books that contains one hundred profiles of wickedly lascivious monster girls. Considered by many fans to be the definitive source for sexy monster girls and the worlds they inhabit, Monster Girl Encyclopedia is a must-have purchase for fans of Monster Musume, Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary, an...

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives - Hardcover

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by Adam Smyth (Author)A scholar and bookmaker "breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life" (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies, comedies--but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture's most important object, the book, through d...

The Suicidal State: Race Suicide, Biopower, and the Sexuality of Population - Hardcover

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by Madoka Kishi (Author) Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 1.09 x 9.36 x 6.46 IN Publication Date: November 05, 2024

Never by Itself Alone: Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944--Present - Hardcover

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by David Grundy (Author)Providing an unprecedented exploration of key moments in queer literary history, Never By Itself Alone changes our sense of both the American literary and political landscapes from the late 1940s through the 21st century. Grundy presents the first comprehensive history of post-war queer writing in Boston and San Francisco, intertwining analysis of lesbian, gay, and queer writing, and insisting on the link between activism and literature. The book centers a host of unde...

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by Julia Kristeva (Author), Jeanine Herman (Translator)Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought. Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of l...

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by Julia Kristeva (Author), Leon Roudiez (Translator)Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Julia Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self. Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate." Number of Pages: 414 Publication Date: No...

Architecture of Sovereignty: Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India - Hardcover

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by Gita V. Pai (Author)In this innovative study, Gita V. Pai traces the history of the Pudu Mandapam (Tamil, 'new hall') - a Hindu temple structure in Madurai - through the rise and fall of empires in south India from the seventeenth century to the present. This wide-ranging work illustrates how south Indian temples became entangled in broader conflicts over sovereignty, from early modern Nayaka kings, to British colonial rule, to the post-independence government today. Drawing from methodolo...

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by Colm Toibin (Author)Colm T?ib?n's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm T?ib?n first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. He had even considered entering a seminary and was searching for literature that would offer illumination and insight. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on ...

Season of Migration to the North - Paperback

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by Tayeb Salih (Author), Laila Lalami (Introduction by), Denys Johnson-Davies (Translator)After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood--the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him th...

Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry - Paperback

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by Ryan Ruby (Author)Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily ...

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by Jean Baudrillard (Author), Baudrillard (Author), Sheila Faria Glaser (Translator)The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thoughtBack JacketMoving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.2 IN Publica...

The Illegible Man: Disability and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America - Hardcover

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by Will Kanyusik (Author)How does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of what is culturally understood to be an "able" body? How does this experience make visible the structures enabling society's shared notions of heteronormative masculinity?In the United States, the Second World War functioned as a key moment in the emergence of modern understandings of disability, demonstrating that an increa...

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by John Guillory (Author), Scott Newstok (Contribution by)John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental methods of literary study, few terms appear more frequently than "close reading," now widely regarded as the core practice of literary study. But what exactly is close reading, and where did it come from? Here John Guillory, author of the ac...

Fair or Foul: The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition - Paperback

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by Stefan Stern (Author)Fair or Foul considers different aspects of ambition and its place in our lives. It asks: what does success mean? When is enough enough? And is Lady Macbeth right to suggest that only those with the 'illness' of ambition achieve the highest goals?Stefan Stern draws on the major themes of Macbeth and discusses how they can be applied to ambition in modern life. From the success of the first US woman vice president, Kamala Harris, the obstacles she faced and the possibil...

The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers - Paperback

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by Pamela Vanhaitsma (Author)The Erotic as Rhetorical Power offers a queer feminist history of rhetoric that recovers the civic contributions of women teachers in same-sex romantic friendships. Extending perspectives from ancient rhetoric to nineteenth-century progressivism, from Audre Lorde's Black lesbian feminist theory to its present-day uptakes, Pamela VanHaitsma conceives of the erotic as an interanimation of desires that, in being passionately shared, becomes imbued with the power to f...

The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Elmore (Editor), Rick Elmore (Editor), Vernon W. Cisney (Contribution by)The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's writing reveals how these themes intersect in an overarching, positive gesture that characterizes his work. Taken together, the es...

Difficult Lives Hitching Rides - Paperback

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by James Sallis (Author)James Sallis's (Drive) seminal biographical essays on crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes restored to print and joined by a handpicked collection of essays, reviews, and introductory writings on noir fiction. At the time of its original publication by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was a pioneering work of literary investigation. Sallis's subjects of Himes, Goodis, and Thompson were as enigmatic as they were out-of-print, and li...

The Roman Satirists and Their Masks - Paperback

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by S. H. Braund (Author)Starting from the conviction that Latin literature gains from being viewed as performance, the author sees the creation of different characters or "masks" in Latin literature as a result of the Greco-Roman training in rhetoric. She treats the texts of Roman satire as drama and focuses on the characters whose voices are heared in these performances: the angry satirist, the mocking satirist and the smiling satirist. She goes on to explore the implications of the use of t...

David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism - Hardcover

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by Matt Prout (Author)David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace's work, showing that they are of fundamental importance to his writing in its form and its themes. Wallace's work articulates a deep ambivalence about the value of scepticism, on the one hand presenting practical and moral arguments for the value of conviction and belief, while on the other hand being committed to a sceptical project of opposing certainty and dogma. O...

Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 - Hardcover

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by Jane Elizabeth Dougherty (Author)Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these postmodern narratives present Irish female maturation as disordered and often deliberately disorderly. The first full-length study of the Irish female coming of age story, the book develops a feminist psychoanalytic narratology, derived from the belated oedipalization of Joyce's bildungsheld, to read these stories. This study argues...

A Lover of God: The Ecstatic Sufi Nuri - Paperback

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by Dora Zsom (Author)Collects and interprets the literary legacy of Nūrī, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.One of the so-called ecstatic (or intoxicated) Sufis of Baghdad, Abū usayn al-Nūrī (d. 907/8) was famous for his quasi-blasphemous utterances and shocking public behavior. He was often enraptured by a passionate love of God that led him to eccentric acts that scandalized both ordinary people and the religious aut...

El Libertador: Writings of Simon Bolivar - Paperback

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by Sim?n Bol?var (Author), David Bushnell (Editor), Fred Fornoff (Author)General Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), called El Liberator, and sometimes the "George Washington" of Latin America, was the leading hero of the Latin American independence movement. His victories over Spain won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Bolívar became Columbia's first president in 1819. In 1822, he became dictator of Peru. Upper Peru became a separate state, which was named Bol...

Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920 - Hardcover

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by Regenia Gagnier (Author)Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cultural historian of late nineteenth-century Britain - shows the full range of meanings of individualism at the height of its promise.Author BiographyREGENIA GAGNIER has held chairs at Stanford University, USA, and the University of Exeter, UK, where she is currently Professor of English and Director of Exeter Interdisciplin...

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by John Gardner (Editor), John Maier (Translator)Front JacketThe story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's persistent and hopeless quest for immort...

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by David L. Petersen (Author), Kent Harold Richards (Author)Here is a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the one-third of the Hebrew Bible that is in poetic form. Numerous are the occasions when a failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth's Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787), marked a turning point of major proportions by focusing on the importance of parallelism of lines....

The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760 - Hardcover

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by Sarah Ellenzweig (Author)The Fringes of Belief is the first literary study of freethinking and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig aims to redress this scholarly lacuna, arguing that a literature of English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly supported aspects of institutional religion. Analyzing works by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope, she foregrounds a strand of the English freethinking traditi...

The Story Of The Red Cross Knight: From Spenser's Fairy Queen (1885) - Paperback

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by Edmund Spenser (Author), R a Y (Editor)The Story Of The Red Cross Knight is a book that tells the tale of a brave and honorable knight from Edmund Spenser's famous poem, The Fairy Queen. The Red Cross Knight is the main character of the story, and he embarks on a quest to rescue a beautiful lady named Una from a fierce dragon. Along the way, he encounters many challenges and battles, but with his courage and faith, he is able to overcome them all. The book is written in a poetic and lyrica...

William Blake: His Philosophy And Symbols - Hardcover

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by S. Foster Damon (Author)William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols is a book written by S. Foster Damon that explores the life and work of the English poet, artist, and visionary William Blake. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of Blake's philosophy, symbolism, and artistic style, and examines his major works, including Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem.Damon delves into Blake's religious and political beliefs, as well as his views...

My Friendship with Oscar Wilde: Being the Autobiography of Alfred Douglas - Hardcover

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by Alfred Douglas (Author)My Friendship With Oscar Wilde: Being The Autobiography Of Alfred Douglas is a memoir written by Alfred Douglas, the close friend and lover of the famous writer Oscar Wilde. The book describes the author's relationship with Wilde, from their first meeting in 1891 to Wilde's imprisonment in 1895. Douglas provides a personal account of their friendship, revealing intimate details about Wilde's personality, his wit, and his literary genius. The book also explores the sc...

Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia - Hardcover

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by S. Aronstein (Author)Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s. Its analysis of these films explores their proposal of an ideal past - an Americanized Camelot and a democratized chivalry - as the solution to th...

Peter Markoe 1752-1792: A Philadelphia Writer - Hardcover

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by Mary Chrysostom Diebels (Author)Peter Markoe 1752-1792: A Philadelphia Writer is a biography written by Mary Chrysostom Diebels that tells the story of Peter Markoe, a prominent writer from Philadelphia during the late 18th century. The book covers Markoe's life, from his birth in 1752 to his untimely death in 1792. It explores his family background, education, and career as a writer, including his work as a journalist, poet, and playwright. The book also delves into the political and soci...