Literary Criticism

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I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 2 (Novel)

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Report copyright infringementby Izumi Okido (Author), Jyun Hayase (Artist), Sarah Moon (Translator)A villainess doesn't need a Prince Charming! Dreams do come true! Reborn as the otome-game character Alicia Williams, I started down the path of becoming the greatest villainess in history, and I've been putting in some serious work for the past two years! Now, after a long absence, I return to school, and a swath of rumors welcomes me like a red carpet...So that means I'm doing a great job, rig...

Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan's Lost Generation

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Report copyright infringementby Mimi Okabe (Author)Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what mysteries does he unveil about cultural understandings of youth in Japanese society? Manga, Murder and Mystery answers these questions by exploring the figure of the shonen (boy) detective in commercially successful manga series such as Detective Conan, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi, Death Note and Moriarty the Patriot. The bo...

On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the Us - Paperback

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by James Larue (Author)"An insightful and humorous look into the complex issues of censorship, Jamie LaRue's book is at times intellectually and emotionally challenging--like all of the best books should be." --R. Alan Brooks, Comics Creator and Professor, Professor of Graphic Narrative, Regis University In America today, more books are being banned than ever before. This censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities. In On...

Menendez: Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Captain General of the Ocean Sea

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Manucy (Author)Everyone knows of Columbus and Ponce de Leon, but the name of Menendez is not as familiar. Yet Pedro Menendez de Aviles might truly be called one of the founding fathers of America, for he was the founder of the nation's oldest city--St. Augustine. This book is the first to be written about Menendez. It is based on scholarly research, but it is not just a work for the scholar. It was written for the education and enjoyment of any reader wh...

Hell Is Dark with No Flowers, Vol. 3 (Light Novel): Volume 3

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Report copyright infringementby Yoru Michio (Author), Taylor Engel (Translator)Detective Shiroshi and his pet assistant Seiji venture to Okuhida to investigate a baffling old case involving people being attacked in the streets. At their ryokan in the mountains, which burn with all the colors of fall, the pair are greeted by a serpent writhing in darkness and the corpse of the landlady, who died suddenly the previous night. Time passes, and another mysterious death occurs alluding to the so-ca...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Denmead (Author)The New England Comic Book Store Owners is a look at the lives of comic Shop retailers and the love for their stores, their products and both their customers and their employees.Dive deep-into what keeps them going day to day and how they survive a crazy business environment in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, and Rhode Island. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers - Hardcover

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by Kristopher Jansma (Author)Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars. If you like to write--whether it's a pastime, a passion, or a profession--you've probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, "I could never do this! I might as well give up." But if there's one thing every great author has in common, it's this: they've all written some hot garbage. In Revisionaries, a ...

Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers (Free Audio Download) - Paperback

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by Michael Emmerich (Editor)Short stories by Japan's cutting-edge writers, in vertical text and with vocabulary, notes, and FREE AUDIO DOWNLOAD to make reading Japanese easier than ever. Long-awaited by teachers and students, Read Real Japanese Fiction presents short works by six of today's most daring and provocative Japanese writers. The spellbinding world of Hiromi Kawakami; the hair-raising horror of Otsuichi; the haunting, poignant prose of Banana Yoshimoto; even the poetic word-play of ...

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by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Author)In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet. Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.52 x 6.35 x 5.52 IN Publication Date: September 17, 2007

Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--The Creators of Superman - Paperback

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by Brad Ricca (Author)In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches of Cleveland libraries, boarded-up high schools, and secret, private collections, and a love of comic books, Brad Ricca's Super Boys is the first ever full biography about Superman's c...

Did You Think My Yuri Was Just for Show?

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Report copyright infringementby Neru Asakura (Author), Minori Chigusa (Artist), Jenny McKeon McKeon (Translator)Suzune Senmiya, a young voice actress, has been struggling for six months to get over the retirement of her favorite idol, Karin Kanezuki. One day, Karin appears as a new voice actress in Suzune's agency! While Suzune tries to play it cool and keep her distance, Karin aggressively closes the gap between them. As Suzune starts to see unexpected sides of Karin, she begins to perceive ...

Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Petersen (Author)This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Graphic narrative art is a fascinating phenomenon that emerged centuries ago with the expansion of literacy and the publication industry. The earliest example of a repeating comic character dates back to the late 1700s. By following the growth of print technology in Europe and Asia, it is possible to ...

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by Slavoj Zizek (Author)To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?In thir...

Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Gearino (Author)The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers. Stores could then better customize their offerings and independent publishers could access national distribution. Shops opened up a space for quirky ideas to gain an audience and helped transform small-press series, from Teenage Mutant Ninj...

Speculative Fictions: Chilean Culture, Economics, and the Neoliberal Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Alessandro Fornazzari (Author)Speculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present. To Alessandro Fornazzari, the move to market capitalism effectively blurred the lines between economics and aesthetics, perhaps nowhere more evidently than in Chile. Through exemplary works of film, literature, the visual arts, testimonials, and cultural theory, Fornazzari revea...

Silence: Lectures and Writings - Paperback

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by John Cage (Author), Kyle Gann (Other)Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through").John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-g...

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition - Hardcover

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by Hilary Brown (Author)Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in the history of women translators. Research on women translators has often focused on early modern England; the example of early modern England has been taken as the norm for the rest of the continent and has shaped research on gender and translation more gener...

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark - Paperback

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by Mary Wollstonecraft (Author), Tone Brekke (Author), Jon Mee (Author)This engaging volume was pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Difficult to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves. Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted, to recover his silver on a ship that had gone missi...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Fisher (Author)This volume represents the first biography of Alice MacDonald Kipling Fleming (1868-1948), known as Trix. Rarely portrayed with sympathy or accuracy in biographies of her famous brother Rudyard, Trix was a talented writer and a memorable character in her own right whose fascinating life was unknown until now. In telling Trix's story, Barbara Fisher rescues her from the misrepresentations, trivializations, and outright neglect of Rudyard's...

Housman Country: Into the Heart of England

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Parker (Author)A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English countryside, thwarted love, a...

More than Conquerors: The Sons of God will soon be manifested

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Butler (Author)More than Conquerors is a future miraculous occurrence joining all Christians (alive or dead) to the risen Lord Jesus. It will occur above the earth, in the clouds. Each believer will receive a new body fashioned like Christ's body. Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 05, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Adams Actor (Author), Misty Garcia (Editor)America's liberal youth is captivated by the Spiritualist phenomenon sweeping the country during the prohibition era of 1923. Tipping tables, levitating chairs and rapps on walls raise national attention.At the height of the movement are the most prominent mediums and channelers the United States has ever come to witness. Edgar Cayce, Helena Blavatsky and Three Spanish Dames are at the center of announcement, but anoth...

Experience: A Memoir (25th Anniversary Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Amis (Author), Zadie Smith (Introduction by)Martin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known. In Experience, the celebrated novelist Martin Amis steps away from fiction to deliver a sharply observed memoir, weaving together the personal and the universal in his signature dazzling style. Through a mosaic of...

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Schmiesing (Author)The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm A New Yorker "Best Book of 2024" Selection "Ann Schmiesing . . . has brought the brothers to life in their fullness."--Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal "Magisterial."--Kirkus Reviews More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (178...

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Crowther (Author)An expansive, illuminating, and "welcome addition to understand" (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood--from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this "ambitious, thoughtfully researched" (Kirkus Reviews...

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Report copyright infringementby David S. Wills (Editor)This is the 25th issue of Beatdom literary journal and it is released on the 70th anniversary of the 6 Gallery reading, a landmark literary event that is said to have begun the San Francisco Renaissance. It contains many essays that examine that movement. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 07, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Ritchie Robertson (Author)A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcracker. E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) is celebrated for his supernatural fiction such as The Sandman as well as his musical achievements, notably the opera Undine. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to Hoffmann as a Romantic writer, composer, and public figure. It follows his life as a lawyer, theater director, and senior...

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by James Boswell (Author), R. W. Chapman (Editor), J. D. Fleeman (Editor)This complete and unabridged edition is the only complete critical edition in paperback. Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. As Johnson's constant and admiring companion, Boswell was able to record not only the outward events of his lif...

Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Nicholas Cronk (Author)Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and demonstrates how his thinking is pivotal to our notion and understanding of the Enlightenment. In a fresh and modern examination of his writings, Cronk examines the nature of Voltaire's literary celebrity, demonstrati...

Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text - Paperback

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by William Langland (Author), A. V. C. Schmidt (Translator)This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, its deeply imaginative religious vision, and its passionate concern to see justice and truth prevail in our world. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Class...

The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories - Paperback

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by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Editor)When Latin American writers burst onto the world literary scene in the now famous "Boom" of the sixties, it seemed as if an entire literature had invented itself over night out of thin air. Not only was the writing extraordinary but its sudden and spectacular appearance itself seemed magical. In fact, Latin American literature has a long and rich tradition that reaches back to the Colonial period and is filled with remarkable writers too little known in ...

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by Jonathan Swift (Author), Angus Ross (Editor), David Woolley (Editor)This authoritative edition brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career--prose, poetry, and letters--to give the essence of his work and thinking. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is best known as the author of Gulliver's Travels, which alone would have secured his place in the history of English literature. But in addition to this classic fictional satire, Swift wrote numerous works concer...