Literary Criticism

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Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible - Paperback

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by Jaeyoung Jeon (Editor), Louis C. Jonker (Editor), Anthony Uyl (Editor)The study of the Books of Chronicles has focused in the past mainly on its literary relationship to Historical Books such as Samuel and Kings. Less attention was payed to its possible relationships to the priestly literature. Against this backdrop, this volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature (in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel).Since...

The Complete Poems of John Milton - Hardcover

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by John Milton (Author)This is a timeless collection of John Milton's remarkable poems that includes classics such as Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Milton's poetry is known for its grandeur, emotional depth, and philosophical insights. This edition also includes a detailed introduction and annotations that provide important historical and literary context to the poems. This book is an essential addition to the library of any poetry lover or scholar.This work has been...

Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 - Hardcover

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by Anri Yasuda (Author)The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters, Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major authors of the late Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) periods illuminated themes and perspectives that resonated broadly in modern Japanese society. This approach presents an alternative to conventional accounts ...

Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance - Paperback

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by Simon Smith (Editor), Emma Whipday (Editor)Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing. Number of Pages: 306 Dimensions: 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 29, 2024

The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Smolin (Author)Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position in Egyptian politics. Jonathan Smolin frames the work of Abdel Kouddous not only as romantic melodrama, but as an entirely new model of Arabic fiction as dissent--contesting the fate of the 19...

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction - Hardcover

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by Eugen Bacon (Editor), Toyin Falola (Editor), Abimbola Adelakun (Editor)In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays. Features an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa.Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice. As Afrodecendant peop...

Bingeing It: A Diary of Retirement Reading - Paperback

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by Graham Falconer (Author)As the subtitle indicates, Bingeing It is an account of the author's leisure reading between 2016 and 2022, when it was no longer possible to pursue his academic research. The "binges" in question were often a matter of chance--a trip to Italy, a Christmas present, a hospital visit--but they aim to show how and why the books became life-long friends. Number of Pages: 498 Dimensions: 1.11 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 05, 2024

Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot - Hardcover

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by Kyla Wazana Tompkins (Author)How deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through multiple states and phases, and their movement is imbued with a liveliness that is suggestive of volition. Deviant Matter examines four aesthetic and material categories-- gelatinousness, fermentation, putrefaction, and intoxication--to theorize how the modern state ...

Law, Literature, and Violence Against Women: Ending the Victim Blame Game - Hardcover

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by Erin L. Kelley (Author)This book engages legal and literary texts in order to examine acquaintance crimes, such as rape, sexual harassment, stalking, and domestic abuse, and to challenge how the victim's physical or psychological 'freeze response' is commonly and inaccurately mistaken for her consent.Author BiographyErin L. Kelley is Professor of English at Dallas College, USA. Number of Pages: 118 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 10, 2024

Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution - Paperback

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by Ian Duncan (Author)A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary science The 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time. In Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowled...

Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges - Paperback

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by Tahia Abdel Nasser (Author)Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab world has created transcontinental routes - and in the late 20th century, the translation of Latin American classics into Arabic flourished in the Arab world. Drawing on Latin American and Arabic novels, travelogues, memoirs, short stories and chronicles from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, Tahia Abdel Nasser shows how ...

Standardization in the Middle Ages: Volume 1: The North - Paperback

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by Line Cecilie Engh (Editor), Svein Harald Gullbekk (Editor), Hans Jacob Orning (Editor)We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.The two volumes, Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The North and Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 2: Europe, turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas and practices that produced--and were produced by--standards and standard...

Mimetic Posthumanism: Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics - Hardcover

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by Nidesh Lawtoo (Volume Editor)It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an update of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo mimeticus. But the mimetic turn in posthuman studies is not limited to A.I.: from simulation to identification, affective contagion to viral mimesis, robotics to hypermimesis, the essays collected in this volume articulate the multiple facets...

Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy - Paperback

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by Jonathan Elmore (Author), 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...

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by C. T. Perez (Author)Signs of Being is a collection of poetry, prose, and commentary born from the insights, observations, and experiences of C.T. Perez to understand the realms of CHamoru cultural identity. This work aims to articulate the mindscape of an indigenous CHamoru consciousness through ec(h)o literature: literature that interprets signs in the natural environment as echoes from ancestors. Guided by her saina, or elders, Perez invites readers to join her on a journey through the c...

Culture in Exile: Comparative Perspectives on Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain - Hardcover

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by Elisenda Marcer (Editor)This edited book breaks new ground by bringing together research on inner and territorial exile in the context of National Socialism in Germany and the Franco regime in Spain, and in proposing an integrated model of exilic cultural production. Original contributions explore previously neglected aspects of the inner and territorial exile cultures, focusing on the specificity of the national settings (including Catalonia) whilst also seeking to place research findings...

Handbook of Stemmatology: History, Methodology, Digital Approaches - Paperback

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by Philipp Roelli (Editor)Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text whose autograph has been lost. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects of traditional as well as modern digital methods and their history. As an art (ars), stemmatology's main goal is editing and thus presenting to the reader a historical text in the most satisfactory way. As a more abst...

Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature - Hardcover

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by Chris Holmes (Author)A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st...

Censorship and Ideology: The Translation of Children's Literature in Post-Civil War Spain - Hardcover

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by Julia Lin Thompson (Author)This book offers a fascinating picture of how state censorship affected children's literature translation in post-Civil War Spain. Focusing on the Spanish translations of Mark Twain's children's classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author traces the evolution of the censorship system of the Francoist regime and its impact on Spanish children's literature during the years after the Spanish Civil War. Drawing on the regi...

Literature in Late Monolingualism: Literacies for the Linguacene - Paperback

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by David Gramling (Author)Monolingualism is bad; literature is good - right? For many of us monolingualism is associated with closed-mindedness, political nationalism, and a general hostility to diverse knowledges and experiences of the world. In contrast, literature continues to stand allegedly unbeholden, as a symbolic beacon for expansive human expression and insight - making meaning astride Earth's thousands of human languages. But what if this division of virtue and vice isn't quite ri...

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by Virginia Woolf (Author)"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf is a seminal work of feminism and literary criticism that explores the complex relationship between gender inequality and the ability of women writers to create and thrive. Drawing from lectures she delivered at women's colleges at Cambridge University, Woolf argues that for a woman to write fiction, she must have economic independence and a space of her own, hence the title by advocating for a physical and intellectual space w...

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by -. - (Author)The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to facts not readily available, and in many instances purposefully hidden, about the birth of this country, the framers of the Constitution, and their hidden agenda. This book gives some insights into the problems that the founders of this country faced in convincing the people that they would have a large voice in their government and freedoms not enjoyed by other countries. And at the same time keeping total control of all ...

Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy - Hardcover

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by Andree Hahmann (Editor), Michael Vazquez (Editor)Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero consciously fashioned his own image for posterity and wrote philosophical texts as invitations for his readers to think for themselves. His philosophy has continued to unfold over the centuries, repeatedly inspiring new and independent philosophical positions. Since J.G.F. Powell's pivotal contrib...

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by Pramod K. Nayar (Author)Vulnerable Earth is a study of the literature of climate crisis. Shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, the living and the non-living share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability. Number of Pages: 310 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2024

Walden (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket) - Hardcover

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by Henry David Thoreau (Author) Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, chronicles his two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau explores themes of self-reliance, spirituality, and the importance of nature by reflecting on his daily life, scientific observations, and philosophical insights. Living in a cabin he built himself, he immerses in the natural world, observing seasonal changes, wildlife,...

The Fallacy of Success & The Ethics of Elfland: Essays on Culture, Morality, and the Paradoxes of Life - Paperback

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by G. K. Chesterton (Author)"The Fallacy of Success & The Ethics of Elfland" by G. K. Chesterton is a thought-provoking collection of essays that critiques the modern pursuit of material success and explores the magic in everyday life. Through essays like "The Case for the Ephemeral," "The God in the Cave," "Government and the Rights of Man," and "The Ethics of Elfland," Chesterton challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of achievement and fulfillment. His wri...

Greetings Aliens: A Personal History of Science Fiction in Turkey Pt I - Paperback

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by Efe Levent (Author)"Greetings Aliens Pt I" is an exploration of science fiction in Turkey, written by Efe Levent. In the first installment of what will be a trilogy of zines, Levent delves into the earliest known works of Turkish science fiction, spanning from the 1910s to the 1950s. Through a personal lens, the essay examines the genre's relationship with irony and raises thought-provoking questions about the role of sincerity in crafting visions of the future. Through the medium of scien...

Made in America and the Hidden Stories of The Sopranos - Paperback

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by Steve Else (Author)Made in America and the Hidden Stories of The Sopranos by Steve Else shows how most viewers have misunderstood the mysterious finale of television's greatest drama. It is shown to be one of a number of narratives secreted within The Sopranos which require extra attention to be paid to subtle clues. Made in America is revealed as a dream of the central character Tony Soprano, the final one of a series of his presented in the show. This fully referenced book, the first ful...

Colecci?n de William Shakespeare - Paperback

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Esta colecci?n re?ne las obras m?s c?lebres e influyentes de William Shakespeare, considerado uno de los m?s grandes dramaturgos y poetas de todos los tiempos. En estas p?ginas encontrar?s piezas inmortales como Hamlet, Romeo y Julieta, Macbeth, Otelo, y muchas m?s.Las obras de Shakespeare exploran temas universales como el amor, la traici?n, la ambici?n, el poder y la condici?n humana, presentados con una profundidad emocional y una riqueza ling??stica incompar...

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by Sara Teasdale (Author)Love Songs is a collection of poems written by Sara Teasdale, an American poet who lived from 1884 to 1933. The book contains a total of 28 poems, all of which are centered around the theme of love. Teasdale's writing style is characterized by its simplicity and emotional depth, and her poems often explore the complexities of romantic relationships, from the joy of falling in love to the pain of heartbreak.Throughout Love Songs, Teasdale's poems touch on a wide range ...

The American Novel and Its Tradition - Paperback

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by Richard Chase (Author)"Since the earliest days," writes Richard Chase in this classic study, "the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance." In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, Frank Norris, George Washington Cable, William Dean Howells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner,...

Paradise Empty: Poems 1983-2012 - Paperback

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by Hugo Mujica (Author)Hugo Mujica is one of Argentina's top intellectuals and a leading poet in Spanish. His award-winning poetry has been published in 15 countries. This bilingual edition offers the English-speaking reader for the first time a representative selection of all of his poetry, where idea and feeling, synthesis and eloquence, truth and beauty come together. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 30, 2015