Literary Criticism

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Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Libera (Author), Ashley Nicole Black (Foreword by), Chelsea Devantez (Foreword by)A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great comedy can feel ineffable--and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that "either you are funny, or you aren't," Libera breaks the magic of comedy down into an innovative theory and practical toolkit. Developed over the course of thirty years as a director for The Second City and pr...

Clothed Villainy: Acting White in Early Modern Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Paris (Author)Examines how centuries-old stagecraft shaped modern racial politics--and why the performance of whiteness still commands the spotlight.From Shakespearean blackface to the alt-right's khaki-clad protests, Clothed Villainy: Acting White in in Early Modern Drama by Jamie Paris confronts the uncomfortable truths of racial performance across centuries. Paris argues that whiteness is not a fixed identity but a precarious and performative construct...

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Report copyright infringementby Ovid (Author), Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature -- classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid -- is revealed anew.Savage and sophisticated, mischievious and majestic, witty and wicked, The Metamorphoses weaves together every major mythological story to display a dazzling ...

The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Kreeft (Author)To learn more about J.R.R. Tolkien visit Wh ile nothing can equal or replace the adventure in reading Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, Peter Kreeft says that the journey into its underlying philosophy can be another exhilarating adventure. Thus, Kreeft takes the reader on a voyage of discovery into the philosophical bones of Middle earth. He organizes the philosophical themes in The Lord of the Rings into 50 categories, accompan...

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Report copyright infringementby John Trevena (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: 212 Dimensions: 0.48 x ...

The Long Journey Home: Parables and Wisdom from the Little Prince

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Report copyright infringementby Robert R. Fuggi (Author) The Little Prince is cloaked in imagery and concepts that are not apparent at first blush. Originally written in French, Le Petit Prince was published in 1943 and has transcended time and place to become one of the all-time great literary works. Young readers have enjoyed the journeys and encounters of the title character-and the book has also captured the imagination of adults. In The Long Journey Home, author and theologian Robert F. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Edith Wharton (Author)The book "" Coming Home 1916 "", 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: 36 ...

A Study Of The Plots Of Twenty Plays Of Lope De Vega

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Report copyright infringementby Abel Cantu (Author)This book is a detailed examination of the plots of twenty plays by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega. With in-depth analyses of each play and insightful commentary on its themes and characters, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the theater of the Golden Age of Spain.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...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Urmila Seshagiri (Editor)Virginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fiction--published in its final, revised form for the first time A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical "cottage of one's own," battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf draft...

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Report copyright infringementby Pearson Education (Author), Anonymous (Author), Sarah Anderson (Author)From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Beowulf, edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextual materials on the early medieval age.Back JacketFrom Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, "Beowulf, " edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextu...

Nature Wisdom: Mystical Writers of the Big Sur-Monterey Coast

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Report copyright infringementby Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick (Author) Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.48 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 03, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Allan Poe (Author)Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 17, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Dabundo (Author) Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the context of literary history and criticism; explores her fiction; and features an encyclopedic, readable resource on the people, places and things of relevance to Austen the person and writer. Details on family members, beaux, friends, national affairs, church and state politics, themes, tropes,...

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Report copyright infringementby Smith (Author), Wiggin (Author)The book "" The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales "", 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. ...

Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, With Notes

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Report copyright infringementby Virgil (Created by), Horace 1819-1901 Andrews (Created by)This classic text features the work of the ancient Roman poet Virgil, including his seminal pastoral poems, the 'Eclogues', and his famous agricultural treatise, the 'Georgics'. With insightful notes and commentary, this volume is a must-have for classicists and lovers of ancient literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civiliz...

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Report copyright infringementby David Day (Author)The most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf. The history of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth is filled with an ongoing struggle between good and evil, centered on a set of rings forged by Elves and an evil sorcerer. The Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe recounts stories and conflicts surrounding the Rings of Power. Insightful co...

The Function of the Narrator in Henry Fielding's

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Report copyright infringementby Anja Schäfer (Author)Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: The following essay about Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones. The History of a Foundling (1749), deals with the author's contribution to the development of the genre "novel", which had to prove itself as a potentially literary form in the eighteenth century century. By this time, p...

The Laws and Customs of the Yoruba People

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Report copyright infringementby E. A. Ajisafe Moore (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 impo...

The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... the Economy of Vegetation, and the Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

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Report copyright infringementby Erasmus Darwin (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 important...

As you Like it: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author) This annotated version of As you Like it, one of the Bard's wittiest and bawdiest plays, provides a detailed guide to its Elizabethan language and its references. It restores the drama to the language of the First Folio of 1623, including the original spelling, capitalization and punctuation. Practical annotation provides insights into the puns, allusions and world-play that characterize all of Shakespeare's dramas. Appendices enume...

The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence

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Report copyright infringementby Jack N. Rakove (Author)Here in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-88), in which "We the People" forged a new nation and built the framework for our federal republic. Together with the Bill of Rights and the Civil War amendments, these documents constitute what James Madison called our "political scriptures"...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Furst (Author)Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last de...

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Report copyright infringementby J. R. R. Tolkien (Author), Wayne G. Hammond (Author)J.R.R. Tolkien's complete artwork for The Hobbit, presented for the first time in celebration of the 75th anniversaryWhen J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist and drew illustrations for his book white it was still in manuscript. The Hobbit as first printed had ten black-and-white illustrations, two maps, and binding and dust jacket designs by its author. Later, Tolkien...

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

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Report copyright infringementby Phillip Lopate (Author)For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, rea...

American Romanticism and the Evolutionary Idea

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer J. Baker (Author)Evolutionary thought transformed nineteenth-century American intellectual life. This book details how it shaped literature in the middle decades of the century and intersected with Romantic conceptions of selfhood, society, and the history of life. Jennifer J. Baker reads the era's Romanticism in relation to Darwin as well as naturalists, embryologists, ethnologists, anthropologists, and even Biblical creationists who used evolutionary...

Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America

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Report copyright infringementby Phillip H. Round (Author)Before European settlers arrived in North America, more than 300 distinct languages were being spoken among the continent's Indigenous peoples. But the Euro-American emphasis on alphabetic literacy has historically hidden the power and influence of Indigenous verbal and nonverbal language diversity on encounters between Indigenous North Americans and settlers. In this pathbreaking work, Phillip H. Round reveals how Native North American...

Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Otis (Editor)Although we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not recognized. As the scientist John Tyndall pointed out, not only were science and literature both striving to better "man's estate", they shared a common language and cultural heritage. The quest for "origins", the nature of the relationship between society and the individual, and what it meant to be human wer...

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Hitchens (Author)A provocative, personally curated anthology of the most influential writings on atheism, from the New York Times bestselling author of God Is Not Great.The Portable Atheist is an entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first...

Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth

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Report copyright infringementby Tess Somervell (Author)Reading Time tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton's Paradise Lost, Thomson's The Seasons and Wordsworth's The Prelude, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long ...

The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie McRae Andrew (Author)The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallace's novels through the lens of historical geography. It explores the connections between Wallace's literary practice and the reshaping of American geographical space that resulted from the transition between Fordist and post-Fordist forms of capitalism, presenting critical readings of the novels together with analysis of manuscripts and notebook...

James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality: Postcritical and Postsecular Reading in Dubliners and Ulysses

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Rankin Russell (Author)James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality reads Dubliners and Ulysses through studies of hospitality, particularly that articulated in the Lukan parable of the Good Samaritan. It traces the origins of the novel in part to the physical attacks on Joyce in 1904 Dublin and 1907 Rome, showing how these incidents and the parable were incorporated into his short story 'Grace' and throughout Ulysses, especially its last four episodes. Richar...

Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time: Waiting for Now

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Lagji (Author)Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time reveals the fundamental, constitutive role of the temporal dimensions of waiting in colonial regimes of time, as well as in postcolonial framings of time, history and agency. Drawing from critical time and postcolonial studies alike, this book argues that the temporality of waiting is an essential concept to theorise the relationship between time and power in postcolonial fiction across the long twenti...