Literary Criticism

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Poetic Sisters: Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets - Paperback

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by Deborah Kennedy (Author)Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," this book explores a female literary network, and emphasizes the range and extent of these writers' poetic achievement and its resonance for the twenty-first-century reader.Author BiographyDeborah Kennedy is professor of English at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where ...

The Collected Works of Harold Clurman - Paperback

$32.24

by Harold Clurman (Author)Six decades of commentary on theatre, dance, music, film, art, letters, and politics from this world-renowned critic. A New York Times notable book of the year. Number of Pages: 1122 Dimensions: 2.33 x 9.33 x 7.23 IN Publication Date: February 01, 2000

Myths and Legends of All Nations - Paperback

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by Herbert Spencer Robinson (Author), Knox Wilson (Author)Myths and Legends of All Nations includes great stories of the Greeks, Romans, Orientals, Celts, Norse, Teutons, other Europeans, Polynesians, Africans, American Indians, and modern American folklore such as the fables about John Henry, Casey Jones, and Paul Bunyan.Author BiographyHerbert Spencer Robinson taught English at the College of the City of New York and Pace College. Knox Wilson was professor of English at Davis and Elkins Col...

Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes - Paperback

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by Neil McCaw (Author)Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries that contain detailed examinations of the themes and features of the 60 stories that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon. Author BiographyNeil McCaw is Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture at the University of Winchester. He has published widely on various aspects of the C19th, crime and de...

The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke! - Paperback

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by Matthew Smith-Lahrman (Author)In The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!, Matthew Smith-Lahrman sheds light on the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock 'n' roll band of the last forty years. Smith-Lahrman covers Kirkwood's lyrics on nine albums, from 1983 to 1995, when he wrote virtually every lyric for the band. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob Dylan, ...

Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope - Paperback

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by Peter Dale Scott (Author)Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.Author BiographyPeter Dale Scott taught at Sedbergh School and McGill University before joining the Canadian Department of External Affai...

Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes - Hardcover

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by Tim Hanley (Author)While superheroes have supposedly espoused truth, justice, and valor for generations of fans, there's also a troubling and persistent undercurrent of sexism and toxic masculinity that cannot be ignored. Not All Supermen explores this complex history of the superhero genre.Author BiographyTim Hanley is a comic book historian and author whose work focuses on the American comic book industry. His books include Wonder Woman Unbound, Investigating Lois Lane, The Many Lives of...

The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia - Hardcover

$170.10

by Thomas S. Hischak (Author)Thornton Wilder is one of America's greatest writers, and the only author to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. Equally well known for his plays and novels, his unique and diverse body of work also includes essays, journals, lectures, and film and television scripts. In The Thornton Wilder Encyclopedia, Thomas S. Hischak exhaustively covers Wilder's life and extensive career. Entries not only contain every one of his novels, plays, and scripts, but als...

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by Paul Stasi (Editor)This volume, timed to coincide with what would have been Williams's 100th birthday, tests his ideas in our own experience and to engage Williams's work in ways that move past the familiar terrain that has grown around it. Author BiographyPaul Stasi teaches 20th century Anglophone literature at the University at Albany where he is an Associate Professor. He is the author of Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense (Cambridge 2012), the co-editor (with Jennifer Grei...

Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy: Countless Lives Inhabit Us - Paperback

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by Bartholomew Ryan (Editor), Giovanbattista Tusa (Editor), Antonio Cardiello (Editor)This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his relationship to philosophy. Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2023

Eroticizing Aesthetics: In the Real with Bataille and Lacan - Paperback

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by Tim Themi (Author)Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics, implicit in each, and how this invokes an erotic process celebrating the real of what is usually excluded from articulation.Author BiographyTim Themi teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and is the author of Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism. Number of Pages: 230 Dimensions: 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March ...

Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States - Paperback

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by Donna L. Gilton (Author)This second edition of Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S. and elsewhere, elaborating on people, businesses, and organizations that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials.Author BiographyDonna L. Gilton earned a bachelor's degree in history and elementary education from Simmons University, a master's deg...

The Information Literacy Framework: Case Studies of Successful Implementation - Paperback

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by Heidi Julien (Editor), Melissa Gross (Editor), Don Latham (Editor)This edited book helps demystify how to incorporate ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into information literacy instruction in higher education as well as how to teach the new Framework to pre-service librarians as part of their professional preparation.Author BiographyHeidi Julien is a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University at Buffalo. She holds an MLIS degree from ...

The End of the Anthropocene: Ecocriticism, the Universal Ecosystem, and the Astropocene - Hardcover

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by Michael J. Gormley (Author)In The End of the Anthropocene, Michael J. Gormley examines late-stage Anthropocene literature and the imagining of the Astropocene. Focusing on science fiction literature, Gormley frames a changing ecoethic for the end of the Anthropocene.Author BiographyMichael J. Gormley is professor of English at Quinsigamond Community College Number of Pages: 206 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 28, 2021

Viktor Shklovsky's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy - Paperback

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by Slav N. Gratchev (Editor), Howard Mancing (Editor), Irina Evdokimova (Introduction by)This unique book examines the heritage and enduring relevance of Viktor Shklovsky's work from a wide range of international perspectives. The essays articulate Shklovsky's impact through various lenses including literature, literary theory, film, art theory, and philosophy from the early-1920s to the mid-1970s.Author BiographySlav N. Gratchev is associate professor of Spanish at Marshall University. Howar...

Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism - Paperback

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by Sean Parson (Editor), J. L. Schatz (Editor), Hailey J. Austin (Contribution by)Superheroes and Masculinity examines how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are both perpetuated and challenged within the superhero genre. This collection critiques stereotypical portrayals of hegemonic masculinity and explores queer alternatives to such formulations within superhero comics, film, and television.Author BiographySean Parson is assistant professor of politics and international affairs at...

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time - Paperback

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by Ingrid E. Castro (Editor), Jessica Clark (Editor), Ingrid E. Castro (Contribution by)This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.Author BiographyIngrid E. Castro is professor of sociology and chair of the Sociology, Anthropology, ...

Ethnic Minority Women's Writing in France: Publishing Practices and Identity Formation, 1998-2005 - Paperback

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by Claire Mouflard (Author)This book examines autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes written by ethnic minority women writers in early twenty-first century France. In their publications, select authors denounce the ethnic hierarchies created and propagated by French institutions, and contend with the neocolonial marketing practices of key metropolitan publishers.Author BiographyClaire Mouflard is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies at Hamilton College. Number of Page...

Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature: Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality - Paperback

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by Steven Petersheim (Author)This book examines how Hawthorne's notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthorne's four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.Author BiographySteven Petersheim is associate professor of American literature at Indiana University East and coeditor of Writing the Environment in Ninete...

Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature - Paperback

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by Joseph Ford (Author)This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature--and ideas we have about it--can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first place.Author BiographyJoseph Ford is lecturer in French studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced...

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

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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: 140 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 06, 2020

The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches - Hardcover

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by Li-Chun Hsiao (Author)The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches argues that what appeared to be a "genesis" of new literature engendered by the modernist movement in postwar Taiwan was made possible only through the "splendid isolation" within the Cold War world order sustaining the bubble in which "Free China" lived on borrowed time. The book explores the trenches of freedom in whose confines the soldier-poets' were surrealistically acqu...

Chekhov's Letters: Biography, Context, Poetics - Paperback

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by Carol Apollonio (Editor), Radislav Lapushin (Editor), Carol Apollonio (Contribution by)This collection examines the letters of Anton Chekhov, which have received relatively little scholarly attention. The contributors approach the letters from a variety of angles--biography, psychology, literary criticism, poetics, and history--to characterize Chekhov's key epistolary concerns and to examine their role in his life.Author BiographyCarol Apollonio is professor of Russian at Duke University. ...

African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon - Paperback

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by Aretha Phiri (Editor), Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe (Contribution by), Chielozona Eze (Contribution by)This volume probes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the context of epistemological decolonization and the (South) African scholarly transformation project. The contributors map out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.Author BiographyAretha Phiri is a senior lecturer i...

Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature - Paperback

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by Anthony M. Wachs (Author), Jon D. Schaff (Author)Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety resulting from the decline of narratives that provided individuals with a meaningful human life. The authors argue that the twentieth-century sought to free individuals from the constraints of authoritative cultural traditions and institutions, liberating the autonomous self. Yet this has given ri...

Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Diaspora - Hardcover

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by Ashmita Khasnabish (Editor), Markus Arnold (Contribution by), Paget Henry (Contribution by)Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Diaspora: What's Next? looks forward within the field of postcolonial studies and goes beyond the notion of hybridity and postcolonial reason beyond just portraying it. This volume offers a futuristic vision going beyond the common paradigms of postcolonility, diaspora, and globalization, speculating a framework beyond master-slave dialectic. This new paradigm loca...

Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Diaspora: What's Next? - Paperback

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A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection: The Diary of George Howe - Paperback

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by Rafael Ocasio (Author)A Bristol, Rhode Island and Mantanzas, Cuba Slavery Connection: The Diary of George Howe explores the under-documented slave trade between Cuba and Rhode Island through the analysis of a diary written by George Howe, a Bristolian man performing managerial work on a Cuban sugar cane plantation in 1832-1834.Author BiographyRafael Ocasio is Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College. Number of Pages: 306 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN ...

The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond on Page and Screen - Paperback

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by Oliver Buckton (Editor), Elyn Achtymichuk-Hardy (Contribution by), Ihsan Amanatullah (Contribution by)This book explores themes of consumerism, gender and sexuality, genre, popular culture, and American culture in Diamonds Are Forever, situating Ian Fleming's novel and Guy Hamilton's film as important milestones in modern popular culture.Author BiographyOliver Buckton is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: ...

Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction: Hu Feng and Lu Ling - Hardcover

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by Xiaoping Wang (Author)This book provides a reexamination of the debates between Hu Feng, Lu Ling, and other Chinese left-wing theorists from a cultural-political perspective. The author argues that individualism should be understood within changing historical contexts and that subjectivity should be treated as class-based and derived from collective community.Author BiographyXiaoping Wang is distinguished professor of comparative literature at Tongji University. Number of Pages: 236 Dimens...

Educating through Popular Culture: You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics - Paperback

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by Edward Janak (Editor), Ludovic A. Sourdot (Editor), Maha Al-Saati (Contribution by)Educating through Popular Culture is a tool for educators at all levels to improve their practice via popular culture in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestions to elicit discussion and spark creativity in all students.Author BiographyEdward Janak is associate professor and chair of the Department of Educational Foundation...

Readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates: Defending the Philosophical Life - Paperback

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by VIVIL Valvik Haraldsen (Editor), Olof Pettersson (Editor), Oda E. Wiese Tvedt (Editor)Contributors to this volume focus on the character of Socrates as the embodiment of philosophy, employing this as a starting point for exploring various themes in the Apology. These include the relation of philosophy to democracy, rhetoric, politics, or society in general, and the overarching question of what comprises the philosophic life.Author BiographyVivil Valvik Haraldsen is lecturer at the Universi...