Literary Criticism

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Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul - Paperback

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by Jan H. Blits (Author)The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul.Author BiographyJan H. Blits is Professor, Honors Faculty, at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Insufficiency of...

The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Paperback

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by Laurence Davis (Editor), Peter Stillman (Editor), Tony Burns (Contribution by)The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning novel remain woefully under explored. Editors Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman right this state of ...

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - Paperback

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by Michael Schur (Author)From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,400 years of deep thinking from around the world. Most people think of themselves as "good," but it's not always easy to determine what's "good" or "bad"--especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this c...

pregnancy: The BEST Pregnancy Handbook For First Time Moms And Dads - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Cassandra Paterson (Author)Pregnancy: Pregnancy, The BEST pregnancy Handbook For First Time Moms And Dads." Whether you already know you are pregnant, trying to get pregnant or are just curious about the many different stages of pregnancy, you have come to the right place. This book is laid out in easy to read chapters that are going to tell you everything you want and need to know about the changes that your body is undergoing, how your baby is growing and dev...

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Taylor (Author)A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there was much more to be said. Cosmic Connections continues Taylor's explorat...

Dr. Seuss and the Art of War: Secret Military Lessons - Paperback

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by Montgomery McFate (Editor), Us Army (Ret ). General David Petraeus (Foreword by)If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military strategist Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss? Until Dr. Seuss & National Security, the military aspect of Ted Geisel's biography and his books have been overlooked by scholars and critics alike. Yet Dr. Seu...

The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women's Equality in a Turbulent Age - Hardcover

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by Taten Shirley (Author)This book addresses the ways in which Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë took advantage of the rapid change of their time unleashed by the Industrial Revolution in order to illustrate the inequalities women faced in the Victorian Age. It historically contextualizes all seven novels, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor, in order to investigate the themes of marriage, education, class, and work. Spec...

Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing: Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies - Paperback

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by Emiro Martínez-Osorio (Author)This book offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between Castellanos's poems and Alonso de Ercilla's the Araucana and elucidates the complex poetic discourse Castellanos created to defend the interest of the first generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors that settled in the New World in the sixteenth century.Author BiographyEmiro Martínez-Osorio is associate professor of Colonial Latin American Literature at York University, Canada. Number ...

An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero's De Republica - Hardcover

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by Moryam Vanopstal (Author)In An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero's De Republica, Moryam VanOpstal argues that Cicero should be considered the great unifier of classical political thought, with fresh insight on pivotal issues such as the best way of life and how to preserve a good regime.Author BiographyMoryam VanOpstal is professor of history and government at The Cambridge School of Dallas. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated...

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature - Hardcover

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by Mara E. Reisman (Author)This book offers a critical analysis of morally complex social, political, and cultural issues in novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick McGrath, Graham Swift, Andrea Levy, and Jeanette Winterson. It examines how the work illuminates intricacies of human experience, encourages political engagement, fosters communication, and facilitates social change.Author BiographyMara Reisman is professor of British literature and women's literature at Northern Arizona University. Num...

Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas - Paperback

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by Terza Silva Lima-Neves (Editor), Aminah N. Pilgrim (Editor), Elizabete Andrade (Contribution by)This book documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo Verdean women and their experiences. The contributors examine their own experiences, the history of Cabo Verde, and Cabo Verdean diaspora to analyze themes of community, race, sexuality, migration, gender, and tradition.Author BiographyTerza A. Silva Lima-Neves is associate prof...

9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels - Hardcover

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by Danel Olson (Author)Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels returns to the ruins and anguish of 9/11 to pose a question not yet addressed by scholarship. Two time World Fantasy Award-winning writer Danel Olson asks how, why, and where New York City novels capture the terror of the Al-Qaeda mass murders through a supernatural lens. This book explores ghostly presence...

Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials: Identity, Reception, and Politics - Hardcover

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by Priscilla Hobbs (Author)Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the lessons learned from Harry's adventures became a moral compass and a guiding light for millennial readers in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony.Author BiographyPriscilla Hobbs is senior associate dean at Southern New Hampshire University. Number of Pages: 204 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 14, 2022

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by Timothy Sean Quinn (Translator), Martin Heidegger (Author), Ernst Jünger (Author)A complete English translation of the correspondence between the philosopher Martin Heidegger and the novelist and essayist Ernst Jünger, together with a translation of Jünger's essay Across the Line.Author BiographyMartin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher and one of the most important European thinkers of the twentieth century. Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) was a celebrated German novelist, essayist a...

Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels between Woolf's Fiction and Process Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Veronika Krajícková (Author)This book introduces Virginia Woolf as a nondualist and process-oriented thinker whose ideas are strikingly similar to those of her contemporary, Alfred North Whitehead. The author argues that in their respective fields, the two thinkers criticized the materialist turn of their time and attempted to undermine long-rooted dualisms.Author BiographyVeronika Krajíčková teaches English literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of South Bohemia. Number of Pa...

D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective - Hardcover

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by Ben Stoltzfus (Author)D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective shows how Lawrence and Lacan can change beliefs and practices, oppose the Anthropocene, and restore cosmic balance. Stoltzfus brings literature and psychoanalysis together in readings that are both aesthetic and epistemological.Author BiographyBen Stoltzfus is professor emeritus of comparative literature, creative writing, and French at the University of California, Riverside. Number of Pages: 184 Dimensions: 0.56...

Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness - Hardcover

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by W. Reginald Rampone (Editor), Nicholas M. Utzig (Editor), Jim Casey (Contribution by)Inspired by ongoing movements for social justice, equality, accountability, and truth, the scholars in this volume resituate Much Ado About Nothing in a contemporary critical context. From fake news to #MeToo, these essays explore how vital concerns of the present offer new ways of reading, performing, and understanding Much Ado. Author BiographyW. Reginald Rampone, Jr. is associate professor of English at...

Father-Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless - Paperback

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by Christine Grogan (Author)This interdisciplinary study rereads father-daughter incest narratives of the last hundred years to argue for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences.Author BiographyChristine Grogan is senior lecturer of English at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Number of Pages: 2...

Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons - Paperback

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by Emron Esplin (Editor), Margarida Vale De Gato (Editor), Jana L. Argersinger (Contribution by)This book examines the processes of editing and anthologizing as innovative contributions to the field of literary culture, analyzing how single-author editions and multi-author anthologies have created distinct reputations for Edgar Allan Poe. The book explores how Poe's editors, anthologizers, and translators continue to shape his global images.Author BiographyEmron Esplin is associate professor ...

Landscape and Labour: Work, Place, and the Working Class in Eliot, Hardy, and Lawrence - Paperback

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by Brian Elliott (Author)In the novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence a miniature history of the English working class can be found. Through their sympathetic portrayals, these authors transformed working-class culture from a patronizing pastiche into a vital reality. This achievement was crucial to the rise of the English working-class as the key agency of democratic reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In our own times, by contrast, depictions of wo...

Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzald俉 Papers: Archival Impulses - Paperback

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by Diana Isabel Mart匤ez (Author)Providing an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically and experientially meaningful ways, this book illustrates how Gloria Anzald俉's archives contain objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform the embodied ways of knowing of which she writes. Number of Pages: 206 Dimensions: 0.47 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 15, 2023

Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies - Paperback

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by Jacqueline A. Zubeck (Editor), Karim Daanoune (Contribution by), Scott Dill (Contribution by)Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author's work published in the twenty-first century from a wide variety of critical perspectives to provide an in depth look at DeLillo's expansive body of work.Author BiographyJacqueline A. Zubeck is associate professor of English at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN Public...

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by Douglas A. Vakoch (Editor), Sam Mickey (Editor), Anna Bedford (Contribution by)This anthology situates the cultural and literary theories of ecofeminism in an interdisciplinary and global dialogue. It brings ecofeminism into conversation with several areas of inquiry, including ecocriticism, postcolonialism, geography, environmental law, religion, geoengineering, systems thinking, family therapy, and environmental justice.Author BiographySam Mickey is adjunct professor at the University of...

Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science - Paperback

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by Olga Pilkington (Editor), Ace G. Pilkington (Editor), Stephanie Chidester (Contribution by)This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre.Author BiographyOlga A. Pilkington is Assistant Professor of English at Dixie State University. The late Ace G. Pilkington was professor of English and history at Dixie...

The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory - Paperback

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by Richard J. Golsan (Author)This study examines the continuing impact of the memory of the Vichy regime and World War II in France. It analyzes recent political and intellectual debates, trials and the passage of contentious laws, historical controversies, and literary works and argues that the country has not yet reconciled with its past.Author BiographyRichard J. Golsan is university distinguished professor and director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&...

The Song of the Sirens and Other Essays - Paperback

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by Pietro Pucci (Author)In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on me...

The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature - Paperback

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by Maria Nikolajeva (Author)Through a variety of critical perspectives, Nikolajeva ponders the art of characterization, uncovering the essential differences between story ('what we are told') and discourse ('how we are told'), and carefully distinguishing between how these are employed in children's fiction and in general fiction.Author BiographyMaria Nikolajeva is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden. She was the president of the International Rese...

In Her Mother's House: The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing - Paperback

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by Wendy Ho (Author)Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourses of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to specific spoken stories of mothers and daughters. Against reductive tendencies of scholarship, she places her own conversations with her China-born grandmother and her U.S.-born mother and her own readings of other Asian American women writers. She finds in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Fae Myenn...

The Pathology of Desire in Daphne Du Maurier's Short Stories - Hardcover

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by Setara Pracha (Author)Following a resurgence of interest in Daphne du Maurier's writing, The Pathology of Desire in Daphne du Maurier's Short Stories offers an overview of all her collections and a detailed reading of nine stories. These contain recurrent references to the incomplete or impaired human form and are best read through a corporeal lens. The criticism illustrates her importance as a cultural commentator fascinated by the results of frustrated human desire, and includes a synops...

Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Re-visions of Dystopian Motherhood - Hardcover

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by Renae L. Mitchell (Author)This book investigates how contemporary post-apocalyptic novels place maternal characters at the forefront of rebuilding and reconceiving a devastated world. By overturning patriarchal assumptions about the post-catastrophe world and women's place in it, the writers of the maternal post-apocalypse offer a (re)vision of speculative literature.Author BiographyRenae Mitchell is an instructor at the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos. Number of Pages: 162 Dimensio...

Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi - Paperback

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by Raymond Angelo Belliotti (Author)Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style is an interdisciplinary study that examines the lives and work of four historical figures: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, or Garibaldi, as well as Italian culture and the moral psychology of pride, arrogance, justification, excuse, repentance, and the concept of honor.Author BiographyRaymond Angelo Belliotti is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9 x 6 I...

Mobility and Corporeality in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion - Hardcover

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by Jaine Chemmachery (Editor), Bhawana Jain (Editor), Sun Jai Kim (Contribution by)Mobility and Corporeality in 19th and 21st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion aims at exploring the intersection of literary, mobility and body studies in Anglophone literature from the 19th century to the 21st century. Corporeal mobility includes a variety of mobile bodies that have long been othered and marginalised due to issues pertaining to gender, disability, race, and class. Yet there is a r...