Literary Criticism

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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

Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice - Paperback

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by Jess A. Goldberg (Author)How Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship Abolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical race theory, queer theory, critical prison studies, and antiprison activism in conversation with an archive of Black Atlantic literatures of slavery, Jess A. Goldberg reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics. ...

Representations of Dalit Protagonists: Indian English Fiction and Marathi Dalit Literature - Hardcover

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by Hanumant Ajinath Lokhande (Author)This book interrogates canonical Indian English fiction which has Dalit characters as protagonists or major characters, and argues that the representation of such characters, although well-meant, is regulated and made unremarkable. It examines how the normative discourse of the Anglophone novel portrays Dalits from an upper-caste point of view, devoid of Ambedkarite or Dalit consciousness, and thus implicitly reinscribes the upper caste power by restrictin...

Cultures of the Popular in the Modern Hispanic World - Hardcover

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by Carolina Tapia Valenzuela (Contribution by), Clinton D. Young (Contribution by), Ferm?n de Los Reyes G?mez (Contribution by)How many cassette tapes do you still own? In one hundred years, how many TikTok videos or Instagram posts will still be accessible? Yet much of today's news and mass culture is produced and disseminated via transient means. Just as in previous eras. Hispanic popular cultures of previous centuries, once intended for a broad audience, can now only be glimpsed in fragile...

Dead Reckonings No. 36 (Fall 2024) - Paperback

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by Alex Houstoun (Editor) Number of Pages: 102 Dimensions: 0.21 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 30, 2024

Don't Tell Mama!: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing - Paperback

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by Various (Author), Regina Barreca (Editor)This important collection reveals as never before the quality, extent, and variety of the Italian American contribution to American literature. Bringing together fiction and poetry as well as academic essays and newspaper articles from the 1800s to the present, this volume covers a wide field of cultural experience. Including many previously unpublished pieces as well as classic works, and enhanced by an insightful and entertaining introduction by R...

Brazilian Political Theatre: Aesthetics and Engagement - Hardcover

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by Peter W. Schulze (Editor), Jos? de Ipanema (Author)By approaching Brazilian artistic movements and historical performances as well as challenging the critique around Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, the research contributes to the debate on the political reach of theatre that aims at the radical democratization of society. Number of Pages: 254 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: November 30, 2023

Existencias Contaminadas: Escenarios Ecosist?micos del Antropoceno En Am?rica Latina - Hardcover

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by Rike Bolte (Editor), Hermann Doetsch (Editor), Benjamin Loy (Editor) Ante la evidencia de que la separaci?n hist?rica, epistemol?gica y pol?tica entre un mundo humano y un mundo natural ya no es sostenible para un entendimiento adecuado de la historia global moderna, este libro investiga la larga historia de discursos, imaginarios y representaciones est?ticas en Am?rica Latina relativas a las complejas interrelaciones entre seres humanos y naturaleza. Partiendo del concepto del Antropoce...

Vikram Seth's Poetics of Pastiche - Hardcover

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by M?lanie Heydari (Author)Vikram Seth is a critical enigma. He is recognized as one of the most important Indian Anglophone authors of his generation; his individual works have been widely reviewed, yet his work has rarely been approached as a whole and remains surprisingly understudied. Perhaps the chief reason for the paucity of critical response to the full compass of Seth's work is his disregard for intellectual fashion. Indeed, Seth is at once very popular and deliberately unfashionable...

Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Brogden (Editor), Christiane Frey (Editor)The long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and culture From catastrophic weather and steady warming caused by the accumulation of carbon particles in the Earth's atmosphere to societies brought to a standstill by microscopic viruses, the new millennium has reminded us of how the minutest of phenomena can have outsized effects. This notion is one that has preoccupied the European and Anglo-American cultural imaginary sin...

Shakespeare's Original Stage Conditions and Their Afterlives Across the Globe: From the Wooden O to the Yards of Seoul - Hardcover

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by Yu Jin Ko (Author)This book brings together two separate fields by combining a study of Shakespeare's original stage conditions with an exploration of his plays in performance across the globe. The book contributes new insights into how early-modern stage conditions shaped the writing, production, and reception of Shakespeare's plays, but takes the further step of examining how original stage conditions re-emerge, not only in Globe replicas like the London Globe, but in unexpected and some...

Literature and Institutions of Welfare - Hardcover

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by Jess Cotton (Editor), Beci Carver (Contribution by), Gareth Farmer (Contribution by)Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present. The welfare state in Britain established a new level of access to literature as a public good alongside other national resources that were grounded in a principle of democratic egalitarianism: the National Health Service, secondary education, promises of full...

War Lives: Revenge, Grief, and Conflict in Israeli Fiction - Paperback

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by Nitza Ben-Dov (Author)Since the nation's founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of contemporary conflict are surprisingly rare. In War Lives, Nitza Ben-Dov argues that Israeli writers employ the freedoms granted by fiction to challenge the heroic myth of war. She suggests that these writers do so not only by turning inwards, towards the home front and the psyches of individuals marked by post-trauma, but...

Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science - Paperback

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

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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...

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

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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 ...

Origins of a Story: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World's Greatest Literature - Hardcover

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by Jake Grogan (Author)For readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world's greatest literature!Did you know Lennie from Of Mice and Men was based on a real person? Or how about that Charlotte's Web was based on an actual spider and her egg that E. B. White would carry from Maine to New York on business trips? Origins of a Story profiles 202 famous literary masterpieces and explores how each story got ...

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror - Paperback

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by Thomas Ligotti (Author)In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world....

Rainer Maria Rilke's Little Book of Selected Quotes: on Love, Life, and Poetry - Paperback

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by Lumière Publishing (Author)"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke This book is a curated collection of selected quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke Packed with profound and timeless wisdom for all ages Designed for casual reading and reflection at your own leisure A great gift option for any occasion --"I would like to beg of you, d...

The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 - Paperback

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by Samuel Beckett (Author), S. E. Gontarski (Editor)Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett was one of the most profoundly original writers of the 20th century. He gave expression to the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness with a purity and minimalism that have altered the shape of world literature. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the important writing, the medium in which he distilled his ideas most powerfully. Here, for the fi...

By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia - Paperback

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by Barry Cunliffe (Author)By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly "big history", it charts the development of European, Near Eastern, and Chinese civilizations and the growing links betwee...

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad - Paperback

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by Jonathan L. Ready (Author)The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing both close readings of individual passages and synthetic reviews of current scholarship. This format allows readers to study the poem in the same manner in which they read it: book by book. Differing...

William Blake: Selected Poems - Paperback

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by William Blake (Author), Nicholas Shrimpton (Editor)"To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild FlowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour" William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the Romantic Movement. This edition presents Blake's poem...

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by Greg Delanty (Author)An important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume, Paul Durcan, Eileain Ni Chuilleanain and Michael Davitt. Irish language poetry, long considered the death wail of a dying beast, experienced a remarkable resurgence in the late 60s and early 70s. This emanated mainly from the poetry magazine INNTI, first issued as a broa...

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by Carolyne Larrington (Translator)'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic myth...

Wuthering Heights (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) - Hardcover

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by Emily Brontë (Author) Discover the hauntingly beautiful tale of "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. Immerse yourself in the dark and passionate world of the Earnshaw and Linton families, as love, revenge, and the supernatural intertwine to create a literary masterpiece that continues to captivate readers. Emily Brontë's iconic Gothic novel A tale of love, passion, and vengeance on the Yorkshire moors Richly developed characters with complex relationships Atmospheric and evocative...

Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Hardcover

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by Edgar Allan Poe (Author) This collectable hardbound deluxe edition is beautifully crafted and designed. Perfect for gifting as well as for keeps. A prized edition for any library. A compilation of Edgar Allan Poe's well-known works, this classic leather-bound edition is perfect as a keepsake. It includes some of his timeless masterpieces namely ' Annabel Lee', ' The Raven', ' To Helen', ' MS. Found in a Bottle', ' The Fall of the House of Usher', ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue', ' The Tel...

Snape: The Definitive Analysis of Hogwarts's Mysterious Potions Master - Hardcover

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by Lorrie Kim (Author)This fully revised and expanded edition of Lorrie Kim's classic work digs deep into the life and legend of Severus Snape, fan-favorite of the Harry Potter seriesWhile the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J.K. Rowling's most enduring gifts to English literature, is the archetypal ill-tempered teacher: demanding, acerbic, and...

A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from the Chronicles of Narnia - Hardcover

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)"Lewis combines a novelist's insights into motives with a profound religious understanding." --New York Times Book ReviewIn the tradition of A Year with C.S. Lewis, get your daily dose of inspiration from this one-of-a-kind devotional collecting 365 readings from the beloved Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis channeled his profound spiritual understanding into The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and the other books in his...