Literary Criticism

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Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini - Hardcover

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by Andrea Capra (Author), Barbara Graziosi (Author)Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek author, but actually written by the Neapolitan revolutionary and classical scholar Luigi Settembrini (1813-1876). Offering the first English translation of the tale—which, because ...

Poetry and the Built Environment: A Theory of the Flesh of Art - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Fowler (Author)Like gardens, sculptures, paintings, and architecture, Fowler argues, poems are cultural artifacts designed to appeal to our divergent human bodies. As we move through the built environment, we draw on our achieved expertise in negotiating its complex instructions to us. So it is when we read. All art mobilizes our bodily expertise, deploying sophisticated conventions and entangling the virtual with the real. As we engage with them, poems, like other artifacts, sup...

Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England - Hardcover

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by Liza Picard (Author)Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court--men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer's People, Liza Picard transforms The Canterbury Tales into a masterful guide for a gloriously detailed tour of medieval England, from the mills and farms of a manor hou...

The Last Straight Woman: On Desiring Men

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Report copyright infringementby Phoebe Maltz Bovy (Author)A fiercely intelligent, funny, and much-needed reality check on the state of heterosexual women. The Last Straight Woman is a call to set aside the baggage of what female heterosexuality evokes, in favour of a definition of what it actually entails: women liking men. No more, no less. That a woman is straight implies nothing about how conventional or submissive she is. It does not mean she wants to be accommodating to men generally. Us...

ABC of Places and Things in the Bible - Parents/Teachers Manual 1

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Report copyright infringementby Oluwakemi O. Ola-Ojo (Author)ABC of Places and Things in the Bible (Age 9-10) is the second in a series of Kiddies books specifically designed and written by Oluwakemi Ola-Ojo for children of elementary school age. The book comes as a sequel to ABC of People and Things in the Bible (Age 6-8). It seeks to bridge the gap between parents' desire to educate their children on basic Bible teachings and the ability to pass the information to children of such tender ag...

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela Laskin (Author)In Remembering Fireflies, Pamela Laskin loosens the knot of familial relationships enough for us to lean in close to the fault lines inherent with all sorts of love and longing. Without sentimentality, in clear and precise language, Laskin traces and pierces the desire and disappointment of being a daughter, of becoming a mother. These poems offer surprising jolts when experience does not meet expectation, when pessimism hovers over hope o...

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Report copyright infringementby Sreeja Bayanagari (Author)A couple gave rise to a kid- a female who was born with erudite abilities. She was always an 8Y old at 4Y...a 15Y at 8Y...a 25Y old at 13Y....well she was a pain in the arse for Her parents. That's how they felt for a few minutes, hours, months, and years !! She had to handle all of this, her studies, criticism, racism, and a lot more but found humor as escapism. Well, the plot is a decent blend of a student's life, Love, amazeballs-mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Marion Deutsche Cohen (Author)What is it like to be the well spouse of a man with multiple sclerosis, to care for someone who will not get better and whose chronic illness will progress into dementia? ... Much of this work feels like it was written in the hard blue light of 3 AM, letting us read the emotional weather of the journey, the way that only poetry can do. Barbara Crooker, author of Radiance, winner of the Word Press First Book Award, and Line Dance ...

James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations - Paperback

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by James Baldwin (Author)Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin "I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin's brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything--Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer's last chance to speak ...

Shakespeare's Hamlet bound with The Problem of Hamlet

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Report copyright infringementby A. Clutton-Brock (Author), J. M. Robertson (Author)This volume combines two classic works on Hamlet, first published in 1919 and 1922. The first book's original description says that it contains a theory which attempts to explain an everlasting problem - it insists that Hamlet is neither a failure not an accident, but a very great work of art. In a final chapter, the play is examined as an aesthetic document. It is a profoundly interesting and not unprovocativ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Galsworthy (Author)âThe Skin Gameâ is a compelling tragi-comedy in three acts by John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright and novelist. The play explores the tensions between an old, established family and a newly wealthy one, as they clash over land and social standing. The Hillcrists, representing tradition and aristocracy, find themselves in conflict with the Hornblowers, who embody the rising power of industry and commerce. This cl...

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Report copyright infringementby Sonia Massai (Author)Sonia Massai's central claim in this book is that the texts of early printed editions of Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare's, did not simply 'degenerate' or 'corrupt' over time, as subsequent editions were printed using the immediate predecessor as their basis. By focusing on early correctors of dramatic texts for the press, this book identifies a previously overlooked category of textual agents involved in the process of their trans...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Pierpan (Author)He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him . . . but there's just one thing I've got to take care of first. I've got to do something to make this right. Four years on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis. It's time to work out what's wrong. It's time to look at the heart of the system. You Can Still Make A Killing is the story of the normal men an...

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Report copyright infringementby Ailis Ni Riain (Author)"She's goin' back there. I can tell.She's breakin' her promise.She's breakin' my heart.She said she never would." Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are each responsible for the care of their respective parents. When the girls meet on a social day for carers, they forge a relationship that takes them on an epic journey through the twisting backroads of small towns, friendship and love. Desolate Heaven is...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Jonathan Bate (Editor), Eric Rasmussen (Editor)"I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me."--The Comedy of Errors Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this raucous story of mistaken identity and family--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including - an original Introduction to The Comedy of Errors- incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with...

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature - Paperback

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by C. S. Lewis (Author)A repackaged edition of the revered author's collection of essays on writing fiction.C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics--was a professor of literature at Oxford University, where he was known for his insightful and often witty presentations on the nature of stories...

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob Feis (Author)Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He was able to combine serious intellectual writing with casual anecdotes and autobiography. Montaigne had an influence on many writers including Shakespeare. Montaigne analyzed the world through his own judgment, which makes him very accessible to the modern reader. Fies ...

The Great Russian Tone-Poet, Scriabin (1916)

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Report copyright infringementby A. Eaglefield Hull (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Numb...

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Report copyright infringementby Brannon Costello (Editor)Since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, launched him to fame, Michael Chabon (b. 1963) has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular vision across all boundaries of genre and medium. A firm believer that reading even the most challenging literature should be a fundamentally pleasurable experience, Chabon has produced an astonishingly diverse body of work that...

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Report copyright infringementby Niall Murphy (Author)THE SENDING, receiving and collecting of postcards was an essential part oflife in Edwardian Dublin. In an age of few private telephones, the postcard was a popular and reliable form of communication - in Dublin there were six mail deliveries a dayand one on Sunday. To celebrate the centenary of Bloomsday, Niall Murphy has assembled a dazzling selection of 250 postcards, all of them posted in the Dublin area during 1904, four of them sent o...

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Report copyright infringementby William R. Handley (Author)Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U.S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet unknown future under climate catastrophe. Examining an eclectic but interrelated and interdisciplinary range of photographs, films, and novels of the West; Western historiography; geological science; Tony Kushner's Angels in America; ...

Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Challenge

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Report copyright infringementby James McG Stewart (Author), A. W. Yeats (Editor)The general function is to present clearly and accurately the data relevant to the many printings of Kipling's works. As a bibliographical catalogue, it is the first to show the intricate relationship established by these printings. Number of Pages: 696 Dimensions: 1.39 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN Publication Date: December 15, 1959

Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero

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Report copyright infringementby Len Gougeon (Author)Traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual evolution of one of America's most important cultural figures.This critical biography traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual growth of one of America's foremost oracles and prophets, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Beginning with his undergraduate career at Harvard and spanning the range of his adult life, the book examines the complex, often painful emotional journey inwa...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Groden (Author)This unusual book is a fascinating work of personal criticism or "biblio-memoir" which will appeal to all interested in James Joyce's work, and, more widely, to those interested in responses to great art. It focusses on the life-long appeal of a particular work of art on a single individual who has been a leading Joyce scholar for 40 years. Professor Groden has taught Ulysses to undergraduates, to graduate students, and to adults outside...

At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Gopnik (Author)From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, first arrived in 1980, New York City was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a place where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder....

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Report copyright infringementby Hans Christian Andersen (Author)"Hans Christian Andersen the True Story of My Life" is the intimate and soul-baring autobiography of one of the world's most beloved storytellers. In this evocative memoir, the author of "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling" chronicles his remarkable journey from a childhood of poverty in Odense to his eventual international acclaim. Andersen reflects on his early struggles, his passion for the theater, and his deep-seated...

The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols - Paperback

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by Jean Chevalier (Author), Alain Gheerbrant (Author), John Buchanan-Brown (Translator)This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds--including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range o...

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by Toni Morrison (Author), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by)America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bea...

Poetry, Music, and Sound Art / Lyrik, Musik Und Klangkunst: Recent Medial Correlations / Neuere Mediale Konstellationen

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecka Dürr (Editor), Kira Henkel (Editor), Vadim Keylin (Editor)Man findet Lyrik heute oft jenseits des Buches: auf Theaterbühnen, im urbanen Raum oder im Internet. Poetische Sprache wird mit Musik oder visuellen Elementen kombiniert oder durch die Performance des 'Poeten' oder der 'Poetin' verstärkt. Das eröffnet neue Zugänge zu einer literarischen Gattung, die bislang als elitär oder abstrakt galt. Die interdisziplinäre Buchreihe widmet sich zeitgenössische...

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Report copyright infringementby Karla K. Morton (Author)Karla K. Morton's Hometown, Texas is a collection of beautiful poems and artwork, created by high school and middle school students of small towns all over Texas and by Morton herself, making the collection very unique and intriguing. Each poem brings to life another piece of Texas that can easily be overlooked by those who do not quite understand why Texans are so passionate about their state. The 2010 Texas Poet Laureate hit the road i...

Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Pender (Editor), Cathryn Setz (Editor)Djuna Barnes once said that "there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object," and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes produced an eclectic body of work whose objects and surfaces continue to fascinate readers. In this volume, a series of internationally renowned scholars reassess both...

100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder

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Report copyright infringementby The Meco Network (Author)At a time when climate panic obscures clear thought, 100 Atmospheres is an invitation to think differently. Through speculative, poetic, and provocative texts, thirteen writers and artists have come together to reflect on human relationships with other species and the planet. The process of creating 100 Atmospheres was shared, with works (written, photographic and drawn) created individually and collectively. To think differently, we ne...