Literary Criticism

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Journal of the Early Book Society Vol 9: For the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History

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Report copyright infringementby Martha W. Driver (Editor)The annual Journal of the Early Book Society for the study of Manuscripts and Printing History is published by Pace University Press. The greater part of each volume is devoted to four or five substantial essays on the history of the book, with emphasis on the period of transition from manuscript to print. The main focus is on English and Continental works produced from 1350 to 1550. In addition, the journal includes brief notes on manu...

Book Log For Kids: Reading Notebook, Record And Organize Book Information, Writing Prompts For Young Readers, Student And Homeschool Reading Tracker

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Report copyright infringementby Teresa Rother (Author)This Reading Log is the perfect notebook for helping children maintain a reading routine and record the information in an organized way. Kids will be super excited to start filling out the information and rating the books. A fun and interactive way to help encourage kids to read, as well as help develop good writing skills. Great for summer reading programs, book clubs, school assignments, or reading at home. The layout is clean and appeal...

The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Paperback

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by Jill Lepore (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Within the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. "Everything you might want in a page-turner...skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most "serious" feminist history--fun." --Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force...

A Doll's House Comparative Workbook HL17

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Farrell (Author)A Doll's House Comparative Workbook 2017 is designed to be used when studying A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, for the Comparative Study component of the Leaving Certificate Higher Level English examination in 2017. This A4 workbook contains 132 questions, covering the modes of Theme/Issue (Relationships), Literary Genre and General Vision and Viewpoint. The workbook is intended to be completed by students when they have studied A Doll's Ho...

Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically - Paperback

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by Paisley Rekdal (Author)What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem--including its diction, form, imagery, and rhythm--and construct an interpretation of its meaning. Using guided close readings and nearly 40 creative and critical "experiments," this book shows how a poem takes shape through the intersection of all its lyric elements. Drawing on t...

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by Kenneth Koch (Author)Kenneth Koch, who has already considerably "stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry" (David Lehman), here takes on the classic poetic device of apostrophe, or direct address. His use of it gives him yet another chance to say things never said before in prose or in verse and, as well, to bring new life to a form in which Donne talked to Death, Shelley to the West Wind, Whitman to the Earth, Pound to his Songs, O'Hara to the Sun at Fire Island. Koch, i...

The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara a. Mowat (Author)Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest--three of Shakespeare's final plays diverge from Shakepeare's usual standards. Generically, stylistically, and dramatically, they each embrace hauntingly familiarShakespearean themes and incidents. However, with comic devices colliding with tragic passions, mimetic actions that give way to spectacle, and drama that yields to narrative, everything Shakespearean has undergone a puzzling transf...

In The Theater of Love: Rediscovering the Exceptional Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas P. Brackshaw (Author)Many people believe only those with a Ph, D. in literature can understand Shakespeare. They would probably be surprised to learn, then, that he wrote his 36 plays for the shopkeepers, the housewives, the apprentices of London. These were ordinary people who eagerly paid their way into the Globe Theater and eventually made him a rich man. Though Shakespeare will certainly make you think, he was never a literary snob or an elitist. He ...

Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety: Five Nohs in Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Mae J. Smethurst (Editor), Mae J. Smethurst (Translator)This volume of five noh translations (containing an introduction, translations, short commentaries and a glossary) differs from most others in that none of the plays are of the mugenno type, but are instead genzaino, real-life noh. The plays focus on living characters rather than spirits or ghosts, and on dramatic action rather than poetry, song and dance. In addition the five noh satisfy several of the mo...

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Grady (Author)Closely examining the relationship between the political and the utopian in five major plays from different phases of Shakespeare's career, Hugh Grady shows the dialectical link between the earlier political dramas and the late plays or tragicomedies. Reading Julius Caesar and Macbeth from the tragic period alongside The Winter's Tale and Tempest from the utopian end of Shakespeare's career, with Antony and Cleopatra acting as a transition, G...

Shakespeare and Comics: Negotiating Cultural Value

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Casey (Editor), Brandon Christopher (Editor), Mark Thornton Burnett (Editor)From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision. Its chapters illuminate the ways in which different texts, time periods, politics, authors, media, approaches and forms interact. Ranging from Classic Comics to Marvel, from tebeo to man...

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Report copyright infringementby David Stuttard (Editor)Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost...

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Report copyright infringementby David Stuttard (Editor)Ajax is perhaps the earliest of Sophocles' tragedies, yet the issues at its heart remain profoundly resonant today. Set in the Greek encampment during the siege of Troy, it traces not just the story of a respected war hero's mental breakdown but (like Sophocles' Antigone) the treatment of an enemy's remains and the management of his memory. Pitting the fate of the individual against not just his own community but the cosmic world of the d...

Shakespeare's Comedies in Easy Reading Verse

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Cuddington (Author)Richard Cuddington offers his readers a new approach to Shakespeare which acknowledges the Bard's stature as England's finest poet and playwright but lays aside the trappings of that greatness to reveal what made him popular with his contemporary audiences and what can still enchant us today - the stories. Here in Easy Reading Verse the author retells the stories of Shakespeare's Comedies with clarity, humour and a modern directness. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Aldous Huxley (Author)Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political upheava...

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Report copyright infringementby Kipkeny Lagat (Author)The Squatters' Farm is a satirical masterpiece, told from a young boy's point of view spanning around survival and resilience. Born in Republic of Kalyaland, a country in post independence Africa, at the time when political greed was beginning to flourish, Kipsisei finds himself being brought up with his peers in a vast land of great abundance. To him at, first, life was like a smooth road filled with gaiety. However, life takes a nasty tw...

The Works of Arthur Laurents: Politics, Love, and Betrayal

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Report copyright infringementby John M. Clum (Author)Arthur Laurents's career as a playwright, screenwriter, book writer for musicals and director spanned over half a century. His first Broadway play, Home of the Brave, was produced in 1945; his last play, Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are, was produced in 2009 when he was ninety-one. Although he is best known for his work on the classic musicals Gypsy and West Side Story and for his screenplays for Rope, The Way We Were, and The Turning...

Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

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Report copyright infringementby A. J. Boyle (Editor)First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Number of Pages: 266 Dimensions: 0.58 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2009

Aphra Behn Stages the Social Scene in the Restoration Theatre

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Report copyright infringementby Dawn Lewcock (Author)Usually recognised as the first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) has become a popular subject for academic study. Most scholars have concentrated on her poetry, her short stories, and her one full-length novel, finding fuel for arguments that suggest she was an early feminist or a proponent of anti-racism. Although there have been examinations of individual plays, the prefaces and epistles, as well as studies, none examine ...

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

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Report copyright infringementby Beatrix Hesse (Author)This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.Author BiographyBeatrix Hesse is Professor of English/ Cultural and Media Studies, University of...

Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Brandi K. Adams (Author), Sarah Neville (Author)'Cry "havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war' Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition situates these questions within the historical framework of the play's early history in theatre and print, as well as within its long performance history up to an...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Hailey Bachrach (Author), Anna Pruitt (Author)'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings' Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King's court tire of his fickle, greedy reign, but it is only when he exiles his own cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, and attempts to steal his inheritance that they are pushed to act. What follows threatens Richard's crown and with it his sense of self...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Kim Gilchrist (Author), Rory Loughnane (Author)'I see a man's life is a tedious one.' Set in Ancient Britain, Cymbeline is a play of deceit, disguise, banishment, and fidelity against the backdrop of a Roman invasion. When the King of Britain Cymbeline discovers his daughter's secret marriage, he banishes her husband to Rome, who then accuses Innogen of being unfaithful. Innogen must evade deadly plots and homicidal jealousy to res...

Titus Andronicus: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Harry R. McCarthy (Author), Gary Taylor (Author)'Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.' In Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, the Roman general Titus incurs the wrath of the Queen of the Goths when he enslaves her and kills one of her sons. The shocking violence of her revenge and his retaliation earn Titus its reputation as Shakespeare's bloodiest play. This New Oxford ...

The Comedy of Errors: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Ian Burrows (Author), Sarah Neville (Author)'How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!' The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it's often considered an immature play but also a piece of dramatic experimentation. This New Oxford Shakespeare edition examines links between Shakespeare's pl...

King Henry VIII; Or All Is True: The New Oxford Shakespeare

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Laura Jayne Wright (Author), Will Sharpe (Author)'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtuesWe write in water.' Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Written in the wake of the sudden death of Henry Stuart, King James I and VI's oldest son and heir, Shakespeare's most 'contemporary' history play off...

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars - Paperback

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by Meghan Daum (Author)"[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary." --Vogue "Personal, convincing, unflinching." --Tablet From an author who's been called "one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny, and intellectually rigorous writers of our time" (Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author) comes a seminal book that reaches surprising truths about feminism, the Trump era, and the Resistance movement. You won't be able to...

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Report copyright infringementby Marissa Nicosia (Author)Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare's poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Shakespeare in the Kitchen asks what Shakespeare's works can tell us about Renaissance culinary recipes, and what these recipes can tell us about Shakespeare's works.Author BiographyMarissa Nicosia is Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature at The Pennsylvania State University-Abington College, USA. She i...

Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne R. Black (Author)The internet has enabled new forms of literature and challenged older forms to reinvent themselves. Between Novel and Network selects texts that exemplify these digital transformations, arguing that networked communication technologies have fundamentally altered the form and content of contemporary literature. The book begins by exploring digital fanfiction as a site of literary resistance and a form of literature that can only exist in...

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Report copyright infringementby Мавроk (Author)Following-up on the shortread Replicate This, which was published in February 2025 as a popularization of literary studies, her second eZine Мол is an exegetical transliteration that continues my prior discussion of literary and art history to now situate the news. Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.07 x 6 x 4 IN Publication Date: March 29, 2025

The Bs Situation of Tougetsu Umidori, Vol. 4 (Light Novel)

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Report copyright infringementby Kaeru Ryouseirui (Author), Natsuki Amashiro (Artist), Andrew Cunningham (Translator)On a fall day, Bullshit-chan takes Tougetsu Umidori to the mall. She's acting odd--and has something to tell Umidori. But the sinister Mud Hat Faction is after them! Umidori with cat ears, Bullshit-chan's Grill, an Aomori novelist, another Seiryoin, and financial gatekeeping! And at long last, learn what really happened ten years ago--Bullshit-chan's secrets revealed! What answe...

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by Dudley Randall (Author)"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is repr...