Literary Criticism

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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...

Genres and Genre Theory in Transition: Specialized Discourses Across Media and Modes

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Report copyright infringementby Giuliana Garzone (Editor), Cornelia Ilie (Editor)This volume features representative studies focusing on the evolution of text genres in corporate and professional communication. Genre change is explored in various contexts in light of the increasing importance of new media and the profound social changes that have occurred in the last few decades. Major theoretical issues are raised and discussed, highlighting the need to reconsider the repertoire of conventio...

The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom

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Report copyright infringementby Harold Bloom (Author), Heather Cass White (Editor)A selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an intimate view of one of the most famous literary critics of the last century. In correspondence with Alvin Feinman, Northrop Frye,...

Dance of the Nomad: A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A.D.Hope

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Report copyright infringementby Ann McCulloch (Author)The notebooks of A. D. Hope are a portrait of the contradictory essence of the poet's intellect and character. Shot through with threads of self-awareness and revelation, Hope imbued his notebooks with irony and humour, forming them as a celebration of the joy and terror of human existence. Stripped of intimate revelation, the entries give witness to Hope's view that art is a superior force in the creation of new being and values, and a gu...

Between Two Worlds: Elif Shafak And The Art Of Cultural Translation

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Report copyright infringementby Buraq (Author)Discover the remarkable journey of one of literature's most compelling voicesBetween Two Worlds offers an intimate portrait of Elif Shafak, the internationally acclaimed Turkish-British author whose novels have captivated millions of readers across fifty languages. From her nomadic childhood across three continents to her emergence as a fearless voice challenging both Eastern and Western orthodoxies, this biography reveals the woman behind the wor...

The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin

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Report copyright infringementby Charlie Louth (Other), Charlie Louth (Introduction by)The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most significant European poets and thinkers. His poems fascinate and compel; his role in the development of German Idealism is well-known; and his writings continue to shape philosophical reflections on subjectivity and the place of ...

HER Legacy: A Tribute to Elaine LaLanne's Impact on Health, Wellness and Empowerment

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Justice (Foreword by), Elaine Lalanne (Author)Legacy is not something you leave behind. It is something you live.HER Legacy is a powerful collaborative tribute honoring the life, influence, and enduring message of Elaine LaLanne. For decades, Elaine has represented strength, discipline, vitality, and purposeful living. In this inspiring collection, fourteen contributing authors share personal stories and reflections that carry her message forward for a new...

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Report copyright infringementby Shmuel Rozshanski (Author), Miri Koral (Translator), Scott Hilton Davis (Preface by)An insightful and well-documented biography about the beloved and successful 19th century Yiddish writer, Jacob Dinezon. Called the "Father of the Jewish Realistic Romance" and author of the first bestselling Yiddish novel, Dinezon was closely associated with the leading Jewish writers of his day, including Sholem Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim), Sholem Aleichem, and I. L. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Chet'la Sebree (Author)A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study "In Chet'la Sebree's sensitive and tender hands, this book's quest (and question) of home is captivating. An intimate rendering of the life of a Black woman artist."--Imani Perry, National Book Award winner and author of Black in Blues At eighteen, Chet'la Sebree began, as she writes, "...

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Report copyright infringementby Francis MacManus (Editor)EDITED BY FRANCIS MACMANUSThat deep man, William Butler Yeats, was saluted as the greatest poet of our century. He puzzled, fascinated, astonished, charmed, antagonized and even patronized his contemporaries. What was he like? Was the intimate private poet the same figure as the politician, the alleged poseur, the handsome man who moved slowly and hieratically through a street or a drawing-room?Five of his contemporaries recall him from...

An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Fisher (Author), Peter Robinson (Editor)When in his seventieth year Roy Fisher published Interviews Through Time (2000), he added a Selected Prose, which meant in effect three pieces: 'Antebiography', 'Roy Fisher on Roy Fisher' and 'Talks for Words'. The enlarged second edition of Interviews Through Time (2013), a volume of interviews only, made it possible for those three pieces to join many others in this first substantial gathering of Roy Fisher's occasi...

Million Man March: Book of The American Dead

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Report copyright infringementby Percy Twenty-Five Brown (Author)In the book MILLION MAN MARCH, the author travels through recent decades of American History and through daily experiences with racism on his way to the transforming experience of the Million Man March.After having sought equality through the civil rights movement, the author concludes, "all that came from the movement was integration," not social justice, not equal opportunity, and not freedom from police brutality. "Minorities,...

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 - Paperback

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by James Shapiro (Author)Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies written that year--King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. "The Year of Lear is irresistible--a banquet of wisdom" (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing a...

Women's Diaries from the Civil War South: A Literary-Historical Reading

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Report copyright infringementby Sharon Talley (Author)"Traditionally, narratives of war have been male," Sharon Talley writes. In the pages that follow, she goes on to disrupt this tradition, offering close readings and comparative studies of fourteen women's diaries from the Civil War era that illuminate women's experiences in the Confederacy during the war. While other works highlighting individual diaries exist--and Talley notes that there has been a virtual explosion of published primary...

The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Donehower (Editor), Bruce Donehower (Translator), Bruce Donehower (Introduction by)Friedrich von Hardenberg, who later became known as the poet Novalis, kept a journal between April and July 1797 that captured his moods, thoughts, and observations following the death of his fifteen-year-old fiancée Sophie von Kühn and his dearly loved younger brother Erasmus. The journal's short, day-to-day entries allow a frank and candid glimpse into the inner life of t...

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by Mark Fisher (Author)A noted cultural critic unearths the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century culture through a wide range of literature, film, and music references--from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pu...

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Paperback

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by Amitav Ghosh (Author)Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard M. Grove (Author), Richard M. Grove (Photographer)A Cuba memoir by world traveller Richard M. Grove. Socially enlightening, sometimes funny, always interesting. President of the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance, Richard has travelled and taught in Cuba for 20 years. He has a unique perspective and view of Cuba that most tourists cannot possibly have. Let Richard take you on two trips, in this memoir, that you will never be able to duplicate. Enjoy the jour...

It Happens as We Speak -- A Feminist Poetics

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Report copyright infringementby Pat Falk (Author)"The personal, the poetic, the political, the historic, the mythic-they braid together in this saga of the growth of a woman's mind. Pat Falk's story is unique, and at the same time she is Everywoman. It Happens As We Speak is a book of birth, and life, and change, and wisdom." -Alicia Ostriker "Pat Falk's rare pastiche of memory and lively literary analysis gathers a momentum so persuasive that we catapult from page to page with the shifts and...

Edgar Allan Poe - American Writers 89: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Asselineau (Author)Edgar Allan Poe - American Writers 89 was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Back JacketMinnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with h...

Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson - Paperback

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by Camille Paglia (Author)The fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals--"a remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit" (The Washington Post). Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis ...

Mrs. Gaskell's Personal Pantheon: Illuminating Mrs. Gaskell's Inner Circle

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Report copyright infringementby Robert C. G. Gamble (Author)This new book vividly presents previously undiscovered biographical information about Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of Mary Barton, Cranford, The Life of Charlotte Bront�, and Wives and Daughters. It also provides much contextual material about Harriet Martineau, the Bront� family and the history of Manchester. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 31, 2020 ...

Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Roe (Author)This volume offers a reappraisal of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers before their emergence as major poets. Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded new edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades since the book first appeared. Fresh material is drawn from newspapers and printed sources; the poetry of 1798 is given more detai...

Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives of Feminists of Color - Paperback

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by Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor)A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. Making Face, Making Soul includes over 70 works by poets, writers, artists, and activists such as Paula Gunn Allen, Norma Alarcón, Gloria Anzaldúa, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Barbara Christian, Chrystos, Sandra Cisneros, Michelle Cliff, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Elena Creef, Audre Lorde, María Lugones, Jewelle Gomez, Joy Harjo, bell hooks, June Jordan, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Janice Mirikitani, Pat Mora, C...

Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby Ranen Omer-Sherman (Editor)Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939-2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what was then Palestine under British rule, Oz's life spanned the country's entire history, and both his fiction...

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde - Paperback

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by Audre Lorde (Author), Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by)Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems--selected and introduced by one of our most pow...

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

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Report copyright infringementby Benedikt Hjartarson (Volume Editor), Andrea Kollnitz (Volume Editor), Per Stounbjerg (Volume Editor)A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work ...

The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Pye (Author)The Antic Root explores the relations among art, sense-experience, and the conception of the world in the early modern era. Against vitalist and posthumanist accounts that presume to grasp the world beyond its interpretive framing, Pye argues that any possibility of conceiving a world beyond us depends on acknowledging the fact of its mediated condition, a condition Shakespeare explored with particular acuity. Rather than either a subjec...

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Report copyright infringementby Muzaffer Yilmaz (Author)The history of art as the projection of the world of symbols developed as a necessity of human beings' search for truth or the endeavour to construct a truth is, in a way, the history of the manifestation of the sacred. From this point of view, art has actually been the reflection of the irresistible interest, curiosity and fear developed against the transcendent and the sacred for tens of thousands of years...This work, which is a pheno...

Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Light Novel) Vol. 4 - Paperback

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by Syougo Kinugasa (Author), Tomoseshunsaku (Illustrator)"I'M NOT AFRAID OF BEING EXPELLED" Tensions are high as the students of the Advanced Nurturing High School enter the second week of this special exam taking place on an uninhabited island. Students from all grades are getting ready to make their final moves, and so is Acting Principal Tsukishiro. Who will come out on top? And who will be packing their bags to leave the island-and the school?Author BiographySyougo Kinugasa is a Japanese ...