Literary Criticism

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Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide - Paperback

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by William J. Puette (Author)"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." --The Japan Times This is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century classic, The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, referred to by Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata as the "highest pinnacle of Japanese literature." Written specifically to accompany the translation of the work by Arthur ...

A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry - Paperback

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by Robert Hass (Author)From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alikeA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a poet and essayist. In it he takes up the central tension between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal terms. But the more in...

Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750 - Hardcover

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by Diana Berruezo-S?nchez (Author) Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1.04 x 9.37 x 6.44 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic - Hardcover

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by James Procter (Author)Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals became producers, editors, and freelancers at the corporation, including Una Marson, Langston Hughes, Louise Bennett, Wole So...

Fight of Exiled Journalist and Anti-Communist Activist Josef Josten: For Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights (1948-1985)

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Report copyright infringementby Milada Polisenská (Author), Martin Josten (Foreword by), Václav Havel (Foreword by)This book explores the life and work of exiled Czech journalist Josef Josten (1913-1985) and his life-long battle against the communist Soviet regime, culminating in the creation of the British Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted.Author BiographyMilada Polisenská is distinguished senior lecturer and provost emerita at Anglo-American University. Numbe...

Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Douglas (Author)Frankétienne and Rewriting offers an overview the defining aesthetic and thematic components of Frankétienne's major works, particularly on the relation between his central aesthetic of the Spiral and the practice of rewriting that is prevalent in Caribbean literature. Situating this practice within the framework of postcolonial studies, Douglas argues that literary characteristics in Frankétienne connect with changing political, social, ...

Sound and Light: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela

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Report copyright infringementby William Duckworth (Editor), Richard Fleming (Editor)This is the first full-length book on the work of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. It explores the recurring themes that have influenced and organized their ongoing engagement with sound and light. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2009

The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Adam Nash (Author)This first book-length study of Moses Ezekiel examines the life and historical context of the once celebrated, now little-known Jewish-American sculptor.Author BiographyPeter Adam Nash teaches literature and writing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Number of Pages: 190 Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.15 x 6.23 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 06, 2014

The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture: Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur F. Saint-Aubin (Author)This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture--a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution--and the memoir of his son, Isaac.Author BiographyArthur F. Saint-Aubin is professor of French at Occidental College. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 1 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 15, 2015

Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics: Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson

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Report copyright infringementby Ashley Marshall (Editor), John Barrell (Contribution by), Ann Bermingham (Contribution by)This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation.Author BiographyAshley Marshall is assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno. Number of Pages: 280 Dimensions: 0.8 x 9.4 x...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniela Bini (Author)Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture examines how the strong mother-son relationship not only affected, but actually shaped the work of Italian artists as different as Pirandello, Carlo Levi, Buzzati, Pasolini, Fellini, concluding on with a look at mammismo/vitellonismo in some Italian film comedies.Author BiographyDaniela Bini is professor of Italian studies and comparative literature at the University...

The Bookseller at the End of the World - Hardcover

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by Ruth Shaw (Author)A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. "An extraordinary story." --Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favorite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life. She's sailed through the Pacific for years, been held ...

Story Thinking and the Real-world Applications of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Wilkins (Author), Helen Marshall (Author), Lisa Bennett (Author)In the 21st century, the rapid advance of technology and the existential threat of climate breakdown mean the real world increasingly resembles something out of fiction, filled with ambiguity and uncertainty. Such challenges need imaginative, creative solutions. To find them, teams of experts must pool their knowledge, make new connections, and forge paths forward. In Story Thinking, award-win...

Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Poovey (Author)How did banking, borrowing, investing, and even losing money-in other words, participating in the modern financial system-come to seem likeroutine activities of everydaylife? Genres of the Credit Economy addressesthis question by examining the history of financial instruments and representations of finance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Chronicling the process by which some of our most important conceptual categories were nat...

An Analysis of William H. Whyte's the Organization Man

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Springer (Author)William Whyte's core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic. This stressed the group as the source of creativity and emphasized that the greatest need of the individual is to belong to a group. To investigate this idea, Whyte spent years interviewing the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies when he was an...

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by Anna Deavere Smith (Author)From an acclaimed playwright comes "an American masterpiece" (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Twilight is a stunning work of "documentary theater" that explores the devastating human impact of the five days of riots following the Rodney King verdict. From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywoo...

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...

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Report copyright infringementby Hannah Wolley (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

Grail: An Essay on the Mystery of Sacred Love

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Report copyright infringementby Massimo Scaligero (Author), Eric L. Bisbocci (Translator)"The Mystery of Androgyny can be contemplated as a moment of our formative power as human beings, which arose from our ability to gather forces more elevated and, therefore, deeper, relative to the lunar element strengthened on the physical plane by the Sun's separation from the Earth. The currents capable of ruling the lower lunar element, would be recognizable in the aforementioned symbol of the Virgin ...

Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought - Hardcover

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by Christopher Star (Author)How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world?What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain as it is or will it undergo a catastrophic change? What role do the gods, human morality, and the forces of nature play in bringing about the end of the world? In Apocalypse and Golden Age, Christopher Star reveals the answers that Greek and Roman authors gave to these questions. The first large-scale investigation of the ...

Looking for Dragon Smoke: Essays on Poetry - Paperback

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by Robert Bly (Author)This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado, Stafford and others. Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 02, 2019

Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

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Report copyright infringementby Geoffrey Roberts (Author)A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading gui...

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by Simon Okotie (Author)Author and essayist Simon Okotie interprets the signposts - evident through the history of the novel - that point to the form's future. We're used to the novel being declared dead, dying, or endangered. Seemingly every few years, a critic will read it the last rites - yet the form remains more popular than ever with readers. In The Future of the Novel, author Simon Okotie presents a bold future for long-form fiction, and suggests its evolution is far from over. Okotie ...

The Book Club Journal: All the Books You've Read, Loved, & Discussed - Paperback

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by Adams Media (Author)Keep track of your book club selections and record your latest literary adventures with this reading journal to stay organized for your next meeting Book clubs are a great way to read new books and discover different genres and new topics that you may not be too familiar with. You can share your thoughts in a social setting and enjoy interesting conversations that might open your eyes to other opinions about the book. But all too often we forget the best details once ...

The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) - Paperback

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by W. E. B. Du Bois (Author)This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation t...

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by Olga Broumas (Author)A collection of poems, including The Massacre, No Harm Shall Come, Touched, Evensong, and Amberose Triste. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6.03 IN Publication Date: September 01, 1989

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany - Hardcover

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by Jane Mount (Illustrator)Searching for perfect book lovers gifts? Rejoice! Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany, is a love letter to all things bookish. Author Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. It's a must-have for every book collection, and makes a wonderful literary gift for book lovers, writers, and more. Readers of Jane Mount's Bibliophile will delight in: Touring the world's most beautiful bookstores Testin...

Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Hughes (Author)Feliks Volkhovskii (1846-1914) was a significant figure in the Russian revolutionary movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lived through pivotal changes ranging from the rise of 'nihilism' in the 1860s and the growth of populism in the 1870s, through to the creation of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in the early 1900s. Imprisoned three times before he turned thirty, he spent ten years in Siberian exile before fle...

Counterfeit Spies: How World War II Intelligence Operations Shaped Cold War Spy Fiction - Hardcover

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by Oliver Buckton (Author)A "savvy study" (Publishers Weekly) and a fascinating exploration of the roles many spy novelists played during World War II and the influence of intelligence work on their writing.World War II deception operations created elaborate fictions and subterfuges to prevent the enemy from apprehending the true targets and objectives of Allied forces. These operations shortened the war considerably and saved countless lives--and they were often invented, proposed, and somet...

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Report copyright infringementby Hugo Claus (Author) Number of Pages: 608 Dimensions: 1.32 x 7.8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: February 27, 2003

The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World

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Report copyright infringementby Alexis Hannah Prescott (Author)Traces the literary evolution of female figures like Hecate and Circe into archetypal witches, shaping enduring Western perceptions of witchcraft.The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World takes you on a journey into the world of Classical literature, from the adventurous Homeric epic of the Odyssey to the grim warfare of Lucan's De Bello Civili. In doing so, you will be introduced to a handful of powerful women who ...

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by David Day (Author)The defining battles from the history of Middle-earth are presented in a single, entertaining volume. The history of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth is filled with epic battles in an ongoing struggle between good and evil. The Battles of Tolkien recounts many of the greatest conflicts over thousands of years, from the earliest skirmishes of the Valarian Ages to the defining battles in the War of the Ring. Insightful commentary by Tolkien scholar David D...