Literary Criticism

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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 ...

German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism: Winckelmann, Lessing, Hamann, Herder, Schiller and Goethe

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Report copyright infringementby H. B. Nisbet (Author)This anthology, part of a three-volume series devoted to German aesthetic and literary criticism from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, charts the development of aesthetic and literary theory in Germany in the latter half of the eighteenth century and its emancipation from the hitherto dominant influence of France. This development helped to produce an unprecedented flowering of German culture and art which culminated in the classici...

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Report copyright infringementby Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (Author)An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the arts Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters. In this book, eminent scholar Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of one of England's greatest men of letters. Lewis sheds light on Walpole's relationships with his family and...

The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook - Paperback

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by Martha Bayne (Editor)Part of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook is an intimate exploration of the Windy City's history and identity. "Required reading"--The Chicago TribuneOfficially, Chicago has 77 neighborhoods. Unofficially, though, that number's closer to 200. But what does that mean for the people who actually call Chicago home? In an eclectic collection of essays, poems, photos, and visual art, The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook aims to explore t...

Around the Sun: Stories and Symbols from Across the World

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Report copyright infringementby Yoshi Yoshitani (Author)Discover the universal allure of the hero's journey captured in these global folktales, powerfully retold and gorgeously illustrated by the author and artist behind Tarot of the Divine and Beneath the Moon Around the Sun is a storybook comprised of twelve beautifully illustrated folktales from all around the world and across time, each featuring classic tropes such as a Hero, a Challenge, an Advisor, and a Desire. Among the legends and m...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward A. Newton (Author)"This Book-Collecting Game" is a quintessential exploration of the passion and pursuit of rare books. Written by the renowned bibliophile Edward A. Newton, this work serves as both a guide and a reflection on the joys and challenges of the book-collecting world. Newton shares his extensive knowledge and infectious enthusiasm for the "game," covering a wide range of topics from the importance of first editions to the delight of discoveri...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Jay Niehaus (Author)All of the glory that had broken on me Surrounded me and saw me through and through Although I had no idea how to name A power that engulfed me totally And turned my soul onto another road. --Book XVI, lines 700-704 Preludes is a soul's journey from infancy to adulthood--from the Ohio Valley to south Florida, from grade school to college in New England and travel abroad, and ultimately to a knowledge of its maker. The author is unaba...

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by Joy Harjo (Author)United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healingAuthor BiographyJoy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the twenty-third Poet Laureate of the United States. Her books include Poet Warrior and An American Sunrise. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the Ivan Sandrof Lifet...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Saks (Editor), Shalom Carmy (Editor), Steven Fine (Foreword by)"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. "But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem." Agnon's act of literary imagination fueled his creative endeavor and is explored in these pages. Jerusalem...

The Hebrew Bible as Literature: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Tod Linafelt (Author)The Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the classics of world literature. The stories of Jacob and David, for instance, present the earliest surviving examples of literary characters whose development the reader follows over the length of a lifetime. Elsewhere, as in the books of Esther or Ruth, readers find a snapshot o...

The Beats: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David Sterritt (Author)In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time--particularly those involving sex, race, and class--in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956), and William S. Bur...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.In scrupulously distilled prose, Pathemata offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in r...

The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta - Paperback

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by E. H. Rick Jarow (Author)A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its attention given to the natural world in light of the nexus of language and love that is the chief characteristic (lakshana) of the poem. Along with a scrupulous study of the approximately 111 verses of the p...

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by Halldor Laxness (Author)From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. - "A strange story, vibrant and alive.... There is a rare beauty in its telling." --Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is ...

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by Slavoj Zizek (Author)To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?In thir...

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by Mary Ruefle (Author)Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of childhood and the everyday." With the same curiosity found in Madness, Rack, and Honey and My Private Property, Ruefle's prose here feels both omniscient and especially intimate. "It seems I believe in a bygone...

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Report copyright infringementby John Carey (Author)A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly 4,000 years ago to those being written today. Carey looks ...

What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled Threats - Hardcover

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by Jack Handey (Author)Jack Handey is one of America's favorite humorists, from his New Yorker pieces to his Deep Thoughts books and Saturday Night Live sketches. Now, in What I'd Say to the Martians, Handey regales readers with his incredible wit and wacky musings.Author BiographyJack Handey's bestselling books include the Deep Thoughts series, What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats, and Fuzzy Memories. Jack's writing for Saturday Night Live is known worldwide. He has won two ...

The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle - Paperback

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by Colin Duriez (Author)The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed poet and novelist John Wain, bent on 'the task of redirecting the whole current of contemporary art and life'. Tolkien and Lewis expert Colin Duriez unpacks the Inklings...

Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Ayanna Thompson (Author), Laura Turchi (Author)What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means teaching everything, or teaching "Western Civilisation" and universal themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex texts. Because Shakespeare's plays are excellent vehicles for many topics -history, socio-cultural norms and...

A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry: Individual Development, Psychology, and Social Reparation

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Report copyright infringementby T. Williams (Author)Explains how the study of poetry, by providing experiences similar to those produced by poetry therapy, can help students discover themselves and develop their potential to effect change in the world.Author BiographyTODD O. WILLIAMSAssistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Dat...

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Report copyright infringementby Martha W. Driver (Editor)The Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History (Journal of the Early Book Society (JEBS)) publishes several substantial articles in each volume with emphasis on the period of transition from manuscript to print. This annual's main focus is on English and Continental works produced from 1350 to 1550. Additionally, the Journal of the Early Book Society (JEBS) includes brief notes on manuscripts and...

A Practical Companion to Children's Literature Studies: Conducting Research and Building a Career

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberley Reynolds (Editor), Matthew Grenby (Editor), Emily Murphy (Editor)Children's literature is a rapidly expanding and ever-evolving field, so this research guide is devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying and working with children's literature, alongside childhood studies, at university level and beyond. A successor to Kimberley Reynolds's and Matthew Grenby's 2011 Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook, this work reflect...

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Immigration and Children's Literature: Stories, Social Justice, and Critical Consciousness

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Report copyright infringementby Wilma Robles-Melendez (Author), Wilma Robles-Melendez (Editor), Audrey Henry (Author)This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of children's literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rights of the Child, the lens of equity, and Freire's principles of critical consciousness as a framework for analysing children's literature and immigration. They focus on circumstances and experiences of immigration from the perspect...

Compelling Stories for English Language Learners: Creativity, Interculturality and Critical Literacy

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Report copyright infringementby Janice Bland (Author)An International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) Honour Book for 2023 This book is a comprehensive and thorough introduction to children's and young adult literature in English language education. Reading is promoted as central to language education in order to experience perspectives from around the world, and the book demonstrates the many opportunities for teaching with compelling story, encouraging an active and engag...

Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students

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Report copyright infringementby Claire Battershill (Author), Shawna Ross (Author)Rooted in the day-to-day experience of teaching and written for those without specialist technical knowledge, this is a new edition of the go-to guide to using digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom. In response to the rapidly changing nature of the field, this new edition has been updated throughout and now features: - A brand-new Preface accounting for new developments in the broader field of D...

Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up

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Report copyright infringementby Ellen Burstyn (Author)"A generous, heartfelt gift." -- Kirkus (STARRED review)The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that wonder with friends and loved ones.In this beautiful volume, Ellen Burstyn celebrates poetic magic and shares her favorite works. Now into her nineties, Ellen revea...

The Enchantment of English: Professing English Literatures in Australian Universities

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Report copyright infringementby Leigh Dale (Author)The enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities, from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which universities proliferated and diversified. Written from the belief that every discipline is enhanced by understanding the arguments made for its existence and the conditions in which it was established, the author aims to help students an...

Teacher's Classroom Guide to Robert Stanek's Ruin Mist: A Guide for The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Stanek (Author), Ruin Mist Publications (Contribution by)Teacher's guide for the #1 bestselling series! A gifted and distinguished writer, respected and skilled teacher and recipient of our nation's highest flying honor, the Distinguished Flying Cross, Robert Stanek wrote over 200 books of both fiction and nonfiction in his 30-year career. His works were published and/or distributed by nearly every major US publisher, including Simon & Schuster, Peng...

The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays

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Report copyright infringementby H. Lojek (Author)Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space.Author BiographyHELEN HEUSNER LOJEK Professor Emeritus of English and Associate Dean (retired) of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boise State University, USA. Number of Pages: 181 Dimensions:...