Literary Criticism
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Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and BeyondIn the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and...
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Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State ContainmentIn 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. "Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in...
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Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker PercyIn this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction -- Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy -- expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm...
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Defending Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books: A Handbook for Librarians and EducatorsA Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles such as these out of your collection or limiting their access is not the answer to challenges. While ALA's Office...
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Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic AgeThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural...
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Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore OtherwiseEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Counter-Cartographies draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in contemporary Singapore and in its diasporic communities. From banned documentaries to award-winning graphic novels, flash fiction collections to...
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Conversations with Paul AusterPaul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted scholarly scrutiny from a variety of critical perspectives. The steadily rising arc of his...
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Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy TalesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for...
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British Orientalisms, 1759-1835Illuminates Britons' changing sense of themselves in relation to their Eastern others during an age of empire and revolution.Author: James WattPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781108460101This title is not returnable
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Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in InterpretationA new history of the origins of the English Bible, revealing the complex continuities between Latin commentaries and English translations.Author: Andrew KraebelPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/02/2023Pages: 323Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68dISBN: 9781108708128
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Behind BarsAll the bars, taverns, and pubs described in this book are open for business serving alcohol and food on a daily basis. Some have been in operation for 400 years, many for at least 100 years. Most of these places are famous and they...
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A Question of TimeMany of the finest critics working in American literature explore the representation of time from colonial times to the present.Author: Cindy WeinsteinPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/02/2023Pages: 364Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781108437103This title is not returnable
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Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations: Poetry and Painting in the Work of Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri MichauxCharles Freeland is Assistant Professor Emeritus, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Art History and Literature, Mahidol University International College, Thailand. He is the author of Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, also published by SUNY Press.Author: Charles...
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America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of ReconstructionAmerica's Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution. Reading historical fiction by authors such as George Washington Cable, Albion Tourgée, Charles Chesnutt,...
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American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and BeyondFrom the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture--from the taut, terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe to the grisly, lingering...
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A History of Mexican PoetryAuthor: José Ramón Ruisánchez SerraPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/21/2024Pages: 354Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781108831451This title is not returnable
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A History of Mexican LiteratureA History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex...
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A History of Colombian LiteratureAuthor: Raymond Leslie WilliamsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/16/2023Pages: 527Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.18dISBN: 9781107441453This title is not returnable
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A Book Lover's Christmas 1000 Piece Puzzle: A 1000-Piece Jigsaw PuzzleAll your Christmases have come at once with this 1000-piece puzzle featuring beloved Christmas scenes and characters from classic literature. Piece together a Christmas miracle with the March sisters of Little Women, discover the real Father Christmas of CS Lewis's Narnia, and haunt the...
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Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist YouthHow did Vladimir Putin galvanize the Russian people to back his genocidal war in Ukraine, and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, on-the-ground narrative reveals how Russia's fascist generation came into being--and the dark future that awaits the...
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