Literary Criticism
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Tragedy: A Very Short IntroductionTo your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apartment block, the horrors of a natural disaster, or atrocities occurring in distant lands. To a classicist however, the word brings to mind the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare,...
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Comedy: A Very Short IntroductionTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk...
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Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South AsiaThroughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus...
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 3, 1957-1965This third volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett focuses on the years when Beckett is striving to find a balance between the demands put upon him by his growing international fame, and his need for the peace and silence from which new writing...
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Trimalchio: An Early Version of the Great GatsbyThis is the first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set...
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Shakespeare's Metrical ArtThis is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness...
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Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkThis engaging volume was pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Difficult to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves. Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her...
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Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. It covers 150 years, from the writings of Charlotte Brooke and Edmund Burke to those of Elizabeth Bowen and...
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Women Poets of the English Civil WarThis anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom...
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America's England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic SectionalismThe wealth of transatlantic scholarship to emerge in recent years has greatly enriched our understanding of the mutual, far-reaching cultural exchange between Great Britain and the United States. Yet scholars often lose sight of this relationship in the years immediately leading up to the...
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Greek and Latin Letters: An Anthology with TranslationThe seventy-eight letters in this Anthology are selected both for their intrinsic interest and to illustrate the range of functions letters performed in the ancient world. Dating from between c.500 BC and c.400 AD, they include naive and high-style, "real" and "fictitious", and classical...
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Prussian Nights: Bilingual EditionThe pictorial quality of the whole poem is an eye-opener. There is always a tendency, on the part of his detractors, to make of Solzhenitsyn something less than he is, but here is further evidence that he is something more than even his admirers...
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CandideThe novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: - A full...
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Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final YearsThe last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were--lived in the shadow of deception...
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Huis ClosThe full French text of Sartre's novel is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.Author: Keith Gore, Jean-Paul SartrePublisher: RoutledgePublished: 12/03/1987Pages: 116Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.28dISBN: 9780415040037This...
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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Vol. 6 (1936-1941)The final volume of Virginia Woolf's remarkable letters. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann.Author: Virginia Woolf, Nigel NicolsonPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 09/30/1982Pages: 576Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.62lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.52w x 1.42dISBN: 9780156508872About the AuthorWoolf, Virginia: - VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major...
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and SouthThe best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting social change.Author: Pauline E. HopkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 05/09/1991Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10dISBN: 9780195067859This...
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Canto General: Volume 7The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.Author: Pablo NerudaPublisher: University of California PressPublished: 05/17/2011Pages: 424Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9780520269972About...
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ParadisoRobert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of...
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Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse BooksRacism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places...
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