Literary Criticism - Modern - 21st Century
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California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State's New LiteratureDive into the revelatory worlds of California's most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future."In Freeman's hands, California is a literary mecca, and each essay a revelation." --Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of The...
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CatObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and Gus. Their loved ones see this as a step...
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Close Reading for the Twenty-First CenturyA user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises Close reading--making an argument based in close attention to a text--is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a...
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Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, and the End of the WorldEveryday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative nonviolence that often go unseen may be brought into focus. Interweaving an examination of popular culture with ancient...
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Inventing the Enemy: And Other Occasional WritingsThe final collection from the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and one of the most influential, and entertaining, intellectuals of the last century--essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession."Underscores the writer's profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all...
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Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPheeAn annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfiction John McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more than thirty acclaimed books that began on the magazine's pages....
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Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After StonewallA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay...
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The Dark Enlightenment - Imperium PressNeoreaction is not your grandfather's conservatism, but the web 2.0 era marriage between modern engineering principles and classical anti-democratic thought. Its central tenet is that the Enlightenment was a mistake, and in The Dark Enlightenment, Nick Land burns progressivism to the ground, salts the...
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook SeriesTOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes's and Chris Abani's introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations that celebrate the work of emerging African poets and build--meticulously and with principled care--a vision of...
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Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great UnravelingAll of American literature is a tragedy. What we're living through now isn't a tragedy, however - it's a horror novel. Why bother writing when the world's on fire? Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inflation. Wealth disparity. War. Climate change. While every time period is marked...
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