Literary Criticism
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Women Poets of JapanIn this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled representative works of seventy-seven poets. Staring with the Classical Period (645-1604 A.D.), characterized by the wanka and tanka styles, followed by haiku...
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Great BooksTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the great books -- that are now at the...
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Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & KafkaHow four of Europe's most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind. Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology, philosophy, or belles lettres. Instead, they saw themselves both as...
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Selected Writings of Gertrude SteinAuthor: Gertrude SteinPublisher: VintagePublished: 03/17/1990Pages: 736Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.26w x 1.21dISBN: 9780679724643About the AuthorGertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. At Radcliffe College she studied under William James, who remained her lifelong friend, and then went to...
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Ugly FeelingsEnvy, irritation, paranoia--in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests...
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A Handlist of Rhetorical TermsWith a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms--mostly Greek and Latin--that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or will find...
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Great Russian Short Stories of the Twentieth CenturyThis dual-language anthology presents fifteen compelling tales in a unique survey of twentieth-century Russian short fiction. Featuring the original Russian on the left-hand page and new English translations on the right-hand side, contents include The Fugitive by Vladimir A. Gilyarovsky, The Present by Leonid...
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 2: Volume 2In more than 300 years of Shakespearean scholarship, only one book, the famous Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, has investigated the meaning of every word that Shakespeare wrote. The lifetime work of Professor Alexander Schmidt of K nigsberg, this book has long been the...
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The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of HeraklesEpic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologianAuthor: HesiodPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 09/20/1991Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.14h x 5.16w x 0.56dISBN: 9780472081615
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The Pleasures of ExileIn The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny combination of playfulness and seriousness, irony and commitment. " It] is a reciprocal process," Lamming observes, "to be a colonial is...
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Four Major Plays, Volume IIThe foremost dramatist of his age, Ibsen changed theatre forever with his realistic dialogue and depiction of contemporary social problems. Here are four of his greatest works: Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady From the Sea, and John Gabriel Borkman.Author: Henrik IbsenPublisher:...
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the ImaginationIn this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces,...
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Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of DuncesThe saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb's suggested revisions, Toole declared the publication of...
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Long Day's Journey Into NightEugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his masterpiece and a classic of American drama. With this new edition, at last it has the critical edition that it deserves. William Davies King provides students and theater artists with an...
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Adonis: Selected PoemsThe first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today "Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystical revelation."--Charles McGrath,...
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Time and Narrative, Volume 1Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern. Ricoeur...
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Real PresencesCan there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication. A...
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Tolstoy: A Very Short IntroductionWar and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognized as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author Leo Tolstoy has been honored as the father of the modern war story, as an innovator in psychological prose, and as a genius at using...
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Orley FarmTrollope singled out Orley Farm for its successful combination of realistic and sensational effects which he felt to be the highest achievement of the novelist. It was greatly admired by his contemporaries, including George Eliot and G. H. Lewes. The novel centers on a...
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Albert Camus: A Very Short IntroductionFew would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring...
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