Literary Criticism
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The Big LoveLiterary Nonfiction. California Interest. Women's Studies. Film. Memoir. THE BIG LOVE is a Hollywood nightmare. It tells the story of Errol Flynn--a fading, alcoholic movie star--and the underage dancer-actress Beverly Aadland. The narrator? Beverly Aadland's fame-worshiping mother Mrs. Florence Aadland, who spurs the relationship...
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Nights as Day, Days as NightLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Sieburth, with a foreword by Maurice Blanchot. Hailed as an important literary document and contemporary pleasure by Lydia Davis, NIGHTS AS DAY, DAYS AS NIGHT is a chronicle of Michel Leiris's dreams. But it...
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Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls WilderPublished over eighty years after its inception, "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography" edited by Pamela Smith Hill gave readers new insight into the truth behind Wilder's fiction. "Pioneer Girl Perspectives" further demonstrates the importance of Wilder as an influential American author whose stories of...
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Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie DoucetEISNER AWARD WINNER Best Academic/Scholarly Work About Comics 2019 One of the most influential women in independent comics, Julie Doucet, receives a full-length critical overview from a noted chronicler of independent media and critical gender theorist. Grounded in a discussion of mid-1990s media and...
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Glitter in the Blood: A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver WritingYou do not want to write good poems. You want to write great poems. You want to write poems that challenge, inspire and awe. You want to write poems that forever alter your audience, that forever alter yourself. Those poems take guts. Glitter in...
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And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction WritingDebra Spark's Curious Attractions remains a hugely popular fiction writing guide thirteen years after its publication. Now, she tackles the thorniest aspects of literary fiction craft: plot, humor, research, scope, and more. In And Then Something Happened, Spark brings her widely-loved wisdom, wit, and...
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Credo: An Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative WritingLiterary Nonfiction. CREDO. I believe. No other statement is so full of intent and subversion and power. A Credo is a call to arms. It is a declaration. A Credo is the act of an individual pushing back against society, against established stigmas, taboos,...
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Sephardic Women's Voices: Out of North AfricaSephardic women's writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in France and North Africa. These stories offer testaments of a generally excluded human experience that belongs in the diverse and hybrid collection of post-colonial stories of displaced peoples....
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El áncora y otras novelas cortasEmilia Pardo Baz n (1851-1921) is a central and influential figure in nineteenth-century Spanish literature, the author of more than thirty novels as well as a number of short stories and critical essays on literary criticism. Surely no Spanish woman has produced the sheer...
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Antologia: Cuentos de la nena terribleSilvina Ocampo (1903-93), author of seven volumes of poetry and more than three hundred short stories, was a member of Argentina's Sur generation, the extraordinary group of writers who initiated Latin America's literary boom. Like her most distinguished contemporary, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo...
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Dear Prudence: New and Selected PoemsThis magnum opus confirms David Trinidad's place in the poetic firmament: he is simply the best we have. A worthy successor to James Schuyler, Trinidad writes soulfully and sometimes photorealistically about the melancholy threshold where dolls and stars become inner objects--dirty, glamorous, destructible. Jacqueline...
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The Psychology of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Examination of the Boy Who LivedHarry Potter has provided a portal to the wizarding world for millions of readers, but an examination of Harry, his friends and his enemies will take us on yet another journey: through the psyche of the Muggle (and wizard!) mind. The twists and turns...
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Literature and Revolution"Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture."--Mike Davis"Re-reading...
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The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 5: All Things Considered, Tremendous Trifles, Alarms and DiscursionsThis volume includes three classic G. K. Chesterton collections: All Things Considered, Tremendous Trifles, and Alarms and Discursions. These collections include both essays and short stories. A few gems among the stories include "The Perfect Game," "A Somewhat Improbable Story," "The Shop of Ghosts,"...
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An Analysis of Roland Barthes's the Death of the AuthorRoland Barthes's 1967 essay, The Death of the Author, argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing the birth of the reader, Barthes posits...
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Infinite Resignation"Scholarly advice for dark times." --The New Yorker "Provides a metric ton of misery and a lot of company." --New York Times "Probably philosophy's only beach read." --Vice A 'nihilist's devotional, ' this collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism offer...
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Don't Toss Granny in the Begonias: And Other French Proverbs with English EquivalentsContinuing the popular series of proverbs from around the world, each paired with an English equivalent, Don't Toss Granny in the Begonias sheds an amusing and often intriguing light on the rivalry between the French and the English: an odd couple who, from time...
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Trifles for a Massacre"There's a book you won't hear a word about on the radio. There's a book the right-thinking newspapers will not speak about, except to refer to it prim and reproachful terms. There's a book about which the tabloids of the left will say nothing,...
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The Garden of Divine Songs and Collected Poetry of Hryhory SkovorodaHryhory Skovoroda is considered by many as the first great Slavic philosopher and poet. Written over a period stretching from the 1750s until 1785, his The Garden of Divine Songs is a unique collection of 30 poems, featuring a complex system of strophic structures...
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Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar WildeThis selection of Oscar Wilde's writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today...
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