Literary Criticism
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The Light of Asia: The Poem That Defined the BuddhaThe Light of Asia is an epic poem by Sir Edwin Arnold that was first published in 1879. It is a narrative of the life and message of the Buddha. It quickly became a huge sensation and has continued to resonate powerfully across the...
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Mimesis: The Analytic Anthropology of LiteratureGround-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated for the first time Valery Podoroga was one of the most important thinkers of his generation. Here his most famous work is translated into English for the first time. In it he gives a panorama view...
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The New NegroFirst published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhibiting the brilliance of early twentieth-century African American writers, "The New Negro" has been cited as one of the most important texts in the...
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The PoemPublisher: Faber & FaberPublished: 02/08/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.15lbsSize: 6.00h x 9.20w x 1.90dISBN: 9780571356652
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Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the...
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Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American TheatreIn the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Together, they created the renowned Provincetown Players collective, which not only launched many careers but also had the power to affect US social, cultural, and political beliefs.The philosophical...
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The Sonnets of Rainer Maria RilkeRomano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant to modern Man."...
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Brecht On Art And PoliticsAuthor: Bertolt BrechtPublisher: Methuen DramaPublished: 03/15/2005Pages: 366Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76dISBN: 9780413773531
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Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of LanguageGrowing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of the most important...
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TikkunTikkun refers to the Kabbalistic mythology associated with the Sephiroth, vessels created to contain the energies emanating from the divine (En-Sof). Those vessels were unable to contain those energies and were shattered by their force. The broken shards fall in a shower of sparks...
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Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal...
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I Was More American Than the Americans: Sylvère Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien GrauA personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it. In the mid-1970s, Sylvère Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing house. Since its creation, Semio-text(e) has been a place of stimulating dialogue...
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Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to PetromodernityA vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age Since at least the 1960s, plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life. They are undeniably utopian--wondrously innovative, cheap, malleable, durable, and convenient. Yet our proliferating use of plastics...
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Subjects in PoetryDaniel Brown's Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences the way they're made. It comprises one poet's attempt to plumb the nature of...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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Latin in Modern Fiction: Who Says It's a Dead Language?The goal of this book is to prove that Latin is not a dead language by demonstrating how prevalent and strong it still is in modern Western culture. In order to do so, the author, an English philologist with a long experience as a...
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Decolonizing American PhilosophyIn Decolonizing American Philosophy, Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds bring together leading scholars at the forefront of the field to ask: Can American philosophy, as the product of a colonial enterprise, be decolonized? Does American philosophy offer tools for decolonial projects? What might it...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts ImaginationIn Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these historically marginalized groups....
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The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and TechniquesAuthor: Henry RussellPublisher: Laurence KingPublished: 04/06/2021Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.80dISBN: 9781786277442
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On Novels and NovelistsA collection of essays on renowned French writers, including Sarraute, Renard, and Gide. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through...
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