Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary AnomaliesFollowing up on the success of their first anthology of aphorisms, Short Flights, editors James Lough and Alex Stein have returned with a new volume that expands on the theme of aphorisms to include other short form writing and concrete poetry and prose from...
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Dragon Ball Culture Volume 4: WestwardGoku goes west His grand adventure begins anew as his martial arts master tells him to travel the world to increase his power. But what will happen when this na ve boy enters the real world and meets people who want to harm him?...
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Dragon Ball Culture Volume 4: WestwardGoku goes west His grand adventure begins anew as his martial arts master tells him to travel the world to increase his power. But what will happen when this na ve boy enters the real world and meets people who want to harm him?...
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Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative AgeThe hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than...
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The PirateAn Icelandic-punk version of Catcher in the Rye. -- Dallas Morning NewsIf there were more people like J n Gnarr the world wouldn't be in such a mess.-- Oliver SacksThe second book in a trilogy chronicling the troubled childhood of international sensation J n...
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DMZ ColonyA powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.Author: Don Mee ChoiPublisher: Wave BooksPublished: 04/07/2020Pages: 152Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.30h x 7.10w x 0.70dISBN: 9781940696966About the AuthorBorn in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of...
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The Best There is at What He Does: Examining Chris Claremont's X MenThe X-Men franchise is a sprawling comic-book mythology, to which hundreds of creators have contributed material over the past 50 years. The period from 1975 to 1991 is special, however, as the X-Men universe was guided by the voice of one writer, who wrote...
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The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book WriterMoore. Gaiman. Morrison.They came from Northampton, West Sussex, and Glasgow, and even though they spoke with different dialects, they gave American comics a new voice - one loud and clear enough to speak to the Postmodern world. Like a triple-helix strand of some advanced...
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Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the WorldWhat is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we...
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So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian VillageKandel's memoir is a powerful picture of a young American woman's struggle to reconcile her new marriage with the realities of living in East Africa.Author: Jill KandelPublisher: Autumn House PressPublished: 01/01/2015Pages: 184Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9781938769023About the AuthorJILL KANDEL...
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Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader - Reel OneVolume One of a two volume, HBO documentary companion collection of the writings of film historian and gay activist Vito Russo.Author: Vito RussoPublisher: White Crane BooksPublished: 07/01/2012Pages: 298Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67dISBN: 9781938246012
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More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time"Read what you enjoy, not what bores you," Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author's monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells...
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DriftCaroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as...
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Goodnight, BooneAuthor: Yozette Yogi Collins, Marlis JenningsPublisher: All Star PressPublished: 11/15/2012Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.80h x 7.90w x 0.10dISBN: 9781937376185This title is not returnable
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C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven: A Reader's Guide to The Great DivorceC.S. Lewis' novel, The Great Divorce, about a man who takes a bus trip from Hell to Heaven, is full of fascinating characters and conversations. C.S. Lewis Goes to Heaven is the first book dedicated to exploring this story, revealing many important secrets that...
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The Colonel's DreamWritten in 1905, The Colonel's Dream is a compelling, bitter tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a regions awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convect-labor exploitation, and endemic violent repression. The events in this novel are powerfully...
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The SupergirlsTHE history of the American superheroine. The Supergirls, a cultural history of comic book heroines, asks whether their world of fantasy is that different from our own. Are the stories of Wonder Woman's search for an identity or Batwoman's battle for equality also an...
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Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon KeesKees was, I believe, one of the four or five most talented members of his generation. And this is the great post-modern generation of American poets which includes Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Theodore Roethke. That these other writers are...
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Moms & Sons: Stories by Mothers and Sons, in Appreciation of Each OtherThis book contains 101 favorite stories and poems from Chicken Soup for the Soul's library honoring the lifelong relationship between mothers and sons. Heartfelt and loving stories written by mothers, grandmothers, and sons, about each other, span generations and show how the mother-son bond...
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Grand and Great: Grandparents and Grandchildren Share Their Stories of Love and WisdomGrandparents and grandchildren share their stories of love and wisdom in this collection celebrating the unconditional love of this special relationship. A parent becomes a new person the day the first grandchild is born. Formerly serious and responsible adults go on shopping sprees for...
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