Literary Criticism
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Louis-René des Forêts and Inner AutobiographyAuthor: Ian MacLachlanPublisher: LegendaPublished: 01/09/2023Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.28dISBN: 9781781889367This title is not returnable
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The Language of Disease: Writing Syphilis in Nineteenth-Century FranceAuthor: Steven WilsonPublisher: LegendaPublished: 01/09/2023Pages: 158Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.34dISBN: 9781781885642This title is not returnable
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Volume 1 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Profane and Magical WorldsThis newly translated volume of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, one of the most renowned authorities on fairytales, presents a systematic and wide-ranging approach. Von Franz amplifies a variety of fairytale motifs to show that the magical realm is alien to the...
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Claude McKay: The Making of a Black BolshevikOne of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. McKay's life and writing were defined by his class consciousness and anticolonialism, shaped by his...
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The Edinburgh Literary CompanionFew cities can boast such a distinguished literary pedigree as Edinburgh.Burns, Scott, Conan Doyle, Buchan, Dorothy Dunnett and J.K. Rowling have all lived in the city; Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon convalesced there (inspiring Pat Barker's Booker-prize-winning Regeneration trilogy), and Dickens and Thackeray came...
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Side by Side: Us Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and CultureDuring the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, its people, and the US's role as a twentieth-century colonial power to the public. Subsequently, youth literature and media were important tools...
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The Illusions of Self: Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa, with notes and commentaryRoger Pulvers' translations - with detailed notes and commentary - of Japan's greatest tanka poet, Takuboku Ishikawa, is now available here for the first time in this volume. Each tanka - a poem that in Japanese has thirty-one syllables - is a microcosm of...
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Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1916-1918Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (1878-1918) was born the youngest son of Tsar Alexander III, ruler of the mightiest empire on earth. Upon the premature death of his elder brother Grand Duke George in 1899, Michael was thrust into the spotlight as the...
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Book Marks: An Artist's Card Catalog: Notes from the Library of My MindOne artist's whimsical and inspiring way to keep track of the books she has read, Book Marks is a visual journey through a lifetime of reading and remembering that features 434 richly illustrated artworks created on old library checkout cards; each collage or drawing...
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From Hittite to HomerThis book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the Hittite capital. Key...
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Permanent Revolution: EssaysFinalist for the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de MontrealA writer may do as she pleases with her epoch. Rage accumulates. From iconic feminist writer Gail Scott comes Permanent Revolution, a collection of new essays gathered alongside a recreation of her groundbreaking text, Spaces...
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God Is Change: Religious Practices and Ideologies in the Works of Octavia ButlerThroughout her work, Octavia E. Butler explored, critiqued, and created religious ideology. Her prescient thoughts on the synergy between politics and religion in America are evident in her 1993 dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, and its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents. They...
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No Hierarchy of the Lovely: Ten Uncollected Essays and Other Prose 1939-1981Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Essays. NO HIERARCHY OF THE LOVELY celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Robert Duncan, a key figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain school of poetry, by recognizing his accomplishments as a prose writer....
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The Psychology of ArtVygotsky opened up an original field in the science of psychology, based on the sociohistorical theory of the nature of man's consciousness.This work, written more than forty years ago and now translated into English for the first time, approaches the study of art from...
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Thinking Cinema with ProustHow can Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu prompt us to re-imagine the cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a 'merely' cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of Thinking Cinema with Proust is...
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Tennessee Williams 101Like an alchemist, Tennessee would dip his pen in reality and make fiction out of it. This journey through his life focuses on the influence of specific people and places on selected works.Author: Augustin J. CorreroPublisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyPublished: 02/22/2021Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...
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Study Guide to Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David ThoreauA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, a leading figure in transcendentalism. As a transcendentalist of the nineteenth-century, Thoreau's work reflected his belief in the correspondence between...
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Study Guide to Notes From the Underground by Fyodor DostoyevskyA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground, considered to be one of the very first existentialist novels. As a novel of nineteenth-century Russia, Notes From the Underground challenged and created new methods of...
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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region's contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and...
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Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover AmericaA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the New Deal Book AwardAn immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression--and employed some of the biggest names in American letters...
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