Literary Criticism
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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the WorldThe sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems...
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Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century ParisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study--the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades--Michael Mulryan explores his...
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A Treacherous ArtThese pieces are selected from a steady series of essays and reviews I found myself publishing in the late aughts of the still early century. It was a period in which I was translating poetry, not so much as a specific translation "project," but...
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A Tale of Two Cities: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE "UBAYA-VEDANTINS" An outline of the History of Sri Vaishnavas of Tamil Nadu that was neverAuthor: M. K. SudarshanPublisher: Westwood Books PublishingPublished: 07/21/2023Pages: 500Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.01dISBN: 9798888875384
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Pathways to Bliss: A Skeleton Key Study GuideThis Skeleton Key Study Guide to Joseph Campbell's Pathways to Bliss offers you a chance to read Campbell alongside a Campbell expert, focusing on the psychological aspects of material selected from Campbell's lectures, interviews, and seminars. You'll find chapter summaries, notable quotes, reading suggestions,...
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"I Am Not Your Black, America!"Forget Every "Black" book you ever read; this Book is NOT "your black" book!This is the story of a first time author, who calls himself "Uncle Meshorn", as he debunks every label by which "uncle sam" has branded him with, including "uncle tom"!If MeShorn...
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Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean FictionAuthor: Jason R. MarleyPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 09/07/2023Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65dISBN: 9780813950143
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Difficult Reading: Frustration and Form in Anglophone Caribbean FictionAuthor: Jason R. MarleyPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 09/07/2023Pages: 286Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9780813950136
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Edgar the Eagle in Do Your Best!Edgar and other boy eagles in his community are excited about the upcoming Eagles Fly High Air Show. Edgar has been practicing all his flying tricks, but just days before the show-something happens. Edgar has worked so hard, but now, will he be able...
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The Feminine Sublime: Gender and Excess in Women's FictionThe Feminine Sublime provides a new and startling insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. Barbara Claire Freeman argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference,...
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Bound to ViolenceThis critical edition of the epic 1968 Malian novel explores its enduring literary power and the racist plagiarism scandal that devastated its author, the first African winner of France's prestigious Renaudot Prize. An engrossing, tragic tale spanning the thirteenth to the twentieth century, Bound...
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American MindFrank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind is an interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual and artistic figures. It probes the degree to which the transcendentalist author influenced the architect's campaign...
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An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and TheoryLively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at 'The Beginning' and concluding with 'The End', chapters range from the familiar, such as 'Character', 'Narrative' and 'The Author', to the more unusual,...
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Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and LettersAuthor: Emily DickinsonPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 07/21/2023Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsISBN: 9781554816347This title is not returnable
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Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews"Riveting . . . rollicking . . . elegantly captures a changing France reckoning with the cultural revolutions of the mid-20th century."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Enthralling essays on the expatriate experience in Paris and shrewd literary criticism by one of the twentieth century's finest...
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Astrolit: A Bibliophile's Guide to the StarsA unique, illustrated introduction to astrology that explores the zodiac through a literary lens, drawing lessons from celebrated authors including Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, W.E.B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Oscar Wilde, and dozens more. AstroLit is a cosmic voyage through the lives and works...
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Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the WorldThe Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers has emerged as one of the most well-respected writing programs in the country, producing a generation of first-rate poets who are also deeply dedicated teachers of their art. Poets Teaching Poets collects essays by current and...
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Studies in Classic American Literature"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."― D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) by D. H. Lawrence is considered culturally important to Western culture in its literary...
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Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to MetamorphosisDream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination--one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and...
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Arabian Nights of 1934A genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld. Arabian Nights of 1934 is a journey through the fevered dreamworld embodied in American movies of the early 1930s: an era that closed abruptly with the enforcement...
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