Literary Criticism
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A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in the process...
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Prefaces to ShakespeareWhen Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory. In the final...
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Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean CultureIn his seminal work, The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, Kamau Brathwaite attempted to expose the essential "Jamaican" nature of the identity that developed at the interstices between the cultures of Europe and Africa. He took the concept of Creole society beyond mere...
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One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting inFrom pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeistOne In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of...
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022In this brilliant selection of essays--including three new pieces--the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia to the importance...
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A Loom of One's Own: Crafts for Book LoversAuthor: Virginia WoolPublisher: HarperCollinsPublished: 04/04/2023Pages: 128Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 7.11h x 5.32w x 0.64dISBN: 9780008529246About the AuthorVirginia Wool was an English writer, feminist and craft-obsessive. The seventh child in her family, she spent most of her youth searching for the perfect place to house...
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Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho: Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in ArgentinaIn the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan contributed to the Argentine vision of "transpacific modernity." Intellectuals such as Eduardo Wilde and Manuel Domecq García celebrated Japanese customs and traditions as important values that can be integrated into Argentine society. But a new...
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Vastarien: A Literary Journal vol. 6, issue 1Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. Cover art by Jesse Peper,...
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Thoreau's Botany: Thinking and Writing with PlantsThoreau's last years have been the subject of debate for decades, but only recently have scholars and critics begun to appreciate the posthumous publications, unfinished manuscripts, and Journal entries that occupied the writer after Walden (1854). Until now, no critical reader has delved deeply...
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Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US WhalingThrough the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our...
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RailroadThrough haunting imagery and evocative language, the raw emotions of one who has endured the unimaginable finds expression, transcending the confines of a single story and speaking to the universal human experience of suffering, survival, and the triumph of the soul. This collection of...
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A Word or Two Before I Go: Essays Then and NowAuthor: Arthur KrystalPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 09/12/2023Pages: 160Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.43w x 0.87dISBN: 9780813950624
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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: From Their Origins Through the Nineteenth CenturyIn this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and contrasts: the political and cultural situation...
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The Collected Shorter Works of Mark Twain: A Library of America Boxed SetFor the first time in a collector's boxed set, the authoratative two-volume Library of America edition of Mark Twain's incomparable short writings -- the stories, sketches, burlesques, hoaxes, tall tales, speeches, satires, and maxims of America's greatest humorist. "Against the assault of laughter nothing...
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Thoreau's Botany: Thinking and Writing with PlantsThoreau's last years have been the subject of debate for decades, but only recently have scholars and critics begun to appreciate the posthumous publications, unfinished manuscripts, and Journal entries that occupied the writer after Walden (1854). Until now, no critical reader has delved deeply...
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The Dark Shadows Daybook Unbound: Eagle Hill EditionFollowing up 2021's bestseller, THE DARK SHADOWS DAYBOOK, this volume, expanded for the fall of 2023, offers over 100 irreverent insightful reviews and the past, present, and future of the landmark, supernatural drama, DARK SHADOWS, from the mind of underground comics author, designer, and...
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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: From Their Origins Through the Nineteenth CenturyIn this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and contrasts: the political and cultural situation...
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Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science FictionLITERARY EXPLORATIONS INTO THE RADICAL, HOPEFUL RACIAL FUTURES IMAGINED BY SCIENCE FICTION Essays by Marleen S. Barr, Gerry Canavan, Grace L. Dillon, M. Elizabeth Ginway, Matthew Goodwin, Edward James, De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Malisa Kurtz, Robin Anne Reid, Lysa M. Rivera, Patrick B. Sharp,...
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VoidopolisLonglisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante's Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New York City. Voidopolis is a digital performance about loss and memory...
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Caesar: Bellum Gallicum Book VIIAuthor: Christopher B. KrebsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 07/27/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.83dISBN: 9781009177146
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