Literary Criticism
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Qu Yuan and the Chuci: New ApproachesIn this volume, leading scholars of early Chinese literature offer new, multi-faceted research on the ancient anthology Lyrics of Chu (Chuci). Through meticulous textual analysis, richly annotated translations, and theoretical reflection, they challenge millennia-old assumptions about China's arch-poet Qu Yuan (ca. 300 BCE), his...
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Photo, Phyto, Proto, NitroPhoto: to do with light. Phyto: plants and flowers. Proto: the first, the original. Nitro: it blows up.From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nuclear Nevada desert, we make our tracks over the war-scratched globe, and when we reach a ruin or a destination...
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Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury TalesRecognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale...
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Numinous Seditions: Interiority and Climate ChangeWith Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West's almost forgotten contemplative tradition in its Platonic, Islamic, Christian, and Zoharic forms. It also...
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Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C. S. Lewis and the Chronicles of NarniaNOT A TAME LION offers a clear view of the character of C.S. Lewis.Author: Terry W. GlaspeyPublisher: Cumberland House PublishingPublished: 10/01/2005Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.06h x 5.08w x 0.76dISBN: 9781581824834This title is not returnable
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New Essays on Native SonNew Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. After an introductory essay by the editor on the conception, composition, and reception of the novel, four leading Afro-Americanists examine various aspects of this classic fictional account of...
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My Belly: Exploring Why It's So Hard for Women to Love Their BodiesWhy are women so ashamed of certain parts of their bodies? And why are our feelings about our midsections so hard to navigate? These are the questions that animate My Belly, an unflinching and funny portrait of one woman's obsession with a seemingly innocent...
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Mark Twain for Dog Lovers: True and Imaginary Adventures with Man's Best FriendMark Twain for Dog Lovers combines one of America's most beloved authors and dogs. Twain specialist R. Kent Rasmussen traces the history of dogs in Twain's life--from the ones he knew personally, like his daughter's dog which he took in after she died, to...
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Mark Twain for Cat Lovers: True and Imaginary Adventures with Feline FriendsAmerica is cat crazy, and Mark Twain may have been the American writer most crazy about cats. From his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his last years in Connecticut, Mark Twain spent much of his life surrounded by cats, and they stalk through many...
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Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation: Volume 21A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Jason BeckmanPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 11/07/2023Pages: 294Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9798985966510This title is not returnable
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Kafka: A Very Short IntroductionFranz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. His other three novels, published after his...
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In the Life: A Black Gay AnthologyIn IN THE LIFE, 29 black authors explore what it means to be doubly different--both black and gay--in modern America. These stories, verses, works of art and theater pieces voice the concerns and aspirations of an often silent minority. They can be poignant, erotic,...
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Interstellar Flight Magazine Best of Year FourFounded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays on what's new in the world of speculative genres. With interviews, personal essays, rants, and raves, the authors of Interstellar Flight Magazine explore the vast...
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I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by WomenEdited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place, the book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries. Contributors respond to the question: What is conceptual writing? I'LL DROWN MY BOOK offers feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon. Contributors are Kathy...
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Heroína de Las 1001 Caras, LaAuthor: Maria TatarPublisher: KoanPublished: 09/19/2023Pages: 468Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.28h x 5.61w x 1.18dISBN: 9788418223761Language: Spanish
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Fugue StateFugue State is John Wilkinson's fifteenth book of poems, and the most fiery. In it, the world is thicker than ever, crowded with all sorts of things, from futures to the exhumed bodies of 80 girls. His muse is a fly, try to catch...
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Forensic ShakespeareForensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar...
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Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the AnthropoceneEcohorror represents human fears about the natural world--killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the environment, and even scientists build on popular conceptions of zoology, ecology, and the scientific process. As such, ecohorror is...
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Excursion-Pa" Written for the audience it portrays, The Excursion introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's ""gentle"" society and its glittering pastimes. For her novel's overarching plot structure, Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and...
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Environmental Humanities on the Brink: The Vanitas HypothesisIn this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even...
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