Literary Criticism
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A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 2)In the second volume of the letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the two authors continue their wide-ranging discussion of such central issues as the relative value of barbarism and civilization, the virtues of the frontier and of settled city life,...
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Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through StoriesFor the Anishinaabeg people, who span a vast geographic region from the Great Lakes to the Plains and beyond, stories are vessels of knowledge. They are bagijiganan, offerings of the possibilities within Anishinaabeg life. Existing along a broad narrative spectrum, from aadizookaanag (traditional or...
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Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (Loa #180)James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody else's." Long before a wider public...
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The Siege of KrishnapurWinner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through the eyes of a young, love-struck idealist. India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in...
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The GateAn NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children...
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Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) ReaderJean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction.Author: Chris KrausPublisher: Semiotext(e)Published: 01/18/2002Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.04w x 0.95dISBN: 9781584350125Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorChris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick...
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How To Write a Simple Book Review: It's easier than you think!Have you ever wondered how to write a review for a book, but not sure where to begin? Or perhaps how long it needs to be? Or has it ever occurred to you that negative reviews may be helpful to authors?#1 International Bestselling AuthorPinnacle...
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Giving the Devil His DueFlannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or extremism has not become more popular in the last fifty to a hundred years...
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The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT StudiesHow fantasy meets reality as...
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Tonight at 8.30Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is Coward's ambitious series of ten one-act plays which saw him breathe new life into the one-act form. From vaudeville to satire, from farce to...
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Lesya UkrainkaThe Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature, she sought difficult and complex motifs...
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Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the SunThe moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Written when she...
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Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and FantasyA fascinating illustrated history of lost, overlooked, and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential works from those imaginative genres, as well...
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Investigating Simenon: Patriarchy, Sex and Politics in the FictionFor nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates Simenon's work in its historical context and interprets it as a reaction to shifting gender relations in...
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Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval StudiesThis collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and...
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Ann and Her MotherThe book, "" Ann and Her Mother "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....
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Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980sThis book, first published in 2000, features analyses about and by some of the most important Russian writers of the 1980s, a period of great changes in the cultural life of Russia when the controls of Soviet communism gave way to a wide diversity...
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided LandIn light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a...
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Marilyn: Essays & PoemsHonoring the 60th Anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, Marilyn: Essays & Poems, Collector's Edition includes the award-winning collection of poems, An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, plus a heart-breaking eulogy for Marilyn Monroe, along with essays and narrative that celebrate the poetry and...
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Mommy, I'm Okay: A Little Ones Travel Through CancerMommy, I'm Okay! follows 7-year-old Melissa a.k.a. Moe as she battles cancer. She's simply trying to understand her diagnosis while keeping a positive attitude. Take a ride as Little Moe learns how to overcome cancer.Author: Melissa SampsonPublisher: Lulu.comPublished: 08/12/2022Pages: 26Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 10.00h...
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