Literary Criticism
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Marxism and LiteratureThis book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyzes previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of cultural...
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A Tale of Two CitiesThis award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American LiteratureAn extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America--and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment...
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My LifeAn editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)--a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books.Nearing his fortieth birthday, author...
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The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde Vs. John Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry, 1895Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's mostexplosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie"Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquessof Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Clubaddressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite." WithBosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess forlibel. He not only...
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What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth CenturyWhat Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we...
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Writing Tudor Exploration: Richard Eden and West AfricaRichard Eden's Decades has long been recognised as a landmark in the translation and circulation of information concerning the Americas in England. What is often overlooked in Eden's book is the presence of the first two Tudor voyage accounts to have been committed to...
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Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. ConnellWinner, 2022 Society of Midland Authors award for Biography/MemoirEvan S. Connell (1924-2013) emerged from the American Midwest determined to become a writer. He eventually made his mark with attention-getting fiction and deep explorations into history. His linked novels Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge...
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Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave NarrativeIn the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before...
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Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 4This fourth volume of selected papers from the Dr. Henry M. Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium, delivered at NecronomiCon Providence 2019, contains an array of groundbreaking articles on Lovecraft's life, work, and thought. Papers by Kyle Gamache and Thomas Schwaiger focus on Lovecraft's relations with...
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The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual FormsMusic videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of reference, from...
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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce's Dublin, and Ulysses: The Life and Times of Albert L. AltmanA forgotten historical figure and hisinfluence on the writing of James Joyce Inthis book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853‒1903), aDublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce'screation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well as Ulysses's broader themes surrounding race, nationalism,...
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Time's Subjects: Horology and Literature in the Later Middle Ages and RenaissanceThere is ample evidence, from the earliest periods onwards, that mankind has sought to measure and organize temporal movement by means of intellectual theories about historical sequences and the contours of peoples' lives, as well as by practical literary instruments such as calendars, almanacs,...
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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology,...
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Sa'di in Love: The Lyrical Verses of Persia's Master Poet'In the breath that I die, for you I'll be longing/ Wishing to turn into the dust of your belonging' - Sa'di, Expressions of Love. With poetry which speaks across the ages, Sa'di (1210-1281) is a vital classical poet and a towering figure of...
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New Large Print Mystery Mosaics Color By Number: An Adults Color Quest Extreme Challenges to Complete, Pixel Art For Adults & Kids, Funny 45+ ColoringMystery Mosaics Color By Number Adults Coloring Book Enjoy hours of therapeutic coloring with detailed Patterns that you will love! This book includes 50 color by Numberpages of beautiful Patterns that will focus and center your energy.Our Color by Number Patterns coloring book features...
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Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' ProjectEstablished in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent over 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document America's past and present in the midst of the Great Depression. The English poet W. H. Auden referred to this New Deal program as...
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Joyce Without Borders: Circulations, Sciences, Media, and Mortal FleshThis book addresses James Joyce's borderlessness andthe ways his work crosses or unsettles boundaries of all kinds. The essays inthis volume position borderlessness as a major key to understanding Joyceanpoiesis, opening new doors and new engagements with his work. Contributors begin by exploring the...
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Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts: 'Cut Him Out in Little Stars'Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare's plays. This volume takes up the iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play's dispersal into neighbouring art forms - including ballet, opera, television...
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Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx LiteraturesIn Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary...
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