Literary Criticism
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the MarginLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Stationed in the South Pacific during World War...
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The Midnight Ghost - In The Haunted CastleThis book is a suspense thriller where four detectives work together to solve a mysterious case. The story unfolds in a dramatic and unpredictable manner. The entire fiction is skillfully portrayed in 14 chapters, each of which concludes with an unexpected twist that sparks...
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Fun with Kirk and Spock: A Star-Trek ParodySee the Enterprise. See the Enterprise go boldly. Go Go Go, Enterprise! Go Boldly! Join Kirk and Spock as they go boldly where no parody has gone before!This Prime Directive primer steps through The Guardian of Forever to a simpler time of reading, writing,...
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Las Leyes de Manu: Manava Dharma Sastra. La Critica Literaria. Traducido, Prologado y Anotado Por Juan B. Bergua.Las Leyes de Man , o el Manu Smriti, tambi n llamado Manava Dharma Sastra, es un texto importante de la leyes religiosas y sociales hind es, y de las costumbres de la sociedad antigua de la India. Estas doctrinas fueron dictadas en una...
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Medievalism: A Critical HistoryAn accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies. The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval...
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Contemporary Arabic Literature: Heritage and InnovationVolume I examines the ways in which contemporary Arab authors communicate with two major sources of inspiration: the first, is the rich Arabic literary heritage whether it has been embodied in texts or concrete experiences, real or imaginary. The second are other cultures and...
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Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First CenturyA wide-ranging account of the twenty-first century's fascination with the weird. Twenty-first-century fiction and theory have taken a decidedly weird turn. They both show a marked interest in the nonhuman and in the preternatural moods that the nonhuman often evokes. Writers of fiction and...
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Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, Post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, Sebastian Williams posits that the "parasite" came to be humanity's ultimate other--a...
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A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She was Britain's...
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The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science FictionThe Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and Yoss, Haris Durrani, and Rita Indiana Hernandez, among others,...
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Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison WritingIn Reckoning with Restorative Justice, Leanne Trapedo Sims explores the experiences of women who are incarcerated at the Women's Community Correctional Center, the only women's prison in the state of Hawai'i. Adopting a decolonial and pro-abolitionist lens, she focuses particularly on women's participation in...
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BarcodeObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how...
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Selected Letters of Wilfred OwenThis new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the defining...
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An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial ChinaThe Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic worlds for readers. It consists of translations of poems written by...
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Heroines, New EditionA manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade. "I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the...
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The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of AlexandriaAuthor: Courtney Ann RobyPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 07/20/2023Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781316516232This title is not returnable
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Kayaking with LambsBrian Miller's Kayaking with Lambs is about the idyllic farm life of your imagination--fresh fruits and vegetables, livestock large and small, endless gatherings of kith and kin around a table of homegrown food and handmade drink. It is also about pain, blood, deaths, mud,...
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Seven Russian Archetypes: Recurring Types in Russian History and CultureAuthor: Svetozar PosticPublisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersPublished: 10/09/2023Pages: 184Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39dISBN: 9781666782257
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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science FictionThe term "cyberpunk" entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson's pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling...
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On Not Being Able to Sleep: Psychoanalysis and the Modern WorldIn these powerful essays, Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and writing, exposure and shame. Do women writers--Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath--have a special talent for self-revelation? Or are they simply more vulnerable...
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