Literary Criticism
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The Original Handbook for the Recently DeceasedCovers such topics as etiquette during one's own funeral, fun games to play when you are dead, how to tell where you are, how to put up with eternity, and much more.Author: Claude NeedhamPublisher: Gateways Books & TapesPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 121Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h...
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Poetria NovaThe Poetria nova, written by the Englishman Geoffrey of Vinsauf shortly after 1200, was the most influential medieval treatise on rhetorical poetics. Modeled on Horace's Ars poetica, it is an art of poetry (and prose) in 2121 hexameter verses. With its updated scholarship and...
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Mythical Figures: Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, Vol. 6This volume collects Hillman's papers and lectures on the main figures of mythology, including Dionysus, Oedipus, Moses, Mars, and Athene.Author: James HillmanPublisher: Spring PublicationsPublished: 08/01/2007Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10dISBN: 9780882145846About the AuthorThe pioneering imaginative psychology of James Hillman that...
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Reading Hemingway's Men Without Women: Glossary and Commentary"The aim of this book is not to have the final word on the meaning of the stories that compose Men Without Women. Rather, the study attempts to probe the events of each story as we encounter them. It seeks to explain historical references,...
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A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to FaerieJ.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of Tolkien has centered on these novels. Granted access by the Tolkien estate and the...
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Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceHenry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881)....
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic AgeA reissue of the book that first examined the future of reading and literature in the electronic age, now with a new introduction and Afterword In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic...
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Jane Eyre's Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine's StoryEver since women in the West first started publishing works of fiction, they have written about a heroine who must wander from one place to another as she searches for a way to live the life she wants to live, a life through which...
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science FictionAn indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expandedSamuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than...
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The Book of Questions: Book of Yukel, and Return to the BookA meditative narrative of Jewish Experience and man's relation to the world.The Book of Questions, of which volumes IV, V, VI are together published here, is a meditative narrative of Jewish Experience, and, more generally, man's relation to the world. In these volumes the...
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An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, DramaIn a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies and serves as a course-friendly alternative to the Field Day anthology, editors Maureen O'Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including Old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish...
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The CommitteeThis wry take on Kafka's novel The Trial revolves around its narrator's attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, known simply as the Committee. Consequences for his actions range from the absurd to the hideous. Ibrahim offers an unbroken first-person...
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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a MovementGrowing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the significance of these sonic and visual avenues for afrofuturism cannot be underestimated, literature remains fundamental to understanding its full dimensions....
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Rhetoric in AntiquityOriginally published as La Rh torique dans l'Antiquit (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics. Rhetoric formed an essential part of teaching and general culture....
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Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth CenturyVincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, capturing the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic--America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa--between 1760 and 1798.Author: Vincent CarrettaPublisher: University Press...
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Horoscopes for the DeadWINNER--BEST POETRY--GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST NATIONAL BESTSELLER Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of...
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The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them AllThe Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual...
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A Natural History of the Romance NovelThe romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels...
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Is That Kafka?: 99 FindsIn the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, excerpts from letters, and testimonies from Kafka's contemporaries...
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Reading Vergil's Aeneid, 23: An Interpretive GuideVergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine...
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