Literary Criticism
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The Fiction of EvilWhat makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Can evil people...
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A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature: Reading the ReaderWhat are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature offers a unique glimpse into the unconscious psychic processes and development involved in reading. The author listens to the...
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English - One Tongue, Many VoicesThis is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the language...
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After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st CenturyAfter Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice. It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and argues for the prominent role that literary...
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The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham LewisThe Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of...
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The Cambridge Companion to American GothicThe Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton,...
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Thug Notes: A Street-Smart Guide to Classic LiteratureSparky Sweets, PhD, and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including: Things Fall Apart, To Kill...
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Globalization and Literary StudiesAuthor: Joel EvansPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/21/2022Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.45dISBN: 9781108840927About the AuthorEvans, Joel: - Joel Evans is Assistant Professor in Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of...
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Astrotheology for Life: Unlocking the Esoteric Wisdom of Ancient MythWhat do the world's ancient myths have to say for your life? This book will help you learn to converse with humanity's myths, scriptures, and sacred stories in the language that they are actually speaking: the language of the stars. Clear, systematic explanation accompanied...
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Walk It Off, PrincessA new collection of articles from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Internet is a Playground, That's Not How You Wash a Squirrel and Wrap it in a Bit of Cheese Like You're Tricking the Dog."Absolutely hilarious One of the funniest books...
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GilgameshComposed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey beyond the limits of human experience, Gilgamesh is a tale of...
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Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays!: Volume 2See the legendary comic strip as its creator intended: full broadsheet-sized and with glorious colors. In 2005, the publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, the oversized deluxe reprint edition, marked the centennial of Winsor McCay's supreme graphic achievement. That book...
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The Isis Thesis: a study decoding 870 Ancient Egyptian SignsThe Isis Thesis is a transdisciplinary study of eight major ancient Egyptian texts, revealing that over 870 decoded signs, including art and architecture, communicate modern scientific knowledge about microbiology and human potential for genetic immortality. Put simply, the Egyptian afterlife is the quantum domain,...
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Russian Classics in Russian and English: The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Dual-Language Book)This book contains The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy's afterword to The Kreutzer Sonata, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This is a dual-language book with the Russian text on the left side, and the English text on the right side of each spread. The...
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A FIELD Guide to Contemporary Poetry and PoeticsOne of the hallmarks of FIELD magazine has always been its attention to what poets have to say about poetry. Many of these essays--by William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, and Sandra McPherson, among others--have become classics. This...
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by PalinurusCyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of...
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Cajun and Creole FolktalesThis teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are...
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Ecopoetry: Critical IntroductionThe burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions...
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A Reader's DelightOne of America's finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.Author: Noel PerrinPublisher: Dartmouth College PressPublished: 03/01/1988Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.57dISBN: 9780874514322This title is not returnable
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Blues Vision: African American Writing from MinnesotaA rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth.Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how much and how little conditions...
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