Literary Criticism
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Strangers in the Archive: Literary Evidence and London's East EndAuthor: Heidi KaufmanPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 09/07/2022Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.13h x 5.91w x 0.87dISBN: 9780813947372
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Shakespeare's White OthersExamining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora - figures who are never quite 'white enough' - this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and re-affirms white supremacy. David Sterling Brown offers...
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Shakespeare & Collaborative WritingShakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others in a collaborative network of intellectual...
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Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954-79Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerlands's most prominent and prolific men of letters, Jaccottet has...
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Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 ThessaloniansScripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians advances the interpretation of these letters by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures and other ancient materials. Comparative wording is at the forefront, whether in relation to Abraham,...
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Poetic Theory and Practice in Early Modern Verse: Unwritten ArtsHow did ideas about the poet's art surface in early modern texts? By looking into the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses - logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy, medicine, mythography or religion - the essays in this volume unearth notions that remained largely unwritten...
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Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy and Beyond: Materiality, Paratexts and Interpretative StrategiesThis volume explores the complex phenomenon of exegetical work produced from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century on Petrarch's vernacular poetry, that is, both his Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Canzoniere) and his Triumphi (Trionfi). This body of exegesis takes the form of commentaries, annotations, academic...
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Ovid's Art and the Wife of BathOvid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted...
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (annotated))Much Ado About Nothing is a comedic play by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623. Much Ado About Nothing...
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Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of EmpathyBy most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigrants create ethnic communities and maintain ties to countries of origin. Yet such narratives can...
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Looking for Mr. Smith: Seeking the Truth Behind the Long Walk, the Greatest Survival Story Ever ToldAuthor: Linda WillisPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 11/01/2010Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.34w x 0.99dISBN: 9781616081584Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/11/2010 pg. 37Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 29This title is only available via back order
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Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama [With CDROM]DiYanni's Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama features student-centered approaches to literature -- from experience to interpretation to evaluation -- and an emphasis on making connections between texts and thinking critically about literature. Known for its clear presentation of the formal elements of literature...
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Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional AgeLife Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and...
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Land of Wooden GodsLand of Wooden Gods is the first book in the Viking Slave Trilogy. An epic of warrior chieftains, their slaves, and their women, the trilogy tests belief in the Norse Gods Odin, Thor, and Frey and the sacrificial and sexual rituals of Old Scandinavia....
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Kneeling: Poems and Verses Transcending the Turbulent '60sFrom Civil Rights activist and full-time organizer in the Deep South Ernest McMillan: a collection of poems and short stories that seeks to explore the dynamics of love. Ernest McMillan began writing essays and short stories in earnest while imprisoned for his work as...
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Kayaking with Lambs: Notes from an East Tennessee FarmerAuthor: Brian D. MillerPublisher: Front Porch Republic BooksPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36dISBN: 9781666781670
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Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and LegacyThis volume is a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer. Essays study Verne's various novels--including Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island and The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. Included essays offer analyses...
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Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic FictionsAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian...
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His MasterpieceA provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of America's favorite icon of childhood, Huckleberry Finn: "A boldly revisionist reading of Twain's Huckleberry Finn...Twain's masterpiece emerges as a compelling depiction of nineteenth-century troubles still all too familiar in the twenty-first century"...
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Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An AnthologyUltimately, the publication of this capacious body of literature that spans three continents offers students, scholars, and the curious reader alike a unique glimpse into the tremendous global impact the Haitian Revolution had on the print culture of the Atlantic world.New World StudiesAuthor: Marlene...
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