Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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The Night Before ChristmasGenerations of children have gone to bed Christmas Eve with the hoof-beats of eight tiny reindeer in their ears and in their minds the vision of Saint Nick with his pipe and beard at the mantel filling their stockings, as described in the incomparable...
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The Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Angelheaded HipstersThe Beat Generation FAQ is an informative and entertaining look at the enigmatic authors and cutting-edge works that shaped this fascinating cultural and literary movement. Disillusioned with the repression and conformity encompassing post-World War II life in the United States, the Beat writers sought...
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A Grammar of the Arabic Language (Two Volumes in One)A Grammar of the Arabic Language is a detailed Arabic grammar tutorial, originally written in German by Carl Caspari and translated by British Orientalist William Wright. Often referred to today as Wright's Grammar, the second edition was altered and added to by Wright, and...
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Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 1Lovecraftian Proceedings is the Official Organ of the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Symposium. Established in 2013 as a key part of NecronomiCon Providence, the Armitage Symposium fosters exploration of Lovecraft as a rationalist who created an elaborate cosmic mythology, and how this mythology was...
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Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 2This second volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings contains a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship on the dreamer from Providence, including substantial articles from both recipients of the S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship for H. P. Lovecraft at Brown University. Lovecraftian Proceedings fosters exploration of Lovecraft...
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William Hope Hodgson: Voices from the BorderlandWilliam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was one of the pioneering authors of weird fiction in his time. Focusing, as few of his colleagues did, on the horror novel, Hodgson wrote such immortal works as The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912),...
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The Gardener2015 Reprint of 1913 Printing. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Gardener" is an enchanting collection of love poems set against the backdrop of life in the Bengali countryside. These short love poems capture the deepest of...
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On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme2012 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Ortega y Gasset's influence was considerable, not only because many sympathized with his philosophical writings, but also because his writings did not require that the reader be...
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Life is Like a Glass of Tea: Studies of Classic Jewish Jokes (Second Edition)The first book on Jewish humor in which individual jokes are singled out for comprehensive study, Life is Like a Glass of Tea devotes a chapter to each of eight major jokes, tracing its history and variants - and looking closely at the ways...
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Selections from Cultural WritingsOne of the world's most influential cultural critics, Antonio Gramsci's writings on the interconnection between culture and politics fundamentally changed the way that scholars view both. Among the first to argue that art is not the product of men of genius but rather particular...
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The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and AnnotationsA wide-ranging introduction to the work of one of the most important living cartoonists, The Daniel Clowes Reader features Ghost World, Clowes's celebrated graphic novel about the complex friendship of two teenage girls. It also includes stories -- some reprinted for the first time...
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Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat GenerationJohn Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way...
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Walden with Thoreau's Essay on the Duty of Civil DisobediencePerhaps the best known non-fiction book ever written by an American, Walden chronicles Thoreau's stay in a cabin by Walden Pond, on land owned by his friend and compatriot, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau stayed here for two years and two months and hoped to...
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Poems of PassionElla Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850-October 30, 1919) was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. It includes poems such as: Love's Language; Impatience; Individuality; Friendship after Love; Reunited; What Shall We Do; Through the Valley; the Duet and...
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Fifteen Seconds without SorrowFREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson Like many younger Korean poets, SHIM BO-SEON writes in an allusive, indirect style about topics that are in themselves familiar, eating rice, taking off clothes, living in an apartment block, struggling with human relationships. He captures some...
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Here in Cerchio: Letters to an Italian ImmigrantLiterary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Through a fortunate concatenation of events, a collection of letters written by an Italian farmer of the time has recently become available, now archived at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. Between 1910 and 1913 Antonio Vasquenz,...
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The Golden Verses of PythagorasAntoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767-March 25, 1825) was a French author, poet, and composer whose biblical and philosophical hermeneutics in?uenced many occultists, such as Eliphas L vi and Gerard Encausse (Papus), and Ren Gu non. D'Olivet spent his life pursuing the esoteric wisdom...
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Children's Book-A-Day AlmanacPart fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book--every day of the year This fresh, inventive reference book is a dynamic way to showcase the gems, both new and old,...
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Deconstructing the Metabarons: Oversized DeluxeThe second reference guide to the Jodoverse, focused on unveiling the secrets of the Universe's fiercest warrior clan: the Metabarons. Deconstructing the Metabarons sheds light on the secrets surrounding the celestial clan of warriors, first introduced in the the seminal science-fiction graphic novel, which...
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Jewish Odyssey of George EliotIt is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew - a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally...
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