Literary Criticism
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from the Great Gatsby to the HatThoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest--a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts--teaches you how...
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Flannery at the GrammysA devout Catholic, a visionary--and some say prophetic--writer, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O'Connor professed that she did not have an ear for music, allusions to her writing appear in the lyrics and narrative form of...
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Christopher Isherwood Inside OutA stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity. The story of Christopher Isherwood's life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and spiritual illumination. Isherwood--the author...
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Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; Or, What Melville Means TodayThe experimental artist Peter Fischli once observed, There s certainly a subversive pleasure in occupying yourself with something for an unreasonable length of time. In this same spirit, David Dowling takes it upon himself to attend and report on the all-consuming annual Moby-Dick Marathon...
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Canada In Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-CanadiansCanada in Decay is the first scholarly book questioning the undemocratic policy of mass immigration and racial diversification in Canada. This book demolishes the myth that Canada is a "nation of immigrants" by demonstrating that Canada was founded by Indigenous Quebecois, Acadians, and English...
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical EssaysBlacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars and creative writers from Africa and the Americas. Called one of two significant critical works on Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late 1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of Carter G....
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A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022, gathers together essays, talks, and reviews by Rick Newby, one of Montana's leading writers, editors, and publishers. These writings focus on Big Sky Country's writers and visual artists and the state's cultural history, especially...
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Archdeacon Grantly Walks Again: Trollope's Clergy Then and NowAlongside twelve verbal snapshots of Anthony Trollope's Archdeacon Grantly and his fellow Barchester clergy, this book places twelve equally fictious modern counterparts. Human nature never changes. A fascinating and gripping read.Author: Michael HigginsPublisher: Sacristy PressPublished: 04/15/2024Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...
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A MidSummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream, ' where love, magic, and mischief intertwine under the moonlit forest canopy. Shakespeare's timeless comedy takes you on a whimsical journey as four young lovers find themselves entangled in a web of mischievous fairies, including the notorious Puck. Meanwhile, a...
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American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip RothOne of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth's 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic,...
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Adoption Memoirs: Inside StoriesAdoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only happy moments, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child, the racism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay and...
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A Companion to Saxo GrammaticusEver since the publication of Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum at the beginning of the thirteenth century, scholars and laymen have grappled with the complex and marvellous chronicle. As much specialized scholarship has been published in Danish, this companion breaks new ground by giving a...
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You Have a Kind Face: Reflections on a Firefighter's JourneyYou Have a Kind Face is a collection of true, firsthand accounts of what a career in firefighting can be like. Over the course of twenty-six years in the fire service, Joel has seen more than a few strange situations and difficult calls. From...
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Riverhead BooksPublished: 10/04/2005Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.86dISBN: 9781594481383Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 130About the AuthorHarold Bloom is a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at...
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Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian ConventionAlthough he was a man rooted in and engaged with nineteenth-century British culture, George MacDonald was no friend of Victorian convention. As this volume demonstrates, he was part of a tradition of counter-cultural writers, teachers, theologians, and reformers (including S. T. Coleridge, F. D....
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To Take Upon Us the Mystery of ThingsA collection of previously unpublished lectures by the late Martin Lings, Shakespearean scholar and Sufi master. The main plays are seen in the light of universal and perennial metaphysics, psychology and eschatology, with many insights into the mystical and alchemical symbolism. The spiritual reach...
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Tom Stoppard's ArcadiaTom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for...
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Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His FollowersHow a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture. Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of...
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The Voices of the Consul: The Rhetorics of Cicero's de Lege Agraria I and IIThe Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "On the Agrarian Law" I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to...
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - 20th Anniversary EditionThis remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and...
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