Literary Criticism
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Study Guide to The Golden Notebook by Doris LessingA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, regarded by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as one of the key texts of the women's movement of the 1960s. As a uniquely structured four-part novel...
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Bukowski, a LifeThe life of Charles Bukowski--laureate of lowlife Los Angeles--a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator. Neeli Cherkovski began a deep friendship with Bukowski in the 1960s while guzzling...
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La Litterature Latine Inconnue: Tome I: l'Epoque Republicaine. Tome II: l'Epoque ImperialeEnglish summary: This classic of Latin literary studies offers a vast and original summary of lost literature, focusing in tome 1 on works from the Republican period, then, in tome 2, on works up to the fifth century BCE (excluding Christian literature). Only brief...
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Moliere Ou l'Esthetique Du RidiculeCet ouvrage propose une interpretation globale de l'oeuvre de Moliere a partir d'une interrogation sur le secret de sa poetique. Il suggere que ce secret consiste dans la conjonction entre deux ambitions contradictoires: celle de peindre les moeurs de son temps, qui implique la...
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History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge FiveIf you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Russia, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasion, the Napoleonic Invasion, Reforms of Peter the Great, the...
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Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great BooksHow often do you begin reading a book that makes you--immediately, urgently, desperately--want to read more books?" (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through...
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Shanghai: A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichivolume 33Published serially between 1928 and 1931, Shanghai tells the story of a group of Japanese expatriates living in the International Settlement at the time of the May 30th Incident of 1925. The personal lives and desires of the main characters play out against a...
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An Analysis of John Rawls's a Theory of JusticeJohn Rawls's A Theory of Justice is one of the most influential works of legal and political theory published since the Second World War. It provides a memorably well-constructed and sustained argument in favour of a new (social contract) version of the meaning of...
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Against Amazon: And Other EssaysA NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges ... A pleasing labyrinth where you can't get lost: that comes later, at home, when you immerse...
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Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019Essays and stories on fashion, art, and culture in the New York of the 2010s.We were supposed to meet Rose McGowan at Caf d'Alsace after the party, but she cancelled at the last minute. I saw on Twitter that she had been hit with...
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Williamstown and Williams College: Explorations in Local HistoryNestled in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, Williamstown is home to one of the most prestigious liberal arts colleges in the country, Williams College. In this engrossing and entertaining book, Dustin Griffin offers fourteen vignettes that detail the local history of this ideal New...
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Conversations with Tom RobbinsSince the publication of Another Roadside Attraction in 1971, Tom Robbins (b. 1932) has become known as the principal voice of American countercultural fiction. His cult celebrity was further solidified by the success of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) and Still Life with...
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The Voynich Manuscript: The Mysterious Code That Has Defied Interpretation for CenturiesAn examination of the many theories surrounding this enigmatic text, apparently written in code - Reveals the connections between this work and the Cathars, Roger Bacon, and John Dee - Explains the cryptanalysis methods used in attempts to break the code - Includes color...
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The Lovecraft Lexicon: A Reader's Guide to Persons, Places and Things in the Tales of H.P. LovecraftH.P Lovecraft's horror stories have intrigued and horrified readers from all over the world. But Lovecraft's world is filled with a daunting array of bizarre and obscure characters, monsters, places and things. This work covers hundreds of the people, places and things-that-go-bump-in-the-night in Lovecraft's...
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Uncollected Works: Oscar AcostaThis milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the early 1960s and shortly before his mysterious disappearance in Mazatlan, Mexico in 1974.Author: Oscar Zeta AcostaPublisher: Arte Publico...
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The Art of Attention: A Poet's EyeThe Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in the...
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The Stranger by Albert Camus A Critical Introduction (Revised Edition)The Second Edition of this popular critical study has been significantly expanded and completely revised, making it the most thorough single-volume study of Camus' classic novel. A Critical Introduction places Camus' ideas in context. Part One shows the development of his thought in the...
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Understanding Bharati Mukherjee2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleBharati Mukherjee was the first major South Asian American writer and the first naturalized American citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in Kolkata, India, she immigrated to the United States in 1961 and went on to...
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What I'd Say to the Martians: And Other Veiled ThreatsJack Handey is one of America's favorite humorists, from his New Yorker pieces to his Deep Thoughts books and Saturday Night Live sketches. Now, in What I'd Say to the Martians, Handey regales readers with his incredible wit and wacky musings.Author: Jack HandeyPublisher: Hachette...
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Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature...
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