Literary Criticism
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Study Guide to Brave New World and Other Works by Aldous HuxleyA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Aldous Huxley, James Tait Memorial Prize Winner for Fiction in 1939. Titles in this study guide include Brave New World, Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the...
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Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel BeckettA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting...
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Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker's award-winning longtime book criticEver since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays...
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The Rabbit Between UsOne morning as they parted, Victor Menza's daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder why rabbits had been their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence?" Through philosophy, history,...
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An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism's treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any...
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An Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and SlowThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman's work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of...
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Prose Poetry: An IntroductionAn engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genre Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind--an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that...
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Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime ObsessionOne of BuzzFeed's 15 Books from Smaller Presses You Won't Be Able to Put Down. One of Book Riot's 10 Best New Indie Press Books of Summer 2020. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. When Marcia Trahan began watching true crime television, she did so in...
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Biblioterapia. Leer Es SanarQu ocurre cuando un libro se re ne con su lector? C mo el acto de leer tiene repercusiones sobre nuestros estados de nimo y nuestra salud? De qu forma el biblioterapeuta, mediante el libro, su interpretaci n y el di logo al que...
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Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body StudiesUntil recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of its centrality. The essays in Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka's new collection, Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies, join an emerging...
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Study Guide to Under the Volcano by Malcolm LowryA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, ranked number 11 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, Under the...
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Study Guide to Of Human Bondage by W Somerset MaughamA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for W Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, agreed to be Maugham's most noted and most important work. As a bildungsroman of the early 20th century, Of Human Bondage is Maugham's strongly autobiographical story...
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Study Guide to Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, a Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the bestselling novels of all time, and heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. As a novel of...
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Atticus Finch: The BiographyWho was the real Atticus Finch? A prize-winning historian reveals the man behind the legend The publication of Go Set a Watchman in 2015 forever changed how we think about Atticus Finch. Once seen as a paragon of decency, he was reduced to a...
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Seneca: MedeaComposed in early imperial Rome by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Stoic philosopher and tutor to the emperor Nero, the tragedy Medea is dominated by the superhuman energy of its protagonist: diva, killer, enchantress, force of nature. Seneca's treatment of the myth covers an episode identical...
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Allegory and IdeologyFredric Jameson takes on the allegorical form Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process that sorts incommensurabilities and registers contradictions (which is not the same as...
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time"It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the...
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Selected PoemsDuring the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetayeva. The first two survived the terror, but Mandelstam died in a camp and Tsvetayeva was driven to hang herself in 1941....
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River Teeth: Twenty Years of Creative NonfictionWinner of the Gold Medal for Anthologies in the 2021 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsNationally recognized River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has published a host of new and significant voices in creative nonfiction--including essays, memoir, and literary journalism--since 1999. To celebrate twenty...
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Why Not ParadiseLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Of all the Buddhists in China, Japan, and Korea, the vast majority follow teachings centered on rebirth in the Pure Land, or Western Paradise, of Amitabha Buddha. All Buddhist sutras are about the mind, the mind...
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