Literary Criticism
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A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly NarrativesStory, in the largest sense of the term, is arguably the single most important aspect of narrative. But with the proliferation of antimimetic writing, traditional narrative theory has been inadequate for conceptualizing and theorizing a vast body of innovative narratives. In A Poetics of...
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Octavia E. Butler: A Literary CompanionSlow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process. This companion will complement book club discussions and classroom lessons for the closest possible readings of Butler's science fiction and her texts...
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Invisible Land of Love: Poems of Chonggi MahThe collection consists of the author's monologues and narrative poems, and a single dialogue between him and his young son. Contemporary America, Korea of old and new, and parts of world are the setting. His poems are a mixture of components that shows sweetness,...
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Fathers and SonsFathers and Sons (1862), Turgenev's masterpiece, represents in its hero, Bazarov, 'the new man', a nihilist liberated from age-old conformities and at odds with the previous generation, questioning the very fabric of society. A novel of ideas, Fathers and Sons is also a moving...
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Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz: Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Maiden's QuestThe Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28 volume Magnum Opus from one of the leading minds in Jungian Psychology. Volume 3 turns to the Maiden's Quest within fairytales.The maiden/heroine navigates a complicated maze of inner and outer relationships as she builds...
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Shakespeare's Politic ComedyWill Morrisey again considers the political dimensions of literary classics, as previously seen in Melville's Ship of State (2019). His attention to Shakespeare's comedies is a reader's and playgoer's delight. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The Politic Character of Shakespeare's Comedy PART ONE: THREE REGIMES: OLIGARCHY, ARISTOCRACY,...
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The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland AestheticsAidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deserts and wastelands in literature since the Romantics, he argues that the desert has served to articulate anxieties over the cultural significance of space in...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThis book ambitiously brings together all Longfellow's poems into a single volume. As well as his justly famous works such as 'Hiawatha', 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' and 'Evangeline', there is much else here to delight the reader, such as his many short poems,...
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How to Direct ShakespeareYou may be a student, or just starting out in the theatre profession, or an actor contemplating a switch to directing, or anyone dreaming of a life in the theatre. Know this: by developing and sharpening your skills on a Shakespeare text, you will...
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C.S. Lewis: Christology and CosmologyPeek into the mesmerizing imagination of C.S. Lewis with the world's leading authority on the beloved author. With more than 100 million copies printed in forty-seven languages, The Chronicles of Narnia is one of the bestselling book series ever. Its enduring success is no...
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The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital AgeChallenging the distinctions between "old" and "new" media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz'ib' (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch'owen (orality) to look at expressive...
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Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also the product of a modern literary imagination....
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Cantigas: Galician-Portuguese Troubadour PoemsA bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain The rich tradition of troubadour poetry in western Iberia had all but vanished from history until the discovery of several ancient cancioneiros, or songbooks, in the...
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Kenneth Burke's Weed Garden: Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern RhetoricSince its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke's A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theory and criticism. Critics have discovered in its pages concepts that reveal new dimensions of human motivation. And yet, despite its obvious genius, critics...
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Echoes of the Gospel in Harry PotterThe best-selling book series of all time and the best-selling book of all time--do they have anything in common? And if so, might there be a reason for that? Echoes of the Gospel in Harry Potter suggests that there is a profound connection between...
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Inferno: Italian-English Parallel TextA unique parallel edition of Dante's Inferno with Dante's Italian and Longfellow's celebrated poetic translation on facing pages."Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third." - T. S. Eliot"Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western...
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Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. a Bilingual English-Russian EditionOsip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and...
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The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, in and Out of TimeThe Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord]. Christian temporality represents Jewish time as queerly oddly outmoded and advocating uncivil and socially disruptive behavior....
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This Is Us Losing Count: Eight Russian PoetsIn This Is Us Losing Count, eight contemporary Russian poets obliterate old conventions in their efforts to reckon with the past. A woman surveys a changing city from her self-described "cloud tower," recalling where building used to stand. A grandmother spends her hallucinatory final...
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The Funambulists: Women Poets of the Arab DiasporaThe Funambulists brings together the diverse poetry collections of six contemporary Arab diasporic women poets. Spanning multiple languages and regions, this volume illuminates the distinct artistic voice of each poet, yet also highlights the aesthetic and political relevance that unites their work. Marchi explores...
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