Literary Criticism
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Truman Capote's in Cold Blood: Bookmarked"In taking on Capote's masterwork, Justin St. Germain has written nothing less than an essential reckoning with the entire American enterprise of nonfiction. His book changed forever how I see not only In Cold Blood, but also true crime and the limits of literary...
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Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of PlaceProminent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades, arguing that it causes...
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The Collected Poems of Chika SagawaWinner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation - The electrifying collected works of "one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early twentieth-century Japan" (The New Yorker). Translated by and with an introduction by Sawako Nakayasu An important and daringly...
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Finn Juhl and His HouseA handsome, illustrated tribute to the brilliant Danish designer and his iconic homeThe Danish design scholar Birgit Lyngbye Pedersen discovered the work of Finn Juhl (1912-1989) when she was looking for a suitable sofa for her 1950s home. Juhl's furniture is undergoing a renaissance...
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Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World SystemIn Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie's attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth...
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Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous WriterWinner of the 2020 Montana Book Award2021 High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction FinalistTracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana uncovers a vast array of different voices that capture the state's love affair with the world's most famous writer. From mountain...
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Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao KawaiTwo of Japan's foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk took place at a particular location at a particular moment in history, much of the content is timeless and universal. After popular acclaim in Japan,...
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The Little Book of HulkIn 1962, he was created by exposure to gamma radiation in Incredible Hulk No. 1. Though it took a few years for him to develop his now-famous personality, he was nonetheless a weapon of destruction from that first appearance. Not only did the Hulk...
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SatzgliedanalyseEnglish summary: Subject, indirect object, genitive attribute - the terms of classical analysis of the parts of sentences are standard material in the teaching of German. Every German teacher is therefore required to be familiar with them. However, being able to analyze sentences in...
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Literary Theory for BeginnersHave you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren't really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here's the book you need to sort it all out--and enjoy doing so!In...
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A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary WomenA started Library Journal review: "This wonderful collection celebrates the New Formalism being practiced by many highly regarded contemporary women poets ... Highly recommended". This unique and ground-breaking anthology also includes statements by the poets explaining why they write formal verse. Adopted by universities...
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The Desert and the DrumThe Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2016. Everything changes for Rayhana when foreigners with strange machines arrive to mine for metal near her Bedouin camp. One of...
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Introducing Literary CriticismFrom Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches, this unique illustrated...
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Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other PoemsWilliam Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the "Lake Poets." Yet he was also one of the founders of English Romanticism, a writer whose early revolutionary fervor imbued his verse and his ideals. This pocket-sized collection includes: "I wandered lonely as a cloud"...
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The Inner Lives of Book Clubs: A Report on Who Joins Them and Why, What Makes Them Succeed, and How They Resolve Problems"Your research is impeccable, and your conclusions well supported. It is a treat to read because there is nothing else like it available. Since we run a book group program here at Darien Library supporting over 100 book groups and growing, it is of...
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Tales from ShakespeareTales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb. The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and...
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William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life: BookmarkedStoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It tells the story of William Stoner, who attends the state university to study agronomy, but instead falls in love with English literature and becomes an academic. The novel narrates the many disappointments...
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How to Read Literature Like a ProfessorA thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide--a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts--that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable.While many books can be enjoyed...
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Hoda Barakat's Sayyidi Wa Habibi: The Authorized Abridged Edition for Students of Arabic, Abridged EditionHoda Barakat's 2004 Arabic novel tells the story of Wadie, a young man who leaves school and becomes corrupted by crime, and his wife, Samia, who flees with him to Cyprus to escape from gang leaders and militiamen he has riled during his criminal...
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Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul: Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of MothersWe can all remember a time when we were young and under-the-weather, and Mom soothed and nurtured us back to health with her magical chicken soup elixir. Now we can revisit those cherished moments with a delightful batch of stories for and about mothers....
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