Literary Criticism
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Historical Dictionary of American Cinema, Second EditionOne of the most powerful forces in world culture, American cinema has a long and complex history that stretches through more than a century. This history not only includes a legacy of hundreds of important films but also the evolution of the film industry...
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The Color of Books: 8 Bright Notebooks; 160 Reading RecommendationsRead the rainbow with The Color of Books, a stylized collection of eight blank notebooks that evoke the full spectrum of color, as represented by 160 different must-read books. Each brightly hued notebook cover in The Color of Books features a diverse and inclusive...
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The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is...
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Story of Science Fiction in 100 BooksFrom the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the punishing dystopian visions of 1984 and beyond, the evolution of science fiction from the 1890s to the 1960s is a fascinating journey to undertake. Setting out this span of years as what we can...
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Worldbuilding For Fantasy Fans And AuthorsMillions of fantasy worlds have been made, but does yours have what it takes to make millions?Drawing from authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, N. K. Jemisin, Orson Scott Card, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, and Steven Erikson, plus his years in...
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Study Guide to The Bell Jar and Other Works by Sylvia PlathA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sylvia Plath, who at an early age won prizes for her poetry. Titles in this study guide include The Bell Jar, Two Views of a Cadaver Room, Night Shift,...
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Study Guide to Brighton Rock and Other Works by Graham GreeneA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Graham Greene, winner of Britain's Order of Merit and the Shakespeare Prize. Titles in this study guide include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the...
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Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean FictionsThere is a tendency to think of Korean American literature-and Asian American literature writ large-as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan...
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Selected Letters: Volume 54Isabella d'Este (1474-1539), daughter of the Este dukes of Ferrara and wife of Marchese Francesco II Gonzaga of Mantua, co-regent of the Gonzaga state, art collector, musician, diplomat, dynastic mother, traveler, reader, gardener, fashion innovator, and consummate politician, was also, as this volume attests,...
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The Book of the Mutability of Fortune: Volume 52Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France's first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years' War, Christine's lone but...
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The Myths of Greece and Rome: IllustratedThis book is a detailed treatise on Greek and Roman mythology, dealing comprehensively with the Gods, demi-Gods and heroes of Greco-Roman legend. Highly Detailed and illustrated, this book constitutes a veritable encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman mythology, including descriptions of notable characters: Jupiter, Juno,...
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Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part"Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man's incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes's marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show...
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Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural AppropriationsTim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical,...
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Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction"Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory. . . . In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist...
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Poësy Matters & Other MattersThis two-volume set, Poesy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poesy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing pieces of commentary by Hennix or her longtime collaborator...
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OutsidePoetry. Translated by Eric Fishman and Hoyt Rogers. For English-speaking readers, the pieces in OUTSIDE expand the access to du Bouchet offered by Openwork, the selection published by Paul Auster and Hoyt Rogers in 2014; deliberately, none of those texts is repeated here. Like...
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Conversations with John BerrymanThe poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological transformations of the twentieth century, and their impact on the psyche and spirit, both individual and collective. He was just as...
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The Yellow Rose: A Novel of the Texas RevolutionHistorically, the term "yellow rose" referred to an attractive mulatto woman. Also historically, the original "Yellow Rose of Texas" was for sure one Emily West, and her story is intertwined in song and legend with the Texas Revolution of 1836. That series of battles,...
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Of ColourLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. OF COLOUR is an experimental essay about color, hybridity, and art-making. It is a memoir of Agyemaa Agard's coming to North America and encountering binaries of black and white within global anti-blackness. It is a manifesto for an experience of...
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Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the LibraryIn most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital...
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