Literary Criticism
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Nobre Alcorao: PortuguesePortuguese: Nobre Alcorao, Koran, Quran - Portuguese translation With Arabic Nobre Alcorao]. O Alcor o a maior d diva de Deus humanidade e a sua sabedoria de uma esp cie nica, exposto, em termos breves, o prop sito do Livro consiste em ser o...
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Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday LifeMari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud's idea of penis envy, Ruti's autotheoretical commentary fans out to a broader consideration of...
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Mysteries of Dune: Sufism, Psychedelics, and the Prediction of Frank HerbertThe need for this study has never been greater. More than 50 years since its appearance, Dune is only increasing in relevance, as the rise of ISIS in the Middle East has recently shown. Now Mahmoud Shelton examines a world of psychic confusion in...
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First CenturyIn Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race across centuries, continents, and cultures. While Ryan Coogler and Janelle Monáe may have helped bring...
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There Must Be Happy Endings: On a Theater of Optimism & HonestyLiterary Nonfiction. Drama. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Performance Studies. Women's Studies. Is it possible--is it even ethical?--to make hopeful art in an unjust and chaotic world? In the tradition of artist-essayists such as James Baldwin, Anne Lamott, and...
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Study Guide to Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, an immediate popular success when it was published as Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in 1726. As a novel of eighteenth century Britain, Gulliver's Travels...
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Study Guide to Faust by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, the poetic drama that establishes Goethe as a renowned Romantic author. As a play written in poetic verse of the Romantic era, Faust is a universally meaningful...
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Study Guide to The Virginian by Owen WisterA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Owen Wister's The Virginian, considered by many to be the first fictional western written. As a fictionalized historical account of post-Civil War Western America, The Virginian gives readers a social picture of...
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Study Guide to Zorba the Greek by Nikos KazantzakisA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek, the internationally acclaimed novel of opposing forces. As a tale of Greek's Great Famine during WWII, Zorba the Greek gives a fresh perspective on the duality between...
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Study Guide to David Copperfield by Charles DickensA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel of the main character. As an 1800s English work, David Copperfield shows how power leads to corruption, a still-relevant theme today. Moreover, the novel draws...
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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in ReviewNow available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of...
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The She Said Dialogues: Flesh MemoryIn her original author's note to the 1999 edition, Akilah Oliver writes,"What I am trying to do in these poems is investigate the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language." the she...
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Theory for Beginners: Children's Literature as Critical ThoughtSince its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children's literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in children's classics, especially Lewis Carroll's Alice books, and has also developed a literature for beginners that resembles children's literature...
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The World of Bob DylanBob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact. Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and topics central to Dylan's...
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Get Even: The Complete Book of Dirty TricksA hilarious overview of the methods people use to get even with big business, government and enemies. These dirty tricks range from the simple to the elaborate, including more sophisticated schemes devised by CIA and Mafia members and political dirty tricksters. FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES...
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Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. SayersKnown for her bestselling detective novels, Dorothy L. Sayers lived a fascinating, groundbreaking life as a novelist, feminist, Oxford scholar, and important influence on the spiritual life of C.S. Lewis. This pioneering woman not only forged a literary career for herself but also spoke...
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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance EducationA lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully How to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thought--one that demonstrates what we've lost...
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The Neglected C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Riches of His Most Overlooked BooksReaders who can quote word for word from C.S. Lewis's theological classic, Mere Christianity, or his science fiction novel, Perelandra, have often never read his work as a professional literary historian. They may not even recognize some of the neglected works discussed, here. Mark...
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Printing Virgil: The Transformation of the Classics in the RenaissanceIn this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, transforming his work into poetry that was both classical and postclassical.Author: KallendorfPublisher: BrillPublished: 12/05/2019Pages: 204Binding Type:...
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Eighteen YearsAuthored by Madisen Kuhn // Illustrated by Laura SupnikEighteen Years is a collection of 220+ poems. Madisen Kuhn, popularly known as m.k., writes honestly and personally about the thoughts and feelings that come with finding your way. Eighteen Years is here to tell you...
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