Literary Criticism
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Ere Du VideAuthor: Gill LipovetskyPublisher: Gallimard EducationPublished: 04/01/1989Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9782070325139Language: FrenchThis title is only available via back order
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The Silver Age of ComicsWILLIAM SCHOELL is the author of many books on pop culture, film and the performing arts, as well as biographies. His film and pop culture books include Comic Book Heroes of the Screen; The Nightmare Never Ends: The Official History of Freddy Kruger and...
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Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture. For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic...
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Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American FictionA classic study of the art of translation from one of our greatest translators.Author: Suzanne Jill LevinePublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 10/01/2009Pages: 196Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.32w x 0.67dISBN: 9781564785633About the AuthorLevine, Suzanne Jill: - Having translated Manuel Puig, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy...
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Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the RoseEssays on teaching love, ethics, and medieval allegory.One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a window into the world view of the late Middle Ages in Europe, including notions of moral philosophy and courtly love....
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George Orwell and RussiaFor those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp - Russian Features Editor at the BBC World Service for over...
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Pindar's >First Pythian OdeThis is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar's First Pythian Ode. Composed for Hieron of Syracuse to mark his Delphic chariot victory of 470 BC and his recent foundation of the city of Aetna, the poem is not only a...
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Yiddish Transformed: Reading Habits in the Russian Empire, 1860-1914As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began to gain recognition as a central part of the Jewish cultural stage. Yiddish Transformed examines the secular...
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Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish PoetryConsiders how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global identity.Author: Shirley Lau WongPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 246Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438493824About the...
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official BiographyWINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION 'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman 'Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . . . it is wonderful...
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Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us TogetherA national bestseller, Our Book of Awesome is a celebration of the small joys that bring us together. In a world that is often overwhelming, it's time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around us...if only we take a moment...
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Shakespeare, Malone and the Problems of ChronologyAuthor: Tiffany SternPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/29/2023Pages: 75Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.23dISBN: 9781009224727This title is not returnable
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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American CultureOne Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves "The Sisterhood," the group--which also came to include...
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El Negro the Chosen One: Son of King SolomonThe Royal House of King David and the tribe of Judah were enslaved by the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II, after the destruction of the First Temple built by King Solomon of Jerusalem, son of King David of Jerusalem. King Alfonso of Spain in...
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Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, EmotionShakespeare's Schoolroom places moments of considerable emotional power in Shakespeare's poetry--portraits of what his contemporaries called "the passions"--alongside the discursive and material practices of sixteenth-century English pedagogy. Humanist training in Latin grammar and rhetorical facility was designed to intervene in social reproduction, to sort...
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Song of Myself: The First and Final Editions of the Great American PoemThis book compiles both the first (1855) and final revised (1892) versions of Walt Whitman's masterpiece, "Song of Myself" in one volume, making it unique and valuable for students of American literature.Author: American Renaissance Books, Walt WhitmanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/04/2013Pages: 134Binding Type:...
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Evangelical Agnosticism-Do you practice a religious faith that you were raised in, but deep down inside it just doesn't feel right to you?Then this book is for you!-Are you struggling with your sexuality especially when dealing with the conflict of your faith and true self?Then...
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The Irish Revival: A Complex VisionThe Irish Revival has inspired a richly diverse and illuminating body of scholarship that has enlarged our understanding of the movement and its influence. The general tenor of recent scholarly work has involved an emphasis on inclusion and addition, exploring previously neglected texts, authors,...
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The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British CultureThe Enthusiast tells the story of a character type that was developed in early modern Britain to discredit radical prophets during an era that witnessed the dismantling of the Church of England's traditional means for punishing heresy. As William Cook Miller shows, the caricature...
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Ovid's Tragic Heroines: Gender Abjection and Generic Code-SwitchingOvid's Tragic Heroines expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two Attic tragic...
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