Literary Criticism
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Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of PlaceEcocriticism and Appalachian studies continue to grow and thrive in academia, as they expand on their foundational works to move in new and exciting directions. When researching these areas separately, there is a wealth of information. However, when researching Appalachian ecocriticism specifically, the lack...
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Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your HeadMarvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel...
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Feud in the Icelandic SagaFeud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society-the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict-is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the...
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Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2D Ed.A significant expansion of the critically acclaimed first edition, Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, 2d ed., carries the story of the Kanter family's series of comics-style adaptations of literary masterpieces from 1941 into the 21st century. This book features additional material on the 70-year...
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The Rabbit Between UsOne morning as they parted, Victor Menza's daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder why rabbits had been their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence?" Through philosophy, history,...
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Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent MillayThe first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay's private, intimate diaries, providing "a candid self-portrait of the 'bad girl of American letters'" (Kirkus Reviews) "Provides an occasion to revisit not just [Millay's] improbable life but also her sometimes revelatory work."--Abigail Deutsch, Wall Street Journal...
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The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the StateThe American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop,...
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Ruin and Resilience: Southern Literature and the EnvironmentIn Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth's analysis winds from John Muir's walking journey across the war-torn South,...
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Tragic Encounters: Pushkin and European RomanticismLiterary scholars largely agree that the Romantic period altered the definition of tragedy, but they have confined their analyses to Western European authors. Maksim Hanukai introduces a new, illuminating figure to this narrative, arguing that Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, can be understood as...
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Strange Laughter: Early Penny Bloods and HumourPenny bloods (sometimes called penny dreadfuls), serialised fiction stories sold for a penny or less in England in the period between 1837 and 1850, are currently studied as part of the history of the Gothic, focusing on the Gothic inheritance that can be found...
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Intimate SouvenirsA literary memoir about a writer's coming of age in Gravesend, Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s; working with the homeless mentally ill in the Lower East Side in the 1980s; and expatriation to Paris in the 1990s. Includes a frontispiece illustration by Picasso's...
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Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and BordersIn this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women's comics to explore the representation of Jewish women's bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives. Spanning national, cultural, and artistic borders, the essays shine a...
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The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient ChinaExamines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.Author: Albert GalvanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 380Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438493756About the AuthorAlbert Galvany Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country...
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The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew LiteratureThe Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary...
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Homer: The Very IdeaThe story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions...
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A New History of Classical RhetoricGeorge Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under...
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Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied ParisWinner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Nonfiction Jean Guéhenno's Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter...
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MacPherson the Historian: History Writing, Empire and Enlightenment in the Works of James MacPhersonThis is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his prose histories, and his later political writing, Macpherson's subject was the past and he engaged with the latest Enlightenment...
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A Short History of FantasySome of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel....
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Write Like Hemingway: Find Your Voice, Discover Your Style Using the 10 Rules That Guided a Nobel LaureateAn examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style.Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable fiction. After graduating high school, and before heading...
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