Literary Criticism
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Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, MerrillModern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and...
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Ideas of OrderAn approachable and indispensable guide to Shakespeare's sonnets Shakespeare's sonnets are the greatest single work of lyric poetry in English, as passionate and daring as any love poems we may ever encounter, and yet they are often misunderstood. Ideas of Order: A Close Reading...
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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment: The Genius of Every PlaceSeeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift,...
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H.I.T.O.P.S. Healing in Trauma Ownership, Prosperity, & Self-ReflectionIn "H.I.T.O.P.S: Healing in Trauma Ownership & Prosperity," poet E. Mortal invites readers on a transformative journey through the depths of trauma and the soaring heights of healing. With each verse, Wiley delicately weaves together the threads of pain and resilience, offering a profound...
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Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short FictionIn Hemingway's Art of Revision, John Beall analyzes more than a dozen pieces of the author's celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and typescripts, as part of a broader examination of how Ernest Hemingway crafted his distinctive prose through a rigorous process...
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Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of WaterVictorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well...
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Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of WaterVictorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well...
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Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and ComicsGrowing Up in the Gutter offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre's growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Through a careful examination of the genre, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo analyzes the complex identity formation...
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Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide to All the BooksWelcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's guide to the Gilmore Girls universe and all 339 books referenced in the series....
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Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with SpiritsAimé Césaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Césaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between 'spirit, ' 'poetry, '...
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Elizabeth Bishop in ContextThis collection demonstrates the centrality of Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and prose to twentieth-century culture.Author: Angus CleghornPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/02/2023Pages: 498Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781108811378This title is not returnable
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Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and BeyondIn the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and...
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Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State ContainmentIn 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. "Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in...
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Desire, Violence, & Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker PercyIn this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction -- Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy -- expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm...
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Defending Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books: A Handbook for Librarians and EducatorsA Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles such as these out of your collection or limiting their access is not the answer to challenges. While ALA's Office...
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Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic AgeThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural...
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Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore OtherwiseEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Counter-Cartographies draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in contemporary Singapore and in its diasporic communities. From banned documentaries to award-winning graphic novels, flash fiction collections to...
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Conversations with Paul AusterPaul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted scholarly scrutiny from a variety of critical perspectives. The steadily rising arc of his...
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Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy TalesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors. In Buried Treasures, Zipes describes his special passion for...
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British Orientalisms, 1759-1835Illuminates Britons' changing sense of themselves in relation to their Eastern others during an age of empire and revolution.Author: James WattPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781108460101This title is not returnable
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