Literary Criticism
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Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, GenresMakiko Minow coined the phrase 'lesbian modernism' in 1989. Since then, scholars of lesbian modernism have produced crucial work to critique and expand the modernist canon. At the same time, there has been ongoing critical debate about what constitutes a lesbian modernist text, who...
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IB English a Language & Literature: The Individual OralThis book is an extensive guide to the IB English A: Language & Literature Individual Oral (IO). It gives IB Diploma students tips, resources, and ideas to help them maximize their marks on the oral. Our guide offers simple, practical ways to plan, organize...
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How Dante Can Save Your LifeThe opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems. Following the death...
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Hell: In Search of a Christian EcologyHell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and more cataclysmic than we can fathom. Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book...
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Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles PortisRobert Cochran's Haunted Man's Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as "the author of classics on the order of...
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Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles PortisRobert Cochran's Haunted Man's Report is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as "the author of classics on the order of...
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HamletHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.'Considered one of Shakespeare's most rich and enduring plays, the depiction of its hero Hamlet as he vows to avenge the murder of his father...
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Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James BibleIn exploring the seminal works of Walt Whitman, the great American poet, many commentators have acknowledged the underlying influence of The King James Bible.However, a study has yet to elucidate the precise manner in which the Bible has shaped Whitman's poetic style.This is the...
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Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the WorldClarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. This book also shows why Lispector is not one writer, as many...
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Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the WorldClarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. This book also shows why Lispector is not one writer, as many...
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Art of the SonnetFew poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante...
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Always Astonished"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his heteronyms--Alberto Caeiro,...
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A History of the African American NovelA History of the African American Novel offers an updated overview of the development of the novel and its major genres.Author: Valerie BabbPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 07/14/2022Pages: 500Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.11dISBN: 9781107646780This title is not returnable
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Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon YearInterweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England. Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the...
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The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places--whether real or imagined--and...
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The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places--whether real or imagined--and...
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The Pocket Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery have had a profound effect on twentieth-century literature. Over a hundred...
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The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary PoetExplores Sylvia Plath's enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963 - Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and Tarot-related references in many of Plath's poems - Based on more than 15 years of...
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, KnowingA passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to...
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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934-1936The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934-June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green Hills of Africa and work on stories including 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber' and 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro.' In more than...
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