Literary Criticism
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The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and Emotional TruthIs emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal? The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenized self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is made the primary value of literature, literary texts...
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Studies in European RealismAuthor: Georg LukacsPublisher: Merlin PressPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 286Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9780850362114
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Something about LivingIt's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection Something About Living does just that. Her poems interweave Palestine's historic suffering,...
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Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of StoriesIn "provocative and entertaining essays [that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators" (Library Journal), one of the country's foremost education writers looks at the stories we tell our children. Available now in a revised edition, including a new essay on the importance...
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Shakespeare's Rhetorical Figures: An OutlineWhen Shakespeare began writing for the stage, he had already mastered over two hundred rhetorical figures inherited from the long tradition of the language arts-grammar, logic, and rhetoric-stretching from Aristotle to his own time. These figures, which to us may appear merely decorative, were...
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Seen or Unseen: What Is Your Choice?The chapters in the book were meticulously chosen by the author. These are national occurrences combined with personal experiences. I had the impression that all adults at some point in their lives have witnessed something whether good or bad but decided not to intervene....
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade HistoryDuring the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles,...
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Regards Sur Les Archives d'Écrivains Francophones Au CanadaInt grer les archives d'un crivain - ses carnets, son journal personnel, sa correspondance, les avant-textes de ses oeuvres publi es, voire ses notes de lecture - dans l'analyse de son oeuvre canonique permet, on le sait, d' clairer celle-ci autrement, d'en d gager...
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Red Planets: Marxism and Science FictionScience fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship. Many sf novelists and filmmakers are leftists. Others examine explicit or implicit Marxist concerns. As a genre, sf is ideally suited to critiquing the present through its explorations of the social and political possibilities...
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Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual PracticeWhat if we viewed reading as not just a personal hobby or a pleasurable indulgence but a spiritual practice that deepens our faith? In Reading for the Love of God, award-winning author Jessica Hooten Wilson does just that--and then shows listeners how to reap...
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RavanaleelaHugh Allen narrates his adventures in spare, taut and thrilling prose which brings the jungle-and the hunt-to pulsating life. And while The Lonely Tiger is one of the best shikar books to have been ever written, it is also one of the earliest appeals...
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Qu Est Ce Que La PhiloAuthor: Pierre HadotPublisher: Gallimard EducationPublished: 11/01/1995Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.20w x 1.10dISBN: 9782070327607Language: FrenchThis title is only available via back order
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Pregnancy in the Victorian NovelIn Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel--the first book-length study of the topic--Livia Arndal Woods traces the connections between literary treatments of pregnancy and the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth occurring over the long nineteenth century. Woods uses the problem of pregnancy in the Victorian...
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Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans WakePhilosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but it is his final novel which most...
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Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old EnglishDrawing on a wide range of Old English literary and religious texts, Nothing Pure explores the cultural translation of Jewish law in pre-Conquest England.Author: Mo ParelesPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 02/18/2024Pages: 272Binding Type: HardcoverSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781487550677
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No Judgment: EssaysFrom the celebrated national bestselling novelist and critic, a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the state of cultural criticism and what meaning art has in our ever-challenging world.Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation,...
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Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial FranceFor the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the...
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Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial FranceFor the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the...
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Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical DebatesNarrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates addresses two frequently asked questions about narrative studies: "what is narrative theory?" and "how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?" In engaging with these questions, the book demonstrates the diversity and vitality of the...
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden CityTravel with an Intrepid Explorer into the Heart of TibetMy Journey to Lhasa is a riveting account of one woman's determination to achieve her goal in the face of numerous formidable obstacles. Written in 1927 by Alexandra David-Neel, a French-Belgian explorer and spiritualist, the...
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