Literary Criticism
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Stevie Smith: Between the LinesIn this first book-length study of Stevie Smith, Romana Huk reassesses the work of this major twentieth-century woman writer as emerging not only from the practices of female literary modernism, but also from within the tumultuous cultural context of mid-century Europe. Amongst the work...
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Sounding BodiesShannon Draucker is Assistant Professor of English at Siena College.Author: Shannon DrauckerPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438498416This title is not returnable
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Selected Amazon ReviewsA book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com. An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who...
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ReSegregation Volume II: The Facts of the Black Oppression And The Problems Facing The White AllyIn the landmark sequel to his groundbreaking work, Antonio T. Smith Jr. lays bare the structural underpinnings of Black oppression and charts a bold course towards racial equity in "ReSegregation Volume II: The Facts of the Black Oppression and The Problems Facing The White...
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Reading Like a WriterLong before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.In "Reading Like a Writer," Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour...
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Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and PrayersThe first English translation of Petrarch's Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the "Father of Humanism."Author: Demetrio S. Yocum, Francesco PetrarcaPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressPublished: 05/15/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44dISBN: 9780268207847About the...
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Opacities: On Writing and the Writing LifeOpacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces,...
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One Hundred Mountains of Japan"The more deeply you go into a long-held tradition, the more secrets and surprises it yields up. Mighty Ontake is like that. The mountain's inexhaustible treasury of riches is like some endless storybook with its pages uncut. As one follows the rambling plot along,...
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Object-Oriented NarratologyThe quick spread of posthumanism and of critiques of anthropomorphism in the past few decades has resulted in greater attention to concrete objects in critical theories and in philosophy. This new materialism or new object philosophy marks a renewal of interest in the existence...
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Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark TwainMainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain is a collection of the most colorful and vivacious interviews that Mark Twain gave to newspapers and reporters throughout his career. A master storyteller and raconteur, Twain understood the value of publicity, and these interviews capture Twain...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume 4, Issue 3Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant writers today as well as launching the voices of tomorrow.In this issue of Liberties:...
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Apprenticeships in NarrativeKim Stanley Robinson remains one of the most progressive writers working today. His novels and short stories have mapped cycles of capitalist violence, economic expansion, and material despoliation, in turn proposing radical visions of social and economic justice through cooperatives, collective agreements, and stewardship...
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J. M. Coetzee's Politics of Life and Late Modernism in the Contemporary NovelSurveying the full breadth of J. M. Coetzee's career as both academic and novelist, this book argues for the necessity of rethinking his profound indebtedness to literary modernism in terms of a politics of life. Isolating a particular strain of late modernism, epitomised by...
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How to Read a PoemAn introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured; those most widely represented include Blake, Byron, cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Alan Dugan, Frost, Louise Gluck, George Herbert, Keats, Pope, Pound, Shakespeare,...
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Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird TalesProviding a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft focuses on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his speculative fiction. Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the...
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Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political WritingsGhassan Kanafani (1936 - 1972) is perhaps the greatest Palestinian novelist whose books, including Men in the Sun and Returning to Haifa, documented the horrors of war and occupation. His life deeply inspired his literature as a political thinker, strategist, and revolutionary. Here, his...
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George Eliot: Whole SoulThe girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem bidding farewell to all books but the Bible. How did a young Christian poet become the great realist novelist whose commitment to religious freethinking made her so iconoclastic that...
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Dostoevsky: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, religion, and philosophy. In this Very Short Introduction, Deborah Martinsen explores Dostoevsky's tumultuous life story: his political imprisonment and narrow escape from...
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Digital Culture in Contemporary FictionWhat does it mean to be human in a world increasingly determined by algorithms? How can fiction articulate identity and subjectivity in the face of technology which seeks to reduce us to raw data? These questions drive a growing body of fiction about our...
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Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of RealityIn a cultural moment when panics over the stories we tell are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions shows us exactly what we're fighting about and why Fictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of...
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