Literary Criticism
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Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark TimesWang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on...
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On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of LifeTen brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live successfully?How do we live fully?Identifying the meaning of life and where we are heading preoccupies all of us at some stage...
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Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval ScandinaviaThe medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of thisfascinating world in...
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Love Three: A Study of a Poem by George HerbertLove Three is a study of a seventeenth-century devotional poem by George Herbert; an essay on eroticizing power; and a memory palace of sexual experiences, fantasies, preferences, and limits--with Herbert's poem as the key. It is unlike anything you have ever read--a deep, attentive...
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La Peau de ChagrinLa peau de chagrin / par M. H. de BalzacDate de l'édition originale: 1839Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF.HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de...
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Kingdoms in Peril, Volume 1: The Curse of the Bao LordsTranslated in full for the first time, this first volume immerses readers in the power and drama of the electrifying classic Chinese novel. Deep inside the Zhou royal palace, an ancient curse is released, and darkness spreads across the land. An incompetent king's mad...
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James Bond After FlemingAuthor: Mark EdlitzPublisher: Mark EdlitzPublished: 12/18/2023Pages: 506Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.91lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.02dISBN: 9781735461632This title is not returnable
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It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a WriterIn his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about the father he adored.From Westminster School he won a scholarship to Cambridge University where he...
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International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of OssianJames Macpherson's "Poems of Ossian", first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age. Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as "forgeries", nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admiration from figures as diverse...
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Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action WritingFire and Ink is a powerful and impassioned anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues of our day. Designed to inspire and inform, this collection embodies the concepts of "breaking silence," "bearing witness," resistance, and...
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Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual HistoryThis book is the first critical interdisciplinary examination in English of Italian women's contributions to intellectual, artistic, and cultural production in modern Italy. Examining commonalities and diversities from the country's Unification to today, the volume provides insight into the challenges that Italian women engaged...
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Enduring Postwar: Yasuoka Shotaro and Literary Memory in JapanYasuoka Shotaro (1920-2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Showa period (1926-89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as well as monumental histories that connected his own life to those of his ancestors....
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Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of EnergyEnergy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, "Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society." Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the plausibility (or implausibility) of...
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Book Review Journal: Keep Track, Log & Record Read Reviews, Bonus Flash Writing Pages, Reading Favorite Books, Notes, Book Lovers Club, GifThis Book Review Journal will be a perfect way to keep track of your favorite TBR list & book reviews. There's nothing quite like journaling by hand The interior includes space to write: Title Author Nationality Genre Year/ Date Number Of Pages Memorable Quotes...
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BicycleObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle promises to transform our lives...
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Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life"For those puzzled by Northern Ireland, Belfast Diary offers a well-written, sympathetic and clear-eyed view" of life during the Troubles (New York Times Book Review) In the late 1960s, the ongoing conflict between the Protestant unionists and Catholic nationalists of Northern Ireland--divided by their...
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Back to the Blanket, Volume 70: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian StudiesFor thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven resistant--and sometimes...
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100 Selected Poems: Emily DickinsonOne of the most striking American lyric poet, Emily Dickinson came to be known only after she passed away. This collectable edition brings together her finest poems including ' Heart! We will forget him!' (47), ' Success is counted sweetest' (67), ' " Hope"...
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Writing Through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and WorkWriting through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century--not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton...
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WatchfiresLiterary Nonfiction. Fiction. Hilary Plum's WATCHFIRES is an intimate account of public and private life during the long years of the war on terror. This remarkable essay begins in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and illuminates the relationships among cancer, autoimmune disease,...
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