Literary Criticism
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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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Cú Chulainn's Death: A Critical Edition of Brislech Mór Maige MurthemniThe death tale of the early medieval Irish warrior hero C? Chulainn features a taut narrative interwoven with stunningly complex poetry. This revised critical edition with introduction, text, translation, textual notes, and glossary provides linguistic, literary, and metrical analyses of the tale, as well...
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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIPostwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into...
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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIPostwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into...
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Bad Feminist [Tenth Anniversary Edition]: EssaysNew York Times BestsellerFrom Roxane Gay comes this collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation--now available in a limited Olive Edition."Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color...
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A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Well-BeingHow to build a true library for happiness - recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment There are about 130 million books in the world - and they are being added to at a rate...
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Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short StoryIn Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton...
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Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary AestheticsPick up a work of typical literary criticism and you know what to expect: prose that is dry, pedantic, well-meaning but tedious--slow-going and essentially humorless. But why should that be so? Why can't more literary criticism have a political edge and be engaging and...
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A Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers: The famous, the forgotten, the forlornA compendious illustrated guide to those industrious but often overlooked women writers of the Victorian era: the famous, the forgotten and the forlorn. More than 1,500 women authors, along with over 400 pseudonyms, 400 quotes and extracts, and a further 40 subject entries and...
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A Most Mysterious Union: The Role of Alchemy in Goethe's FaustReaders today are especially thrilled by the prospect of good news. Drought and global warming, civil war and famine, poverty and economic inequity--yes, bad news abounds. This book by Dr. Stephen Wilkerson, on the other hand, is about hope and optimism for the future....
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You'll Never Get No for an AnswerJack Carew, one of the most dynamic and innovative sales training consultants in America today, offers his ten unique strategies of Positional Selling for sales-people in every area. Whether you're selling ideas, products, or even yourself, you'll benefit from the precise, standard-setting methods shared...
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