Literary Criticism
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Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance"One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language-and African culture itselfAuthor: Ngugi Wa Thiong'oPublisher: Civitas Book PublisherPublished: 02/24/2009Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60dISBN: 9780465009466Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 01/26/2009 pg. 110Booklist...
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry [With Access Code]This highly anticipated new edition features NEW poets, NEW poems, and innovative digital resources. The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of Poetry is an even better teaching tool for instructors and remains an unmatched value for students.Author: Margaret Ferguson, Tim Kendall, Mary Jo...
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The Ferrari in the Bedroom"[Jean] Shepherd is that very rare breed, a homespun humorist cut from the same Midwestern cloth as Mark Twain and George Ade."--Saturday Review Jean Shepherd was one of America's favorite humorists, his most notable achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and...
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Chekhov: The Essential Plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & the Cherry OrchardBecause Chekhov s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by...
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Dark StarParis, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. Andr Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret...
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Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien SpeciesDiscover who's who and what's what in the Star Wars universe with this beautifully illustrated guide-now in full color for the first time.When it comes to extraterrestrial life-forms, there's more to science fiction's most famous galaxy than just Jawas, Wookiees, Ewoks, and Hutts. From...
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaThe story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu's remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. In the...
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Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DCThe first in-depth, behind-the-scenes book treatment of the rivalry between the two comic book giants. THEY ARE THE TWO TITANS OF THE COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY--the Coke and Pepsi of superheroes--and for more than 50 years, Marvel and DC have been locked in an epic...
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Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance"This readable and informative account . . . raises issues about the political and social intent of all children's literature. Essential." --ChoiceDuring the New Negro Renaissance, African American children's literature became a crucial medium through which a disparate community forged bonds of cultural, economic,...
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Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel TextThis book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two or more stories in...
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A Handbook to LiteratureThe definitive reference on literature in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. The Web site ( www.prenhall.com/harmon) offers a handy glossary of key terms, a...
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The Gothic: A Very Short IntroductionThe Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. This Very Short Introduction...
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Science FictionFrankenstein, The Time Machine, Star Trek, Dune, 1984, Blade Runner--science fiction has been explained as a combination of romance, science, and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature....
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The Jungle BooksThe Jungle Books, regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children and best known for the "Mowgli" series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. The stories, a...
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaFor over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances,...
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Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World WarWinner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War....
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Travels in HyperRealityEco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated by William Weaver. A...
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920-1924The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier...
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The Portable Walt WhitmanA comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full...
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The Penguin Book of Russian PoetryAn enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering...
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