Literary Criticism
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Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George OrwellA spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four was a man of...
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War and the Works of J.R.R. TolkienJ.R.R. Tolkien, one of the world's most beloved authors, was a World War I signaling officer who survived the Battle of the Somme, and two of his sons served during World War II.Such experiences and events led Tolkien to a complex attitude toward war...
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The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literature"In the best tradition of literary criticism... combines exact information with shrewd and searching penetration into the personal life of the artist."-The New York Times Where does artistic genius come from? Originally published in 1941, this classic work of literary critique by Edmund Wilson...
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The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short NonfictionA delightful, inspiring, and idea-rich selection of fifty-two of the best, most important short nonfiction works of all time--from Plato to Michael Pollan and Dante to Joan Didion--chosen by historian, lifelong reader, and bestselling author of Don't Know Much About History. From ancient times...
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The Silent CrossingA haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on materials from across many cultures, Pascal Quignard makes an effort to establish shared human values as the breeding...
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The Resilient Apocalypse: Narrating the End from Early Spanish Visualizations to Twenty-First Century Latin American ArticulationsPortraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, frightful images of chaos and death are inclusive and interrelated, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality ("never seen or experienced before," "the mother of...
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The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of FreedomNow in paperback, Pulitzer-winning novelist Jane Smiley's first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005's best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel."Smiley gives educators, readers, and writers much to discuss. Highly recommended." --Library Journal, starred review"Line for line, Smiley delivers such clear, vibrant, precise...
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The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American CultureThe Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture questions bordering as an organizing principle of culture, conflict, and politics. Shannon Dowd argues that Central and South American border conflicts such as the Chaco War, between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935); the Soccer...
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The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and ReadersIn The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers, Robert Paul Lamb delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to...
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The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third ReichExamines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust. The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands...
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The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press: Volumes 1-3At various points over the last 400 years, key political, economic and social processes, have worked to hinder or promote the expansion and dissemination of information across Britain and Ireland via newspapers and periodicals. In a contemporary era characterized by debate on the limits...
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The Darkest TimelineLike Black Mirror on steroids, The Darkest Timeline issues 9 vignettes of doom in the form of theoretical essays that outline not the likelihood, but the certainty of our demise as a species. Taking into account an array of apocalyptic modalities, Bram E. Gieben...
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short StoryThis Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as...
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The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, GrahamStyle is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds...
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St Erkenwald: A Critical EditionAn ancient tomb is discovered deep in the foundations of St Paul's. It is decorated with a mysterious inscription in letters of gold. The body within is unblemished, dressed as a judge and with a crown and sceptre. Obviously an important person, but unidentified....
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The New Arcadia, Second Revised EditionModern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary...
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Selected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAuthor: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Large Print PressPublished: 12/01/2009Pages: 681Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50dISBN: 9781410421760This title is only available via back order
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Seedtime: Notebooks, 1954-79The first volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters. Seedtime--Jaccottet's notebooks--is an especially good introduction to this leading francophone Swiss author, containing the poet's observations of the natural world and his reflections on literature, art,...
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Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and PsychoanalysisSecret Sharers traces a genealogy of secret sharing between literary modernism and psychoanalysis, focusing on the productive entanglements and intense competitive rivalries that helped shape Anglo-American modernism as a field. As Jennifer Spitzer reveals, such rivalries played out in explicit criticism, inventive misreadings, and...
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Rethinking George MacDonald: Contexts and ContemporariesGeorge MacDonald (1824-1905) is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: however, his place in his own time is seldom examined. This omission does MacDonald a grave disservice. By ignoring a fundamental aspect of...
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