Literary Criticism
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Teaching a Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, and Macbeth: Shakespeare Set FreeThe Folger Shakespeare Library, the nation's most important center for Shakespeare study and scholarship, is also the center for Shakespeare education. At the Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute, scholars, actors, and teachers from across the country work together at the business of teaching and learning...
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Stephen King's the Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume IIThe Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba A Concordance, Volume II is the definitive guide to the many worlds, argots, characters, and cross-references-- within Stephen King's bestselling epic Dark Tower series and among the rest of...
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The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywoman"The first accessible book about menstruation as a human reality . . . entirely praiseworthy."--The Sunday TimesThis is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is...
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The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory CorsoThirteen interviews with Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001) that span the most productive years of his career: from 1955, when his first collection of poems was published, to 1982, the year following the publication of his last book of all new poetry. Foreword...
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Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science FictionExplaining the science behind science fiction and fantasy--from the probable to the impossible From space elevators to interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brilliant, innovative ideas. Yet how plausible are these ideas--for instance, could Mr. Weasley's flying car...
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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque EclogueThe first critical edition of a poem that named an era When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cultural moment that it...
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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming.Author: Joseph FrankPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 01/21/1987Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.27h x 6.15w x 0.93dISBN: 9780691014227Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865The book description for the previously published "Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865" is not yet available.Author: Joseph FrankPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 11/21/1988Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.14w x 0.92dISBN: 9780691014524
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and...
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A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIVA new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult. First published in 1925, and then substantially revised by the author in 1937,...
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Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. PhaedoPlato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family circa 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded...
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Ajax. Electra. Oedipus TyrannusSophocles (497/6-406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic...
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Historia AugustaThe Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna between the lives of the Gordians...
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Historia AugustaThe Scriptores Historiae Augustae, or Historia Augusta, is a collection of biographies of Roman emperors, heirs, and claimants from Hadrian to Numerianus (117-284 CE). The work, which is modeled on Suetonius, purports to be written by six different authors and quotes documents and public...
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The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative WritingIn The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the...
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Tamil: A BiographySpoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents...
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Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and ModernityWhat are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading The Lord of the Rings? Newly reissued with a new afterword, Patrick Curry's Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that Tolkien has found a way to provide something close to spirit in...
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Ten Poems to Change Your LifeGreat poetry calls into question everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace. Through...
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EnjoyCharacters: 6 male, 4 female Minimal Set From acclaimed Japanese director/playwright Toshiki Okada, Artistic Director of the internationally-lauded chelfitsch Theatre Company, comes a chronicle of post-college ennui and 21st Century relationships in Japan's Lost Generation. The static lives of several self-obsessed GenX comic book...
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The Cambridge Companion to Arvo PärtArvo P rt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called 'tintinnabuli' (Latin for 'sounding bells'), which has had an extraordinary degree of success. It is frequently performed around the world,...
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