Literary Criticism
-
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of consciousness itself...
- ¥6,472 JPY
- ¥6,472 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Sadeian WomanSexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where...
- ¥4,536 JPY
- ¥4,536 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur's BritainA highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs", it is the...
- ¥48,129 JPY
- ¥48,129 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Nelson Rodrigues: Selected Plays: Wedding Dress; Waltz No. 6; All Nudity Will Punished; Forgive Me for Your Betrayal; Family Portraits; Black Angel; SNelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 - December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of...
- ¥9,104 JPY
- ¥9,104 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Ágóta Kristóf: Collected Plays: John and Joe; The Lift Key; A Passing Rat; The Grey Hour or the Last Client; The Monster; The Road; The Epidemic; TheAvailable for the first time in English, this volume is a collection of all nine plays Kristóf wrote; five full length plays and four shorter plays: John and Joe, The Lift Key, A Passing Rat, The Grey Hour or the Last Client, The Monster,...
- ¥9,104 JPY
- ¥9,104 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard'A master class for modern beginners and old hands alike.' -- The Times (London) Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth...
- ¥3,149 JPY
- ¥3,149 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Collected Essays of Virginia WoolfA collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay, The Death Of The Moth Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car, Three Pictures, Old Mrs. Grey, Street Haunting: A...
- ¥6,925 JPY
- ¥6,925 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan ZwickyArcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky's poems, one may perceive the attunement of her...
- ¥4,617 JPY
- ¥4,617 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Sonnets: Shakespeare's SonnetsThe Sonnets by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's sonnets are poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto...
- ¥2,113 JPY
- ¥2,113 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich meanings. To what extent is...
- ¥8,496 JPY
- ¥8,496 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Collected PoemsVachel Lindsay, in full Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, (born Nov. 10, 1879, Springfield, Ill., U.S.--died Dec. 5, 1931, Springfield), American poet who--in an attempt to revive poetry as an oral art form of the common people--wrote and read to audiences compositions with powerful rhythms that...
- ¥5,371 JPY
- ¥5,371 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's NovelA Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Fernando Pessoa, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leslie Scalapino, Jack...
- ¥7,282 JPY
- ¥7,282 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Reconstructing Mabel: A Taos MemoirHigh in the mountains of New Mexico, Taos has long been a magnet for artists. When writer Valmai Howe Elkins, escaping brutal east coast winters, buys a tiny house without even seeing inside, lured by the way the light shimmers between the branches of...
- ¥5,094 JPY
- ¥5,094 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled TimeReading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending...
- ¥4,808 JPY
- ¥4,808 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
How to Write a Children's Book and Get It PublishedYour one-stop guide to writing and selling books for children Get the tools you need to: * Develop story ideas that work* Strengthen your writing skills* Improve your work habits* Write for different age groups* Look at your work critically* Submit proposals and manuscripts*...
- ¥7,041 JPY
- ¥7,041 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move,...
- ¥7,282 JPY
- ¥7,282 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Danger Mouse's the Grey AlbumThis book marks the tenth anniversary of The Grey Album. The online release and circulation of what Danger Mouse called his 'art project' was an unexpected watershed in the turn-of-the-century brawls over digital creative practice. The album's suppression inspired widespread digital civil disobedience and...
- ¥4,241 JPY
- ¥4,241 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
50 Books for Life: A Concise Guide to Catholic LiteratureWith fifty chapters on fifty books by fifty different authors, 50 Books for Life is a new book that reveals the riches of older ones, providing an accessible introduction to Catholic novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction from every corner of the globe. It is...
- ¥6,547 JPY
- ¥6,547 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Virginia Woolf: NotecardsThe work of modernist icon Virginia Woolf stands as a pillar of literature and feminist discourse. This quote collection draws from all aspects of her life: letters to her loved ones, lectures, criticism, and, of course, her celebrated novels. Stylish envelopes inspired by both...
- ¥4,525 JPY
- ¥4,525 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Lovecraft Annual No. 12 (2018)Table of ContentsThe Melancholia of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann" James Goho Feminine Powerlessness and Deference in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer Ravening for Delight: Unusual Descriptions in Lovecraft Duncan Norris Where Lovecraft Lost His Telescope: His Kingston...
- ¥4,864 JPY
- ¥4,864 JPY
- Unit price
- per