Literary Criticism
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Lovecraft and a World in Transition: Collected Essays on H. P. LovecraftFor the past thirty-five years, S. T. Joshi has been one of the leading authorities on H. P. Lovecraft. As Lovecraft's editor and biographer, Joshi has revolutionized our understanding of the dreamer from Providence. This enormous volume, which contains all the critical essays that...
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Metaphysical Healing2011 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Rare early pamphlet by the creator of the "Infinite Way". This is a guidebook to instruct those seeking inner peace and joy. Goldsmith instructs on how the mind can transcend its apparent limitations and become what it is intended...
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Working it Out: Growing Spiritually with the Poetry of George HerbertWorking it Out: Growing Spiritually with the Poetry of George Herbert is a delightful introduction to fifty of the most beautiful works of this gifted poet. Although Working it Out is written primarily as a devotional, it models a thoughtful method for reading and...
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The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry"In this work of original scholarship, Peter Heslin argues that paintings of the Trojan War, public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected poems by Virgil, Horace, and Propertius; in so doing, he reconstructs a world in which Augustan-era art served as...
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Books: A Living HistoryFrom the first scribbling on papyrus to the emergence of the e-book, this wide-ranging overview of the history of the book provides a fascinating look at one of the most efficient, versatile, and enduring technologies ever developed. The author traces the evolution of the...
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The War PrayerAn unabridged, unaltered edition of Mark Twain's indictment of war. Written in prose, the parable was published some 15 years following the author's death. This edition features poster artwork from the early 20th century -Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Merchant BooksPublished: 05/17/2013Pages: 28Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.08lbsSize:...
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Chesterton: The Nightmare Goodness of GodThe literary giant G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the "Great Optimist"--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those who live...
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The Cross, the Plow and the Skyline: Science Fiction and Fantasy and the Ecological Imagination (Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition)The apocalyptic, pastoral, and urban traditions have fundamentally shaped Western history and influenced American religion, culture, and politics. This book argues that these traditions have not only been decisive in giving form and substance to classic and modern American literature, but have been appropriated...
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The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of StatementIntroducing the Dante Papers Trilogy: Introductory Papers on Dante Further Papers on Dante The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement The Poetry of Search, with which the book opens, puts forward the suggestion that controversy about what kind of thing poetry ought...
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A Life Above WaterA Life Above Water is a cycle of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds and explores the boundaries between the two. The manuscript is concerned with personal ecologies and mythologies the ways that things are interconnected and the stories that we...
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Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and LondonFrom the bestselling author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, coming in March 2017, "a near-perfect essay collection, filled with insight, compassion, and intellect. (NPR)In both his internationally bestselling fiction and his wide-ranging journalism, Mohsin Hamid has earned...
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Letter to JimmyWritten on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou's ode to his literary hero and an effort to place Baldwin's life in context within the greater African diaspora.Author: Alain MabanckouPublisher: CatapultPublished: 12/16/2014Pages: 178Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize:...
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The Death of Picasso: New and Selected WritingWhen Guy Davenport looks at the world, the world changes; sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. And no reader is the same after reading his or her first Davenport essay or story. He is a writer perfectly described by the term singular...
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Cat TownModernist poet Sakutarō Hagiwara's first published book, Howling at the Moon, shattered conventional verse forms and transformed the poetic landscape of Japan. Two of its poems were removed on order of the Ministry of the Interior for "disturbing social customs." Along with the entirety...
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and FutureThe invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway...
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Book of MutterA fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother.Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childhood.--from Book of...
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The Handy Literature Answer Book: An Engaging Guide to Unraveling Symbols, Signs and Meanings in Great WorksGet the most out of reading with this an engaging and fun guide to the deeper meanings in great works of literature From the epic of Gilgamesh to Aristotle and Cicero, and from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to Wuthering Heights, War and...
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Conversations with Audre LordeAudre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of...
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without PrincipleHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and opponent of injustice. Civil Disobedience(1849), composed following Thoreau's imprisonment for refusing to pay...
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Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of GuadalupeGoddess of the Americas is a brilliant essay collection and an impassioned, unorthodox celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe: mother goddess, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who made her first appearance on American soil in 1531. Through a variety of forms...
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