Literary Criticism
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Poetics and Polemics: Reading Seventeenth-Century Irish Political VersePoetics and Polemics is about the polemical presentation of Irish history in five ballad-style poems in Irish in the period c. 1630-1660. The five poems in question have achieved an iconic status as the ''voice'' of the Gaelic Irish in the turbulent mid-century. The...
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Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American LiteraturesIn her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through--and travel across--the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars...
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Collections XVIII: Two Plays from 'The Decameron'Of all the tales to be found in Boccaccio's Decameron, the tragic story of King Tancred's efforts to frustrate the love of his daughter Gismond for Guiscardo, was probably the best known and most popular in Renaissance England. This Collections volume brings together the...
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Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and DefenseFrom award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human condition Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even...
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Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman ParryFrom the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In...
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So You Want to Be a NovelistWhat does it mean to be a novelist in the 21st century? How do you write a novel? What do you do with it once it's finished? And how do you get a career as a novelist off the ground? Most honest novelists will...
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Complete PoemsKarin Boye is Sweden's greatest woman poet. Born in 1900, she was a poet of ideas, and wrote a powerful prophetic novel, Kallocain. Her involvement in the radical literary and artistic movement Clart during the 1920s led to her interest in psychoanalysis, which influenced...
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Study Guide to The Stranger and Other Works by Albert CamusA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Titles in this study guide include The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, The State of Siege,...
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Study Guide to The Major Poetry of Emily DickinsonA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Emily Dickinson, famous American poet. Titles in this study guide include Safe In Their Alabaster Chambers, A Bird Came Down The Walk, 'Twas Like A Maelstrom, With A Notch,...
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Study Guide to the Major Works by Edgar Allan PoeA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Edgar Allen Poe, a key figure in Romanticism. Titles in this study guide include The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado. As...
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A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's PetersburgAndrei Bely's 1913 masterwork Petersburg is widely regarded as the most important Russian novel of the twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov ranked it with James Joyce's Ulysses, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Few artistic works created before the First...
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Wild Belief: Poets and Prophets in the Wilderness""Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark."" Dante's Inferno begins with imagery of the wilderness marked by darkness, fear, and the unknown. In folktales, legends, and children's stories, the wilderness is a place of conflict and...
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Only Dead on the Inside: A Parent's Guide to Surviving the Zombie ApocalypseIt's not easy being a parent these days. There are bills to pay. Kids to feed. And hordes of undead monsters to keep at bay. There are plenty of guides out there about how to survive the zombie apocalypse. All of them assume readers...
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Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part"Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man's incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes's marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show...
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Finding God in the Lord of the RingsThe bestselling book now revised and updated with new content!Hailed as the most popular and best-loved series of the twentieth century, The Lord of the Rings trilogy is more than a great story; it's a reflection of life's epic quest for all of us....
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Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic ImaginariesSenegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, it depicts how they make sense of who they are-and how they fit into their communities, countries,...
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The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick DouglassIn The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had "elaborated a political philosophy" from his own "slave experience." Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide...
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Colonial Legacies in Chicana/O Literature and Culture: Looking Through the KaleidoscopeColonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture exposes the ways in which colonialism is expressed in the literary and cultural production of the U.S. Southwest, a region that has experienced at least two distinct colonial periods since the sixteenth century. Vanessa Fonseca-Ch vez traces...
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Study Guide to Silas Marner and Middlemarch by George EliotA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Eliot, who developed the method of psychological analysis in modern fiction. Titles in this study guide include Silas Marner and Middlemarch. As a revolutionary voice of literary realism...
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Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan GuilbaultDeath opens the gates to resurrection. The pathways to faith are diverse, but all carry components of death and renewal. In Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault, Charles Taylor takes readers through a handful of books that played a crucial role in shaping...
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