Literary Criticism
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Henry VI, Part 3The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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HeroidesIn the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or...
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The Complete PlaysThe complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine,...
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark"Delightful." --Mary Norris, The New YorkerA page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world's most polarizing punctuation markThe semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut, and Orwell detest it. Herman Melville, Henry James, and Rebecca Solnit love it. But why? When is it...
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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through PhilosophyThe beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he's learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne."The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover...
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El Gran Divorcio: Un SuenoEn El Gran Divorcio, en un sueño, C. S. Lewis se sube a un autobús una tarde lloviznosa y se embarca en un increíble viaje por el Cielo y el Infierno. Este es el punto de partida para la profunda meditación sobre el bien...
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Modern American Memoirs"[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."-- Booklist"Packed with superb writing." -- New York NewsdayModern American Memoirs is a sampling from 35 quintessential 20th century memoirs,...
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Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian LiteratureIn nineteenth-century Britain, the word queer was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms of financial association and trust. Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature centers this forgotten facet of queer by recovering an alternative economic narrative of the Victorian...
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Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability HistoryRichard III will always be central to English disability history as both man and myth--a disabled medieval king made into a monster by his nation's most important artist.In Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity, Jeffrey Wilson tracks disability over 500 years, from...
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Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial AmericaNew England's Puritans were devoted to self-scrutiny. Consumed by the pursuit of pure hearts, they latched on to sincerity as both an ideal and a social process. It fueled examinations of inner lives, governed behavior, and provided a standard against which both could be...
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Guide to the LakesWilliam Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today, such as how the growing number of visitors, and the money they might...
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Folk Tales and Legends for Kids.: 24 Beautiful Bed Time Stories.Are you seeking for a children's book that is both fun and educational, as well as full of folk stories and legends? This children's book has everything!This is a fantastic book for new and early readers. Each story is simple to read and pleasant,...
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Reading Log Journal For AdultsThis logbook is a great organisational tool for readers. It helps with future purchases, especially online, and helps to avoid you buying a book only to discover pages in that you've read it before. Save time, frustration, and money by noting the books you...
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Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban ArchipelagoHowcontemporary Cuban writers build transnational communities In Writing Islands, ElenaLahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyze works ofcontemporary Cuban writers on the island alongside those in exile. Offering anew lens to explore the multiplicity of Cuban space and identity, she arguesthat these writers...
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The Encounter: A Handbook of Poetic PracticeWhere does poetry come from? THE ENCOUNTER: A HANDBOOK OF POETIC PRACTICE addresses this question by offering personal essays by thirty different contemporary poets who reflect upon an encounter that has been formative in their own life. In evaluating their own experience, the poets...
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Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her MasterworksKathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical art--resulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile...
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When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre: Three Tragedies and Six EssaysCreators, Innovators, and Theatremakers: Defy the Smallness of the StageWith the Greatness of Your DaringWong's first book upended tragic literary theory by arguing that risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. It also launched an international playwriting competition (risktheatre.com). His second book expands...
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Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the AnthropoceneLabor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound...
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Canis Modernis: Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist LiteratureModernist literature might well be accused of going to the dogs. From the strays wandering the streets of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses to the highbred canine subject of Virginia Woolf's Flush, dogs populate a range of modernist texts. In many ways, the dog...
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"An Ancient Psalm, a Modern Song": Italian Translations of Hebrew Literature in the Early Modern PeriodThis volume presents dozens of classical Hebrew texts translated into literary Italian. It is the first study of an almost ignored corpus, showing the degree of cultural and linguistic integration of the Jews of Italy long before the German Haskala.Author: Alessandro GuettaPublisher: BrillPublished: 07/21/2022Pages:...
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