Literary Criticism
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Seeing Mad: Essays on Mad Magazine's Humor and Legacy"Seeing Mad" is an illustrated volume of scholarly essays about the popular and influential humor magazine Mad, with topics ranging across its 65-year history--up to last summer's downsizing announcement that Mad will publish less new material and will be sold only in comic book...
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Enid Blyton: A Literary LifeThis book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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Graphic Witness: Five Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri, Erich Glas and Laurence HydeIf you care about graphic novels, you need this book. -- New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by five great twentieth century woodcut artists from Europe and North America. The stories they tell reflect the political and...
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Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval MediterraneanThe story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters. In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learning--classical Arabic and medieval Latin--as they crossed the Mediterranean....
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American Poetry: A Very Short IntroductionA leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminating examples, Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the...
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From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American CultureKoritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on...
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Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy AckerIt's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a...
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The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil WarWith this "rich, complex, and eloquent" (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author through his most cherished--and contested--novels. Given the undeniable echoes of "Lost Cause" romanticism in William Faulkner's fiction, as well as his depiction...
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How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and LiteratureA brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience by focusing on some of the best-known characters in literature--from how Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway copes with the inexorability of midlife disappointment to Ruth's embodiment of adolescent...
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The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult KnowledgeImagine if a national political figure like Benjamin Franklin was also a paranormal investigator, one who wrote up his investigations with a storytelling flair that reads like a combination of M.R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, and Zhuangzi-with a dash of the bureaucratic absurdism of Kafka...
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To Write as If Already DeadTo Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his...
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The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.3: The Songs and Sonets: Part 3: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and GlossesThis tenth, and final, volume in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of 32 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared,...
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Study Guide to The Romantic PoetsA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for the best-known English Romantic poets, including William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley and John Keats. As defenders of imagination and spirituality, these...
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Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted AgeLeads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world. The humanities, considered by many as...
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Spanish Workbook For Adults - Who Says Learning Spanish Can't Be Fun: The 3 Day Guide to Speaking Fluent SpanishMaster Spanish in Less Than 30 Days With "Who Says Learning Spanish Can't Be Fun" Today If you picked up this book, it's for a very simple reason, you want to learn Spanish, and you want to learn it fast. This book is the...
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Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. LawrenceShortlisted for the James Tait Black PrizeAn electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years "Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale." Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence...
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How to Create Comics the Marvel WayThe new, Marvel-approved, ultimate guide for modern comic creators! Marvel Comics and modern industry legend Mark Waid takes creators and fans on an all-new journey of creative discovery with this essential instruction book! Reflecting current Marvel and industry approaches to producing comics, How to...
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Study Guide to Twelfth Night by William ShakespeareA comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which centers around the holiday time for rejoicing and practical jokes twelve days after Christmas. As a comedy of the early-seventeenth-century, Twelfth Night is regarded as Shakespeare's most...
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Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America Volume 37Finalist, 2022 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real...
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