Literary Criticism

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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman Revised - Hardcover

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by Ada Langworthy Collier (Author)Old rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam and Eve were. This is a lyrical telling of that legend and what happens to Lilith as she encounters various demons outside the garden and what she says and does to Adam and Eve once they too are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Now in larger print Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Oct...

Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader - Paperback

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by Laura Backes (Author)Get Your Child Hooked on Books Reading can become a favorite part of any child's life--even children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluctant reader on the path to becoming an enthusiastic reader. Inside are 125 books that are certain to ignite your child's interest in reading. You'll find a variety of titles with real kid appeal--the best of the best for children of all reading levels. These books will captiv...

Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö Ni' Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery - Hardcover

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by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey (Author)Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future generations. In Reading the Wampum...

Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland - Paperback

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by Ewa Stańczyk (Author)Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland, scholar Ewa Stańczyk explores how illustrators conceived of Jewish people in satirical drawing and reflected on the burning political questions of the day. Incorporating ...

Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide to All the Books - Hardcover

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by Erika Berlin (Author)Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's guide to the Gilmore Girls universe and all 339 books referenced in the series. For fans of Gilmore Girls, one of the most dedicated ways to tap into the psyche of Rory Gilmore is committing to one Herculean task: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. Over the c...

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry - Paperback

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by Martha Amore (Editor), Lucian Childs (Editor)Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures o...

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton - Paperback

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by Emily J. Orlando (Editor)Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studi...

The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts - Paperback

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by Catriona McAra (Author)Before her death, the artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) had already garnered a cult following, with numerous creative people making the pilgrimage to meet her at her home in Mexico City. Since then, her fame has only increased. Thinking across contemporary art media, this book demonstrates how Carrington has posthumously become a medium in her own right, critically haunting the creative intellectuals who met or knew her. It explores the work of a remar...

The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk

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Report copyright infringementby Lally Macbeth (Author)A fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as "folk." By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more difficult to resurrect. But folk culture is all around us; sitting in our churches, swinging from our pubs and dancing through our streets, patiently waiting to be discovered, appreciated, saved and cherished. In The Lost Folk, Lally MacBeth is o...

The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London: Conception, Design, Interpretation

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Report copyright infringementby Stephan Jaeger (Editor), James Bulgin (Editor)In October 2021, Imperial War Museums (IWM) opened its new Holocaust Galleries in its London branch, replacing its first Holocaust Exhibition (from 2000) that had become a landmark in British Holocaust memory. Because of its comprehensive nature and intricate scenography, the new Holocaust Galleries are at the centre of almost all recent major narrative, political, and ethical debates about Holocaust representation ...

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Clark (Editor), Masashi Suzuki (Editor)This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romantic...

Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together

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Report copyright infringementby Ilana Kurshan (Author)A mother's celebration of the power and wonder of lifelong reading Zibby Owens, My Most Anticipated Books 2025 In Children of the Book, Ilana Kurshan reveals how literature weaves an invisible thread through the tapestry of family life. Kurshan, a mother of five living in Jerusalem, struggles to balance her passion for books with her responsibilities as a parent. Gradually she learns how to relate to reading not as a solitary pursuit and a...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Bucknell (Author)A stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity. The story of Christopher Isherwood's life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and spiritual illumination. Isherwood--the author of Goodbye to Berlin, which inspired Cabaret, and A Single Man--was born the heir to a crumbling English estate. He died an icon of g...

Unmasking The Humourist: Alexander Gordon's Lost Essays of Colonial Charleston, South Carolina

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Report copyright infringementby Brent L. Kendrick (Author) Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2025

Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Marlene Kadar (Editor)Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.Author BiographyMarlene Kadar is Canada Research Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Humanities Division and at the Robarts Centre of Canadian Studies, York University. Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.04 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 21, 1992 ...

Anne Bradstreet in Context: The Life and Work of a Colonial American Poet

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Beebe (Author) The collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America by Anne Bradstreet--the first book of poetry published by a permanent resident of colonial America--appeared in 1650 thanks to the support of Bradstreet's brother-in-law. By this time, she had immigrated to New England with her husband; given birth to seven of her eight children; settled on her fifth and final homestead; and gained access to a network of influential Puritan leaders via...

E.D.E.N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Homestead (Editor), Pamela Washington (Editor)The prolific nineteenth-century writer E. D. E. N. Southworth enjoyed enormous public success in her day--she published nearly fifty novels during her career--but that very popularity, combined with her gender, led to her almost complete neglect by the critical establishment before the emergence of academic feminism. Even now, most scholarship on Southworth focuses on her most famous novel, The Hidden Hand. ...

Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling

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Report copyright infringementby Lionel Trilling (Author), Adam Kirsch (Editor)A great critic's quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, The Liberal Imagination, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been call...

The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Panofsky (Author)Adele Wiseman was a seminal figure in Canadian letters. Always independent and wilful, she charted her own literary career, based on her unfailing belief in her artistic vision. In The Force of Vocation, the first book on Wiseman's writing life, Ruth Panofsky presents Wiseman as a writer who doggedly and ambitiously perfected her craft, sought a wide audience for her work, and refused to compromise her work for marketability. Based on prev...

The Conscience of the Autobiographer: Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Autobiography

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Report copyright infringementby J. Barbour (Author)This book argues that the writing of autobiography raises crucial issues of conscience as an author tries to know, assess, and represent character. Individual chapters explore such issues as the nature of truthfulness, characterization, the virtues, shame, and the religious dimensions of conscience.Author BiographyJOHN D. BARBOUR is Associate Professor of Religion a St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he has taught since 1982. He ...

Answers to Questions Nobody Was Askin': And Other Revelations

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Sample (Author)In this new collection of short essays Maine humor icon Tim Sample shares some of the quirkier aspects of growing up and living in Maine. Along the way he offers readers a behind the scenes glimpse into his long career in the entertainment business. Sample waxes poignant--recalling old friends, pets, and childhood memories--and passes along more than a few hilarious "insider tips" including the proper way to eat a lobster and a few time teste...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy J. Peterson (Editor)"The responsibilities of being an Indian writer are enormous. Even more so than any other group of people because we have so much more to protect." Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) gained national attention upon release of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection of poems and stories, in 1992, when a critic for the New York Times Book Review called him "one of the major lyric voices of our time." More recently, in 2007, Alexie won a ...

Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009

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Report copyright infringementby Steve McCaffery (Author), Darren Wershler (Editor)Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery's major texts, including The Black Debt, Theory of Sediment, The Cheat of Words, and Slightly Left of Thinking, but also features a substantial number of previousl...

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Biles (Editor), Sylvia Whitman (Introduction by), Adam Biles (Author)An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company bookshop and the best writers of our timeShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop ...

Searching for Ezra: - a ragbag of frustrations

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Glover (Author)Has it been a battle to the death between two poets? Michael Glover has had a lifelong love-hate relationship with Ezra Pound, and has for many years wrestled with the idea of a book. In the 1980s he met Olga Rudge, Pound's companion, and corresponded with their daughter, Mary von Rachewiltz, the Italian translator of his Cantos - this book has indeed taken years to bring to publication. Be careful though - this rag-bag gathering of musin...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry K. Miller (Editor)Raymond durgnat was a maverick voice during the golden age of film criticism. From the French new Wave and the rise of auteurism, through the late 1960s counter-culture, to the rejuvenated Hollywood of the 1970s, his work appeared in dozens of publications in Britain, France and the USA. At once evoking the film culture of his own times and anticipating our digital age in which technology allows everyone to create their own 'moving image...

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Kernan (Author)The long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.Nathan Kernan's A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch, was an original member of the so called New York School of poetry. Opening...

The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries - Hardcover

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by Andrew Hui (Author)A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo--a "little studio"--and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary...

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World - Paperback

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by Pádraig Ó. Tuama (Author)In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives....

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Report copyright infringementby Evelyn McDonnell (Author)**INDIE BESTSELLER**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions - B&N Best Books of 2023 - "Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace ... McDonnell's portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive, and clarifying." -- Booklist, starred reviewAn intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Fontenot (Author)Ken Fontenot's The Forests of Autumn celebrates a life lived in poetry. Exploring his Cajun heritage, his struggles with existential angst, as well as his love of classical music, philosophy, the German language, and other writers, Fontenot's poems are "not so much a creation as a discovery." A true original who likes "to be me often rather than sometimes," Fontenot "empoem(s)" us with tenderness, wit, and the mystery of the everyday. -Grac...

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Report copyright infringementby Kemeshia Randle Swanson (Author)Jesmyn Ward (b. 1977) is arguably one of today's most important authors. Although often compared to William Faulkner, Ward and her writings have done anything but live in that shadow since the 2008 debut of her first novel Where the Line Bleeds. She has produced four novels and a memoir that are equally harrowing and heartening, and she is the recipient of numerous major literary awards and fellowships, including two National Boo...