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...

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Nabors (Author)A 12-Month Daily Devotional In When Love Pours, Love Speaks!, readers are invited to embark on a yearlong journey of spiritual renewal, encouragement, and divine affirmation. Rooted in the unwavering truth of God's unconditional love, this 12-month daily devotional serves as a gentle reminder that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, cherished beyond measure, and worthy of love-not because of what we do, but simply because of who we are...

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made on: A Jungian Interpretation of Literature (Chiron Monograph Series: Volume 5)

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Report copyright infringementby Clifton Snider (Author)Jung believed that great literature compensates for collective psychic imbalance, either by offering alternatives or by reflecting the imbalance. In this study, Snider explores Jung's theories by focusing on a wide selection of Western literature. Included are chapters on Merlin as he was portrayed by Victorian authors, Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse, Virginia Woolfs Orlando and The Waves, The Member of the Wedding and Clock Without Han...

Open Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain's Occult Revival, 1842-1936

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Ferguson (Author)Open Secrets examines the popular genre fiction produced by leading figures within Britain's occult revival from the 1840s to the 1930s, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins, Arthur Machen, Charles Fort, Aleister Crowley, and Dion Fortune. Ferguson demonstrates how the revival's popular fictional output was always more than just a reflection of, or mode of propaganda for, unorthodox autho...

The Encyclopedia of Epic Myths and Legends: Extraordinary and Mesmerizing Stories That Will Boggle Your Mind - Paperback

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by Arie Kaplan (Author)In this unique exploration of world mythology, discover how ancient tales across cultures have influenced today's pop culture, from Beyonc? to Game of Thrones. Fun and engaging, The Encyclopedia of Epic Myths and Legends details the influences of classical stories on contemporary popular culture. Without these myths, passed down through the generations over three millennia, many of the stories we enjoy in our current media wouldn't exist! Along with colorful illustrat...

The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Young (Author)Honourable mention for The American Folklore Society's Wayland D. Hand Prize for outstanding book combining historical and folkloristic methods and materials. Runner up for The Folklore Society's 2022 Katherine Briggs Award for most distinguished contribution to folklore studies. The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Against the odds it survives today, both in place-names and in fa...

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardcover

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by Camille Peri (Author)"A love story, an adventure story, two literary biographies in one; A Wilder Shore is these things and more--and it's very, very good." --Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Women Behind the Door The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silv...

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Report copyright infringementby Van N. Eden (Author)Peripety by Van Eden is not just a memoir-it's a literary kaleidoscope, a genre-bending experiment that blurs the lines between reality and imagination, memoir and manifesto, satire and sincerity.Told through an epistolary dialogue with Calliope-the Greek Muse of epic poetry-this audacious narrative takes readers on a deeply personal yet wildly inventive journey through the author's life. From a law student thrust into the chaos of Vietnam t...

Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author

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Report copyright infringementby Willard M. Oliver (Author) Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, including Westerns, sports stories (boxing), adventures, supernatural horror, and even humor. Howard also created many other popular characters such as King Kull, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, ...

The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore - Paperback

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by Michael Dylan Foster (Author), Shinonome Kijin (Illustrator)Significantly expanded and updated--a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water sprites, to shape-shifting kitsune foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Popular toda...

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Report copyright infringementby William Wilson (Author)Shakespeare and Astrology: From A Student's Point of View is a book written by William Wilson that explores the connection between astrology and the works of William Shakespeare. The author, who is a student of astrology, delves into the astrological references and symbolism hidden within Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The book is divided into two parts, the first being an introduction to astrology and its history, and the second part a...

Ancient Myths, Ancient Wisdom: Recovering humanity's forgotten inheritance through Celestial Mythology

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Report copyright infringementby David Warner Mathisen (Author)The world's ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories, from virtually every culture on every inhabited contient -- and all the islands -- can be shown to be founded upon a common system of celestial metaphor, embodying the heavenly cycles of the sun, the moon, the visible planets, and especially the stars and constellations. This common, world-wide system underlies the characters and episodes found in what are commonly called th...

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by James Joyce (Author)The Gabler edition of Ulysses, the greatest 20th-century novel written in English, contains corrections to more than 5,000 errors in earlier editions. Almost as soon as Ulysses first appeared, in Paris in 1922, James Joyce began to compile a list of errata, and publishers have continued the process ever since, often inadvertently adding to the list. In 1974, an international team of scholars headed by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence, type...

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...

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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 ...

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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 ...