Literary Criticism

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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Belinda Jack (Author)The author of classic novels including Indiana and Lélia, George Sand is perhaps better known for her unconventional life. Belinda Jack unravels the many facets of this writer who counted among her friends and lovers everyone from Chopin and Liszt to Dostoyevsky and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sand defied convention by writing novels; but the fact that she was a cigar-smoking cross-dresser who took male and female lovers, declared marriage ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Wachtel (Author)A poet, scholar, philosopher, religious thinker, translator, and teacher, Viacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949) was one of the most extraordinary figures of Russia's tumultuous twentieth century. As a young scholar, he worked with European luminaries, studying ancient history with Theodor Mommsen and Sanskrit with Ferdinand de Saussure. Upon returning to Russia in 1905, Ivanov emerged as a major poet and theorist of Russian Symbolism. The Wednes...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Besant (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902) is a posthumously published autobiography by Walter Besant. Although he is more widely known for his works of fiction and book-length studies of the city of London, Besant was also a gifted autobiographer whose unique sense of self and rich memories make for an entertaining, informative read. "I am supposing that [man] has the choice offered him, together with an ou...

Oscar Wilde, Parnellite Home Ruler and Gladstonian Liberal: Wilde's Career at the Eighty Club (1887-1895)

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Wright (Author), Paul Kinsella (Author)This book presents original archival findings concerning Wilde's membership of a Liberal Party club and his views on Irish Home Rule. The findings have significant implications for our understanding of his attitude to Irish nationalism and British politics, and help us interpret political allusions in his writings. Wright and Kinsella tell the intriguing story of Wilde's eight-year membership of the Eighty Club, whi...

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Franklin (Author)The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a classic American history biography, political biography the traditional name for the unfinished autobiography of Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.Franklin'...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Trollope (Author)A biographical and critical study of one "English Literary Great" by another. In this biographical sketch of the great 19th century English novelist and poet, who the author knew personally for some years, Trollope writes: "He passed through the course of mingled failure and success which, though the literary aspirant may suffer, is probably better for the writer and for the writings than unclouded early glory." Thackeray's writings wer...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Hussey (Author)The first book in the 'Biography of a novel' series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividnes...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Bowlby (Author)Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century--and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of people in their specific social milieux. Travelling through the varieties of Zola's styles and settings, realistic and comic and tragic and critical, from shopping to mining to the fertility business, t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Culler (Author) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.98 x 7.08 IN Publication Date: July 15, 1986

You're Telling My Kids They Can't Read This Book?: Our Hundred-Year Children's-Literature Revolution and How We'll Keep Fighting to Support Our Famili

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Laties (Author)When a colleague's bookstore closes due to book-banning, Andrew Laties is assigned the task of explaining how children's-book creators brought thousands of diverse books into schools and homes over the past several decades, and how today's reactionary backlash can be resisted. Revealing the perspectives of authors, publishers, educators, librarians, parents, students, and booksellers, Laties urges readers to join the battle against book-ba...

The Literary and Human Legacy of Clara Sereni

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Report copyright infringementby Giulia Po DeLisle (Editor), Susan Briziarelli (Editor)Clara Sereni lived an extraordinary life in extraordinary times. Born in Rome in 1946, she grew up in a prominent family of Jewish intellectuals whose influential role in Italian politics and in the anti-fascist resistance could not but inform Sereni's own future social and political engagement. Coming of age during the turbulent Sixties, Sereni embraced the struggle for women's rights, social justice, and p...

Twelve Years a Slave (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)

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Report copyright infringementby Solomon Northup (Author) Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket One moment, you're free, living your life-and the next, you're chained, sold, and stripped of everything you hold dear. This is the chilling fate of a free African American man who finds himself betrayed and thrust into the horrors of slavery. As he fights to endure the brutality and dehumanization of plantation life, his resilience and hope become a beacon of strength. Through vivid, u...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Allen Tucker (Editor) One of the most prolific African American authors of his time, John A. Williams (1925-2015) made his mark as a journalist, educator, and writer. Having worked for Newsweek, Ebony, and Jet magazines, Williams went on to write twelve novels and numerous works of nonfiction. A vital link between the Black Arts movement and the previous era, Williams crafted works of fiction that relied on historical research as much as his own finely ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Van Griethuysen (Author)At the heart of this book written by the renowned American actor, Ted van Griethuysen, is a fundamental idea: Shakespeare is only what he says and how he says it. How he says it, of course, is poetry, and what poetry is, why we need it, is central to an actor's study of Shakespeare. An actor must do two things at once (1) honor the poetry, and (2) sound like a human being talking. At the same time. It is for directors and theatre des...

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Trollope (Author)Anthony Trollope's "Thackeray" offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of William Makepeace Thackeray, one of the giants of Victorian English Literature. More than just a biography, this volume provides insightful literary criticism of Thackeray's novels and explores his impact on the literary landscape. Trollope, himself a celebrated novelist, brings a unique perspective to the subject, examining Thackeray's contributions w...

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Mairs (Author)Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs... of will, style, candor, thought and even form" (Los Angeles Times). She has won acclaim for her autobiographical writing on themes from living with depression to renewing a marriage, from sex to religion. In Voice Lessons, Mairs's subjects are literary, but...

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus - Paperback

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by Sophocles (Author), Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction by)The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and po...

Jules Verne - The Biography: Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke

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Report copyright infringementby William Butcher (Author)Jules Verne (1828-1905) is one of the world's most translated and published writers. With Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, and Around the World in Eighty Days, the Frenchman has reshaped modern writing. He dominates the box office and pervades our life and culture.But behind all the success lay a complex man: a plagiarist, a social misfit, then a provincial recluse. Now at last comes an authorit...

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Report copyright infringementby Victoria Aarons (Editor), Gustavo S. Canales (Editor)A fresh and engaging international tribute to Bernard Malamud, a major American Jewish novelist in the postwar era of the twentieth century.Author BiographyVictoria Aarons holds the position of O. R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature in the English Department at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewis...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Jill Levine (Author)In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine - winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation - establishes a new way of writing about a translator's life. Levine is a living legend in the translation world who credits her good fortune as a young translator to being in the right place at the right time: beginning in the era of the Cuban revolution, with growing interest in Latin America and its writers, and unfo...

Attending Others: A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Volck (Author)Becoming a doctor requires years of formal education, but one learns the practice of medicine only through direct encounters with the fragile others called "patients." Pediatrician Brian Volck recounts his own education in the mysteries of suffering bodies, powerful words, and natural beauty. It's a curriculum where the best teachers are children and their mothers, the classrooms are Central American villages and desert landscapes, and the e...

The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman

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Report copyright infringementby Taylor Lewandowski (Author), Lynne Tillman (With), Andrew Durbin (Introduction by)Candid and instantly engaging, this will be the go-to introduction to Lynne Tillman for readers everywhere and is a must have for any fan. A breakthrough for the legendary underground icon, who speaks about her life as a writer and her work in a stunning and candid conversation with writer and critic Taylor Lewandowski. A book length interview with Lynne Tillman, beloved icon of u...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Nott (Author)A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker).Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippi...

Revelations - Short Stories of Memorable Moments

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Report copyright infringementby Zenobia Orimoloye (Author)Synopsis: The stories paint vivid portraits of main characters, both male and female none of whom are stereotypical. Some stories are very universal female experiences (The Good Life and Trainee) and others depict life through the eyes of children (Respect, Uncle Blood, Iron Lady, Hairdom and Ozzie.Autobiography: I write depicting life's experiences through short stories. I've written 51 short stories, 3 short plays and over 50 poems. ...