Literary Criticism

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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. ...

A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Goldhill (Author)"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind." So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm-the prime minister once wondered whether she was "the clever...

The Third Solitude: A Memoir Against History

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Libman (Author)"A frank love letter to modern Jewish life." - MERVE EMRE, contributing writer, The New YorkerAn intimate memoir in essays seeking familial history and personal memory against the backdrop of the lost world of North American Jewry.What is the past? How can we let it speak on its own terms, without forcing it into the categories of history? In The Third Solitude, Benjamin Libman gathers and weaves the threads of multiple pasts - of his co...

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Report copyright infringementby Vincent O'Sullivan (Author), Lesley F. Gray (Introduction by)"Mr. O'Sullivan, an authentic personal acquaintance of Wilde in those days, with no special affection for him nor any reason for whitewashing him, gives the first sane and credible description of him."-George Bernard ShawThis book offers a series of intimate portraits of Oscar Wilde's later life as witnessed by the Irish-American writer Vincent O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan had known Wilde as a celebrated me...

After Poland: A Memoir Because of Primo Levi

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl Chaffin (Author)Scholar, writer, and poet Cheryl Chaffin travels to Poland to contemplate the ethical implications of Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi's deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, and to reflect on the meaning of human experience in the twenty-first century. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 19, 2018

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Bolin (Author)"This book re-framed my entire adolescence. I highly recommend you read it." -- LING MAFrom the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls ("stylish and inspired"--New York Times Book Review), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and steady creep of cults and cult-think into our daily lives.In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is rem...

Bookshop of One's Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World

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Report copyright infringementby Jane Cholmeley (Author)A Bookshop of One's Own is a fascinating slice of social history from the heart of the women's liberation movement, from a true feminist and lesbian icon. Author BiographyJane Cholmeley is a key figure in British feminism and books, the co-founder of Silver Moon Women's Bookshop, which became the largest of its kind in Europe. Silver Moon created a safe space for women and proudly made women's writing central and visible on the best books...

The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson

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Report copyright infringementby Robert DeMaria (Author), Daniel Hitchens (Author)Samuel Johnson is a towering figure of eighteenth-century literature. As well as the celebrated Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson was the leading literary critic of his time, and a celebrated author who contributed to almost every genre from poetry to political pamphleteering. At the same time, an enduring legend developed around him, culminating in James Boswell's classic biography. This book offers a ...

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Elie (Author)WINNER OF THE PEN/MARTHA ALBRAND AWARD FOR FIRST NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC AND SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a "Christ-haunted" literary prodigy in Georgia; and Walker Percy a doctor in Louisiana who had quit medicine in order to writ...

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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Brannon Costello (Author)From his roots in underground comics to his high-profile runs on mainstream characters, Rick Veitch (b. 1951) has carved out a career unlike anyone else's. Collecting thirteen interviews--including three published here for the first time--Conversations with Rick Veitch offers a wealth of insight not only into the development of Veitch's graphic innovations and metaphysical explorations, but also into the upheavals and transformations of...

Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Belletto (Author)Black Surrealist. Poet. Collage artist. Jazz trumpeter. Painter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003) was all of these things, and yet none of these labels adequately capture the beauty and complexity of his life and work.The proportions of Ted Joans's life are legendary. Born in Cairo, Illinois in 1928, as a young man he distinguishe...

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Report copyright infringementby Thornton M. Hinkle (Author), Charles B. Wilby (Author), Karl Langenbeck (Author)The Literary Club of Cincinnati (1890) is a book written by Thornton M. Hinkle that explores the history and activities of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, a prominent literary society in Ohio during the 19th century. The book provides a detailed account of the club's formation, membership, and activities, including its regular meetings, lectures, and debates on various literary and...

Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Report copyright infringementby Pramod K. Nayar (Author)Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide moves on to Edward Said's articulation into a critical approach ...

Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Douglas (Author)Frankétienne and Rewriting offers an overview the defining aesthetic and thematic components of Frankétienne's major works, particularly on the relation between his central aesthetic of the Spiral and the practice of rewriting that is prevalent in Caribbean literature. Situating this practice within the framework of postcolonial studies, Douglas argues that literary characteristics in Frankétienne connect with changing political, social, ...

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Report copyright infringementby John Quincy Former Ow Adams (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work...

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman; Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby William Tecumseh Sherman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol - Paperback

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by Nikolai Gogol (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry . . . I still haven't recovered." More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning te...

No Race, No Country: The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright

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Report copyright infringementby Deborah Mutnick (Author)No Race, No Country presents a major reconsideration of the breakthrough African American author Richard Wright's work and life. It challenges standard evaluations of his reputation as an autodidact, his late novels, his travel books, and his political commitments after he left the Communist Party USA. Deborah Mutnick engages a wide range of Wright's work throughout his career, providing a nuanced perspective on his complicated gender po...

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Hugo (Author), A. (Am?d?e) Baillot (Author)Victor Hugo's "William Shakespeare" offers a compelling biographical exploration of the life and legacy of the iconic English dramatist. More than a simple biography, this work delves into the profound impact Shakespeare and his works have had on literature and culture. Hugo, a literary giant in his own right, brings a unique perspective to his subject, examining Shakespeare's influence with insightful literary ...

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Report copyright infringementby Halide Edib Adivar (Author), Halide Adivar Edib (Author)A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Adivar Edib (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language autobiography, published in 1926, whilst she and her second husband Dr. Adnan were in exile in London and Paris having fallen out of favor with Mustafa Kemal's one-...

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Report copyright infringementby M. Thomas Inge (Editor)Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him. His newspaper feature The Spirit (1940-1952) introduced the now-common splash page to the comic book, as well as dramatic angles and lighting effects that were influen...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Milazzo (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates (Author)These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work, her concepts of literature, her methods of writing, and many other topics.Throughout this anthology, Oates discusses how her writing paints ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rayford Jr. Campbell (Author)With so many life challenges, you learn to adapt to the difficulties. There are always some life-changing decisions that you make that tend to be your priority. It doesn't give you an instant realization of the mistakes you are yet to make but later gives you a lesson that one must never forget all of their lives.This is the story of Rayford Campbell Jr., An autobiography of his life-long journey and epic family history. This book c...

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Report copyright infringementby Marie Fratoni (Author)Inspiring women form the integral threads in the vast and intricate tapestry of life. Each thread is woven with purpose, strength, and resilience, contributing to the creation of a world rich in opportunity and possibility. These remarkable women do not simply navigate through life; they carve paths where none existed before, breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations.Through unwavering determination and an unshakable comm...

The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Defanti (Author)The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh, his autobiographical masterpiece, which Alfred Kazin called "A work of extraordinary honesty, eloquence, and power." According to Sir Herbert Read: "A great achievement. The magnificent portrait of the author's mother is as relentless, as detailed, as loving as a late Rembrandt."Consigned to the Jewish Orphan Home in ...

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by Mark Fisher (Author)A noted cultural critic unearths the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century culture through a wide range of literature, film, and music references--from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pu...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Leech (Author)This is a look at many pursuits, travels, and activities I've undergone during my more than a few years in this world. It's a memoir with lots of fun details about my experiences in the U. S. and many other countries I've visited. Especially memorable were the people I got to know along the way, and the several I continue to stay in touch with decades later. Those who read this might find they - relate readily to many of their own adventures.T...

Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

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Report copyright infringementby Zachary Leader (Author)The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century--an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's reputation. Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, was hailed by Anthony Burgess as "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century." Frank Kermode thought the book would "fix Joyce's image for a generation," a predic...