Literary Criticism

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Leavell (Author)Winner of the Plutarch Award for the Best Biography of 2013Winner of the PEN Weld Award for BiographyA mesmerizing and essential biography of the modernist poet Marianne Moore The Marianne Moore that survives in the popular imagination is dignified, white-haired, and demure in her tricorne hat; she lives with her mother until the latter's death; she maintains meaningful friendships with fellow poets but never marries or falls in love. Lind...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie Hood (Author)From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival "Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such wonders."--Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet...

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Report copyright infringementby Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Author)An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life--and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin's many incarnations--"son of Harlem," "Black icon,"...

Michael Hofmann: An Extended Passport Application

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Report copyright infringementby Andr? Naffis-Sahely (Author)For more than four decades, Michael Hofmann has made significant contributions to the literary cultures of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ranging from his original poetry to translations of Kafka, Brecht, Hans Fallada, and Joseph Roth, among others. In the first book-length study of this iconic figure, poet and translator Andr? Naffis-Sahely surveys Hofmann's life and work with an emphasis on his poetry, situatin...

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Oyler (Author)"The essay collection everyone's talking about."--New YorkA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and moreFrom the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new pieces about the role of cultural criticism in our ever-changing world.In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Abbott (Author)If poets are "liars by profession," Sharmel Iris was truly professional. Poet, plagiarist, imposter, and forger, Iris engaged in a lifelong campaign of self-promotion that linked him to a constellation of leading writers and public figures, among them T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Joyce Kilmer, Ezra Pound, Dame Edith Sitwell, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Wrigley, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Jake Zawlacki (Author)Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane's polarizing character. Beginning with his earliest days on Spider-Man to the months before the hotly anticipated release of Spawn and ending with his writing ventures decades later, the interviews offer compelli...

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Report copyright infringementby Domhnall Mitchell (Author)Emily Dickinson has often been pictured as a sensitive but isolated poet--someone who published very little in her lifetime and limited herself to lyrics, considered to be the kind of poems most removed from social and political life. In recent years, scholars have challenged that view, and this book extends the discussion in valuable new directions. Domhnall Mitchell begins by focusing on three historical phenomena--the railroad, the ...

Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Roberts (Author)Lawrence's autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers was written in four drafts between August 1910 and November 1912. During that period Lawrence's mother died, he broke for the final time with Jessie Chambers, the original of Miriam, had an affair with Alice Dax, the main model for Clara, had a year-long engagement to Louie Burrows, nearly died of pneumonia, gave up teaching, met Frieda Weekley who was to be his wife and life-companion, and ...

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Report copyright infringementby H. D (Author), Annette Debo (Editor)This volume presents two rare works by the modernist writer H.D.: Within the Walls, a collection of fourteen short stories, and What Do I Love?, a set of three long poems. Written during World War II in London, where H.D. chose to stay despite offers of refuge in the United States, the stories and poems recount her experiences during the Blitz. These texts capture the essence of war-torn London from the perspective of a woman...

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Lindsay (Author)Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room is the first biography of one of post-war Britain's most recognisable authors, poets and performers. Mr Cutler (as he preferred to be known) wrote and recorded some of the most unusual and memorable songs and poems in British popular culture, including the hilarious and unsettling 'Life in a Scotch Sitting Room' series. Described by fans and commentators as an outsider because of his eccentric b...

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Report copyright infringementby Barry Baldwin (Author)A book about ancient Greek satirist Lucian in his cultural and historical context. "My conclusion is that we need hardly ever look outside the second century for the immediate and personal sources of Lucian's inspiration." - Barry Baldwin Number of Pages: 123 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1973

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Hooper (Author)""I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. An obligation to feel can freeze feelings. And reverence itself did harm. The whole subject was associated with lowered voices...

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Report copyright infringementby Marianne Moore (Author), Bonnie Costello (Introduction by)Marianne Moore's correspondence makes up the largest and most broadly significant collection of any modern poet. It documents the first two-thirds of this century, reflecting shifts from Victorian to modernist culture, the experience of the two world wars, the Depression and postwar prosperity, and the changing face of the arts in America and Europe. Moore wrote letters daily for most of her life--long, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Grevel Lindop (Author)This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings--the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams--novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru--was the strangest, most multi-talented, and most controversial member of the group. He was a pioneering fantasy writer, who still has a cult following. C.S...

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Report copyright infringementby Gabriela Ram?rez-Arellano (Compiled by), Esmeralda Aharon (Compiled by)Calladita te ves m?s bonita - You are prettier when you are quiet.This anthology brings together over 30 Latina authors who share their powerful stories of breaking free from the limitations imposed by this traditional saying. In their own words, these authors share their stories of challenging the narrative, inspiring change, and declaring that their voices will no longer be silenced! Expl...

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape - Hardcover

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by Joe Pera (Author), Joe Bennett (Illustrator)A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!The cozy comedy of Joe Pera meets the darkly playful illustrations of Joe Bennett in A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape, a funny, warm, and sincere guide to regaining calm and confidence when you're hiding in the bathroom. "Nothing says 'class' to your dinner guests more than a Joe Pera book next to the can." --Seth Meyers Joe Pera goes to the bathroom a lot. And his friend,...

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by Deepti Kapoor (Author)AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily and NPR! "Dazzling...Finally free from the book's grip, now all I want to do is get others hooked."-- The Washington Post "A page-turning social novel...It stirs the pulse while digging into the entrenched and evolving structures and contradictions of modern India." --NPR"Cinematic...As a storyteller, Kapoor is a natural."--The Ne...

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Report copyright infringementby John Zheng (Editor)Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival of rhyme, meter, and narrative through New Formalism; walloping t...

The Father of Jewish Mysticism: The Writing of Gershom Scholem

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Weidner (Author), Sage Anderson (Translator)The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study, published in English, of Scholem's thought. Scholem, a historian ofthe Kabbalah and sharp critic of Jewish assimilation, played a major role in the study and pop...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author)Walden (first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.[Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two y...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Raleigh (Author)Robert Louis Stevenson, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Twain (Author)"When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can." ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain is an American classic that takes you on an exciting journey of Tom Sawyer in Southern America before the abolition of slavery in America. The novel depicts the youthful adventures...

A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Nield (Author)For many years I have been an assiduous reader of novels and tales in which the historical element appeared, supplementing my own reading in this direction by a careful study of all that I could find in the way of Criticism on such works and their writers. Only in this way could I venture on a selection involving a survey of several thousand volumes With the above understanding, I can say that no book has been inserted without some reaso...

Walden-ish: A Woman's Adaptation of Henry David Thoreau's

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Report copyright infringementby Krimsey Lilleth (Author), Henry David Thoreau (Author)AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, REINVIGORATEDIn 1854, Henry David Thoreau published his famous work, Walden, an experiment in simple living. Thoreau recounts his experiences living alone in a small self-built cabin near Walden Pond, reflecting on the virtue of self-reliance and the pursuit of a meaningful life. He challenges readers to question societal norms and reconnect with the natural world, our home. Walden remai...

Colors of the Concepts: Philosophers on Paintings

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Author)This monograph explores the relationship between philosophy and painting, showing how thinkers such as Hegel and Merleau-Ponty developed their key concepts through direct engagement with specific artworks. Unlike traditional surveys that often treat philosophical ideas as abstract, Colors of the Concepts: Philosophers on Paintings emphasises how these ideas were shaped by concrete encounters with visual art. Each chapter discusses ho...

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Report copyright infringementby Eike Exner (Author)A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games, and more. This book is the first to tell the history of comics in Japan as a single, continuous story, focusing on manga as multipanel cartoons that show stories rather than narrate them. Eike Exne...

Continental Crosscurrents: British Criticism and European Art 1810-1910

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Report copyright infringementby Barrie Bullen (Author), J. B. Bullen (Author)Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offer...

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Report copyright infringementby Seán Fitton (Author)For many people Dionysos is an obscure Greek god of wine and theatre. For others he is so much more. The Dionysian Spirit examines, in an easy and accessible form, the essence of what Dionysos is all about, both as a deity and as a cultural and social force. It looks at the relation of Dionysos with his opposite number Apollo. The twin gifts of Apollos and Dionysos are ekstasis (ecstasy) and entheos (enthusiasm) and have informed and enliven...

Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium: Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text

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Report copyright infringementby M. Hatzaki (Author)A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world.Author BiographyMYRTO HATZAKI was born in Athens in 1977. She studied History of Art at Warwick Uni...

The Spectral West: Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film

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Report copyright infringementby Keith McDonald (Author), Wayne Johnson (Author)This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. These dark and sinister undertones often exist in Western narratives to draw attention to the ever-present issue of death and its haunting resonance which characters encounter. This book examines this through key historic moments in Western film and its contemporary incarnations. The book detects imposing correlations...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Crane (Author)Flowers From Shakespeare��s Garden: A Posy From The Plays (1906) is a beautifully illustrated book by Walter Crane that celebrates the use of flowers in William Shakespeare��s plays. The book features a collection of quotes from Shakespeare��s works that reference various flowers, accompanied by Crane��s stunning illustrations of the flowers themselves. Each page is a work of art, with intricate drawings and delicate wat...