Literary Criticism
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Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres
$17.95 Read moreWhen we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, Family Resemblance is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, pro
- Author: Sulak, Marcela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1941628028
- Language: English
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Hawthorne’s Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American Literature
$26.00 Read more- Author: Ellwood, Fay Elanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469505
- Language: English
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
$27.00 Add to cartJ.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplis- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 014311378X
- Language: English
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Festival of Heresies
$15.00 Read moreThere’s a reason Emi Shimamoto can’t find a job. For as long as she can remember, she’s been unable to tell the living from the dead. Resigned to yet another failure, she attends an interview with Mor… [more below]
- Series: Office Sasaki #1
- Author: Rokakoen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1975399889
- Language: English
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Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook
$16.95 Read moreA fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors – from witch trials to slavery and genocide – continue to haunt the nationa… [more below]
- Author: Corcoran, Miranda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1914420322
- Language: English
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As You Like It: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘We that are true lovers run into strange capers.’
Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It‘s capacity to entertain and instruct remains evergreen. This edition provides a fri- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865803
- Language: English
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartA worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work
No one knows whether Homer was a rea- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272472
- Language: English
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Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes: 50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands Who Challenge and Change Us
$25.00 Add to cartEnjoy this book. Add it to your library. Treat it like its own little library, and enjoy the edification and education, challenge, and joy of reading Jim’s informed cultural commentary on so many of o
- Author: Keane, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1626985979
- Language: English
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Origins of a Story: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World’s Greatest Literature
$24.95 Add to cartFor readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world’s greatest literature!
Did you know Lennie from Of Mice an
- Author: Grogan, Jake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1604337516
- Language: English
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Maidens or Monsters?: Tales of Amazons, Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Manuscripts
$29.95 Add to cartAn illustrated collection of exceptional female figures in myth and legend
In the Middle Ages, some of the most popular and well-loved stories were about female saints, classical heroines, and the fem
- Author: Westwell, Chantry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0295753544
- Language: English
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The DAO of Complexity: Making Sense and Making Waves in Turbulent Times
$24.99 Add to cartFinalist in the Leadership – Think Differently category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2024
The pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geo-political unrest – just a few of the issues causing t
- Series: Neudrucke Deutscher Literaturwerke. N. F.
- Author: Boulton, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: September 23 2024
- ISBN10: 3110992647
- Language: English
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The Book Lover’s Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists
$29.99 Add to cartEnjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac.
Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors’ diaries and letters, chance upon the narrativ- Author: Johnson, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0712354247
- Language: English
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Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves: Bookmarked
$16.95 Add to cart“There was a book. Oh man was there a book. It is still to this day a book I mention it to any book lover if asked for a recommendation. The best books stick with you, often reminding you of the power
- Series: Bookmarked #5
- Author: Seidlinger, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1632460513
- Language: English
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Bibliotherapy: Books to Guide You Through Every Chapter of Life
$17.99 Add to cartA beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what life’s throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a. ‘your inclusive AF feminist book club’
Through turbulent time
- Author: Masters, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0008587310
- Language: English
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The Worlds of George RR Martin: The Inspirations Behind Game of Thrones
$35.00 Add to cartIn the many realms of modern fantasy there is only one true King, and his name is George Raymond Richard Martin.
With A Song of Ice and Fire, Martin has created a world on a scale almost unrivalled by- Author: Huddleston, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0711288526
- Language: English
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Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartVidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps a
- Author: Ravinthiran, Vidyan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021322
- Language: English
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Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
$37.00 Add to cartBraiding together biography and criticism, Adam Plunkett challenges our understanding of Robert Frost’s life and poetic legacy in a pathbreaking new work.
By the middle of the twentieth century, Rober- Author: Plunkett, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374282080
- Language: English
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The Joyce of Everyday Life
$29.95 Read morePart of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it wa… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Irish Writers
- Author: Mahaffey, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: September 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1684485266
- Language: English
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Don Juan: And Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis selection of seven of Moli?re’s prose plays includes “Precious Provincials,” “The Would-be Gentleman,” “Don Juan,” “The Reluctant Doctor,” “Scapin the Schemer,” “The Miser,” and “George Dandin.” … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540225
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$28.00 Add to cartA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a… [more below]
- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602790
- Language: English
