Literary Criticism
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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
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100 Books That Changed the World
$27.95 Add to cartA thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world’s most influential books.
Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to h- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1849948674
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1509843183
- Language: English
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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World
$32.00 Add to cartA rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factor… [more below]
- Author: Lynskey, Dorian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593317092
- Language: English
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Othello (Pocket Classics)
$4.99 Read moreExperience the heart-wrenching tragedy of Othello with this pocket-sized edition. Shakespeare’s powerful exploration of jealousy, manipulation, and the destructive power of suspicion can now be carri
- Series: Pocket Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 9386538245
- Language: English
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A Bestiary
$16.00 Add to cartLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.
Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, a… [more below]
- Author: Hoang, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0996316744
- Language: English
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Dyke (Geology)
$9.95 Add to cartThrough intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a smal… [more below]
- Author: Imbler, Sabrina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1625577168
- Language: English
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
$23.00 Read moreDazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our… [more below]
- Author: McClatchy, J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030935
- Language: English
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The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Divine Design in “The Lord of the Rings”
$29.99 Read moreJ. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has long been acknowledged as the gold standard for fantasy fiction, and the recent Oscar-winning movie trilogy has brought forth a whole new generation of fans. M… [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Fleming
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 373
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802824978
- Language: English
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The Golovlyov Family: Shchedrin
$22.95 Read moreSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Shchedrin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322579
- Language: English
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Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
$39.95 Read moreTales of Dionysus is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the Dionysiaca
- Author: Levitan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0472038966
- Language: English
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The Incognito Lounge
$16.95 Read moreRaymond Carver said of The Incognito Lounge, Denis Johnson’s third and most widely acclaimed book of verse: The subject matter is harrowingly convincing, is nothing less than a close examination of th… [more below]
- Series: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry
- Author: Johnson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0887484735
- Language: English
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Memory Serves: Oratories
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed ov
- Series: Writer as Critic #13
- Author: Maracle, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1926455444
- Language: English
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Otherside Picnic: Omnibus 3 (Light Novel)
$24.99 Read moreContains the complete volumes 5-6!
Sorawo and Toriko have been spending their days surrounded by the supernatural. They managed to successfully spend a night together in the Otherside and can now ventu
- Series: Otherside Picnic (Light Novel) #3
- Author: Miyazawa, Iori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1718360800
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$27.95 Read moreThe Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe
- Author: Hollander, Lee M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0292764995
- Language: English
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On the Nature of the Universe
$13.95 Add to cartThis is a new verse translation of Lucretius’s only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville’s particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially hel… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555141
- Language: English
