Literary Criticism
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States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic
$20.00 Read moreStates of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.
As one of the most discussed b- Author: Kaplan, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0226815536
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings
This lively book reveals the cl- Author: Davidson, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0300218729
- Language: English
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Poems of Arab Andalusia
$15.95 Add to cartThese poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa’id, who wanted poems “whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose l
- Author: Franzen, Cola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0872862429
- Language: Spanish
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$17.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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Voidopolis
$22.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante’s Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New Y… [more below]
- Series: Leonardo
- Author: Mustatea, Kat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048264
- Language: English
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Wine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inex- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bernhard, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383612
- Language: English
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I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963
$24.50 Read moreFrank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann’s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany.
With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts o- Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
- Author: Reimann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091800
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
$17.95 Read moreRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to Toni Morrison’s revolutionary humanism to D’Angelo’s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy’s bracing essays investigate with
- Author: McCarthy, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091479
- Language: English
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The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin
$18.99 Read moreHumane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.
The Undercurrents is a dazzling- Author: Bell, Kirsty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635423449
- Language: English
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Echo
$16.95 Read moreAn exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amit Pinchevski proposes that echo is not simple- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Pinchevski, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543400
- Language: English
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Literary Cats
$25.00 Read moreA light-hearted journey through the history of literary cats.
From Puss in Boots to T. S. Eliot’s Jellicles, cats have long inspired an incredible range of fiction, memoir, and poetry. This book cele- Author: Robinson, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1851245731
- Language: English
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Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium
$29.95 Read moreThe Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiqu
- Author: Peters, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0060538112
- Language: English
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
$20.00 Read moreTerry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated fro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270445
- Language: English
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
$19.00 Read moreIn June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically
- Author: Summerscale, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 080271742X
- Language: English
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Poems of a Penisist
$19.95 Read more“In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen,” begins Mutsuo Takahashi’s epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, “Ode,” the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poe
- Author: Takahashi, Mutsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2012
- ISBN10: 081667972X
- Language: English
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
$19.95 Read moreA classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire’s life and work
Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best k- Series: Verso Classics
- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290459
- Language: English
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The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
$18.95 Read more“Fascinating and vivid.” New Statesman
“Thoroughly researched.” The Spectator
“Intriguing.” BBC History Magazine
“Vividly told.” BBC History Revealed
“A timely warning against persecution.” Morning Star
“A- Author: Callow, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1350387126
- Language: English
