Literary Criticism
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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
$28.99 Add to cartDiscover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods.
Stephen S- Author: Schoch, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668030594
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Robert Frost’s road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.
Make sure you- Author: Feder, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683694740
- Language: English
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Blues in Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes
$25.00 Add to cartPublishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books
From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and Nati- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538768917
- Language: English
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Didion and Babitz
$29.99 Add to cartJoan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions–and mutual antagonisms–of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. … [more below]
- Author: Anolik, Lili
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1668065487
- Language: English
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Something about Living
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection … [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Khalaf Tuffaha, Lena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222739
- Language: English
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Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
$30.00 Read moreFrom the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they’ve been used over the centuries to assemble the most imper… [more below]
- Author: Leithauser, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655050
- Language: English
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Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
$18.00 Read moreA “loving, lavishly detailed” (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism–one of O Magazine‘s best books of April 2021
“A devoted and deeply fe- Author: Colbert, Soyica Diggs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 030026478X
- Language: English
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Bloom & Other Poems
$22.95 Read more“Bloom and change your way of living,” Xi Chuan exhorts us. “Bloom / unleash a deep underground spring with your rhizome.” In his wildly roving new collection, Bloom & Other Poems, Xi Chuan, like a mo… [more below]
- Author: XI, Chuan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231372
- Language: English
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Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction
$38.00 Read moreAs defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditio
- Series: Integrative Natural History Series, Sponsored by Texas Resea
- Author: Gruesser, John Cullen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430201
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Fables for Our Time
$15.99 Add to cart“These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious.” –The Saturday Review of Literature
James Thurber has been called “one of our grea
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0060909994
- Language: English
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Joy: 100 Poems
$28.00 Add to cartOne hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet
“Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow ne… [more below]- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 030022608X
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 1: Volume 1
$44.95 Read moreIn more than 300 years of Shakespearean scholarship, only one book, the famous Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, has investigated the meaning of every word that Shakespeare wrote. The life… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 048622726X
- Language: English
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Greek Drama
$6.99 Add to cart- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hadas, Moses
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212214
- Language: English
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Butterfly Valley: A Requiem
$13.95 Read moreInger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender, is one of Europe’s most revered poets. Winner of the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy and the Austrian State Prize for Literature, she is perhap… [more below]
- Author: Christensen, Inger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 69
- Publish Date: June 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0811215792
- Language: English
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Shiner
$15.95 Read moreIn this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experim… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1350360066
- Language: English
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Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
$16.95 Read moreSince Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dominguez, Maria Finn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400076137
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet Sparknotes Literature Guide: Volume 56
$7.99 Read moreWhen an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz… [more below]
- Series: Sparknotes Literature Guide
- Author: Sparknotes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1411469631
- Language: English
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
$15.00 Read moreIn The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young’s sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness gu
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Young, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975623
- Language: English
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The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth
$24.99 Read moreCompelling evidence that the events of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
– Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to an- Author: Vinci, Felice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1594770522
- Language: English
