Literary Criticism
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Secret Poetics
$24.00 Read moreThe first English-language translation of Oiticica’s “secret” poetry, featuring facsimile renderings of the handwritten poems and accompanying notes by the artist
H駘io Oiticica (1937-80) is widely co
- Author: Oiticica, Hélio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1940190320
- Language: English
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A Century of Queer Korean Fiction
$40.00 Read moreSelections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature
Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay
- Series: MLA Texts and Translations
- Author: Perry, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1603296271
- Language: English
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
$20.00 Add to cartPreeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1416541659
- Language: English
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00 Read moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature
$17.00 Read more“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did–as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” –A. O. Scott, The New York Times
A Penguin Classic Lawrence asserte- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140183779
- Language: English
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So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch
$19.00 Add to cartA brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream … [more below]
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133136
- Language: English
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Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
$22.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical dictionary of all the words and meanings students of Shakespeare need to know. Every word h… [more below]
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0192737503
- Language: English
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The Classic Fairy Tales
$23.99 Add to cartThis volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Includin… [more below]
- Author: Opie, Iona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 13 1980
- ISBN10: 0195202198
- Language: English
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
$14.99 Add to cartExamining the psyche–and psychoses–of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power an
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356973
- Language: English
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir
$7.95 Read moreBorn in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black American poet to publish a book, Poems on Various Subjects: Re… [more below]
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2010
- ISBN10: 048647593X
- Language: English
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The Sound of the Mountain
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age–about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 28 1996
- ISBN10: 0679762647
- Language: English
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Against Everything: Essays
$19.00 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating- Author: Greif, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1101971746
- Language: English
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Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Light Novel) Vol. 13
$13.99 Read moreUNBEARABLE HEAT
A quest from the king sends Yuna to a new area: a desert! She heads to the town of Dezelt with the kraken’s mana stone in tow. The desert is terribly hot and vast, but it’s nothing she- Series: Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Light Novel)
- Author: Kumanano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1638588198
- Language: English
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We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us
$32.95 Read moreHow the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us.
“Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” In We Are All Monster- Author: Mangham, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047527
- Language: English
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The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye
$16.00 Read moreThe Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discuss
- Series: Art Of… (Revell)
- Author: Revell, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974740
- Language: English
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Sweet Movie: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?”–Alisha Dietzman, from Sweet Movie
A National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Dietzman, Alisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013285
- Language: English
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Noah’s Arkive
$29.95 Read moreA timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorf- Author: Cohen, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1517904242
- Language: English
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Modern Villainess: It’s Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash (Light Novel) Vol. 3
$14.99 Read moreA TASK FOR ADULTS
As the twenty-first century comes in like a lion, Runa continues to use her cunning insight to save Japan’s economy as the country’s Little Majesty. Despite being a child, Runa opera- Series: Modern Villainess: It’s Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash (Light Novel)
- Author: Futsukaichi, Tofuro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1638587019
- Language: English
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Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices
$18.95 Read moreAn exploration of the wild spirits that once roamed the lands and inhabited the waters and the pagan rites used to gain their good will
– Explores medieval stories and folk traditions of brownies, fai- Author: Lecouteux, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1620553996
- Language: English
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Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, the Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias
$18.00 Read more“I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt’s idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous an
- Series: Department of Critical Thought
- Author: Robertson, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2012
- ISBN10: 1897388896
- Language: English
