Literary Criticism
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The Impact of Akira: A Manga (R)Evolution
$29.95 Read moreA global manga phenomenon in the early 1990s, Akira is a futuristic depiction with apocalyptic elements set in a Neo-Tokyo on the brink of civil war. Katsuhiro Otomo’s work is a graphical and narrativ… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Remi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 2377842801
- Language: English
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Recipe
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instruct- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bloom, Lynn Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1501367102
- Language: English
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Sewer
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hester, Jessica Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 150137950X
- Language: English
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Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
$16.95 Add to cartEmpire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Boehmer, Elleke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555591
- Language: English
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All’s Well That Ends Well
$12.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with sc- Series: Pelican Shakespeare (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 014071460X
- Language: English
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Dom Casmurro
$19.00 Read moreFirst published in 1900, Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis’s greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale–a sad and darkl
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: de Assis, Machado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0374523037
- Language: English
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Speculation
$26.95 Read moreA wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.
Engaging with- Author: Vishmidt, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545330
- Language: English
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Under the Glacier
$17.00 Read moreNobel laureate Halld? Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400034418
- Language: English
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Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
$19.99 Read moreWilliam Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when th
- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1472958209
- Language: English
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The Letters of William Gaddis: Revised Edition
$24.95 Read moreA revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life.
UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1681375834
- Language: English
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A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
$16.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction – From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: “This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Ho… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345807170
- Language: English
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Eliot: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
$20.00 Read moreFrom the Nobel Prize winning author—and the most influential poet of the twentieth century—comes a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets edition that includes the masterpieces “The Love Song of J. Alfred… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0375401857
- Language: English
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Lost in Yonkers
$18.00 Read moreNeil Simon’s inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties–winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question- Series: Drama, Plume
- Author: Simon, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0452268834
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartSelections 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
