Literary Criticism
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The Classic Fairy Tales
$24.99 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 Add to cartBorn 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 Add to cartFinalist 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 Add to cartThe 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 Read more“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
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Optic Subwoof
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
Winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Dougla… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1950268675
- Language: English
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On the Natural History of Destruction
$21.00 Add to cartDuring World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died–a figure twice that of all America… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0375756574
- Language: English
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
$22.00 Read moreCompiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, a… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Ellison, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968263
- Language: English
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Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
$37.95 Read moreSome comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious w… [more below]
- Author: Whitted, Qiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1978825013
- Language: English
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Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964
$27.95 Read moreTHE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE RAVEN, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA…
Produced on modest budgets fo… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1915316073
- Language: English
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Take the Mic: The Art of Performance Poetry, Slam, and the Spoken Word
$14.99 Add to cartGet on Stage and Perfect Your Performance
Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, “I could do this,” but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic–or worse, you climbed up on stage and stru
- Series: Poetry Speaks Experience
- Author: Smith, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1402218990
- Language: English
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The Art of Description: World Into Word
$16.00 Add to cartIt sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see, Mark Doty begins. But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very b
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975631
- Language: English
