Category - Literary Criticism
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Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey h...
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Food Justice and Animals: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's ...
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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)Fairy tales sha...
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Past and Present
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the a...
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Mythology For Dummies
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Discover (or rediscover!) history’s greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, an...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Sherlock Holmes’s confrontation with Professor Moriarty sees a clash between the master of detection and the evil genius of crime – where a drama...
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A Study in Scarlet
PaperbackOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Introduction by Anne Perry Includes newly commissioned endnotes In 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, creating an i...
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Uncle Silas
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.'In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress...
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Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95Original price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated s...
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Great Goddesses: Life Lessons From Myths and Monsters
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose retelling the legends of the Goddesse...
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The Dictionary of Mythology: An A-Z of themes, legends and heroes
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Who was Artemis and what part did she play in the battle of the Giants? Who was the whale-monster Qaqwaii and how did he hunt his prey? This dict...
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Myths and Legends: An Illustrated Guide to Their Origins and Meanings
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Myths and legends are deeply rooted in the world’s literature, language, and history. But what does the phrase "Achilles heel" refer to, and what...
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Happily: A Personal History-With Fairy Tales
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in ...
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Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mytholog
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, ...
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Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially ...
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Djeha, the North African Trickster
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Djeha--also known as Juha, Jeh'a, and Ch'ha, among many variations--is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has ...
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Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, par...
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The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist fro...
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The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist fro...
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The Folktales of Palestine: Cultural Identity, Memory and the Politics of Storytelling
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Folktales are instrumental in ensuring the survival of oral traditions and strengthening communal bonds. Both the stories and the process of storyt...
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Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Connects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer - Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad - Analyze...
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The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney film...
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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar. Few...
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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar. Few...
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