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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve
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Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence
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Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924
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Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina: A Guidebook
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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
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An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer (New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions)
Tison PughTison Pugh 9780813044248

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To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
by Phillip Lopate
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Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than forty years of lessons... (read more)

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Posthumanism (Readers in Cultural Criticism)
Neil BadmingtonNeil Badmington 9780333765388
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Marxism and Literary Criticism
Terry EagletonTerry Eagleton 9780520032439
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Ideology: An Introduction
Terry EagletonTerry Eagleton 9780860915386
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
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A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
by Marilynne Robinson
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Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 (Mark Twain Papers)
by Mark Twain
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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