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The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare
by Dick Riley  Publisher Comments In their witty and inimitable way, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister examine the whole dramatic canon, play by play, including dramas of disputed authorship. (The long poems and sonnets are also covered.) Included are inside stories on theater and film...
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Shakespeare's Macbeth
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from...
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Barthes and the Empire of Signs (Postmodern Encounters)
by Peter Peri Trifonas Publisher Comments Roland Barthes' imaginative or fictive exploration of Japan prompted him to examine the social and historical contingency of signs, how their meaning changes through time and in different contexts....
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Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture #16: Conversations with Texas Writers
by Francis Leonard Publisher Comments Larry McMurtry declares, Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did. Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, I've just never had a desire to write about any place else. In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of...
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Tolkiens Lord Rings and Hobbit (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Gene B. Hardy Publisher Comments Join the journey through Middle-earth in the study guide of these two epic fantasies suggestive of life in medieval days, a classical battle between good and evil and the quest for a magical ring. This guide covers all four volumes of this unforgettable...
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Reading Group Handbook Rev Edition
by Rachel Jacobsohn Publisher Comments Reading groups are a booming national phenomenon -- thanks in part to The Oprah Winfrey Show's monthly segment, "Oprah's Book Club", where featured books consistently shoot onto bestseller lists, proving viewers aren't just watching the show -- they're...
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Twelfth Night (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by J. L. Roberts Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the...
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Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities, #10: Elmer Diktonius.
by George Schoolfield Publisher Comments The poems of Elmer Diktonius place him in the forefront of literary expressionism. His idylls and his novel give him high rank among Northern Europe's greatest literary innovators in the twentieth century. He has an unusual drama because of his ambiguous...
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A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer (Suny Series, Italian/American Studies)
by Anthony Julian Tamburri Publisher Comments Using semiotics as a theoretical foundation, this book reexamines the notion of the hyphenate writer. It argues for an analogous set of categories no longer chronologically or generationally based, but cognitively based, so that the traditionally...
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The Cry of an Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
by Richard Bausch Publisher Comments This "smorgasbord of literary offerings" (Publishers Weekly) self-selected by its contributors -- "a long list of luminaries" (Library Journal) -- includes works by Madison Smartt Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby Foote, George...
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The Prince (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by Stacy Magedanz Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the...
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Little Women (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Louisa May Alcott Publisher Comments Here are tomboy and author-to-be Jo, frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and spoiled Amy, four New England sisters united in their devotion to each other during the Civil War. Far from being the "girl's book" Alcott's publisher requested, "Little Women explores...
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Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism
by Joyce Ann Joyce Publisher Comments This book is the seminal work in literary criticism of African American writers. It was given the American Book Award for Literary Criticism in 1995. An important work for all students of Black literature....
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Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
by David Denby Publisher Comments THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books"...
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (Harvest Book)
by Roger Shattuck Publisher Comments In his “best achievement to date” (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a “deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written” (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from...
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Literary Lovers: the Private and Public Passions of Famous Writers
by John Booth Publisher Comments Literary Lovers takes a light-hearted look at what authors have written on the expansive arena of love. Each writer is featured with a suitable quote from his or her work, accompanied by an illuminating analysis of that writer's love life....
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Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments The collapse of communism, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the New World Order, the nature of war, Holocaust denial, and virtual reality are among the many topics covered by Baudrillard, "a sharp-shooting, lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left" ("New York...
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Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications
by Northrop Frye Publisher Comments Critical Approaches Frye: The Road of Excess Knights: King Lear as Metaphor Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality Applications The Writer and His Method Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov...
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Beloved and "Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American...
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On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for...
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