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Hellenic Studies #34: Fragments of Sappho: A Commentary
by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis  Publisher Comments Representing the beginnings of women's poetry in European cultures, Sappho's songs have become an influential and complex sociopolitical paradigm related to female same-sex intimacy in modern eras. The first large-scale commentary in English in the last...
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Renaissance Papers 2007 (Renaissance Papers)
by Christopher Cobb Publisher Comments Renaissance Papers collects the best essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. In the 2007 volume, two essays focus on Shakespeare's Roman plays: one on Lavinia's death and Roman suicide in Titus Andronicus, the other on the...
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature)
by James Hogg Publisher Comments This comprehensive introduction to English literature of the period maps the emergence of the novel onto rich and exciting changes in poetry, drama and popular print. It shows how literary genres and modes were shaped by radical changes in economics and...
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Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus
by Margo Natalie Crawford Publisher Comments After the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s, black body politics have been overdetermined by both the familiar fetishism of light skin as well as the counter-fetishism of dark skin. Moving beyond the longstanding focus on the tragic...
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Color Purple: Character Studies (Character Studies)
by Gerri Bates Synopsis It is an ideal introduction for students looking to develop an advanced understanding of Alice Walker's modern classic....
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Novels for Students #28: Nvl for Stdnt 28
by Synopsis Each volume in the Novels for Students Series contains easily accessible and context-rich discussions of the literary and historical significance of 14 to 15 major works from various cultures and time periods, including concise synopses of plot...
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Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism #02: Clscl Medvl Lit Crit 102
by Synopsis A convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on classical and medieval literatures....
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Poetry Proscribed: Twentieth-Century (Re)Visions of the Trials of Poetry in France
by James Petterson Synopsis Through its unparalleled exploration of the trials of poetry from the early seventeenth to twentieth centuries, Poetry Proscribed: Twentieth-Century (Re)Visions of the Trials of Poetry in France opens a new line of inquiry into the present-day stakes of...
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The Strange M. Proust (Legenda Main)
by Andre Benhaim Publisher Comments The strange M. Proust - the narrator, the author, and the embodiment of A la Recherche du Temps perdu - is now so canonical a writer that his very strangeness is easily overlooked. His book made of other books, his epic composed of extraordinary...
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The New York State Reader (American Readers)
by Ann E. Burg Synopsis Our Readers (also known as primers) are patterned after the popular nineteenth-century McGuffey Readers which were used to teach life lessons and reading skills to young children. From the author of E is for Empire: A New York State Alphabet and Times...
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Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France (Gallica)
by Rebecca Dixon Publisher Comments Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, Knowledge, and Community examines the role of poetry in French culture in transmitting and shaping knowledge. The volume reveals the interplay between poet, text, and...
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The Making of James Agee
by Hugh Davis Publisher Comments Wildly productive during his short life, James Agee (1909-1955) is today perhaps best remembered as a novelist--his posthumously published A Death in the Family won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958--but he was also a poet, screenwriter, journalist, essayist...
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Bk Rvw Ind Cum 08
by Synopsis Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. Available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual...
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Arthurian Literature XXV (Arthurian Literature Arthurian Literature)
by Elizabeth Archibald Publisher Comments The essays in this volume represent a wide range of Arthurian subjects, reaching as far back as the sixth century, and as far forward as the nineteenth; they include studies of Arthur as an icon of an independent England in the reign of Henry VIII, the...
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She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies
by Oliver Goldsmith Synopsis This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the social and cultural mores of the time. Fielding's The Modern Husband, written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment,...
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Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of on the Road (They're Not What You Think)
by John Leland Publisher Comments Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion...
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On Poetry and Politics
by Jean Paulhan Publisher Comments Jean Paulhan was a legendary editorial figure of twentieth-century French literature, assisting and publishing many of the most important writers of his lifetime. He was also the author of several volumes of fiction and numerous essays dealing with...
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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
by Joseph Luzzi Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the...
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Retrospectives: Essays in Literature, Poetics and Cultural History by Terence Cave (Legenda Main)
by Neil Kenny Synopsis Terence Cave's work has made a major contribution to the rethinking of the relationship between literature, history and culture over the last half-century. Retrospectives brings together substantially revised versions of studies written since 1970...
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Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye (Legenda Main)
by Stephen Kite Publisher Comments Adrian Stokes (1902-72) aesthete, critic, painter and poet is among the most original and creative writers on art of the twentieth century. He was the author of over twenty critical books and numerous papers: for example, the remarkable series of books...
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