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Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature (Studies in Medieval Romance)
by Rhiannon Purdie  Publisher Comments Tail-rhyme romance unites a French genre with a continental stanza form, so why was it developed only in Middle English literature? For English audiences, tail-rhyme becomes inextricably linked with the romance genre in a way that no other verse form...
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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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Company They Keep
by Publisher Comments This analysis of the high level of mutual influence that characterized the Inklings also provides a lively and compelling picture of how writers and other creative artists challenge, correct, and encourage each other as they work together in community....
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Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State (Western Literature)
by Cheryll Glotfelty Publisher Comments The first comprehensive literature anthology of Nevada with over 200 selections from traditional Native American tales to contemporary writings on contemporary environmental concerns....
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Proust and Joyce in Dialogue (Legenda Main)
by S. Tribout-joseph Synopsis It might reasonably be asked what the connection is between Francoises malapropisms in Proust and the erudite allusions of Stephens interior monologue in Joyce. Tribout-Joseph argues that they are indeed interrelated. Proust and Joyce are exemplary of...
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Affective Mapping Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
by Jonathan Flatley Publisher Comments The paradoxical claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to...
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Shakespearean Maternities: Crises of Conception in Early Modern England
by Chris Laoutaris Publisher Comments This study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England. It reaches beyond the domestic sphere of the rituals of childbirth, midwifery and wet-nursing and the dominant male discourses articulate in early conduct manuals,...
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Everyman's Joyce (Everyman)
by W. Terrence Gordon Publisher Comments Through the power of illustration the Everyman's series illuminates complex bodies of work by some of the 20th century's most vital thinkers. Pablo Picasso's assessment of James Joyce as a writer that all the world can understand speaks to how a...
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #304: Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
by Tina Lu Publisher Comments Described as all under Heaven, the Chinese empire might have extended infinitely, covering all worlds and cultures. That ideology might have been convenient for the state, but what did late imperial people really think about the scope and limits of the...
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How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard Publisher Comments The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as a survivor's guide to life in the chattering classes. If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what...
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Wallace Stegners West: Selected Works: Selected Works
by Page Stegner Synopsis A broad assemblage of the writing of a great figure in literature and the American Westfiction and nonfiction...
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Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and "Troilus and Criseyde"
by Edward I. Condren Publisher Comments While covering all the major work produced by Geoffrey Chaucer in his pre-Canterbury Tales career, Chaucer from Prentice to Poet seeks to correct the traditional interpretations of these poems. Edward Condren provides new and provocative interpretations...
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Literature and Science (Essays and Studies)
by Sharon Ruston Publisher Comments In 1959 C. P. Snow memorably described the gulf of mutual incomprehension' which existed between literary intellectuals' and scientists, referring to them as two cultures'. This volume looks at the extent to which this has changed. Ranging from the...
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Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction
by Rowan Williams Publisher Comments Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's...
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Contemporary British Fiction
by Nick Bentley Publisher Comments This Edinburgh guide provides an introduction to the major novelists and the main themes in narrative fiction over the last 35 years. It offers a critical discussion of important debates in contemporary fiction engaging with concepts such as...
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The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel
by Robin Feuer Miller Publisher Comments Fyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel— The Brothers Karamazov—in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today “remains harrowingly...
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Lyric Powers
by Robert Von Hallberg Publisher Comments The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social institutions of those who speak the idioms from which...
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Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation: Backgrounds and Contexts
by John C. Shields Publisher Comments Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation is a groundbreaking scholarly study of one of America's most important and most controversial writers. Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first African American to publish a book on any subject in the new country, and...
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Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949
by Paul Murphy Publisher Comments This book is a thought-provoking study of Irish drama in the first half of the twentieth century, looking at playwrights such as Synge, Yeats, and Sean O'Casey....
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The Aesthetics of Chaos: Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism
by Michael Patrick Gillespie Publisher Comments Michael Patrick Gillespie employs concepts of post-Einsteinian physics as the metaphoric and dialectic foundation for an alternative method of interpreting literature. His central argument revolves around the notion that the most useful literary...
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