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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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Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story
by Genevieve Liveley Publisher Comments In recent decades, literary studies have shown great interest in issues concerning the elements of narrative. Narratology, with its most vocal exponents in the writings of Bal, Genette, and Ricoeur, has also emerged as an increasingly important aspect of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin. Edited by Janet Beer (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by Janet Beer Publisher Comments Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its...
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Long Commentary on the de Anima of Aristotle (Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy Seri)
by Averroes Publisher Comments Born in 1126 to a family of Maliki legal scholars, Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes, enjoyed a long career in religious jurisprudence at Seville and Cordoba while at the same time advancing his philosophical studies of the works of Aristotle. This...
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Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages: German Comic Tales C. 1350-1525 (Legenda Main)
by S. Coxon Synopsis In contrast to the vernacular literary traditions of France, Italy and England, comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual...
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Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
by Robert S. Levine Publisher Comments American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British...
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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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Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse
by Stefani Engelstein Synopsis Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Europe....
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Forgotten Bread: First-Generation Armenian American Writers
by David Kherdian Synopsis Groundbreaking first-generation anthology now in paperback...
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Literature, Life, and Modernity (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art)
by Richard Thomas Eldridge Publisher Comments Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate reflective depth and help their readers order and interpret...
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Colonial Desire
by Robert Young Publisher Comments Published two years after White Mythologies in 1994, Robert Young's Colonial Desire continued his ground-breaking work in post-colonial studies. In this volume he argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close...
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The Writer as Migrant (Campbell Lectures)
by Ha Jin Review "Ha Jin is uniquely placed to address the responsibilities and challenges of the displaced writer. Offering both historical context and a strong personal vision of the migrant writer in America today, these essays are thought-provoking, often inspiring...
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In the Shadow of Empire: Austrian Experiences of Modernity in the Writings of Musil, Roth, and Bachmann (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
by Malcolm Spencer Publisher Comments Austria was not the only European country whose old order disintegrated in the early twentieth century, giving way to the crisis of modernity, nor the only country whose literature bears the marks of this crisis. But modernity's onset was experienced...
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Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction
by Owen E. Brady Synopsis Considerations of the achievements of the acclaimed and popular African American...
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The Complete Odes
by Pindar Publisher Comments The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and...
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Modern Literature and the Tragic
by K. M. Newton Publisher Comments This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Although Ibsen has been accused of being...
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Poetry as Re-Reading: American Avant-Garde Poetry and the Poetics of Counter-Method (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
by Ming-qian Ma Publisher Comments Rereading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this truly revisionary work identifies a significant counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. Postmodernism, Ming-Qian Ma argues, does not so much follow from...
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #308: The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity
by Carlos Rojas Publisher Comments This is a study of visuality in early modern and modern China. Its focus, however, is not so much on imagery per se but rather on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts. Of particular interest is...
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The Wadsworth Themes American Literature Series, 1945-Present, Theme 17: Race and Ethnicity in the Melting Pot (Wadsworth Themes American Literature)
by Jay Parini Publisher Comments The first thematic series published for American literature, THE WADSWORTH THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE SERIES is currently comprised of 21 themes spanning the time period normally covered in the two-semester American literature survey coursea1492 to...
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The Dickens Industry: Critical Perspectives 1836-2005 (Literary Criticism in Perspective)
by Laurence W. Mazzeno Publisher Comments Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was...
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