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Medieval Comic Tales
by Derek Brewer  Publisher Comments During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. Writers such as Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais and Cervantes drew on this material, and used it for their own purposes, but the brilliant medieval versions also deserve to...
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature [Three Volumes]
by Guiyou Huang Publisher Comments Dating back to the close of the 19th century, Asian American literature grew enormously in quantity and richness in the years following World War II and is now central to the curriculum. Covering the period from the late 1890s through 2007, this...
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Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo
by Clive Hart Publisher Comments Do the angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Heaven and the Flesh explores the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from the High Renaissance to the birth of...
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Swift's Travels: Eighteenth-Century British Satire and Its Legacy
by Nicholas Hudson Publisher Comments As the greatest satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift was both admired and feared in his own time for the power of his writing, and hugely influential on writers who followed him. Swift transformed models such as utopian writing, political...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe. by Benjamin F. Fisher (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Benjamin F. Fisher Publisher Comments Little is known about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, the mysterious author of one of the best-known American poems, 'The Raven', the Gothic romance The Fall of the House of Usher, and the first detective fiction, The Murders in the Rue Morgue. This book...
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The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois (Cambridge Companions to American Studies)
by Shamoon Zamir Publisher Comments W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding...
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The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends
by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments Taking family, friends, and servants as her subjects, Virginia Woolf presents a series of impressions of the people around her. As she describes their lives—including an in-depth piece on her nephew Julian Bell and sketches on Bloomsbury figures...
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Classics for Pleasure
by Michael Dirda Publisher Comments Classics for pleasure? To some readers this may seem an oxymoron. Aren't classics supposed to be difficult, esoteric, and probably a little boring? . I sympathize with this common view, even if it is largely wrong. Classics are...
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The Burden of the Past: Martin Walser on Modern German Identity: Texts, Contexts, Commentary (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
by Thomas A. Kovach Publisher Comments The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after the speech, Ignatz Bubis, leader of Germany's Jewish...
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Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women
by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Publisher Comments Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women as a Form of Social Protest, 1849-1931 accomplishes three primary objectives: It establishes the existence of an important, but overlooked, tradition of supernatural writing by American women; it...
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Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion
by Eavan Boland Publisher Comments A definitive selection of writings--poetry, prose, interviews, reviews, and criticism--by and about Eavan Boland, Ireland's greatest woman writer (Booklist). Over the course of ten books of poems spanning four decades, Eavan Boland has changed the...
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James Merrill, Postmodern Magus: Myth and Poetics
by Evans Lansing Smith Publisher Comments One of the unique voices in our century, James Merrill was known for his mastery of prosody; his ability to write books that were not just collected poems but unified works in which each individual poem contributed to the whole; and his astonishing...
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Realism, Ethics and Secularism: Essays on Victorian Literature and Science
by George Levine Publisher Comments George Levine is one of the world's leading scholars of Victorian literature and culture. This collection of his essays extends and develops the key themes of his work: the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature, culture and science and...
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Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth: Reading Friendship in the 1790s
by Felicity James Publisher Comments This book makes the case for a re-placing of Lamb as reader, writer and friend in the midst of the lively political and literary scene of the 1790s. Reading his little-known early works alongside others by the likes of Coleridge and...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost. by Robert Faggen (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Robert Faggen Publisher Comments Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
by Henry Louis, Jr. Gates Publisher Comments Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black...
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The Ridiculous Jew: The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky
by Gary Rosenshield Publisher Comments This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Rosenshield does not attempt to expose the stereotype—...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost. by Robert Faggen (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Robert Faggen Publisher Comments Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The...
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Hellenic Studies #35: Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus a Manuscript of the Iliad
by Casey Due Synopsis Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 = 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive thousand years old and then some, its historical reach is...
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Benjamin Franklin (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Each title features: - An in-depth critical portrait of an essential writer presented in a historical context - A useful chronology - An introduction by Harold Bloom....
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