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Genius of Shakespeare
by Jonathan Bate  Publisher Comments Hailed as the best book on Shakespeare for a generation (Philip Howard, The Times), as luminous...lively and stimulating to the last (John Gross, Sunday Telegraph), and as shrewd, nimbly written...splendidly readable (Terry Eagleton, The Independent...
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Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)
by Madeline Camara Betancourt Publisher Comments This book examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality, and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Cámara-...
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Oscar Wilde (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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Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction (Stages)
by Andrew Sobanet Publisher Comments A long list of canonical writers in Western literature have experienced incarceration and have subsequently written celebrated works about the imprisoned and the condemned. The French tradition is no exception: writers who produced noteworthy texts...
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The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels 1 Limited Edition (Rough Guide Reference)
by Danny Fingeroth Publisher Comments The limited edition of The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels is the ultimate companion to the expanding world of the andldquo;literary comic bookandrdquo;. This special collectorandrsquo;s edition includes a unique number, elegant slip-case and fold-out...
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Selected Essays
by Clark Blaise Publisher Comments Clark Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short-story writers in the last 50 years. His Selected Essays bring together for the first time another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre, belles-lettres...
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The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read
by Benjamin Bennett Publisher Comments The principal purpose of the book is to conduct a radical criticism of the concept of reading, and especially of the concept of the reader, as these concepts are commonly used in literary criticism. Starting with the point that reading, in the context of...
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How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics
by Adalaide Morris Publisher Comments Adalaide Morris removes the work of the iconic poet, dramatist, and novelist H.D. from compartments into which it has historically been placed. As she examines the "ongoingness" of H.D.'s writing, Morris makes an eloquent and compelling case...
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Popular Series Fiction for K-6 Readers: A Reading and Selection Guide 2nd Edition (Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference)
by Rebecca L. Thomas Publisher Comments Who wrote the Disney Fairies books? Which series appeal to boys? In what genre would you classify A Series of Unfortunate Events? These are just some of the questions that challenge K-6 librarians as the popularity of series fiction continues to grow...
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Hellenic Studies #18: Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space
by Claude Calame Publisher Comments Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. The Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but...
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Philosophy of Literature (Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts)
by Peter Lamarque Publisher Comments The latest volume in the Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts series is a comprehensive study of a relatively new but increasingly influential branch of aesthetics....
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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture #156: Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature
by Lawrence Rosenwald Publisher Comments Throughout its history, America has been the scene of multiple encounters between communities speaking different languages. Literature has long sought to represent these encounters in various ways, from James Fenimore Cooper's frontier fictions to the...
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The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together
by Charles Blackstone Publisher Comments We live in an Enquirer, reality television-addled world, a world in which most college students receive their news from the Daily Show and discourse via text message, assert Charles Blackstone and Jill Talbot. Recently, two nonfiction writers have been...
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The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (Rough Guide Reference)
by Danny Fingeroth Publisher Comments The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels is the ultimate companion to the expanding world of the andldquo;literary comic bookandrdquo;. Written by comic industry insider Danny Fingeroth, it includes the mediums history, from sequential art in Egyptian tombs...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens Synopsis Wealthy and old, Martin Chuzzlewit, Sr. is surrounded by greedy relatives hoping to obtain a portion of his estate upon his death. Of his two descendants, one has the good fortune to transform his heritage of selfishness....
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Letters to Women: New Letters, Volume 2 (Dreiser Edition)
by Theodore Dreiser Publisher Comments Theodore Dreiser led a long and controversial life, almost always pursuing some serious question, and not rarely pursuing women. This collection, the second volume of Dreiser correspondence to be published by the University of Illinois Press, gathers...
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A Whaler's Dictionary Whaler's Dictionary
by Dan Beachy-quick Publisher Comments Taking both form and inspiration from Ishmael’s abandoned "Cetalogical Dictionary," this highly original work muses on myth, representation, language, nature, consciousness, notions of spiritual quest, and other elements of Melville’s...
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Irish Periodical Culture, 1937-1972: Genre in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature)
by Malcolm Ballin Publisher Comments Irish Periodical Culture redefines the contribution of periodicals to the social and intellectual history of Ireland in the developmental decades following the crises of the revolutionary and civil wars. In her foreword to the book, Claire Connolly...
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Notes on Blood Meridian (Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections)
by John Sepich Publisher Comments Blood Meridian reads like a conflation of the Inferno, the Iliad, and Moby-Dick . . . an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. --Independent (London) Sepich lets us see how Cormac McCarthy went about crafting what he built, with the result that Blood...
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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature #72: Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative
by Suzanne M. Yeager Publisher Comments During the early medieval period, crusading brought about new ways of writing about the city of Jerusalem in Europe. By creating texts that embellished the historical relationship between the Holy City and England, English authors endowed their nation...
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